vvilld, vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I drive a large pickup truck for work. With the backup camera, it is WAY WAY WAY easier to back into a tight spot than to pull head in. I pretty much always back the truck in.

I've only ever seen those in parking lots where each lane is one way. They want you to pull in so when you back out you're heading the correct direction of traffic. But those also typically have angled spaces, like you mentioned.

Suicides would skyrocket, too, and probably at a young age. Probably infant death would skyrocket, too. Imagine you have a kid with a birth defect or some other kind of lifelong condition. Why make them live a whole life dealing with that when you can just let them take a mulligan and reincarnate, hopefully under better conditions.

Get into an accident and lose the use of your legs or get paralyzed or something? Oh well. Better luck on your next play-through. Hit the reset button and try again.

Suicide would skyrocket, and people would be born with ungodly amounts of personal debt. Honestly, I don't see any positive to this.

Toddlers have object permanence. Object permanence develops at around 4-6 months old. Kids are still infants at that point. Toddlers are generally 1-3 years old.

That's a parenting red flag. That happens because the parents keep putting a phone in the kid's hand and expect the phone to occupy all their time. Spend time reading and speaking to the kid in his mother tongue rather than giving them a phone and they'll become proficient pretty quickly.

This is a parenting issue, not a kid thing. It's because parents put a tablet in their kid's hands, teach the kid to use it, then expect the tablet to occupy all the kid's time while they don't engage with the kid.

I have a 5 yo and a 3 yo. We have a family iPad, but the kids barely know how to use it. They virtually never watch videos on it (only exception was the one time they've been on an airplane). My 5 yo is very artistically inclined, so we downloaded a sketchpad app she can draw with. She also builds legos, so we downloaded the lego app she can use for instructions. Those are the only apps she knows how to use, and she doesn't even know how to navigate to find them. We have to open the app for her and get her setup before she can run with it. My 3 yo doesn't even know how to do that much.

We mostly use the iPad to video chat family or play music, both of which are controlled by grown ups.

Yet my kids are extremely proficient at a lot of other stuff relative to kids their own age. The 5 yo can fully read and write and can do simple arithmetic. The 3 yo can read small words, can write all her letters, and can count at least to 100. They both do small chores around the house, both help cook (especially the 3 yo has gotten very good at slicing veggies).

Toddlers being hypercompetent with a tablet is 100% a parenting red flag. It shows the parents aren't very engaged and just let the tablet do all the parenting for them.

This feels like a reference to the most recent episode of The Last of Us.

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So instead we assume he's being framed despite no evidence being provided?

And, to be clear, there has been evidence provided that he did it. It's very questionable evidence from an even more questionable source, but it's not no evidence.

Compared to no evidence or even a claim from Luigi or his lawyers that he's being framed.

I mean, we (the public, not the justice system) treat people who plead not guilty as if they did it all the time. How many times have we seen videos of police violence, for example, and known the guy did it regardless of what the court says?

I'm not talking about whether he should be criminally convicted. Even if he had filmed the entire thing and that was in the public, I'd still be pushing for jury nullification. That's not my purpose here.

I'm solely trying to answer this one question:

Why do so many people seem so certain Luigi is being framed by the state when nobody connected to the defense in the case is acting like it is or have said that it is?

So you didn't read what I wrote at all, did you?

I'm not trying to determine guilt. I'm trying to find out why so many people seem absolutely certain he was framed when nobody connected to the case on the defense side are acting like it is.

And if I were a judge or on the jury, I'd be looking for definitive evidence. But that doesn't really matter for the question I'm asking. Regardless whether Luigi did it or someone else did, it wouldn't change my opinion of Luigi or the crime.

I'm not trying to adjudicate guilt or innocence here. I'm trying to find out if there's something I'm not aware of. Has Luigi or his lawyer actually denied that Luigi did it? I know they've pushed back against the evidence, but have they come out and said "Luigi didn't do it, this is where he was when it happened, this is why we know it wasn't him?"

Fighting the evidence on procedural grounds and trying to discredit the prosecution is what a good lawyer does when they know they can't prove their client's innocence. They try to introduce doubt for the prosecution's case. But if they could prove he didn't do it, they'd just do that.

Again, I'm not trying to decide whether Luigi is a good guy or whether I should support him. If I were on the jury and Luigi got up there and swore up and down he did it and produced documentary footage of him doing it, I'd still be pushing for jury nullification. That's not my point here. I'm trying to understand why so many people online seem so absolutely certain that this is a frameup when, as far as I can see, nobody connected to the case on the defense side is acting like it is..

I'm not a judge and this isn't a court of law. People assume guilt or innocence for themselves all the time. Obviously if I were a judge or on a jury I'd want a lot more evidence. Hell, if I were on a jury, I'd be pushing for jury nullification. I don't see anything wrong with that CEO getting got.

Tainted evidence, media portrayal, dirty cops, this is all standard for the criminal justice system. That's how loads of cases work, and we don't all jump to immediately assume the state is framing every single person they accuse of anything.

My question is, if Luigi really is just some person completely unrelated to the crime who is being framed for it, why is there no pushback from him, his lawyers, or people who know him? If there were reason to believe he was being framed, with as much public support as he has, I'd assume we'd have an alibi showing where he was at the time of the shooting, or people talking about how they don't believe he could have done it.

Everyone personally or directly connected to Luigi himself are acting exactly as I would expect them to act if he had actually done it.

I ultimately don't really care whether or not Luigi personally was the guy who did it or not. Regardless, it wouldn't change my opinion of Luigi or the murder. I'm just trying to find out if there's something I haven't heard about. Some reason or alibi or explanation to believe he's being framed beyond "we like what he is accused of doing and he seems like a pretty good guy."

So, just speculation? I mean, the way the media is reporting on Luigi isn't really surprising or different than the way they report on everything.

Is there anything beyond just speculation? Any statements from friends or family? Any attempt to present an alibi where he was at the time of the killing? Any statement from his lawyers denying he did it?

This is up there for one of the best shows ever made. Damn near perfect television. And it completely elevates all the existing Star Wars content that surrounds it. Rogue One is so much more impactful now. ANH feels like the culmination of a grand series of events rather than the start of something.

I just want to layout the in-galaxy timeline here:

Day 1: Lonni accesses Dedra's files and learns about the Death Star and imminent raid on Luthen.

Day 2: Lonni leaks the Death Star intel to Luthen. Luthen kills Lonni and gives intel to Kleya. Luthen destroys his comms network. Dedra raids Luthen's, resulting in Luthen's hospitalization. Dedra is arrested by ISB. Kleya raids the hospital and kills Luthen.

Day 3: Krennic questions Dedra. Cassian, Melshi, & K-2SO rescue Kleya (killing Heert) and bring her to Yavin IV. Bodhi defects from the Empire and brings Death Star/Galen Erso intel to Saw Gerrera.

Day 4: Partagaz commits suicide. Cassian meets Tevik on Kafrene and learns more about the Death Star.

Day 5: Jyn Erso is busted out of prison and brought to Yavin. Tarkin takes over the Death Star from Krennic.

Day 6: Cassian, Jyn, and K-2SO travel to Jedha. They get Bodhi's intel. Tarkin tests the Death Star by destroying Jedha, killing Saw.

Day 7: Vader summons Krennic to Mustafar and threatens him. Rebels raid Eadu, destroying the base and killing Galen Erso.

Day 8: The Battle of Scarif. Full Death Star plans leak. Krennic dies. Empire's first real military defeat. Vader captures Tantive IV and Leia. 3PO & R2 escape to Tatooine and get picked up by Jawas.

Day 9: Uncle Owen buys R2 & 3PO. Leia is interrogated by Vader and interrogation droids.

Day 10: Luke meets Obi-Wan. Lars homestead is destroyed. Luke, Obi-Wan, Han, Chewie, and the droids escape Tatooine w/ Death Star plans. Tarkin questions Leia and destroys Alderaan.

Day 11: Raid on the Death Star. Leia escapes. Vader & Obi-Wan final showdown. Falcon is tracked to Yavin.

Day 12: Battle of Yavin. Tarkin dies and Death Star is destroyed.

Think about it from the Empire's perspective. Just 12 days after the first hints of the Death Star even existing leaks the Rebellion manage to destroy it. They were working on that thing for nearly 2 decades in secret. Then almost the moment it's discovered it gets destroyed. The Rebellion must look so incredibly competent and powerful compared to the epic string of fuck ups from the ISB.

And think about it from Palpatine's (and Vader's, although less-so) perspective considering the Force. Palpatine kept this under wraps for 20 years. Then the fact of its existence leaks. 10 days later Obi-Wan fucking Kenobi shows up on the Death Star w/ 2 of Anakin's old droids and Anakin's son to rescue Anakin's daughter (although I don't know if Palpatine knew that Leia was related). 2 days later, Anakin's son destroys the Death Star.

Palpatine has to be freaking the fuck out over this. It has to feel like Force powers beyond his control are orchestrating all of this. Like the Force itself is conspiring to bring him down. We saw how paranoid and back-stabbing the Empire is in the final 3 episodes of Andor. Imagine how much that's gonna ramp up after the Battle of Yavin.

Gilroy said the original plan was for 5 seasons. Once they sat down to start working on season 2, though, they looked at the calendar. They did the math on when season 2 would come out, then on how long it would take to make all 5 seasons. They decided that none of them wanted to be working on the same project for a decade+, so they decided to cut it down to 2 seasons.

Where did you hear about him butting heads with execs? From all the interviews I've seen, it seems like the exact opposite was the case. It sounds like Kathleen Kennedy, specifically, ran interference for Gilroy to let him do pretty much whatever he wanted.

Andor s1 and s2 got greenlit and budgeted right about the time Disney+ first came out. At that point, Disney was trying to produce as much stuff as they could to be Disney+ exclusive to fill their catalog. That's how Andor got such a large budget and how Gilroy got such a free hand to do whatever he wanted. I've never read anything about execs trying to reign him in with regards to creative control. The only limitation I've heard was a budget one about wanting to do an episode of K-2SO as a horror monster rampaging through an Imperial ship.

I see this sentiment expressed, but is there any evidence to support it? If he were really being framed, I'd expect his family, friends, lawyers, etc to be trying to spread that message as much as possible and publicly show that he couldn't have done it. Like publicly present his alibi or something?

I have no problem with killing the CEO. Even if there were 100% irrefutable evidence Luigi did it, I'd still think Luigi was a good guy.

Why do people think he's being framed?

Younger than 63.

I haven't found a need for it with poultry. I also don't really cook whole birds, though. Mostly just wings or breasts. I don't need a thermometer for those.