Bingo, it was a poor excuse for a poorly implemented security system (in a fucking prison of all places), and turned out to only serve as further obfuscation for additional problems with their story.

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The first analysis that I saw clocked the actual missing time as roughly 2:50 if I recall correctly, and this was when news first hit about there being a ‘magic minute’ when the system turns over during the AM hours. This is pretty typical for the FBI, not just lying, but doing a poor job of it and telling everyone who balks at their shit excuses to get fucked instead of furnishing actual credible evidence.

I first overheard people talking about this as a kid regarding speeding tickets of all things. Given the gravity of their effect on your license demerits and resulting escalating increases in insurance rates, I was given the impression that it’s essential to show up to court and at least take a swing at contesting fines/charges. In keeping with the baseball analogy, it’s sometimes enough just to bunt, i.e. show up and hold the bat, as officers are frequently scheduled on duty when whatever applicable hearing is held. Apparently it’s enough simply to show up, given that they’ve fucked off to do something ‘more important’ instead of arranging the morning/afternoon away with their CO’s ahead of time. For more serious charges, the lesson applies doubly, the pricks will go out of their way to derail your entire life for spite. Always fight it, always, always, always. The stakes are just too high to plead out.

To add insult to injury, they frequently deliberately waste the court’s time as a tactic to overtax the defendant’s financial resources. Making shit up serves to apply additional restrictions, bail, and possibly house arrest, assuming that the person targeted isn’t broke and has their life ruined by sitting in lockup until the first hearing (fewer and fewer people have the resources to accommodate housing expenses, let alone all of their other personal/financial obligations in the meantime, and wind up unemployed & homeless). Fabricating spurious charges has been a weapon used by police and the courts for aeons, if the pigs in L.A. weren’t still pulling this shit, I’d be shocked.

Thanks, very much appreciated.

I’m not sure where you’ve checked, but it appears that you may, in fact, qualify as a refugee in Canada: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/refugees/about-refugee-system/2slgbtqi-plus.html

Can you elaborate on this more, please? I’m not familiar with EO’s declaration regarding involuntary commitment, but if it means what I think it does, it’s a sea change. Where did you first hear/read about it, and what was the verbiage exactly?

Please, don’t wait, tell everyone you know IRL who’s in that position to make ‘arrangements for travel out of country’.

Disaster in the making? It’s already a fucking disaster. ICE agents have been granted additional slack above and beyond that already extended to normal cops, who frequently abuse it. This is going to be a fucking American Kristallnacht for Latinos, with more groups set to follow in the wake of these broad constitutional and legal abuses.

My bet’s on them posting the fracas themselves in an effort to vindicate themselves, which will probably not work.

             *Gen Y graduating from high school directly into Great Recession*

Bingo, @Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works , see the wikipedia entries which climb as high as 116: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscovium

If you want to go on a fun rabbithole dive, take a gander at what Bob Lazar has to say about Moscovium (115), and its use in craft by nonhuman entities.

Well said, as though the entire arrangement were legitimate simply because of marriage, instead of some human trafficking and pimping. There’s been efforts to address this problem in the ultra-orthodox Christian communities in the U.S. and Canada recently. Of all things, it was the inter-state & international transportation of the girls involved which have lent the strongest judicial tools against the polygamist communities.

People do realize IMO, that’s the heart of the issue. That’s the source of the outrage beyond rich assholes taking advantage of, and injuring young girls.

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Love it when shitposting reaches out into the real world like some kind of digital tribute to The Creation of Adam (1508–1512).

Asking the important questions right here.

But was your character’s equipment fireproof, and how much did it cost to replace every single mundane item that burst into flames and fell away like the cladding falling away from a house engulfed in flames?