The charges for murder vary by State. Here’s a New York lawyer explaining Murder 1 vs Murder 2 as it relates to New York State law. Murder 2 is regular premeditated murder. Murder 1 is murder with the intent of influencing or intimidating government ie. Terrorism. The lawyer in this interview suggests the Terrorism charge is, ironically, politically motivated, but it will be difficult to actually prove beyond a doubt that Luigi’s intentions were to change government policies and not just get even with someone he disliked.

In most places murder 1 is premeditated murder and murder 2 is manslaughter. Murder 1 in New York is different.

The South African President?

I have never heard of “unconditional discharge” being a possible sentence for a crime. It’s like they made it up just for Trump.

LLMs don’t verify their output is true. Math is something where verifying its truth is easy. Ask an LLM how many Rs in strawberry and it’s plain to see if the answer is correct or not. Ask an LLM for a summary of Columbian history and it’s not as apparent. Ask an LLM for a poem about a tomato and there really isn’t a wrong answer.

Depends on the country. The Canadian government lists several special medical diets for prisoners. Food allergies is one but they list quite a bit like diets for diabetic or pregnant prisoners. For all these diets the prisoner must be diagnosed and can’t simply request it because they want it.

A diet of conscience is a requested diet for religious or moral beliefs. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms requires prisoners recieve a diet that conforms to their beliefs should they be able to adequately describe and demonstrate adherence to them.

The article says they were purchasing these items in exchange for shipments of heroin and methamphetamine.

Im going to assume OnlyFans doesn’t do that because they want to. They’d likely be harassed by government if they didn’t.

Pornhub had to remove all unverified videos (which was most of their videos) and now anyone who uploads must follow similar rules that OnlyFans has. Pornhub posted an announcement saying they reported 118 instances of child abuse materials while Facebook reported 84,000,000 but that somehow they’re the ones being threatened to be shutdown unless they implement more rules.

Glad I don’t have to give up eating beaver for Lent

There are dietary laws for Catholics, specifically about fasting and abstaining from meat consumption, but they vary wildly by region. For example, Canadian Catholics are permitted to eat meat on Friday if they perform an act of charity, read the Bible, or pray more than usual. Just make sure you’re Canadian or else God will be mad.

Did you need the picture of the spider? 😰

“At the same time, he worked to send massive quantities of heroin and methamphetamine to the United States in exchange for heavy-duty weaponry such as surface-to-air missiles to be used on battlefields in Burma,” he added.

And I thought the plotlines of the Yakuza series were a little crazy. Turns out they weren’t crazy enough.

I think it’s the first one. A lie starts small but can quickly grow out of control. It’s from the poem “Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field” which is about a man romantically pursuing a woman by making up lies about her current fiancé and ultimately results in all their lives being changed for the worst.

My favourite are the overly specific records. “Joe Bob has recently broke the record for most points in the first game after a knee surgery with 4 points. The last record holder was John Jock who scored 3 points after a knee surgery in 1987.”

I am always reminded how precise and verbose one must be in text since it’s so easy to intend one meaning but have people interpret another.

I said I wondered why, my dude. Past tense. As in “I initially wondered why Samsung wasn’t on the list, so I looked up the list, and saw it’s only for Chinese companies.”

Am I missing some critical functionality of sales taxes that income taxes cannot replicate?

Sin tax. Governments might not want to outright ban something, but increasing the sales tax on it can discourage its use. The opposite is also true. Eliminating sales tax on necessities also eliminates the regressive nature of it since technically people could avoid the tax if they just bought what was required to live. Sales tax is a way to collect tax, but also a way to influence spending habits. Income taxes have this feature as well. Deductions and credits are ways the government encourages certain economic activity without mandating it. More ways to collect tax also means more ways to influence the economy.

I’ll play journalist and link the actual list (PDF). I wondered why Samsung, a company that literally produces military weapons, wasnt on the list. The list is specifically just for Chinese companies. There is apparently a law requiring the Department of Defence maintain and publish this list.

Do you think that’s True doe?

I just think that if the dev doesn’t care if they get paid or not then they should offer people back their money. I would assume few people would ask for their money back, but it just seems like the right thing to do. I’m not sure why I’m getting downvoting for suggesting the dev offer refunds. Is offering consumers a choice bad?

He can still purchase things by leveraging his net worth even if he doesn’t have liquid cash. The Twitter purchase shows that as well.