DaveTLV @Surasanji@social.cleverlibre.org

#stellaris

ASpec has done a video on an upcoming update on Stellaris.

The Galactic Market! Something we've been wanting a while!
https://youtu.be/6NX7XexgpLo

Holy hell. Just got handed a 28 page PDF file at work.

Guess I know what I'm doing tomorrow.

@absolutus @freemo Okay, so. Correct me if I'm wrong- Hashgraph is a way of having some kind of distributed 'graph' of communications/current states that might allow future me to not be taken advantage of by some deadbeat named Alice? #joke Seriously though... very interesting stuff.

@InvaderXan I love dates. I get dates at the shuk on the regular. Local grown! :D

@absolutus @freemo I'm not going to pretend that I really understand cryptocurrency, but this is all very interesting to me.

@sara That is fair. I've been playing these text games for such a long time that I really just enjoy them and take any chance I can to grow the hobby in others. :)

@socialskeleton I thought you didn't like bags of meat.

@sara Muds are great, I prefer the RP heavy non-mob world of the Mush/Mux server!

@sara Have you ever tried RPing on a Mush/Mux? Text based RP in a player/staff built world. Like persistent D&D via TelNet

@freemo @hector

Very true. I've already gotten in trouble for long-posting. :p

I like the design ideas!

@freemo Ooh. Like what?

@freemo Cool! Not like it is a required thing or anything. Just a Quality of Life improvement.

@msmouse @SecondJon @freemo Yeah, being able to actually admit your own fuck ups is a huge thing. and almost universally people seem to respect someone who can admit that they were wrong or made a mistake.

I, too, am quick to tell my boss when something is my fault.

@freemo Hey Freemo,

Do you think there is any way to add translation to the web-based Mastodon client we go through @ qoto.org? Sort of like what they got going on in Mastalab?

We've gotten more people in the instance discussing things in languages other than English, and I'd love to be able to translate on the fly as a quality of life improvement, as opposed to C&P to google translate.

@SecondJon @msmouse @freemo

Potentially. She wrote a police report, though, with her affidavit.

When I worked in law enforcement one of the first things they taught me in writing reports was how they should be worded. They're *specifically* designed and worded to ensure that minimum fault falls on the report writer.

Having worked in that industry, as a Corrections Officer, I've seen some things that just left a sour taste in my mouth. It is a part of my bias.

The keys were found in the door. That's a major thing- I don't know if he left it unlocked or what, or if the door was ajar when she arrived.

We'll see where this goes- you are correct that we're early in the legal proceedings, but at the same time it is infuriating to see another human being murdered (As this is an unjust killing.) for apparently no reason.

@msmouse @SecondJon @freemo

That is true. We would have to look into the definitions as they exist in Texas.

But this woman walked past 20+ apartments with distinctive wreathes, welcome mats, and on the wrong floor of her apartment building. She put her key in the door of the wrong apartment- and somehow got into this guy's apartment and shot him.

I doubt it was premeditated, but this is most certainly an unjust and unlawful killing. We must expect better from armed officers, in particular their situational awareness and readiness to shoot another human being.

It's a dicey thing. You want your LEOs to be quick on the draw, but not trigger happy either.

@SecondJon @freemo @msmouse LEO=Law Enforcement Officer.

The major issue is she's trying to use her position as a police officer to protect herself from the crimes she committed.

Again, that is not something unique to the USA, but law enforcement officials have been acting in non-uniform ways with various communities and ethnic groups.

This also falls into this. She claims she thought a thief was in her apartment- but it wasn't her apartment. It was someone else's apartment that she had to enter.

At the end of the day an innocent, unarmed man was shot in his own home by someone who didn't belong there. A travesty in and of itself, of course. However, that the person who did this shooting is also an off-duty police officer calls into question the individual's position and the nature of the Law Enforcement community in Texas that they were so willing to protect 'one of their own' in such a way that could be considered a criminal miscarriage of justice.

If I- even accidentally- walked into someone else's house and shot them dead, I'm pretty sure I'd be charged with murder. So far, this woman has only been charged with manslaughter.

Here are a couple of news articles about it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/09/13/why-dallas-officer-who-killed-her-neighbor-might-have-trouble-with-deadly-force-defense/?utm_term=.ac737e42137c

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/us/dallas-police-shooting-guyger-jean.html

@skulljudenfreund I'm a fan of the reporter on this article. He also writes for Legal Insurrection. Good stuff.

@SecondJon @freemo @msmouse

It isn't just that a person killed another person- it's that an off duty police officer killed someone while, technically, breaking into the other person's house.

She then proceeded to get special treatment by her fellows in law enforcement. This, too, is not unique in the US- but it can't be ignored given the recent issues within the LEO community in the USA.