It is a recommendation, not a determination of sentence. The judge may override that recommendation and impose life without parole, and a governor can still grant clemency. A judge may not override a recommendation of life and impose death. This has been an ongoing development. It used to be that it took 10 of 12 jurors, then the Florida Supremes struck that down, requiring unanimous recommendation on at least one aggravating factor. This effort to change the law came from frustration that the Parkland shooter, Nicholas Cruz, was spared the death penalty.

@Axtremus said in Don't shoot first.: Any word on how the kids got the gun in the first place? Quite legally, I’m sure.

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@LuFins-Dad said in What if ancient Egypt persisted today: AI will make costume and set designers for movies obsolete… For that matter, what happens when AI gets access to CGI? Actually, AI driven commercial product that let you create animated videos with mere text prompts already exist. For example (and I cite this without endorsing or recommending it): https://hechicer-ia.com/current-anima/

@Horace said in Is $200K enough?: @Axtremus said in Is $200K enough?: @Horace said in Is $200K enough?: I invented that exact same thing probably a week or so before you did. See you in patent court. But did you file a patent application for the invention before he did? On advice of my lawyer, I am not at liberty to discuss details of pending litigation regarding this matter of an invention that 89th completely stole from me. It might prejudice jurors if they knew the truth of 89th's brazen theft of my ideas, so I cannot discuss the obvious and provable guilt of 89th in this pending litigation. You should be fine if you can show that the other party derived his invention from you.

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@Horace said in Mulch mushrooms: What are you, a mycologist? It is a mycoaggression to label something a mushroom just because it looks like a mushroom. I forgot to mention. Do not, I repeat do NOT harm any black small-capped mushrooms.

https://twitter.com/DarthPutinKGB/status/1629096937067540483

We bought a chest freezer in 2021 for $199 and it's now $380. There are other models that are $199 but for some reason that previous unit has nearly doubled in price.

I await Tucker Carlson’s rant on this alien invasion of America.

Hellscape. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/joy-reid-national-divorce-would-leave-those-in-red-states-trapped-in-an-apartheid-hellscape/ar-AA17PGX9?ocid=msedgntp&pc=W129&cvid=c9e4fc8172424a6aae3dfe929914ec6a&ei=12

So many millions of opportunists gladly took the opportunity to mindlessly vote Democrat and against Trump. I am looking forward to a test of their ability to pretend not to be mindless Democrat voters, should DeSantis get the nomination.

@Mik said in No entry into Capitol: So much of what the Democrats offer is Constitutionally unacceptable. I'm fairly confident that respect for the constitution is highly correlated with political affiliation. Actually I'm confident that your typical woke person would hear a dog whistle if someone claimed to respect the constitution.

Very sad. O'Keefe is sad in that he is an unfortunate aberration amongst decent, honorable American conservatives. Swalwell is sad in that he is a typical soulless leftist. Both equally sad. Both sides are equal.

*I once got Jamie Farr really mad. I wrote a column a few years ago poking fun at the relative lack of celebrity star-power they had at a Kansas City "celebrity" golf tournament. One of the celebs -- a last-minute addition -- was Jamie Farr. Well, he seemed to think that I was making fun of his lack of celebrity and left me a series of very angry voice mail messages that, after a while, sounded like his resume (I know now that he was in "Blackboard Jungle" and he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame). I was, in fact, not trying to poke fun at Farr (after all, he was one of the few celebrities that actually showed up for the tournament) and put that in my column the next day. He called back to say he wasn't mad anymore. Astonishing how adults are really just older children when their surfaces are scratched. I suppose that goes double for celebrities.

I look forward to the complete destruction of the free job market ideas of intelligence or ability, at the hands of AI. Leaving us with vacuous signals and trophies earned through meaningless 'formal education'.

Keep pulling threads and the mystery will eventually unravel.

The entire point of the movie was to call out Hollywood's hypocrisy. Which wouldn't work if the movie wasn't considered offensive in precisely that way.