Man.
Sometimes I do think I’m living in a good timeline.
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i too would like to only be known as the guy who yelled “POLICE STATE!” in the face of school wide surveillance
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hey so how come lawyers like so much PAPER?
sincerely, the person in the copy center who has to print all these goddamn binders
Man, it is the worst. I grew up file clerking for my dad and it was so terrible that I decided I would never be a lawyer. SO much paperwork. Ugh. Horrible.
But also, if you're in trial, you want all of the information in the entire case at your fingertips, and you want to know exactly where every piece of info is--which means that you have it hard copy, because a laptop can glitch or lag or crash but paper abides.
Also, in a lot of circumstances, you need a physical item in order to admit something as evidence, because the court physically marks it with a sticker label. So you print photos, documents...even for video files, you have it on a disc or USB that the court can put its little evidence sticker on. And then, depending on the type of trial, all that evidence may go with a jury into a jury room to look over, and you don't really want to give them a wholeass laptop, because that's just asking for improper non-evidence information to be considered.
And if you're feeling like a jackass when complying with discovery demands, you can give the requested information on physical paper and that's fulfilling the demand (unless it was specifically for digital format) but it's not searchable in the way that a PDF would be--you can't control+F for the info you want, you have to read through reams of paper. Which you should do, for thoroughness, but...it's time consuming. So you can play petty little games and give people hardcopy to make their lives marginally more difficult.
Ultimately though, lawyers just really love deforestation. Fuck them trees.
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Thinking about Jason canonically defining his entire outlook on the world on the basis that people break their promises because his mother abandoned him. Ironically, of course, he’s also the child of Jupiter despite the big three’s oath. He also hated rules but followed them anyways because someone has to keep their promises, right? There is nothing more sacred to Jason than promises. Combined with how he died, the “remember” hurts a whole lot more now..
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Been listening to books about the Salem witch trials and it’s so weird to me that there’s this prevailing narrative where people think of Salem as “oh they were deluded primitive folk who believed in witchcraft lol” when there are contemporary documents where prominent people said the accusers and the court (which hadn’t followed standard legal procedures even for that time) were committing crimes so grievous it would forever be a stain on New England
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Obsessed with the vibe that both Ryunosuke and Phoenix were built to be the most easily underestimated guys ever and they’re always set up against people who would eat them alive if given the opportunity. They’re also distinctly different flavors of visibly pathetic, Phoenix has more of the ‘ridiculous stupid reckless crybaby’ thing going on while Ryunosuke is a ‘tiny nervous woodland creature begging to be hunted for sport’ kinda vibe.
While there’s no way that it’s all a facade, it would be interesting if they were at least self aware. Phoenix does his puppy eyes in court at the judge and at Gumshoe to get into the crime scene and Ryunosuke just forgets to draw attention to the fact that he constantly has a sword on his person, while Kazuma uses it for intimidation Ryunosuke rests his hand on it for support and that’s it.
During the 7yg Phoenix tailors his persona specifically to double down on the idea that he’s shady and down on his luck and this feels like a choice that he’s made rather than him actually giving up and we know that he never gave up. That’s like… his whole deal.
Stronghart takes one look at Ryunosuke and immediately dismisses him, no one can turn this little runt into an assassin. He’s not a threat if he mutters all his thoughts to himself and is visibly anxious all the time.
I just think it would be funny if they weaponized it and are constantly pulling the ‘im a little birthday boy’ move.
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