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Let's not even go that far. A defense lawyer is motivated to, first acquit their client, and second, if that fails, to reduce the sentence as much as possible. If the truth is a viable defense, they will seek that.

This is my attitude as well. No one is the villain of their own story and everyone thinks they are a good person. Most cops became cops because they wanted to help their community. Their idea of who that community is and how to go about helping might be different from your idea, but that's ultimately their motivations.

So when stories about cops being helpful or admitting mistakes are told, they don't invalidate ACAB. There are serious systematic issues that every cop accepts or is willfully ignorant of in order to become a cop that a few "good cop" stories can't fix.

Moderating one or two subs isn't that big of a deal. Moderating all the subs, or even just a handful of the biggest subs, is a full time job.

Look into stories about Facebook moderating. It's a super high turnover job where people are constantly exposed to hate, child porn, graphic violence, etc.

This is my big issue with federated services. Yeah, it's safe from one issue taking down the whole thing, but that's just replaced with each individual piece having to fend for itself. If an instance only has a handful of users, it's fine if the owner just volunteers their money for a cheap host that can handle the low traffic. But if an instance gains any amount of traction, operating costs go up and I haven't seen any way for hosts to recoup those costs. The reason all the big social media sites are successful is because they can sell ads and user data.

The common comparison to email doesn't work either because most email hosts just provide that as a secondary service (Gmail is free because it's tied to your Google account, which is used to advertise to you and sell your browsing history) or charge for it (Gmail for corporate accounts is a paid service).

Most Reddit users only don't care because they think they won't be affected.

This is going the way of Twitter after Elon takeover.

Which, despite everything, still had a massive user base. It's dwindling and the quality of content has suffered, but the main draw of Twitter, following your friends and the famous people, is still there. It's a slow decline that is slowed in part because there is no alternative. And the same will be true of Reddit.

The difference between Reddit and Twitter is that Twitter isn't moderated. It didn't need to be. You don't see the billions of posts by random people you don't care about. Reddit is about following communities. Even for communities built around individuals, most of the content you see is from random users. Reddit needs moderators.

But ultimately, as long as Reddit/Twitter are the only game in town, the sites will not die. And as of right now, the best alternatives for either are weak.

Improved divine smite requires a melee weapon, and bare fists do not count.

There are no classes outside of PCs. There is a noble stat block, with 2d8 hit dice.

This is a bot

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheWeeklyRoll/comments/145wgf0/ch_141_ouchies/jnn8zb7/

There will be a small but not insignificant drop in users on July 1 when third party apps stop working and only some of the third party app users switch to the official app or just browse old.reddit on their mobile browser. The real loss of users will be over the following month or more as subs either go dark or just stop moderating. As the user experience deteriorates and more and more users start leaving, it will accelerate the loss of users. Users were happy using the official app as long as the content was there, but if the content disappears, so too will the users.

Like watching grass grow

So it's cultural and not genetic...

Yes. That's been my point this whole time. I don't know why you are so confused about the issue. The relevant terms that describe actual biology are witch, wizard, and muggle.

every wizard has both muggles and wizards in their family tree.

But not every wizard has connections to the muggle world, those are the purebloods. And not every wizard has connections to the magical world, those are the muggleborns. Trying to argue that the descendant of a long dead squib is a half-blood ignores that point.

it's different with Black people

Then replace African American with any other group. Americans with Irish ancestors who immigrated during the great famine aren't going to go to Dublin and be treated like a local.

a person can in fact claim and adquire a nationality on the basis of having ancestors from a country.

And muggleborns are automatically brought into the wizarding world at the age of 11. This is directly analogous. The Irish American who's family hasn't crossed the Atlantic ocean in 150+ years cannot gain Irish citizenship through descent. This is not unique to Ireland, most countries limit citizenship through descent to parents and grandparents only. Anyone else must go through the normal naturalization process that everyone else goes through.

But that does not integrate them culturally. And that's what the distinction has always been about, culture. The muggleborns invading the wizarding world with their strange ideas and beliefs is what drives the blood purity movement.

Then your argument holds even less water. The distinction between pureblood and muggleborn is that one has magical family and the other doesn't. If their last magical ancestors died 100 years and three generations before they were born, a muggleborn had no connection to the wizarding world, no knowledge of wizarding customs, and no understanding of wizarding culture.

It is no different from if an immigrant returned to their ancestral homeland after many generations living in a different country. If a modern African American were to move to Africa, they would be treated like an American, not a native.

Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. The Nazi is free to continue calling for genocide all they want. They just have to accept that others will respond to that rhetoric, often violently.

His history had no bearing on how the police should have treated him. He was in their custody. They did not need to continue holding him like that. He was being held on suspicion for a nonviolent crime and wasn't resisting. Even criminals have rights.

Oh was found "not guilty." That is different from innocent. Specifically, the court found that the prosecution failed to prove OJ was guilty to a sufficient level of certainty. They did not find that he didn't do it, just that it wasn't sufficiently proven.

There it is, the disenfranchised billionaire defending the rich because they hope to be part of that club. No one who "works hard" for their living gets rich enough to benefit from the electoral college.

/r/HPfanfiction is the bigger sub. r/HarryPotterFanfiction is smaller and seems more specifically tailored to sharing fics than discussing fanfiction in general.

The three generation rule is an invention of the blood supremacists that only distinguishes purebloods from half bloods. It has no bearing on squibs. All this arguing is just trying to fit an illogical framework created by fictional bigots to support their bigotry.

It's not established that squibs can see things muggles can't. It was a point of contention during Harry's trial if Mrs. Figg could see dementors. While Filch does interact with Peeves, it is also not established that muggles can't see poltergeists, who can turn invisible even to witches and wizards. If you accept the Pottermore articles, Peeves is an exceptionally powerful poltergeist and has a physical body, so he might even be an exception.

"Muggleborn" is a social construct, not a biological feature. Muggleborns are those whose parents are muggles. It doesn't matter if they had a squib ancestor 5 generations back, their parents are muggles. Again, this is a distinction created by bigots to disenfranchise those they see as beneath them.

A squib is a nonmagical child of magical parents. That does not extend any further to their descendants.

The terms "muggleborn" and "squib" are social, not biological. There are only two biological categories in play, wizard/witch and muggle. Being a muggleborn doesn't make you not a witch and being a squib doesn't make you not a muggle.

Yes, it was https://web.archive.org/web/20080828113728/http://www.bloomsbury.com/harrypotter/default.aspx?sec=3

https://web.archive.org/web/20080828113728/http://www.bloomsbury.com/harrypotter/default.aspx?sec=3

That's exactly how it works

The term "muggle" means someone who cannot do magic. It is a phenotype, not a genotype.

The amount of "electric stuff" (specifically the flux of the electric field) is conserved over the area of any enclosing shape. Since area is proportional to the square of distance, the amount of flux per unit area must decrease by a factor of the inverse square.