President-elect Donald Trump nominated Harmeet Dhillon as assistant attorney general for civil rights, he announced Monday. "Throughout her career, Harmeet has stood up consistently to protect our cherished Civil Liberties, including taking on Big Tech for censoring our Free Speech, representing Christians who were prevented from praying together during COVID, and suing corporations who use woke policies to discriminate against their workers," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. read more
Taylor Swift gave out a whopping $197 million in bonuses to everyone who worked on her almost two-year long Eras tour including caterers, production crew, truck drivers, physical therapists, and hair and make-up teams. Ten million people attended the Eras Tour which sold $2 billion in total tickets, officially making it the bestselling tour of all time. read more
The 72-year-old retiree who used his 9mm handgun to shoot a Walmart delivery drone hovering near his Florida home has struck a plea deal that could result in the eventual dismissal of felony and misdemeanor counts, court records show. read more
For years, support from Iran, Hezbollah and Russia sustained Assad. But Russia has been drained and distracted by war in Ukraine. Iran and Hezbollah have taken a drubbing from Israel. That opened the door for HTS to launch its decisive assault against the Assad regime, which became another unintended casualty of Sinwar's genocidal dream. read more
YesMadam, a home salon services company allegedly conducted a mental health survey and subsequently terminated over 100 workers who reported feeling stressed. A screenshot of an email from the Human Resources manager at YesMadam has gone viral on social media. read more
In a conversation with TechCrunch, Bill Gates said that NFTs (non-fungible tokens) and digital currencies were, "100 percent based on greater fool theory." Or, as Warren Buffett said in 2020, "Cryptocurrencies basically have no value. You can't do anything with it except sell it to somebody else."
The point Gates, Buffett, and various economists make is that crypto offers no "real-world" value. Thus, cryptocurrency is simply a bubble in which people try to out-fool each other. It's nothing more than a money-making scheme to buy and sell higher. When people get wise to this fact, crypto is going to collapse.
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He did not need to kill that man to defend himself.
#7 | Posted by donnerboy
No, he did not need to kill him. And it doesn't look like that was his intention.
But from the jury instructions for criminally negligent homicide, I don't think the prosecution had a leg to stand on. Certainly not enough to meet the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard.
A person acts with CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE with respect to a death when that person engages in blameworthy conduct so serious that it creates or contributes to a substantial and unjustifiable risk that another person's death will occur, and when he or she fails to perceive that risk, and when the risk is of such nature and degree that failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would observe in the situation.
You may notice from that definition that CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE is not the same type of negligence you may be familiar with from a civil lawsuit seeking a money judgment. The carelessness required for criminal negligence is appreciably more serious; it must be such that its seriousness would be apparent to anyone who shares the community's general sense of right and wrong.
nycourts.gov
That's a lot of words ...
The document tells the story of Dr. Thomas Weiner, an oncologist at St. Peter's Health hospital in Helena, Montana, who was accused of providing substandard and potentially deadly care to his patients. Despite being a popular and respected figure in the community, an internal review at the hospital uncovered numerous cases of Weiner misdiagnosing patients, overprescribing dangerous narcotics, and potentially hastening the deaths of some terminally ill patients through the use of high doses of the sedative phenobarbital. The hospital eventually suspended and fired Weiner, but he maintained his medical license and sued the hospital, leading to a lengthy legal battle that exposed the hospital's own complicity in enabling Weiner's practices for years. The story also explores the divided reaction in the Helena community, with many of Weiner's former patients and their families staunchly defending him, while others, like the family of Scot Warwick, sought answers and accountability for his death.
www.tldrthis.com
It's nice to think that a tyrant can still be deposed and killed.
People like Assad are disturbingly common.
#1 | Posted by Zed
Especially in that part of the world.
US left facing a difficult situation in Syria as rebels make massive advances against Assad regimeGetting the feeling things may have just gotten worse in many ways for the world and the people of Syria.
Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, on Monday distanced the US from the offensive last week [...] "Let me be clear that the US is in no way involved in the operations you see playing out in and around Aleppo in northwestern Syria, which as you know are being led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a designated terrorist organization,"
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A Mutation Could Bring Bird Flu Closer to a New Pandemic
I'm going to have to hear Brainworm Kennedy Jr's take on this first.