🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@gwynnion

Rights? Not be murdered? Treated like a human being?

Are we doing that again in the USA? I am not getting all my memos :)

In all seriousness... on behalf of all of the USA I apologize for the shit you deal with.. it isnt right and it saddens me every day I see it. You have all my best wishes.

@passenger @foolishowl @JessTheUnstill

@failedLyndonLaRouchite

Im not sure this approach to analysis is really fair...

The total number of fatalities means nothing if it isnt adjusted against the change of death per mile... and the COVID deaths mean nothing unless you represent it as a chance of death per infection.

What we measure here is important.

@shonin I told my mom if she wanted she could stand outside my closed door while I yell aggressively that I love her through it :)

@failedLyndonLaRouchite She is driving a bit of a distance... I'd be curious to do the math on that actually and see how they compare.. But considering I know quite a few dead older people from COVID and cant think of a single person I've ever known who died in a car crash... well... that doesnt track.

@thor It cant be gay if there are no balls touching!

There is a small chance I may have COVID as I was recently exposed.... My mom is insisting on stopping by while she is in town to give me a hug...

I told her I have COVID it wouldnt be safe, no...

She replies "I dont care I'll take the risk"

To which I keep telling her "Well I refuse to potentially murderer you over a hug whether your willing to take that risk or not."

#COVID #COVID19

@realcaseyrollins

I meant "court" not "prison"... that is a Freudian slip if i ever saw one...

@realcaseyrollins Assuming you survive long enough to make it to court... and assuming you have the huge amount of money it takes to fight it in court... and assuming you thought ahead and were smart enough to record everything... then yea, court DOES make sense.

The issue is for the vast majority of citizens court isnt a practical option. And may not be worth the lifetime of disability or death it takes to get to prison.

@SETIEric

Oh wow.... killed as in "someone should murder them" ... or killed as in "They violated a law and the penalty for that is death and he deserves it"....

Cause the separation between those two is huge... what is meant by "killed" here? Like what did he say?

@StevenBeschloss

@realcaseyrollins I mean.. #ACAB and all.. exercising your rights is a sure way to get your rights abused... Best way to make sure our rights are respected is to never exercise them

(PS NOW I am joking)

@realcaseyrollins

Yea and to be honest this is a little caveat that most people dont know, even people who are huge constitutional supporters... It serves to get a LOT of people in trouble when they think all they are doing is exercising their rights.

@realcaseyrollins I am completely serious in this thread.

@StevenBeschloss Worse? Is that possible? What did he do now?

@mijustin

While im not sure the rebranding will ever be good, I dunno... this seems short sighted to me....

*All* rebranding tends to have a drop in brand recognition initially... The intent is that the new brand is more appealing so that over long periods of time the brand will recover and outperform the long-term prospects of the old brand. That aspect remains to be seen, and can be hard to quantify.

@realcaseyrollins

No but thats a differnt issue so lets not conflate them...

First what I was saying:

Your right to the 5th is **not** invoked simply by remaining silent, and your silence alone can and will be used against you... You can only remain silent **if** you explicitly state you are exercising this right before engaging in said silence.

Second what you asked, no you dont always have the right to remain silent, even if you invoke it. You can **only** invoke this right under certain circumstances, specifically should you speaking serve to incriminate you. For example if you are called to be a witness against someone else, but you yourself did no wrong doing, you can not remain silent or exercise this right and if you try you will be in contempt of court and locked up till you speak.

**Disclaimer **: I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.