@itsjustachairmary

To add injury to injury, one piece of forensics that actually does work is DNA testing, and yet it’s hardly ever done. Texas was having to exonerate so many convicted rapists they simply burned all the untested rape kits. Bush2 did that when he was governor.

@ayyy @Catoblepas

Based on what I read, the corollary is also true. Just because somebody did time doesn’t mean they did the crime. Cops use all kinds of bullshit tricks to get convictions. It seems like every week it turns out shaken baby syndrome isn’t real, or excited delirium, or voice stress analysis. Shit, I read that barrel signatures aren’t even real. I’m not sure about that one, only having seen it one place, but I’m willing to believe it’s been a con all along that it’s possible to match a fired bullet to the gun that shot it. They cheat that badly.

In the US, at least, the criminal justice system seems to care only about clearing cases, not solving crime. Taking the profit motive away might clean some of this up.

@ChickenLadyLovesLife @morto

I lived in Florida.

A lot of the criminals are utterly useless there. It totally could have been some kind of front. Maybe they imported the whisks from Columbia or something.

Remember the Florida Man game. That applies to the general criminal as well as the whacked-out one.

@FluorineBalloon @gandalf_der_13te

Some people are braver than me.

@starlinguk

Interesting. thanks.

I’ve known lots of murderers. Most of my friends had bodies on them.

@WorldsDumbestMan

autistic people (I am one) suck at social cues. We’re very weak on that level of thinking. It’s kinda what autism is. So I cut autistic people a lot of slack for fucking up social awareness. Neurotypicals should have been able to spot him as a predator long before autistic people would catch it. Hence the extra slack I cut Terry. He did his best.

@chicken

Terry was autistic as fuck and I can forgive him a failure to spot a monster (who had already snowed, apparently, the entire British intelligentsia). It was one book and he never defended Gaiman again, so I’m willing to look past this one.

@eurodyne

Man, we could spiral on this. Misery was the last of his that I read. I tried “The Girl Who Loved tom Gordon” but threw it across the room.

Everybody with arts money did coke balls to the wall back then. The smart ones grew out of it.

@eurodyne @stenAanden

Naaah, Terry Pratchett and Stephen King are solidly good guys. All the way.

@osanna

Apparently we all suck at math :)

@jerkface @ironpangolin29

My take, and far as I know it’s unique to me, is that Jesus existed, probably did some preaching, and was crucified. There were a lot of streetcorner ranters back then and the Romans did crucify a lot of people. And they were halfway decent about keeping records.

The Jesus we know is a fiction created by the Romans to pacify the Jews. The Jews made shitty slaves but were awaiting a messiah so the Romans gave them one, but made him a wimp. A slave god. Be a good slave and you’ll get a nice reward for it after you die. It would have worked, too, except the Romans didn’t understand Jungian psychology. They didn’t realize what a shadow self they were creating by insisting people emulate an archetype of pure empathy.

Basically, I see Christianity as the result of social engineering from a couple millennia ago, and its worldwide dominance is due to its accidentally militaristic nature.

@MurrayL @ManfredMumpitz

Wouldn’t it be 10BC? I think it goes backward when you’re in negative numbers…

@Leviathan @starlinguk

Naaah, Joey was gay and Mary was his beard. Jesus looked a lot like the milkman.

@ChonkyOwlbear @KC_Royalz

Want to really see the fur fly? Try banning genital mutilation. There is no defensible logic for chopping up a baby’s genitals even if your god told you to do so. That’s some barbaric, bronze age shit that should in no way be legal in any nation that wants to call itself “civilized”. It’s as logical as slicing a baby’s eyelids off at birth. Without anesthesia, I might add.

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