Sources? When I look at the law and their mandate, it sure looks like they can't. That's not part of their soft powers. They can excusively go after a very narrow band of criminal acts.
"Article 70 - Offences against the administration of justice
Offences against the administration of justice
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(c) Corruptly influencing a witness, obstructing or interfering with the attendance or testimony of a witness, retaliating against a witness for giving testimony or destroying, tampering with or interfering with the collection of evidence;
(d) Impeding, intimidating or corruptly influencing an official of the Court for the purpose of forcing or persuading the official not to perform, or to perform improperly, his or her duties;
(e) Retaliating against an official of the Court on account of duties performed by that or another official;"
So I'd say 70 (e) covers the sanctions imposed on those court officials. They are clearly officials of the court, and the sanctions are clearly part of retaliation against them. Consequently it stands to reason that anyone who participates in their enforcement or drafting or really in any way can in principle be prosecuted.
What would happen if someone was to wear clothing with extremely low resistance wires in them? Because that would likely cause rapid heating in the glove, probably causing it to catch on fire by itself, or if especially badly designed, which these probably are, set off a lithium fire in the battery (2000+ degrees, can't be extinguished with water, in fact, really bad idea to try that).
Does clothing with, say, silver wire woven into it exist? I bet people make that. Wear an antistatic vest with a silver wire pullover and I bet that glove will decide to disable itself, or worse.
Sometimes something like a hulking Austrian body builder seems like a weird design for a human killing machine. Then real life suggests people may wear hairy gorilla suits to avoid pain compliance gloves during protests.
They're more for post-detainment torture. They'll keep shooting Black Bloc folks in the face from afar with 40mm tear gas canisters as they do currently.
> “In today’s society, you know, everybody’s filming everything, everybody has a cell phone,” Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But “the glove is low optic, and it looks better on video, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.”
That's an interesting question. If we're only 6 degrees of separation away from the rest of humanity, it means I'm at most 6 degrees away from genocide and child slavery and all sorts of horrible shit. Means I'm also 6 degrees away from some wonderful soul warming stuff as well, but that's food for thought.
How is it "interesting"? I think it's fairly obvious: Anything you can act upon is your very own responsibility, and has influence on what is happening or not happening around you; be it one or six "steps" away from you. Anything on top of that is just a story you tell yourself.
"Oh, me?! No, I just built the Jew inventory for the Nazi death camps, loyal to my American company!"
Ah! Maybe they went to a priest to confess, and got absolved. All fine then. Nothing to see here.
I remember the NASA doing extensive sleep studies, determining that the optimal pattern would consist of basically "naps only"?
I've been sleeping my adult life in usually 2x3-4h "shifts", which I also remember reading is a historically often used pattern. I do not see any negative effects.
I do not track my sleeping hours. I guess it started in school, where I always stayed up way too late, so I used an afternoon sleep to catch up. I continued like that.
I despise alarm clocks, I think it goes against natural sleep rhythm and is bad for mental and physical health. We should ban them in civilized societies. I see it as one of the biggest luxuries of my life that I only have to use them on very limited occasions.
I also never grasped the concept of "every Monday at 10 am, you have to be willing and able to work". I don't understand how that can be done without messing you up after a few years.
I made it a necessity to only work jobs where I can decide on my hours with sufficient flexibility. Some weeks I work 80 hours if I feel it, some weeks I work only 10 if I don't. I co-founded a couple of projects, rarely had a boss to report to, and if I did, they cared about results and not when.
People are always more than happy with my 'productivity' and amazed at my flexibility. For clients/business partners, I actually seem to be available more often in terms of time slots than others with fixed "day" hours. I also mostly work(ed) in international teams, so people are all over the place in terms of timezone anyway (and a few at a time traveling around to conferences etc).
In my relationships, we either cuddle and I stay around until my partner sleeps and I quietly get up again to enjoy the quiet late hours (some of the best productivity, if I feel it!) and then come back later, or I sleep for a few hours next to them, and wake up early. I can then use early quiet hours for myself or for work, and then without stress prepare our breakfast. My second sleep shift is flexible, sometimes as early as 8 or 9 am, sometimes as late as 4pm - but usually within a certain more limited range for some months at a time. As long as I feel it.
I actually consider this to be "normal/natural", and what most other people seem to be doing "wild". :)
Among these runbox is quite good and my friend has used migadu for a few years and likes it even though he says the "soft" limits still make him uncomfortable even though so far he has never hit them; so I guess that should be fine. Posteo doesn't support custom domains (I've used them and otherwise they are good). I wouldn't go with Proton ever. Mailo seems new - never heard of them. Would love to get a review.
mailbox.org can be avoided if you need to send and receive emails from domains where the mail admins might not be email admin savants and/or privacy activists (sometimes that's not a choice in case of Govt services etc and you may not live in a country when you can get those changes done). Also, if you ever face an issue and send them an email, expect the reply to come in weeks (if you are lucky) and that too a flippant (sometimes even terse) nothing-mail and then if you respond the cycle repeats until you give up.
Just in case you miss it: The author of the post, Adam McKay, "is the Academy Award-winning director of The Big Short, Vice, and Don’t Look Up and the founder of Yellow Dot Studios."
Thinking for yourself doesn’t mean rejecting science and 50 years of research in an area where there’s a rare 99% consensus among scientists (check: Lynas et al., Environmental Research Letters), just because some guys on social media said so.
The best kind of propaganda is when people believe they're "thinking on their own" while repeating some convenient lie to keep the grift going. If you think that doesn't apply to you, then it's working as designed.
At least I am falling to the best kind of propaganda. While the other side, who does not apparently even believe they're "thinking on their own", is falling to a much poorer one...
>Have you read the IPCC report? Do you have any kind of physics education and experience in real world thermodynamics at scale?
No and no, but I find it alarming when even trivial questions regarding reliability of methods used to estimate past temperatures are met with ridicule and appeal to authority...
And you are not doing much better. Instead of being curious and asking me what I actually think, or why I think it, you start throwing me research. You also assume that everyone who claims "to think" are coming from some propaganda resource. It is actually the shallow claims from the "convinced" that trigger my skepticism.
It's not about the past temperatures though, is it?
It's about the increasing insulation factor of the atmosphere (unquestionably caused by human fossil fuel extraction) that is trapping more heat.
> you start throwing me research.
That backs that point about insulation.
> Instead of being curious and asking me what I actually think
You either believe in and understand gravity modelling or you don't, either way you fall, clocks advance at different in different frames, etc. A Foucault pendulum swings in a plane independent of the earth rotation regardless of what any human thinks. The starting point for understanding the claims about climate are rooted in physics.
Hence the need to ask people about their foundational knowledge.
> You also assume that everyone who claims "to think" are coming from some propaganda resource.
No, I tend to believe they haven't thought the basic high school level thermodynamics through.
> It is actually the shallow claims from the "convinced"
I worked through via experiments and a few decades in exploration geophysics myself.
Worth a mention that most of the solid data comes not from "the convinced" or eco warrior hippies, it comes from cold war atomic and anti submarine research, mineral and energy exploration, etc.
Extreme weather changes can be natural. The earth has no contract with humans to keep the weather regulated perfectly.
Actually that is the question we are trying to answer when we look at past trends. Is this manmade (if so we can reverse it)? But the sad thing is that we don't have an techniques that can reliably do it. So we take the best we have and declare with unjustifiable certainty, "facts" about past temperatures..
Actually the reverse is true. I would encourage you to think more and actually read and understand what 99% of science says since 50 years and why so many people come to the same results
It always blows my mind what ideas people have what "rich people" have or want.
I know a few 'filthy rich' people and some of them don't even own any TV or projector, because they're totally content with a laptop screen and don't want their kids to be exposed to TVs. You will not see their wealth unless you know where to look.
Once people have money, most of them begin to think about what actually serves them and what doesn't; if you can afford anything you want, you usually become more humble and selective. There's simply no point in owning things for the sake of owning them any more. Displaying your wealth usually has far more downsides than upsides. What we see is the outliers.
> I still have PTSD from how ungodly terrible it was
Please, for the sake of everyone suffering from actual PTSD: Don't. It's hard enough already for victims to communicate what difficulties they are facing without people watering down terminology like that.
I am asking them to reconsider and reflect on what that kind of language use does. You're the one reading it as "calling them out".
How else are we supposed to learn from each other, voice our opinions, point out our mistakes to each other? For me, this is communication. And currently 8 upvotes seem to agree with me and my request. Feel free to ignore it, or consider it, for your own use of language. But, sorry, to me, you're the one acting like a jerk and trying to "police", not me.
PTSD sucks on its own. Trying to blame other people for its symptoms is a deflection. It would be like someone with ADHD blaming his inability to concentrate on everyone else in the room making noise or moving around. People with OCD tried this, acting like it's a Monopoly property that you have to pay rent for if you land on it / say its name.
If anything, it's a net positive people are talking about mental health and recognize different ailments such as OCD, PTSD, and others.
I agree with what you say? I think you're reading something into my writing that I didn't mean to imply. A headache is not a migraine is not cluster headache is not multiple sclerosis. We have vocabulary so we can express ourselves in an attempt to communicate. I am inviting people to reconsider their use of language when it comes to severe challenges such as PTSD. We are here to exchange opinions after all. If you find that offensive, so be it. You decide for yourself how you express your disapproval; two opinions can stand next to each other without introducing "blame" or "deflection".
I agree with you that it's a low effort, repetitive drone when people say "that cable job irritates my OCD" or "I still have PTSD from dealing with that annoying person". I don't like hearing it because it makes me think that person is a parrot that repeats common phrases instead of developing their own voice. So at least we agree partially.
I disagree that it's insensitive to those or have the illness. If it hurts you when people use PTSD as a literary special effect, I invite you to articulate why exactly it makes you feel (however it makes you feel - I don't want to put words in your mouth). I get the sense that some people take offense the same way a religious fundamentalist doesn't want to hear their Prophet or Messiah used disrespectfully. The source of the anger is built on faith and dogma.
I've been driving a 1996 VW diesel van in Germany including Munich, and nowhere anyone ever actually cared about the lack of the sticker. And now, at 30 years of age, it turned "oldtimer", so it is officially exempted.
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