[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrington_v._Purdue_Pharma_L.P.)

The very first thing you said was about the Sackler case and how the ruling wasn't fair. The first thing I responded was that the Supreme Court already overturned that ruling. And after like 5 more comments I still have no idea if you are even aware that the ruling was overturned. You never once acknowledged reading that or clicking the hyperlink

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrington_v._Purdue_Pharma_L.P.)

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

You tried to keep the discussion measured???? You never responded to a single one of my points!

In my very first comment, I made a number of points. You ignored them. I copied them into another comment and you ignored them again. I rephrased them and you ignored them again. You're not engaging in good faith, you're just ignoring everything that comes out of my mouth because you have no idea how to respond.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

You need to admit that you aren't a very intelligent person. You literally couldn't even figure out that 4.5 times 9 equals 40.5. That's basic fucking arithmetic dude, it's like I'm trying to explain this shit to an 8 year old.

You need to admit that the Sackler case provides zero evidence of judicial corruption.

You need to admit that you are wrong.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

clear case of corruption (on an outcome basis)

First of all, this makes zero sense. That's like saying

clear case of murder (on an outcome basis)

You can't prove murder based on the fact that someone is dead. You need to demonstrate that the killing was premeditated, the killer planned to kill the victim and executed their plan. Otherwise it's manslaughter or negligent homicide. Similarly, how the fuck can you claim a case is a clear example of corruption just based on the outcome? Do you need me to provide the dictionary definition of corruption?

The Sackler family are scum, but your understanding of that case seems limited. They utilized financial engineering to move the money offshore, thus placing it beyond the jurisdiction of the courts. As far as the legal system is concerned, that money doesn’t exist, because it can’t be proven that they possess it. This is frustrating, but it’s legally sound. It’s not an issue with the courts, it’s an issue with the legislature and their inability/unwillingness to craft laws to prevent rich people from hiding their money like this.

Furthermore, the achieved settlement of $40 billion over 9 years is absolutely massive, and it would be difficult to argue that anything else would be more beneficial to the victims of the opioid epidemic. Getting the Sacklers sent to prison would feel good, but it wouldn’t directly help anyone suffering from opioid addiction. Additionally, the Supreme Court already overturned the original settlement earlier this year, ruling that the Sacklers were still liable and that the settlement could not proceed as previously agreed. So whatever bothered you about that ruling, it has been overturned. It’s strange how American judges can never seem to agree with each other, despite your claim that they are compromised/corrupt.

Did you have difficulty understanding what I wrote? Let me clarify.

THE SUPREME COURT OVERRULED THE RULING THAT YOU CLAIM DEMONSTRATED CORRUPTION. IF THE COURT IS CORRUPT, WHY ARE THEY OVERRULING THE OTHER COURT THAT YOU CLAIM MADE A CORRUPT DECISION? WHICH COURT IS CORRUPT? BASED ON WHAT EVIDENCE?

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago

Because he's the exception that proves the rule. If he in fact is corrupt, it indicates that it's very easy to catch a corrupt justice, because they have to disclose all of their gift, income, etc.

Look into Alito? You look into Alito, bitch. Have a report on my desk first thing tomorrow morning.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Because I don’t like ignorant Americans calling Ukraine (or any other country) a “corrupt shithole” while arguing that’s it’s OK that criminal oligarchs (who organized a massive drug cartel with deaths in the 10s of thousands) should avoid all criminal liability and retain enough money to live opulent lifestyles. You are really in so deep that you can’t understand this?

No one has said any of this. You're arguing with an imaginary straw man. None of this is okay, but if it were simply due to the American justice system being corrupt, it would be a much easier fix.

You're basically looking at the roof of a house leaking water, and your proposed solution is to put a bucket under the leak. While I'm trying to explain to you that the whole damn roof is falling apart and just putting a bucket in one place isn't really going to help in the long run.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Of course it doesn't preclude corruption, it just makes it incredibly difficult to pull off. There's no way to make it illegal for Supreme Court justices to have friends and family, is there? But when they start trying to bend the rules, they get caught very easily. Clarence Thomas is certainly suspicious but that's why there's public outrage and he's being investigated.

Indeed, FixTheCourt, an organization dedicated to greater court transparency, found that Justice Clarence Thomas had received some $4.2 million in gifts and luxury trips over the past 20 years, much of it from Republican megadonors. In contrast, FixTheCourt reported that the other eight justices, plus the eight retired or deceased justices got gifts that altogether were valued at roughly $600,000 over the same 20-year period.

So aside from Thomas, the other judges received an average of $37,500 in gifts each over the past 20 years. Not nearly enough to claim widespread corruption. The reality is that corruption is unecessary, the judges argue in a certain way because that's what they believe.

They were appointed to the Supreme Court in the first place because of their established judicial records which go back decades. There are several justices that frequently argue against government oversight because that's the kind of judges that Republican presidents have decided to appoint, because they believe in the same things. It doesn't always need to be some grand conspiracy, it's usually a much more banal form of dysfunction.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I never equated anything lmao. Are you incapable of responding with anything besides inane gotchas and straw men? Jfc

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

4.5B X 9 years = 40.5B

Of course it's not fair that they still have generational wealth. But if you have no way of tracing the money, there's nothing that the courts can do about it. Again, that's the realm of the legislature, FBI, CIA, NSA, IRS, etc. It's not that the prosecutors didn't want to take away all their money. It's that it's literally impossible to trace.

The 9/11 attack and Islamic terrorism in general is well known to be partially funded by wealthy Muslims, many of whom reside in countries which are nominal allies of the US. Pakistan was sheltering Osama bin Laden for nearly a decade, during which time they received around $10 billion in economic and military aid from the US. We were sending them billions of dollars which they were using to train more Taliban fighters and send them into Afghanistan to fight US troops. There's no need for pretend excuses, there is the very real excuse that this planet is insanely massive and complex and even the mighty US government can't control and dictate more than a fraction of what is going on.

You have a very naive view of the world if you think the judges are merely implementing the law. There is a massive feedback loop between the oligarchs, politicians and the judicial system. It’s a bit supremacist to think that Americans are inherently incapable of such corruption constructs.

Judges are charged with interpreting the law, the police are the ones who implement it. The feedback loop between politicians and big business is very real, but there are a ton of restrictions in place that make it difficult to influence the judicial system in the same way. Judges are subject to intense scrutiny and they're not allowed to do anything that might even suggest the possibility of a conflict of interest.

As I continue to read, you're making less and less sense, so I'll just leave you with this. If I started expounding on the intricacies of the Ukrainian government, you would rightly call me out. Why do you feel so confident in your understanding of the American government based solely on what you've read online? Ukraine is corrupt, I get it. But stop talking out of your ass regarding America.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 8 points 16 hours ago

Because the allegation is either true or false. Either it happened, or it didn't. If it didn't happen, then there's no reason for you to be disappointed in Jay Z.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 10 points 17 hours ago

How can you be disappointed when you don't even know if it's true?

I can actually explain why. Refraining from judgment causes the human brain to experience cognitive strain, so people tend to settle on a judgment even without evidence, in order to reduce the emotional stress caused by being undecided between two extreme possibilities. We feel insecure when we haven’t yet made a decision, because we are exposed to attacks from both sides. By aligning ourselves with one side, we gain allies and also gain the ability to disregard the humanity of our enemies. This is a universal weakness to human rationality, and lawyers are experts at exploiting it.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 18 hours ago

That's all random hearsay, it literally counts for nothing legally. Jay Z came from the ghetto, I'm sure he has done plenty of sketchy shit in his time.

But like why do you seem to think Diddy and R Kelly were going around bragging about their sexual perversions? They were coworkers in the same industry; I'm sure I have plenty of coworkers who have done heinous shit in their personal lives as well. But that doesn’t even remotely imply that I knew about it or was a part of it.

I don't think there is very much smoke at all, I haven't really heard any major accusations about Jay aside from this one. But also you're falling right into the trap. They would plan to accuse him because they know random people are going to use the heuristic of "where there's smoke there's fire", and generally assume that he is guilty without even a shred of evidence. They know people will see Jay Z and Diddy in the same headline about sexual assault and that's the only piece of information they'll remember from the whole article, assuming they even bother to read it. I'm going to bat for due process and common sense, two things which are in increasingly short supply nowadays.

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Las Meninas (Spanish for 'The Ladies-in-waiting') is a 1656 painting in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Baroque. It has become one of the most widely analyzed works in Western painting for the way its complex and enigmatic composition raises questions about reality and illusion, and for the uncertain relationship it creates between the viewer and the figures depicted.

The painting is believed by F. J. Sánchez Cantón to depict a room in the Royal Alcazar of Madrid during the reign of King Philip IV of Spain, and presents several figures, most identifiable from the Spanish court, captured in a particular moment as if in a snapshot. Some of the figures look out of the canvas towards the viewer, while others interact among themselves. The five-year-old Infanta Margaret Theresa is surrounded by her entourage of maids of honour, chaperone, bodyguard, two dwarfs and a dog. Just behind them, Velázquez portrays himself working at a large canvas. Velázquez looks outwards beyond the pictorial space to where a viewer of the painting would stand. In the background there is a mirror that reflects the upper bodies of the king and queen. They appear to be placed outside the picture space in a position similar to that of the viewer, although some scholars have speculated that their image is a reflection from the painting Velázquez is shown working on.

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ROCKY START

WE'RE LIVE

place pixels, yeah

If anyone wants to do a little sh.itjust.works pixel art, now is your chance. I'll contribute to anything that people come up with. Still have >48 hours remaining.

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This track is such a vibe. Always gets me into that Lain mentality.

A Distant Shout

Vocals/Lyrics/Composition: Nakaido 'Chabo' Reichi

lyrics

Even though I shouldn’t have any sins
I’m accepting some sort of punishment
Even though they aren’t seeds that I sown
I’m made to pluck the flowers that bloomed prolifically

I can’t say that I don’t know about it
But I don’t recall having been an accomplice-in-crime
I feel that my freedom was costly bought
But I don’t recall having my heart sold cheaply

Hey Hey, until I die and bid farewell
Hey Hey, I won’t be caught by anyone
I wonder if you don’t know about the eternal ruffians
Who are prowling the distant night

It’s not even an unforgivable act
But wounds can’t be healed
On nights when I feel like crying, I make love to a woman
And take flight from this petty and corrupt world

Hey Hey, until I die and bid farewell
Hey Hey, I won’t be caught by anyone
I wonder if you don’t know about the eternal ruffians
Who are prowling the distant night

Even though I shouldn’t have any sins
I’m accepting some sort of punishment
I feel that my freedom was costly bought
But I don’t have the guts to sell my heart cheaply…

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Cute animation of SCP-999, seemed appropriate for this community.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13087351

SCP-999

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This sounds like something Lemmy would also really benefit from.

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Threads will be implementing federation in the near future and many instances have been discussing whether they should be pre-emptively defederated to protect the fediverse. See below for our local discussion thread, which will remain active until this vote is complete.

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Why This Award-Winning Piece of AI Art Can’t Be Copyrighted::Matthew Allen’s AI art won first prize at the Colorado State Fair. But the US government has ruled it can’t be copyrighted because it’s too much “machine” and not enough “human.”

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