@XaoslordErie #law That's a desperation move.

"Establishing a defense of voluntary intoxication is much more difficult than involuntary intoxication. Under prevailing legal standards, voluntary intoxication is an applicable defense only for certain crimes, and, even in those circumstances, juries are far less likely to accept a defense of intoxication when the defendant brought the intoxication upon himself or herself."

https://www.justia.com/criminal/defenses/intoxication/

@MarInMass #welcome It's a bit of a learning curve here. I've been around a bit over a month and I love it.

@grapho @LiberalLibrarian I need to get off for a while. Terrible electrical storms hit. I may be back later.

@grapho @LiberalLibrarian I'm a whole lot less interested in intellectual masturbation than on developing something workable.

@lisaazbirder They won't do that because if someone gets shot out via trebuchet for misbehavior then they have to deal with them screaming for a refund.

@grapho @LiberalLibrarian Lets get CRT out of the discussion for k-12 and redefine it.

Just as defunding the police was a terrible term that guaranteed pushback.

@grapho @LiberalLibrarian And teachers must adhere to educational guidelines. Guess which state the textbook companies look to: Texas. I worked for one and we had to be able to market to Texas or the project would collapse.

So it's back to dealing with state government in a very right-wing state.

@grapho @LiberalLibrarian The history is the same facts. However, we all know that facts are buried and humans are far more impacted by feelings and the story than the reality.

We have Stone Age minds operating in a world they haven't evolved adequately to deal with.

I annoy the hell out of people by insisting on supporting documentation.

My brother once had to back down on something because his argument was Biblical while he was claiming to be an atheist. Emotion is not fact.

@grapho @LiberalLibrarian I don't know if you're aware but the "Nutshell" book on Criminal Law kept in law libraries deals with CRT without calling it CRT.

Institutionalized racism (which is so much more than police and courts and the construction of law) is woven into the fabric of our society.

It was also woven into the society of Great Britain.

We got a lot of our law from them and then gave it compound interest.

I don't feel guilt, but I take responsibility for what I do now.

@grapho @LiberalLibrarian The way CRT is being used by conservatives is appalling.

I'm presently in East Texas and some of the conversations I have here make it 100% clear that people here have been lied to and believe the lies.

@LiberalLibrarian @grapho I think we can teach history and social responsibility age appropriately.

The nuns did a good job by saying all humans were like cells in the body of Christ. I got that age 7.

We could say that we're a microcosm of Gaia (god not required).

We teach kids what they can absorb and understand at various ages.

Mostly we teach through our actions.

My daughter grew up in a multicultural environment with friends from all races, religions, etc. Same<-->same.

@LiberalLibrarian @grapho I agree that we need to teach history. But be aware that everybody’s history is different. Think about how the Japanese have hit the history of what happened in China for instance. History seems to always be tolls from the perspective of the person who won.

When I grew up, I went to school with kids who his parents were in the Japanese internment camp. I became extremely aware of what happened. And it wasn’t because it was taught in school.

@grapho @LiberalLibrarian I completely disagree regarding critical race theory. I took it in law school and it is a legal analysis. Children don’t study the law. We can deliver claims of education, but critical race theory isn’t appropriate for kids because they can’t understand legal concepts.

There are plenty of other ways to address the issues of racism and discrimination. I never had critical. Race theory when I was in school and I very much understood racism was wrong.

@walterbays all relationships take work. He had excellent hearing. I was his sighted guide. He paid attention to enunciation of words. Sometimes he had to spell a word so I could clarify.

People have to invest in communication. It’s not easy. We’re not mind readers. Too many people expect the other person to just know things.

@LiberalLibrarian Russia will never release all of the American prisoners because then they would have no leverage

@JohnFugelsang yes. This.

@LiberalLibrarian are you aware that he is also a citizen of Great Britain, Ireland, and Canada? And they haven’t been able to get him out either? I’ve been doing some research and it appears that the Russians want the Germans to release someone in exchange for him, and the Germans won’t release him because he’s in prison for murder.

If four countries can’t get him out because the Russians want somebody that the Germans won’t release, it’s not our failure.

@Dogofalltrees #randomthoughts #politics all
but about three of my extended family are Trump supporters so they are not worried about me. Besides, Trump is the symptom. The problems with this group go back much further. And they will never beg forgiveness because they were always right and the rest of us were always wrong. I just about blew a gasket when my highly educated brother MBA) joined the tea party.

@Darkenyght1701

Our companion animals certainly are family. They experience love and fear and so many of the emotions we do. And most of them learn to interpret at least some of of our signals. Just as we learn go interpret some of theirs.

A friend was over yesterday. He used to say: "I don't like dogs much." But my girl has done therapy work when she was young. Now he says, "I'm going to miss her so much when it's her time."

@haikushack How many seconds is it? I have a friend who used to work in broadcasting and she's concerned my 60 second one is too long.

I use music, images, and text. No voiceovers. I've been trying to cut down to 30-40 seconds.

I have two - one for "available now" and one for "coming soon." I want to release coming soon in the next week or so. They will focus on different aspects of the same book since I've discovered it appeals to two different markets.