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Got_Bent , to news in "My juror": Trump believed a loyalist on the jury could save him, until the very end

There’s kinda like a second trial where they have friends and family of the defendant and victim come and tell you what s great guy he is or how much they miss the victim etc.

Then the judge lays out the range of possible punishments, including when parole might be available. We’re not allowed to consider when parole might be available though.

Then we all go into the deliberation room and duke it out. When we were done, we go back into the court room and hand the judge the punishment which he then read as sentencing.

The punishment range given us was anything from two to ninety nine years or life, so basically, “do what you want you crazy jurors”.

Got_Bent , to news in "My juror": Trump believed a loyalist on the jury could save him, until the very end

I was on a jury in Texas in 2019 and we were tasked with both.

First part: Based on the facts you have been presented, do you think defendant did X?

If yes

Second part: You have determined that defendant did X. Now determine the punishment

That second part was by far the more difficult of the two

Got_Bent , to noncredibledefense in Can't have defense anymore. because of woke

Did you have a nice… wake for them?

Got_Bent , to aboringdystopia in "but- But- inflation go brrrr 🥺👉👈"

When I was in college, I could fill up on three bean burritos at Taco Bell for $1.81 out the door. Del Taco was cheaper at $1.50.

That was thirty years ago, but still. I don’t know how to explain it, but it felt a whole lot easier to dig up that kind of pocket change back then than it does to dig up whatever it costs today.

Got_Bent , to news in Donald Trump faces travel ban to 37 countries

Huh. Argentina. Lots of his kind from the fatherland down there. And now he can’t join them.

Got_Bent , to news in Donald Trump found guilty of hush-money plot to influence 2016 election

I had to Google this to make sure it was real.

Now is he gonna be like Bannon and ignore sentencing because there are no consequences for doing so?

Got_Bent , to nottheonion in Trump Said to Be Weighing White House Advisory Role for Elon Musk

I’ve been rewatching quantum leap lately and it has me wondering what would happen if Sam failed to save the day. His missions were time sensitive, so once a given event would have passed without Sam fixing it, would he have been stuck in that place and time forever?

If so, would his lifespan be his age/body or that of the person he leaped into?

Got_Bent , to pics in I was summoned for jury duty and all I got was this pretty photograph. [OC]

Oh. You like brutalism.

Well look where I went to school.

Got_Bent , to science_memes in Hero

I was thinking of this video as soon as I saw the post. She’s really an interesting person.

Got_Bent , to noncredibledefense in Nigerian Civil War

I know nothing of this, but Israel backs both sides?

Got_Bent , to science_memes in Protons

As a long time teacher of ESL back in the day, I’d say that depends heavily on the native language.

European languages generally do well

Asian languages generally struggle

Middle Eastern languages, well, things don’t translate well on paper

Conversely, I found the middle Eastern students to have excellent speaking abilities.

The difference in how the mind processes speaking vs writing was truly fascinating to me.

Got_Bent , to memes in Truly a bittersweet moment

In my fifties and still have that dream, but it’s worse.

I went to boarding school, so my dreams involve fifty something year old me having to go back to live in the dorm with a bunch of kids.

Got_Bent , to news in Trying to buy a house is 'playing a game you can't win'

So I was you. I wasn’t financially stable until well into my forties. I would say I wasn’t raised by anybody. Forget about no parental money. I had no parental guidance, and from that I made a TON of beyond stupid decisions.

Fast forward, and I finally got my shit together. I was able to get my daughter through college without debt and her mother sold her a car for a reasonable price.

So now she’s in her early twenties making more money than I do, and she’s always concerned with mismanaging it. But being who she is, she’s also constantly worried that she’s not doing enough good for others.

Her first house will be with her own money, but I was fortunate enough to help her get into that position.

Just on principle, I’m hell bent on leaving an estate to her even if she won’t need it. From there, I just hope it further supplies her with the tools to realize her ultimate altruistic ambitions.

This being Lemmy, I’m sure something about this is wrong or evil or selfish. I can’t accommodate every random Internet criticism, so I do the best I can.

As to the daughter, I’m just so proud of her. Aside from the line of work, she’s artistic and empathetic and caring. You know, an exponentially better person than I could ever hope to be.

Got_Bent , to news in Trying to buy a house is 'playing a game you can't win'

My visit to my daughter’s apartment did concern me in that I saw not one but two Scrabble sets on her shelf.

And she doesn’t have means to make coffee. That part will get immediately remedied.

But seriously, she and I are quite close. I was telling her that my biggest concern going forward is living alone and going full blown dementia as I failed in securing long term care.

I also told her to never, under any circumstances, sign anything remotely related to my healthcare because the fine print will make her assume financial responsibility. Fuck that. Dump my withering winkled ass in a storm drain before I let that happen.

Got_Bent , to news in Trying to buy a house is 'playing a game you can't win'

I had a long talk with my daughter about this last week.

I bought a small 700 square foot house about a year and a half ago. I’ll have it completely paid off in ten years.

My daughter made all the right moves and is making more money in her early twenties than she knows what to do with.

So here’s the plan:

When my house is paid off, she’ll have a house of her own.

I’ll retire and go live with her.

Then we rent out my house, but not in the traditional way. We’re going to look for somebody who is genuinely looking but unable to buy. We’ll go in the rent to own model, so eventually the tenant owns my house and the daughter has cash from the proceeds to go buy another house and rent it to own.

I’m sure somebody on lemmy will find reason to punch holes in this plan and call us horrible capitalist pigs, but short of outright giving everything away, this was the best we could come up with to use family assets for the good of others without starving ourselves.

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