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i dont understand and I hatee this
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Mar 30, 2018 09:43
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Democrats: the real racists I’m Tasmania
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Mar 30, 2018 09:52
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Oh we're pretty republican at the moment here in oz... apart from the whole "let's be a republic right now" thing. I mean this guy...  ... is our Minister for Home Affairs. Edit: Thumbnailed image for Sanity. Cable Guy fucked around with this message at 09:59 on Mar 30, 2018 |
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Mar 30, 2018 09:56
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I'm democratic liberal Israel.
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Mar 30, 2018 10:07
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Mexico just looooves Trump e: I’ve found the Deviantart site where this map originated, and apparently the answer to my question is „severe mental illness“
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Mar 30, 2018 10:32
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I’m the Kingdom of two Sicilies (more or less)
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Mar 30, 2018 10:35
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I'm the no data collected on how the great lakes would vote
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Mar 30, 2018 11:11
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Tsaedje posted:I'm the no data collected on how the great lakes would vote Great Slave and Great Bear are officially Great Lakes. So-called “African Great Lakes”: not actually great.
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Mar 30, 2018 11:28
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Mar 30, 2018 13:22
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Reminder that Afghanistan will soon see deployments of US soldiers that were born after 9/11. We'll probably have multi-generational afghanistan war vet families.
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Mar 30, 2018 13:49
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Reminder that Afghanistan will soon see deployments of US soldiers that were born after 9/11. Relevant: https://local.theonion.com/soldier-...1995.1522416035
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Mar 30, 2018 14:21
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Reminder that Afghanistan will soon see deployments of US soldiers that were born after 9/11. Reminder that American 30 year olds of 2018 are the first American 30 year olds to have lived more than 50% of their lives in a country at war since the 1780's.
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Mar 30, 2018 14:51
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I'm west Switzerland
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Mar 30, 2018 20:16
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FreudianSlippers posted:Japanese police won't even investigate of it isn't an open and shut case. Any murder that isn't immediately obvious is filed as an accident or suicide. I wonder what the murder rate in Japan would actually be then. Can any system with a 99% conviction rate really be considered a functional democracy?
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Mar 30, 2018 22:40
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Randandal posted:I wonder what the murder rate in Japan would actually be then. What you're really asking is if a country without a real justice system can be considered a functional democracy. The answer is not really. Japan pulls poo poo like convicting foreigners for crimes on the grounds of "if you hadn't come to this country this wouldn't have happened". Also crimes only being classified as such if conviction is virtually guaranteed, at which point your lawyer will basically tell you your best course of action is confess, show remorse and suck up to the judge for leniency. Basically the Phoenix Wright games are a lot closer to truth then you'd think.
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Mar 30, 2018 22:56
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What's the conviction rate in other countries? I hear the 99% stat for Japan but never what it is elsewhere for comparison.
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Mar 30, 2018 22:58
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Badger of Basra posted:What's the conviction rate in other countries? I hear the 99% stat for Japan but never what it is elsewhere for comparison. UK is about 80%, feds are around 93%. States though, Florida is like 50%.
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Mar 30, 2018 23:17
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Cable Guy posted:Oh we're pretty republican at the moment here in oz... apart from the whole "let's be a republic right now" thing.
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Mar 31, 2018 01:10
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Badger of Basra posted:What's the conviction rate in other countries? I hear the 99% stat for Japan but never what it is elsewhere for comparison. It’s about 80% for Germany and the UK I think, I looked into it at one point. US on the other hand the federal system is 90s, though states are less The real reason Japan’s rate is so high though is because the judicial system is insanely understaffed, I think there are literally like 1% of the judges per capita of a country like the US. They also don’t have plea bargains formally in the law, so many of the 99% are effectively plea bargains for a reduced sentence https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/468111 quote:Conviction rates in Japan exceed 99 percent. Because Japanese judges can be penalized by a personnel office if they rule in ways the office dislikes, perhaps they face biased incentives to convict. Using data on the careers and opinions of 321 Japanese judges, we find that judges who acquit do have worse careers following the acquittal. On closer examination, though, we find that the punished judges are not those who acquit on the ground that the prosecutors charged the wrong person. Rather, they acquit for reasons of statutory or constitutional interpretation, often in politically charged cases. Thus, the apparent punishment seems unrelated to any pro‐conviction bias at the judicial administrative offices. We suggest an alternative explanation: the high conviction rates reflect case selection and low prosecutorial budgets; understaffed prosecutors present judges with only the most obviously guilty defendants. The fact that this statistic is apparently not normally cited for other legal systems and requires some surprisingly deep digging to find (for Germany you have to trawl through documents in German) is a pretty good sign that it's largely a dumb internet meme. Although apparantly part of why it became a meme in the first place is that the Japanese Ministry of Justice itself likes to brag about it? Or at least liked to circa 1987-1993 when literally every single Western journalist formed their fixed and eternal take on Japan that they've been republishing for the last 30 years now. So, 
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Mar 31, 2018 01:41
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Mar 31, 2018 06:10
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Orange Devil posted:What you're really asking is if a country without a real justice system can be considered a functional democracy. The answer is not really. It does have one positive--if you flat-out refuse to cooperate in any way or confess or anything, that can be enough to get you off. Because of the expectation of conviction, losing a case basically ends your career as a Japanese prosecutor, so if they don't believe it's guaranteed victory they will often just drop the case rather than take the risk. Which is also part of that 99% conviction rate, there's a bunch of cases that simply disappear because nobody's willing to prosecute.
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Mar 31, 2018 07:47
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I imagine this makes things rather easy on Japanese organised crime.
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Mar 31, 2018 11:17
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System Metternich posted:
I mean 80's hip-hop was pretty minimalistic but uh... every example of vaporwave I've ever heard was basically chopped up and remixed 80's soft funk and r&b. So more like Billy Ocean, and less like Run DMC.
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Mar 31, 2018 22:20
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not enough a e s t h e t i c in that map, imo
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Apr 1, 2018 00:46
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Grape posted:I mean 80's hip-hop was pretty minimalistic but uh... every example of vaporwave I've ever heard was basically chopped up and remixed 80's soft funk and r&b. So more like Billy Ocean, and less like Run DMC. I was about to say I wouldn't consider it like any hip-hop I've ever heard
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Apr 1, 2018 06:29
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System Metternich posted:
Pretty sure it's a reference to those playlists of ambient chill hip hop you find on youtube with pictures of anime for some reason.
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Apr 1, 2018 19:48
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Penguins4Freedom posted:Pretty sure it's a reference to those playlists of ambient chill hip hop you find on youtube with pictures of anime for some reason. Oh so like the most not hip-hop you can get, that kind of instrumental stuff that is at way arms length from the genre as can be. This is like bringing up ROCK N ROLL when you're actually talking about like Prog flute solos.
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Apr 2, 2018 00:27
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Yeah, and it has nothing to do with vaporwave as I understand it. This is like the ur-vaporwave song - remixed 80s pop songs that have been slowed down, Japanese writing, ancient statues, it’s all there: https://youtu.be/cU8HrO7XuiE Whereas the thing that’s going around as "lofi hiphop“ nowadays is more like this: https://youtu.be/-FlxM_0S2lA
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Apr 2, 2018 07:43
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System Metternich posted:Yeah, and it has nothing to do with vaporwave as I understand it. Edit: Associated controversial map for content  Click for large Edit 2: goddam... I'm going to end up playing that game again if I'm not careful Edit 3: Who am I kidding, as soon as I can afford the time and/or the subs... I'm back. 
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Apr 2, 2018 09:19
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System Metternich posted:Yeah, and it has nothing to do with vaporwave as I understand it. These are not that dissimilar?
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Apr 2, 2018 09:43
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I thought GSF had been kicked out of delve?
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Apr 2, 2018 13:06
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Arglebargle III posted:I thought GSF had been kicked out of delve? Nope, we're still in Delve. We got run outta Deklein about two years ago.
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Apr 2, 2018 13:25
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Count Roland posted:These are not that dissimilar? Well yeah people who are fans of one tend to like the other.
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Apr 2, 2018 18:04
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Cable Guy posted:Sounds like Alan Parson's...? (which incidentally makes great a background track for Stupid Game of Spaceships™ videos) Goonswarm is still going strong I see. Are there still many people playing? Been thinking about getting into it.
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Apr 3, 2018 00:29
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I've been "winning" for about a year (not playing for those who don't uh... play). I got an email saying there's a message for me from director-bot saying my alt corp is about to be purged... Guess I'm plexing this week when I get my pension... 
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Apr 3, 2018 08:42
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mycomancy posted:Nope, we're still in Delve. We got run outta Deklein about two years ago. Hanging out in Delve like you're cosplaying BoB. That's just weird. Also, Jesus, why are influence maps so low effort these days? There used to be some craft to it: 
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Apr 3, 2018 15:41
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Autonomous Monster posted:Hanging out in Delve like you're cosplaying BoB. That's just weird. I think cause they're computer-generated now. The upside of that is they can now automatically update daily.
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Apr 3, 2018 15:51
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Autonomous Monster posted:Hanging out in Delve like you're cosplaying BoB. That's just weird. Bite your tongue. We roleplay as Blood Raiders, thank you very much. 
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I don't know why but for some reason Michigan just breaks some map-makers' brains. They have no idea where to put it. It and Chicago apparently aren't in the Midwest.  It's actually part of Canada.  Wait, only the lower peninsula.  Or maybe just the upper peninsula.  Oh that's right, the UP is actually in Wisconsin  Bonus Lovecraftian horror of a map 
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