Jury selection is black magic, gut instinct, and random chance. Someone read their questionnaires/listened to the answers and told themselves a story that ended with ‘better not preempt.’
Outside of those big money private firms paying money for body language experts, voir dire is a crap shoot where you’re just hoping to get rid of the nut jobs.
“I’m like really fucking stupid, basically retarded, but sure I can be fair and impartial.”
If you’re out of preempts, there’s juror number 11.
JUSTICE.
By being just over retarded.
There are loads of people who believe this and I think that sometimes folks need to remember that’s reality.
Shithead antisocial people exist - that’s why there must be consequences up to and including violence (if that’s all someone can understand).
I work in a career where some folks can really drink the coolaid… But, like, we’re not really changing anything? At all.
But who cares? It is what it is - do the job, get paid, go home and do something fun.
Oh for sure - I’ve been calling myself an Absurdist for years. It just fits and makes the most sense to me.
This is how I’ve made sense of the world… Nothing actually matters so I get to choose what matters to me.
Someone should do this for Trump - his dumbass supporters would probably fall for it.
If this is real, you seem like a good person and I’m going to keep your example in mind.
I’m in a place where $200 isn’t much, but if someone helped me help my kid that’d be priceless.
Were you aware of the recent study talking about male microchimerism in the female brain?
Your talk about woman needing to remain ‘pure’ because of ‘the patriarchy’ made me think of it.
I don’t see that they’ve identified any downstream impact from having extra DNA, but wouldn’t it be funny if that actually did impact folks negatively?
Personally, I’m sure glad I’m not carrying around a historical record of the folks I’ve been ‘very friendly’ with…
I haven’t… But I don’t use Facebook or Reddit.
Buying a home.
Absurdism and cannabis, but basically the same thing.
That’s the sort of thing that leads to actual unrest.
The Witcher 2. I died so many goddamn times in the intro scene, rage quit, came back years later and thoroughly enjoyed it.
You’d be told to leave. If you didn’t, you’d be arrested for trespassing. And being a fuckwit.
I am tired of hearing about Palestine, fuck the folks that committed the recent attack, and at this point I hope they just glass the place. 👍
So I guess I feel fine.
They’re either “scared and stupid” or an amoral asshole aking advantage of the dumb folks.