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The travesty of the anthropocene. My future children and their children will likely be the first to experience the major impacts of how we've collectively damaged on this planet. I have to make a concerted effort to avoid thinking about it because it will very quickly deteriorate my mental health

I only provided an additional source, I didn't provide any other explanation

Looked up this story in the local paper for a bit more context

Responding officers found Towery in his home dead from multiple stab wounds. Part of a lamp was stuck in his throat.

Unsure how this happens in a self defense situation. Imo if you were threatened and under duress you're gonna do what you have to do, but he was 80 years old

Fearing for her life and fueled by crack cocaine, she overcame Towery and stabbed him repeatedly -- 58 times according to an autopsy report. The evidence showed Holberg also beat Towery with a claw hammer multiple times. “I lost it," Holberg told jurors.

The reasoning behind the Trump-appointed judge's dissent:

"No jury in its right mind would believe that a 23-year-old cocaine-addled prostitute 'defended' herself against a frail old man by (1) stabbing him 58 times, (2) bludgeoning him with various objects including a steam iron, and (3) ramming a lamp base down his throat while he was still alive," Duncan wrote.

In the surface that's pretty reasonable, but the issue is the planted informant being encouraged to further incriminate the defendant:

However, the majority of the judges believed prosecutors heavily relied on Kirkpatrick's testimony -- particularly her description of how Holberg enjoyed killing Towery -- to secure the conviction and during the punishment phase of the trial when they asked for the death sentence.

For sure, she was nice enough but being potentially solicited at work isn't my idea of a good time lol

Worked as a computer tech in college

We had regular clients that would bring in their ten year old laptops to get "tuned up," which normally consisted of removing whatever interesting malware they'd manage to download

One guy would bring his computer and his lockscreen slideshow and desktop would be a rotation of naked women surfing. I never looked through people's stuff because ick, but after bringing it in multiple times you'd have seen hundreds of them

Another woman had an ancient laptop that'd probably shipped with Windows Vista that was 1 core 1 thread. It was desperately trying to run Windows 10 but was drowning constantly. You could watch the startup processes in task manager in series which was pretty cool

Had a woman deliberately hand me her phone open to her photos with like dozens of nudes while she just talked to me normally about whatever banal up issue she was having with her iPhone. Thinking about it I don't think this was an isolated event

Stuff on the devices is typically less weird than the people

Same thing right?

That's pretty sick, gonna look into it

Considering Texas's major tech hub including FB offices are based in Austin idk what bias they think they're eliminating

They did get sued by Dominion if that counts

I hate that I laughed

I crave the challenge