Random stuff worth reading on the internet thread

[Pelado]

A Chicago circuit court judge barred the use of ballistics testing in a trial, which will probably reverberate nationally. This looong article explains the 'science' of ballistics firearm testing, how it is incorrectly viewed by both courtroom and lay people, and why in most cases it should be thrown out. At the very least if you read it, you will be convinced to lawyer up if there is ballistics evidence when you're a defendant in a trial:

https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/d...e-case-against

Thanks - very interesting read. Kind of shocking, really.

[Bo Diddley]

A Chicago circuit court judge barred the use of ballistics testing in a trial, which will probably reverberate nationally. This looong article explains the 'science' of ballistics firearm testing, how it is incorrectly viewed by both courtroom and lay people, and why in most cases it should be thrown out. At the very least if you read it, you will be convinced to lawyer up if there is ballistics evidence when you're a defendant in a trial:

https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/d...e-case-against

Whoa. The whole field could face scrutiny.

Makes you wonder how many challenges are forthcoming from those already convicted.

[Northwestcoug]

A Chicago circuit court judge barred the use of ballistics testing in a trial, which will probably reverberate nationally. This looong article explains the 'science' of ballistics firearm testing, how it is incorrectly viewed by both courtroom and lay people, and why in most cases it should be thrown out. At the very least if you read it, you will be convinced to lawyer up if there is ballistics evidence when you're a defendant in a trial:

https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/d...e-case-against

[Donuthole]

This is quite the courtroom story. Ex-Fugees star at the center of a multinational multibillion dollar scam. Leo DiCaprio, Scorsese, Obama, Trump, presidential pardons, requests to extradite Chinese nationals, it has it all!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md...source=twitter

Interesting topic, but that was a boring-ass read. 2/10, do not recommend.

[Northwestcoug]

This is quite the courtroom story. Ex-Fugees star at the center of a multinational multibillion dollar scam. Leo DiCaprio, Scorsese, Obama, Trump, presidential pardons, requests to extradite Chinese nationals, it has it all!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md...source=twitter

[Northwestcoug]

One of the apartments in my mission was next door to the local yakuza headquarters. They used to ask us to come play softball with them all the time. It was tempting, but no...

Aw man. That would have made for a great memoir. Mormons and the mafia!

[Jeff Lebowski]

Aging Japanese mobsters looking to stay out of trouble (sort of) by joining a softball league. Interesting read:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/w...mid=tw-nytimes

One of the apartments in my mission was next door to the local yakuza headquarters. They used to ask us to come play softball with them all the time. It was tempting, but no...

[Northwestcoug]

Aging Japanese mobsters looking to stay out of trouble (sort of) by joining a softball league. Interesting read:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/w...mid=tw-nytimes

[All-American]

Cargo ships can now deploy a kite to help with propulsion.

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/watc...cut-emissions/

Wow, sea vessels moving through wind power. Wonder why we’ve never seen that before.

[Bo Diddley]

Cargo ships can now deploy a kite to help with propulsion.

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/watc...cut-emissions/

Retrofitted onto the front of any container ship, this massive “parafoil” can generate 20% of the vessel’s total propulsion.

[Northwestcoug]

Chutzpah? Is there a better word for this?

For many cooks, waiters and bartenders, it is an annoying entrance fee to the food-service business: Before starting a new job, they pay around $15 to a company called ServSafe for an online class in food safety...

But in taking the class, the workers — largely unbeknown to them — are also helping to fund a nationwide lobbying campaign to keep their own wages from increasing.

The company they are paying, ServSafe, doubles as a fund-raising arm of the National Restaurant Association — the largest lobbying group for the food-service industry, claiming to represent more than 500,000 restaurant businesses. The association has spent decades fighting increases to the minimum wage at the federal and state levels, as well as the subminimum wage paid to tipped workers like waiters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/u...-lobbying.html

[Jeff Lebowski]

That was a good article.

This could go in the pet peeves thread, but I hate the nytimes scrolling setup, mostly because it often doesn’t work. Reading the article on my phone, as I scroll through it, it often jumps to different parts of the article. Makes it really difficult to get through.

I like it.

[beefytee]

That was a good article.

This could go in the pet peeves thread, but I hate the nytimes scrolling setup, mostly because it often doesn’t work. Reading the article on my phone, as I scroll through it, it often jumps to different parts of the article. Makes it really difficult to get through.

[Northwestcoug]

Half an hour well spent:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...e=articleShare

[Northwestcoug]

This is a fascinating article. The Academy just did a big event in September honoring her life and apologizing for not treating her better after her disruption of the Oscars. Turns out she is a complete fraud.

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Wow that's crazy. I had no idea about her life after the Oscars appearance. All I knew was that one snippet of her life that goes around twitter.

"It's not a lie if you believe it"