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Foppe posted...

It is pretty easy to not bring drugs to Singapore.

For one thing it's not tourists or drug lords primarily getting the death penalty, it's impoverished people and addicts. Particularly marginalized citizens (the convicted are disproportionately of minority ethnicity). For another thing that's just really useless to say, like wow crime is technically a choice so I guess any punishment is perfectly justified

ZaruenKosai is not warned or suspended so I guess they just got sick of the topic and deleted all their posts

electricbugs2 posted...

Singapore is a beautiful place, but they keep it that way because theyre so tough on crime period, not just drug related.

There's no significant correlation between this type of tough on crime policy and an area's value as a tourist definition.

GunmaN1905 posted...

Me agreeing or not agreeing with something has nothing to do with the fact if it works or not.

As a matter of fact, when people declare without researching, that un-evidenced conservative policies are actually effective, they do tend to support them.

https://time.com/6274565/singapore-death-penalty-drugs/

There is no evidence that the supply has gone down. Indeed, despite decades of having the supposed deterrence of a death sentence in place, authorities in Singapore have regularly reported major drug busts, including earlier this month when 35 suspected drug offenders were arrested over the alleged trafficking of more than 9 kilograms (19 pounds) of cannabis and an assortment of other drugs estimated to be worth about $418,000. The countrys largest cannabis seizure this century took place in 2021, and the largest heroin seizure since 2001 happened just last year.

Eugene Thuraisingam, a defense lawyer who has worked on Singaporean drug-related death penalty cases, tells TIME his clients usually fall into one of two groups: either addicts who traffic in drugs to fund their drug addiction or extremely poor persons who are willing to take the risk of trafficking in drugs to make a small amount of money. Either way, the deterrent does not work on them, he says. M Ravi, another attorney who has worked on drug-related death penalty cases, including Tangarajus, similarly tells TIME that Singapores justice system tends to capture the lowest members of the trafficking hierarchy, those who are forced into the trade by poverty: Until you can crack down on the kingpin, he says, the mules and the vulnerable will be trapped.

party_animal07 posted...

Zero tolerance could mean jail time.....

Dude literally wrote "And guess what? It works." That is the immediate preceding context.

I cried as a kid at this ending and I'm glad Snake didn't shake the CIA director's hand. What did she die for? Aimless patriotism. Her mission brought fucking nukes to a rogue actor in the USSR in the first place, totally unhinged.

Snake was right to release that bandana into the sea and try to move on.

GunmaN1905 posted...

I literally said I don't agree with the death penalty. It shouldn't be a thing anywhere, ever.

GunmaN1905 posted...

And guess what? It works.

GunmaN1905 posted...

I obviously don't agree with the death penalty or any kind of penalty for cannabis if alcohol and tobacco are legal, but there should be zero tolerance for any kind of hard drugs.

Immediate backpedal lol

Solid_Sonic posted...

Had anyone on the world stage called out Singapore for being unreasonable?

So for one thing, even if countries didn't call out Singapore due to political economic reasons (such as the inadequate responses to countries like Saudia Arabia), it would still be an autocracy where the state kills people for petty offenses.

Secondly, yes, Google is your friend, Singapore is internationally condemned for its reinstatement of the death penalty.

GunmaN1905 posted...

And guess what? It works.

I obviously don't agree with the death penalty or any kind of penalty for cannabis if alcohol and tobacco are legal, but there should be zero tolerance for any kind of hard drugs.

Also, I always found it hillarious that chewing gums are banned in Singapore.

never count out a CEman's ability to simp for an autocratic shithole where people are killed by the state for petty offenses

The bugle monster in series finale "Perfect"

Let's let a new series get a good game, like One Piece or Jojo or something

ArsGoetia posted...

again
thats not how rotten tomatoes works, its not metacritic
only 13% of the reviews were positive, the score average was not 13%

RottenTomatoes and its consequences have been a disaster

Mortal Kombat wants to be fortnite sooooo bad

https://twitter.com/CultureCrave/status/1684325685861707776?s=20

UnholyMudcrab posted...

The mistrial should have been declared as soon as Fonda's character brought in the knife, because jurors can't conduct independent investigations like that.

What I mean is, the jury was all in on it. Technically a jury "should" not discuss nullification, yet they have the power to deliver any verdict.

Huh?

I would post pics but I don't want either of their mugs saved on my phone. You know what they look like

BurmesePenguin posted...

It's idealism over realism. Obviously this neat sort of back and forth argumentation is not how jury deliberations actually take place. I'm not entirely sure if it's true, but I've heard that if a jury member brought in a knive he bought at a street stall like Henry Fonda did it would be an immediate mistrial if the court heard about it.

I dont know that I'd call it idealism. If anything real jury deliberations are probably way more civil and dudes don't assume an immediate verdict while sitting on tickets to the Yankees game on the first day of deliberation.

It's also not really about solely a jury's duty under the law because Henry Fonda's initial vote of not guilty is based on his growing unease throughout the trial at the defense lawyer's poor performance. Inequality in America is a running theme of the movie and the jury's conclusion is that they have a further affirmative duty, beyond the letter of the law, to find justice in a matter of life and death. The exact rules of jury deliberation is not the focus of the film's endorsement but instead the standard of Presumption of Innocence.

The deliberation is definitely Hollywood-ified and not exactly legal, but juries also have enormous power in regards to verdict, and I don't believe a mistrial can be declared after the defendant is declared not guilty.

The movie was so competent that it only occurred to me when explaining it to my dad that the whole movie is "in a bottle".

I will say though the two particularly angry old men were very similar in their delivery and appearance so it took a while to figure out who was who. Also seems unlikely in 1957 that 11 people out of 12 would turn their backs on a racist old man like that.

Irony posted...

I have both of those in a small town unless you mean one them meme ones that aren't on the map.

Dude, you're not a small town if you're on the map...

Robot2600 posted...

there is a line in terminator 2 about room-temperature super-conductors.

it's a grift, like quantum computing.

There's nothing to grift off of here. The compound cited in the study can be baked in days and people are already preparing replication attempts. If they were going to actually try to make money off this with idk paid speeches or a book or something, they would claim a convoluted difficult to manufacture and maintain compound to buy more time and then claim that The Man is trying to keep them down.

The thing is that any alternative treatment that's so accessible has in fact been endlessly tested by scientists and found not to work.

The endless army of PhD aspirers and post-docs are not in alliegance with big pharma.

I'm glad they're still flying Royal branding because it increases the odds the alleged fighting game gets Sumire and Maruki

Imagine giving people the benefit of the doubt under capitalism

It's not gonna be in the water supply

voldothegr8 posted...

So what natural resources are needed to make such material?

Why does LK-99 exhibit superconductivity at room temperature and ambient pressure? This is because the stress generated by the Cu2+ replacement of Pb(2)2+ ion was not relieved due to the structural uniqueness of LK-99 and at the same time was appropriately transferred to the interface of the cylindrical column. In other words, the Pb(1) atoms in the cylindrical column interface of LK-99 occupy a structurally limited space. These atoms are entirely affected by the stress and strain generated by Cu2+ ions. Therefore, SQWs can be generated in the interface by an appropriate amount of distortion(57) at room temperature and ambient pressure without a relaxation. From this point of view, the stress due to volume contraction by temperature and pressure is relieved and disappeared in CuO- and Fe-based superconductor systems because the relaxation process cannot be limited due to the structural freedom. Therefore, they need an appropriate temperature or pressure to limit the structural freedom and to achieve the SQW generation.

Lead, copper, and phosphorous basically

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/159jpz6/the_first_roomtemperature_ambientpressure/

Superconductors outside of extreme lab conditions would allow current and electricity to be trasferred any distance without loss. You could place a nuclear plant in a completely safe remote location and wire ~100% of the power output to faraway cities. They would greatly expand the potential of all electronics since resistance in conductors is part of what creates heat and limits processing speed.

People are waiting for further replication on this study but the alleged mechanism is so simple and the names reputable enough that it'd be strange if it were just fraud. Basically if this were true and could be effectively manufactured and used at scale, it would be the technological discovery of the 21st century

Ugh

A professor told us studies say that while sometimes people think they want high productive/ low attitude, in practice people overwhelmingly prefer low productive / high attitude

Barbie is good, Oppenheimer is great

I thought this was far superior to Into, which often got on my nerves.

In Into, Miles is desperate to appease a team that look down on him but in this movie, he rejects them and finds his own strength

Yeah so that's easily the best Marvel movie in terms of like spectacle and creativity and scope. Astounding.

Generally I say Spider-Man 2 is the best SM movie and it feels unfair to even compare them honestly

My local theater isn't as good as I remember it after going out to see Oppenheimer in PLF

In particular the sound is not sounding good in this theater

Bullied Maguire: "You're gonna put some dirt in my eye"

MysteryMan923 posted...

What about Giorno and his healing?

Making body parts was just a clever application of his ability. Not an upgrade. Also giorno is written inconsistently anyway

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/0/9/AAcZIZAAEsWB.jpg

Light can't kill Josuke because he cannot discern a true name for him. Yasuho can pinpoint Light's location in minutes due to his use of electronics and search history. Literally the perfect counter duo against Light/Ryuk

Mobius Strip was specifically against being turned inside out, Act 4 hit the stand which is why that happened, GER was an upgrade from the stand arrow

If November Rain gets an upgrade it will probably be due to a macguffin as is usual. The only guys who discovered a power they just didn't know they had were Jotaro and Jousuke

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/0/0/AAcZIZAAEsV4.jpg
and it's heavy but yeah. it rains

Please try not to post spoilers past what I've seen because my phone doesn't hide spoiled text correctly on GameFAQs. @auto_chrisbot

Okay what the hell was that dumbass post credits scene that was some 90s TV shit lmao

So I guess Oliver being possessed is the hook for season 2

A wee bit disappointing imo after they went through so much work to kill this villain whose character is basically "I'm EVIL"

Still not clear how the explosion happened. I had figured it was Carrie or Ptonomy at the time. Maybe that's Melanie. I had thought she may be a telepath though since they said they had felt David's awakening, which made me think she was a professor X analog. But evidently that is not her power

Also why not have Ptolomy read his mind

So Klonopin'd guy had been faked by The Eye. But are we about to get a burial scene without knowing his name

I've been really enjoying the show to he clear, but I do want to say i still find it very silly that the telekinetic who fired the machine gun is still unnamed and they even write him out of the hospital by having him be the klonopin

Now he was just shown to be stabbed upstairs at the same time? And there was this weird montage ending with Cid almost putting the glasses on him but putting them on Carrie instead

Nearly this entire credits sequence was producers, executive producers, co-executive producers, and co-producers. Can't imagine most of them actually did any work

So Lenny has institutionalized them because they're still locked in the moment of the bullets flying and Lenny can't stop them so this is what's left

Meanwhile they're dreaming of Oliver

It's probably moreso that every creature your dog has encountered is friendly and humans are larger than a st bernard

Wait just remembered that if they left to his house then they presumably left Kissinger there to starve to death