$175,000 for 50 years? He's 71 now so he went into prison at 21. That means he spent virtually his entire life in prison. He could have done so many things, but instead he needed to sit in a prison cell. All because he was wrongly convicted.
And because I'm a math geek and need to figure this stuff out, $175,000 over 50 years is $3,500 a year. If we calculate what he would have earned at the federal minimum wage over that time frame (ignoring bank account interest or inflation just to keep things simple), we'd get over $500,000.
They're giving him a third of what he should have earned at bare minimum. (And that ignores all the other horrible things involved with being wrongfully imprisoned for 50 years.)
This is literally why we have apex predators such as wolves. They help clamp down on the old and the sick so that prions (mad cow disease) does not spread to other species or humans. It cannot infect wolves.
When you kill off all the apex predators, like when Montana governor Greg Gianforte authorized the massacre of 100 wolves, you see explosions of extremely dangerous diseases and land degradation as deer damage tree roots, gardens, meadows, streams, and farms.
Not only that, but killing members of wolf packs causes their families to fall apart and everyone to scatter. That means wolves alone. Which cannot hunt pack animals which require coordination. So then they go after the easiest meal: dumbass farm animals who have zero survival instincts and whose ranchers no longer employ people to look after the herds in great enough numbers like the olden days. The cycle then perpetuates, as mad-cow contaminated soils spread and spread....
Just another moron who either didn't read, or understand the article, and definitely doesn't understand the realities of living in a rural desert like southern Arizona.
I read the article. And how about you see someone about that temper of yours, eh? Getting so angry that you insult random people in the internet? You might want to see someone about that.
...an acceleration in the long-term decline of so-called domestic-premium brands, which include Bud Light and rivals Miller Light and Coors Light...
So, are people drinking less beer or are they drinking less piss beer? Could it be that people are having two Hazy Imperial IPA's with 8+ ABV instead of a six pack of Coors Light? I am taking this headline with a grain of salt.
Good in theory, but you can bet your ass every scumfuck conservative who gets arrested for dumb shit in California will be "hurr durr, my pronouns are "Attack/Helicopter" and because of the law you have to use them." They'll be pissing themselves laughing at repeating "the one joke" they have, every time it happens, no matter how many times it happens.
Never, ever underestimate conservative shitheads ability to take anything good and find a way to fuck it up in bad faith. Expect this to be a quickly abused joke of a law where half the fucking mugshots come with obviously bad faith pronouns.
EDIT: Also don't expect cops to do anything about it, they'll be laughing along with these chucklefucks! The reason it had to be made a law is clearly because law enforcement doesn't respect individuals pronouns (why else would it need to be a law?). So you can bet your ass the cops will take any obviously bad faith pronouns as valid, no questions asked.
It's also a classic liberal thing. We're not going to defund the police or hold bad cops to account, but gosh darnit, when they do arrest you for bullshit reasons, they'll be forced to use the right pronouns!
Not that I'm against it, but it's just dicking around in the margins instead of fixing the big issues.
I actually was doing the math on this kind of thing lately, but it was RE: Alex Jones/Sandy Hook.
So, the average US lifespan is about 77.
So a court case taking 10 years is about 1/10th of your entire life.
Now, consider that the beginning of your life (say up to 13 or so) you're not really in any mental position to be able to bring a court case. At the end of your life (similarly probably the last 15 years or so), you're in a similar position, where your body and mind may be failing and you may not be in a position to bring a court case.
So if we cut off the "unusable in court" years of our lives, we're left with about 50 years of good quality "living" as an adult.
That means a court case taking 10 years is actually closer to 1/5th of your entire life.
How is a life where a large portion of it was fighting in court just to get a bare minimum of what is passing for justice a quality life?
Do people not understand the passage of time and these are literally lives being wasted fighting for justice from fucking idiots?
I understand the whole "court moves slow" but god damn there's got to be a better fucking system than making people wait out giant chunks of their lives for a pathetic half-ass result that isn't anywhere close to "justice."
It's a fucking travesty that anyone defends it. It's a broken ass system, stop acting like we can fix something that places such little value of the time spent on such things in a persons life.
Seriously if I had spent that many years trying to claw back justice from a fuckwit like this or Alex Jones, I would not look back and think I had had a chance to have a "life well lived." No, the "justice" system took that from me by taking its sweet fucking time.
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