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  • In a world where defense attorneys are a necessity, and they currently are (with no feasible change coming any time soon), then every attorney must provide the best defense they can do their client, period.

    It doesn’t matter who it is, what they’re accused of, or if they’re guilty. Everyone is supposed to have access to an attorney that will serve their best interests. You can’t have a legal system that involves trials at all and not have all defendants given acces to a full and proper defense.

    Any lawyer that can’t mount a defense for the most vile human ever to walk the earth would need to be disbarred because everyone has the right to representation, or nobody can trust that their rights matter. And yeah, the system fails a lot, but not because of defense attorneys doing their job.

    Literally, if fucking Hitler was to go on trial, his attorneys should be expected to mount the best defense possible. Anything else is bullshit.




  • It depends on the implant.

    Generally, they’ll be placed in a way that avoids interfering with nerves or blood supply. When it does happen, that’s a failure, not a normal part of the process.

    Something like facial implants are usually solid (always, afaik, but I ain’t sith enough to deal in absolutes) rather than injected. You do have injections for cosmetics, but those tend to be into the lips almost exclusively.

    The kind of injections that go into lips wouldn’t spill out after an injury. They use materials that aren’t liquid. Even the grotesque versions you see sometimes aren’t just bags of liquid under the skin.

    Where you run into liquids, it’s going to be breasts and asses for the most part. The saline based ones will spill out if the “bag” they’re in ruptures. It’s just salty water, more or less, inside a sac.

    Silicone implants are more of a gel, and thus wouldn’t “spill” in the same way, but if the container is ruptured can seep out into the body. It’s kinda like a thick jello in consistency, to use your own example.

    But it is difficult to rupture the containers. They can be pierced, obviously, but enough force to just pop one is also enough force that you have other things to worry about.

    Now, all of that assumes legal procedures. There are people out there that will essentially shoot caulk into their victims. And you’ll find some fucked up fakers that will do incorrect versions of otherwise safe-ish medical procedures, like transferring one’s fat from one place in the body to another.

    And it’s important to note that there are procedures out there that do involve stuff that might match what you’re asking a bit closer, but they’re not exactly common


  • People seem to forget that death threats are serious shit. It’s illegal to make them, and “psych, joking!” Isn’t going to get you out of trouble.

    And yes, a threat to a group of nazis is still communicating threats, and someone doing it could face consequences. It’s all about whether or not you get caught, and if whatever prosecutors have jurisdiction decide to follow up or not.

    See, free speech doesn’t mean you can say anything you want without consequences. It’s about preserving a fundamental right to not be persecuted for your beliefs, political or otherwise. There’s history behind the way the U.S. First amendment is written. And it isn’t really about protecting all speech and expression, only wide swathes of them. People, however, persist in thinking otherwise.

    Threats of violence and harm weren’t protected, ever. Not in the bill of rights, not in the Magna Carta, nor in any other body of laws I’ve ever heard of that are older.

    In other words, it’s okay to say you hate someone and wish they would die, but not that you’re going to make it happen. Which is a gross oversimplification, but that’s the gist. One is an opinion, the other is a threat that has to be taken seriously.


  • Alas, people’s tongues don’t have the exact same spread of taste receptors, and our brains can interpret signals in different ways even when the origin simulation is identical. It’s part of what makes food recommendations so difficult. Even something as broadly enjoyable as chocolate still isn’t so universal that every single person likes it.

    When it’s something as single note as umami can be, there’s going to be a lot of misses to go with the hits :(




  • I technically do, but only because the communities rarely to never need moderation.

    I’m just too damn old to moderate much of anything that’s active enough to need moderation lol. If any of move ever do get busy, I’ll be looking for someone to take over.

    Part of that is lemmy moderation low key sucking. Cross instance moderation is broken as fuck, but even on your own instance, it’s a pain in the ass. As much as people hated automod on reddit, if you got used to the way it worked, you could trivialize things in terms of stress vs reward without just stomping on users.

    Since I also tend to hate trying to mod on a personal account, that’s another layer of hassles I just don’t have the energy for at this point



  • Here’s my thing. Well, first, I don’t really care about influencers because I don’t do anything where I see them voluntarily. So my exposure is definitely not first hand. So, my opinion on this may be deemed useless.

    But, here’s my thing. Anyone claiming to be an influencer is by the nature of the beast full of shit. Just wanting to be an influencer means you’re full of shit.

    However, you can end up accidentally doing it, and that may or may not make you full of shit.

    Which, in turn, means that their relationships are just as real as they are. If an individual is full of shit, then it’s incredibly unlikely their relationships are built on a good foundation. This also makes me doubt their ability to parent in a way that’s child centric, which means they’re probably shit parents.

    Being full of shit, btw, doesn’t necessarily mean the person is lying to the world. It does mean they’re probably lying to themselves.


  • Well, I am charming as fuck lol. Maybe.

    Bad joke aside, from what I’ve seen it’s more about how they disagree more than the fact of. Don’t get me wrong, there’s a fundamental personality issue going on there, and he can be difficult. I just haven’t seen much in the way of arbitrary bans just for holding different beliefs. There is a lower threshold for, shall we say, aggressive disagreements though.

    Mind you, I don’t haunt the mod logs and track down every occurrence. Just taking a general sense of things over the years.




  • First, fuck body shaming. What someone looks like has no bearing on their rights under law, nor whether or not the can be nude when legal. That’s shitty thinking, and you should reconsider your mindset.

    That out of the way…

    Highly location dependent. Hell, afaik, there aren’t countries that have nudity laws. I could be wrong, but I’ve not run across it despite being interested in such laws

    Here in the US, that kind of thing would be jurisdiction bases. City and/or county (or parish) level. I think some states have laws about it, but I can’t be arsed to look up which ones at 2 in the morning. I think there’s stuff on the books when you’re on federal land, but damned if I can recall the details. But there’s no blanket law that covers the entire country.

    However, the public nudity laws as regard this question i’ve seen tend to be based around when a person has an expectation of privacy. Generally, you can be naked in your house, and fuck anyone trying to peek in the window. But once you open the curtains, you’re in public view for this kind of thing. You also run into specifics of what is and isn’t nudity. Some places don’t allow women’s titties, but do men’s. Some places are less strict about anything but genitals.

    Just playing off of memory though, most places in the US would expect you to at least cover your genitals when answering the door.



  • What you’re asking is one of the glories of living language.

    Strictly, bruschetta is an Italian food preparation, with a specific meaning in Italy and the Italian diaspora. But, as is often the case with culture bleeding, the word got adopted and can change in meaning.

    So, you run into the colloquial usage of bruschetta to mean that a topping is what turns bread into bruschetta, and thus the topping is the defining part and can be called the same without modifiers like topping being added to the word bruschetta.

    With any living language, unless you have a formal version that is regulated, the usage of words are the definitions of them. The only question is degree of consensus, since if enough people agree to a set definition, any irregular usage becomes “wrong” until that changes.

    That means it’s fair to say that bruschetta, in English, can mean both the dish once prepared, and the ingredient which finishes the dish.


  • You’ve got it backwards.

    What happens is that the orgasm occurs and then the heart rate drops.

    If you’re suffering bradycardia from an event of some kind, then you aren’t likely to become aroused, much less have an orgasm. Can’t say it’s impossible, particularly with some of the odd reactions meds can cause, but it’s highly unlikely with any of the typical causes of a slow heart rate that one would be said to “suffer”.

    Mind you, a non emergent low heart rate isn’t a barrier to orgasm, but I don’t think you were asking about normative ranges, or when the pulse is just low from a non important cause (say, post meditation).

    Typically, a bradycardic orgasm is referring to what happens in the body post orgasm, though the name obviously implies otherwise. It can start during orgasm, since it’s not exactly prohibitive, but that’s less common that it starting after.

    Orgasm causes multiple cascades of body and brain reactions. One possible outcome of that is a deep relaxation that’s actually akin to a meditative state, or like some stages of sleep.

    That post orgasm relaxation usually doesn’t drop heart rate low enough to be called brachycardia, but the basic mechanism is the same. Hell, it’s not even that rare compared to stuff like sneezing fits, or difficult to control emotional outbursts. All kinds of weird shit can happen post nut. Nose bleeds, hallucinations, temporary paralysis etc.

    Bradycardic orgasm isn’t dangerous by itself. If accompanied by other symptoms, it can be. The two big ones would be dizziness/disorientation and chest pains. The chest pain might be a sign of other cardiac issues, and would need to be checked out immediately until and unless a cardiologist gives the all clear to ignore it.

    Dizziness, by itself is only a concern if it doesn’t fade quickly, or it comes with enough disorientation to make the person prone to trying to get up and move around before things settle back to norm.

    If it causes fainting, then that’s something that needs an immediate trip to a medical facility to be safe.