J. 🍓 @yair@tooot.im

but really though

never trust anyone who appeals to nature about anything

The math and philosophy people also claim everything, but the astronomers argue that the stuff they study really only comprises a small number of paper surfaces.
https://xkcd.com/2640/

People tell you all the time: don't talk to the police. But why not?

Here's one reason you may not be aware of. In most American jurisdictions, once police have you in an interrogation room, they are free to lie to you if they believe it will help them produce a confession.

What kind of lies do they tell? Things like:

* "We have surveillance video of you committing the crime."

* "We have multiple eyewitnesses who saw you committing the crime."

* "We have a confession from the friend who was with you at the time, saying you talked them into helping you commit the crime."

Let's assume you are actually 100% innocent. Even if that's the case -- if you believe that the police have evidence that could convict you anyway, you are going to be under enormous pressure to confess, EVEN THOUGH YOU DID NOT DO IT. Your brain leaps to the thought that, if you're going to be convicted regardless, maybe confessing will at least get you some leniency.

So you confess, and the cops are happy. A confession nearly always leads to a conviction, and they just produced a confession out of thin air.

You just convicted yourself.

https://newjerseymonitor.com/briefs/high-court-may-reexamine-case-law-allowing-police-to-lie-during-interrogations/

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https://xkcd.com/2637/

i want to travel to #greece with my gf.

does anyone know good eco-communities and squats to visit? i would love to give free lectures and/or talks about #mentalhealth and #anarchism. i'm quite a respected writer, scholar and lecturer here in israel on these topics. possibly i could stay at some #communes and could contribute by lecturing? maybe someone could assist me and help me connect with local anarchists/socialists in athens/ikaria/other places? blessings 💚💚💚

God's Plan

#comic #webcomic #warandpeas #funny #comicstrip #makingcomics

When people complain about taking Christ out of Christmas, is it kyrie elision?

President Kennedy did not call himself a jelly donut in front of a German audience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ich_bin_ein_Berliner

For all of the uncertainty about what is to come in these hearings, one thing is for sure, we are in for one hell of a ride. There is clearly a sense in which we are about to get deluged with unseen footage, footage of depositions, and the words of participants in these events were definitely used for dramatic effect very effectively.

Though these hearings contain a lot of politics that we all find reprehensible, thinking through the ways that these tactics can be used against us is critical.

Who called it "malloc()" and not "see_you_later_allocator()" ?

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