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MEIN RAVEN
Oct 7, 2008

Gutentag Mein Raven

more falafel please posted:

midway in the 90s was basically all Coke Guys

I’m really more of a Pepsi guy myself

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Desert Bus
May 9, 2004

Take 1 tablet by mouth daily.

more falafel please posted:

midway in the 90s was basically all Coke Guys

Better than Pepsi, yuck!

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Desert Bus posted:

I think the biggest thing that pisses me off about all these tech bro assholes is their complete inability to successfully utilize the total access to drugs and also understand the ramifications of them. Just like they do no loving research.

SBF with his dumb patches, Musk "micro-dosing" ketamine etc.

1 million/year and i would be the world's most productive space cadet

elon spreads it out by railing speed and drinking a lot of alcohol, sbf should get on his level

resistentialism
Aug 13, 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SXHp42HGUA

glorious 240p

The Bible
May 8, 2010

more falafel please posted:

midway in the 90s was basically all Coke Guys

Dumb Kid Me read that as only people good at the game don't do drugs, like some kind of trash talk, I guess, so maybe they just suck at it and I read it correctly.

The Bible fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Oct 19, 2023

OneEightHundred
Feb 28, 2008

Soon, we will be unstoppable!
Coke guys in a Mountain Dew world

BigBadSteve
Apr 29, 2009

Random Stranger posted:

I immediately searched for any prop Bison dollars for sale because they'd be a great Christmas gift and I figured they'd have to have made mountains of them to use in the movie. Couldn't find any, just replicas. :smith:

Yep, wouldn't want your fictional paper currency to be counterfeit, perish the thought. How could anyone even think of giving such fakes as gifts?

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

MEIN RAVEN posted:

I’m really more of a Pepsi guy myself

Desert Bus posted:

Better than Pepsi, yuck!

MORTAL KOMBAT

Dial A For Awesome
May 23, 2009

Lammasu posted:

The greatest repository of human Wisdom, the Mortal Kombat Trilogy arcade cabinet, specifically says winners don't use drugs.

Mortal Kombat taught me that winners rip out their enemies’ spines. And, quite frankly, I would need plenty of drugs to manage that.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

Dial A For Awesome posted:

Mortal Kombat taught me that winners rip out their enemies’ spines. And, quite frankly, I would need plenty of drugs to manage that.

SBF is a vegan, so he has never ripped out a spine. Total loser.

Sardonik
Jul 1, 2005

if you like my dumb posts, you'll love my dumb youtube channel
Mass removal of cancelled BBBYQ shares today from brokerages, seems like at least a few cultists are starting to wake up:

Deptfordx
Dec 23, 2013

Apparently his defence are saying SBF might testify depending on "the possibility of SBF taking the stand rests on the outcome of the new Adderall dosage the court is testing."

To which I say, by God give that man as much Adderall as he wants.

Agents are GO!
Dec 29, 2004

Deptfordx posted:

Apparently his defence are saying SBF might testify depending on "the possibility of SBF taking the stand rests on the outcome of the new Adderall dosage the court is testing."

To which I say, by God give that man as much Adderall as he wants.

The bailiff wheels out an IV stand...

That said, SBF belongs in prison for a long time, but his parents should be doing just as much time, what a monstrous little clan.

zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
Your Honor, I would like the court to drop all charges, it is harshing the buzz of my client.

kw0134
Apr 19, 2003

I buy feet pics🍆

I can't conceive of any reason whatsoever to link a client's ability to testify with his Adderall dosage, it makes no loving sense as a legal matter or as litigation strategy.

Soapy_Bumslap
Jun 19, 2013

We're gonna need a bigger chode
Grimey Drawer
I would simply mint an nft of the bison dollars

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!
Why can’t SBF just mint an NFT of a get out of jail free card?

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
according to those rocko's stupid computer snake people, having one person suffer(the first one/drug withdraws) is better than a ton of people getting caught in the splash damage of 2nd one.

PhazonLink fucked around with this message at 20:10 on Oct 19, 2023

WithoutTheFezOn
Aug 28, 2005
Oh no

kw0134 posted:

I can't conceive of any reason whatsoever to link a client's ability to testify with his Adderall dosage, it makes no loving sense as a legal matter or as litigation strategy.
You don’t think “if my client isn’t mentally stable enough to put three coherent sentences together I’m not going to let him testify” is a valid stance?

selec
Sep 6, 2003

WithoutTheFezOn posted:

You don’t think “if my client isn’t mentally stable enough to put three coherent sentences together I’m not going to let him testify” is a valid stance?

Do people get this exception for medical marijuana? That would rule. “Sorry your honor, client is not ready to raw dog this testimony, short recess for boofing some grizzly?”

zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos
Given his tweets before getting picked up I don't think any disordered thinking was well managed by his uppers, besides the court physicians are convinced there's nothing to medicate, so it's probably moot anyway.

But I can definitely see the wisdom in not letting someone with disordered thinking testify when the 5th is an option especially if they think it's possible to treat the disorder first. Especially for like ADD or ADHD where they are gonna get in the spotlight and immediately have their brain go 'WEEE what strategy? I'm gonna convince them with sheer will!'

kw0134
Apr 19, 2003

I buy feet pics🍆

WithoutTheFezOn posted:

You don’t think “if my client isn’t mentally stable enough to put three coherent sentences together I’m not going to let him testify” is a valid stance?
In a criminal case I'd be asking why the gently caress is the defendant so keen to get on the stand when you have the unqualified right to not shoot your own dick off and why you think this court should overrule experts decisions on what seems to be enabling a really poor choice is...uh...a stance I guess. Especially as it comes from the defendant's supposed counsel. Like as an abstract matter you do want to give the defendant the agency to participate in his own defense but at the same time here it's...what are you doing as defense counsel.

Iron Chef Ramen
Sep 15, 2007

HA HA! YOU HAVE CHOSEN POORLY!
I suppose an argument could be made of "my client has scrambled his brains so hard on drugs that he's not competent to stand trial without more meth."

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
Your honour, due to my client employing a doctor who would prescribe him any and all drugs he could imagine, little Sammy is now over 70% drug by volume and requires a constant input of more drugs otherwise he will shrivel up in to a shrimpy husk.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
It's like when Peggy Hill had to describe - in her own Spanish words - what she did to the judge.

MEIN RAVEN
Oct 7, 2008

Gutentag Mein Raven

Today, in "this is good for crypto," the New York AG has determined that Genesis and Gemini were, IN FACT, very much scams.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/19/tech/crypto-firms-fraud-charges-new-york/index.html

The winning never stops for team crypto

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!

MEIN RAVEN posted:

Today, in "this is good for crypto," the New York AG has determined that Genesis and Gemini were, IN FACT, very much scams.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/19/tech/crypto-firms-fraud-charges-new-york/index.html

The winning never stops for team crypto

Good, that just means the crypocurrencies left standing are statistically more likely to be legitimate. I should put more money in now that I have that peace of mind.

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
didnt the NYC mayor and the Miami mayor both say they would get paid in buttcoins(a few times)?

Foxfire_
Nov 8, 2010

kw0134 posted:

In a criminal case I'd be asking why the gently caress is the defendant so keen to get on the stand when you have the unqualified right to not shoot your own dick off and why you think this court should overrule experts decisions on what seems to be enabling a really poor choice is...uh...a stance I guess. Especially as it comes from the defendant's supposed counsel. Like as an abstract matter you do want to give the defendant the agency to participate in his own defense but at the same time here it's...what are you doing as defense counsel.
Taking the fifth wouldn't really help him and probably isn't good trial strategy. There's so much paper evidence and everyone else who was offered plea deals is throwing him under the bus, so SBF will almost certainly be convicted if he doesn't testify. Everything the jury gets to see will be accounting stuff that makes SBF look criminal, and accomplices describing SBF purposefully doing crimes.

If he does testify, he will still almost certainly be convicted, but there's probably a better chance of a hail mary "No, I'm actually just an idiot who lost all this money through incompetence that doesn't rise to the level of fraud" explanation squeaking through.

Like if you have $100 and need to pay the mob $10k tomorrow or they'll harvest your kidneys, going down to the casino and betting it all on black is maybe your best option, even though it is still a terrible one in absolute terms.

Deptfordx
Dec 23, 2013

Yeah doing nothing, i.e. not testifying does really seem like giving up at this point , but I'm not a law talking guy. :shrug:

Victory Lap
Feb 25, 2001
He's just got to rip a fat line at the defense table, head up to the stand and explain how once he had gambled his customer's money into infinity dollars he was going to use it all to save humanity. Things just got out of hand with a minor economic 'blip' it could have happened to anyone.

Ariong
Jun 25, 2012

Get bashed, platonist!

Deptfordx posted:

Yeah doing nothing, i.e. not testifying does really seem like giving up at this point , but I'm not a law talking guy. :shrug:

I'm also not a law talking guy; My understanding is that giving your side of the story is something you generally want to avoid doing to the fullest possible extent. That is exactly what you are paying your lawyer(s) to do on your behalf.

kw0134
Apr 19, 2003

I buy feet pics🍆

Remember that it's not only guilt he has to fight, it's also the degree of culpability when it comes to sentencing. While the sentencing guidelines in federal statutes make it variable, there's still a degree of latitude involved. Now, a judge is not supposed to take into account whether a person testifies or not, but he sure as hell can consider the defendant's demeanor and testimony. SBF can't escape a guilty sentence, but he can definitely make it easier to give perjured testimony or come off as a complete sociopath on the stand and that will impact how long he gets sent away. Right now, it's bad, but he can almost certainly make it worse.

You can ALWAYS make things worse for yourself.

DickParasite
Dec 2, 2004


Slippery Tilde

MEIN RAVEN posted:

Today, in "this is good for crypto," the New York AG has determined that Genesis and Gemini were, IN FACT, very much scams.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/19/tech/crypto-firms-fraud-charges-new-york/index.html

The winning never stops for team crypto

Another win for the Winklefucks.

drk
Jan 16, 2005

kw0134 posted:

I can't conceive of any reason whatsoever to link a client's ability to testify with his Adderall dosage, it makes no loving sense as a legal matter or as litigation strategy.

Maybe only slightly medicated Sam cant remember exactly why he thought doing all those crimes was a cool and good idea at the time.

But, he might if he got all gakked out again. Then, everything feels like a good idea, including testifying at length in your own trial

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost

DickParasite posted:

Another win for the Winklefucks.

RIP van Winklevoss

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


:dukedog:
Offensive Clock
sam is gonna go all ghosTTy and pull out charts to show "this was how the market looked in 2021, you would be an utter fool to not bet all on black. I'm no fool and just wanted the best for our customers!"

Salt Fish
Sep 11, 2003

Cybernetic Crumb
I didn't realize it was against the law to steal 10 billion dollars of customer funds, take them to the casino, and then lose them.

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dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

Salt Fish posted:

I didn't realize it was against the law to steal 10 billion dollars of customer funds, take them to the casino, and then lose them.

Look, they gave me the money, okay not me they gave it to my company to invest, but that's obviously just the same as giving it to me, like I have access to that bank account so it's like as good as giving it to me, so I'm not quite sure why you think I did anything wrong here.

Blame the idiots who just gave me there money!

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