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... will refusing actually encourage that at all, though? The under vaccinated parts of the world absolutely do need it more, but if not making yourself (somewhat) less at risk doesn't do anything to make that happen, it... well, wouldn't help to avoid it. Kinda' tautologically, really.

Might make things worse, even, if the booster does help prevent breakthrough, transmission, or intensity.

I mean, if you were worried about property theft in the US, you'd abolish/fetter the police and string up the CEOs -- far as I'm aware, police take more value from people than every other type of theft combined... if you don't count wage theft, which eclipses all the rest of it pretty comfortably. So, y'know. If you want to prioritize things appropriately...

Tornadoes can be oddly localized, yeah. Bit before I was born, there was one that uprooted and relocated a tree from a family member's back yard, and that was the totality of the overt damage. Thing moved one tree and that was it.

In other wtfs, I may have just read the stupidest thing I've seen a written character do in... months, maybe years. Person was in a setting where there's, like... what sounds like infectious pseudo-cognitohazards, basically extradimensional critters that infect the soul and eventually transform the infected, and can spread between people if they're around the infected long enough. MC and an acquaintance encounter what appeared to be someone infected who tries to kill themselves before they can transform.

Stuff happens, they get pulled in to get tested for possible infection themselves. Arrive at test site, potential infected's sister is there, and offers the pair an unknown liquid the almost certainly also infected sibling claims will let them spoof the test, and, like. The staggering idiots actually take the mystery drug from the close acquaintance of the potential infectious cognitohazard.

People, just. People. When the close relative of someone possibly infested with infectous magic soul gribblies offers you crazy shit supposedly made to trick the tests for the early stages of said gribblies, you don't drink the probable gribbly juice. Like holy shit. The lack of self preservation instincts involved in the words I just read was friggin' wild.

Story is Rend, over on royal road. Part of me wants to just drop this because by all rights the main character should be too stupid to breathe, but morbid curiosity is probably going to keep going for a little while longer. Holy hell but any belief in the competence or cunning of the MC just cratered like a ground level Tunguska explosion, though.

For some reason reading that makes me think of someone making a lollipop out of a riolu. Like, not shaped like one. Soylent popsicle is pokemon.

If the privilege of self defense gets someone off the hook for killing people after the killer said they were going somewhere to kill people both before and after they did just that, its exercise probably needs to be made more difficult

Exercise of it probably wouldn't get any harder for folks that aren't murderous vigilantes associated with terrorist organizations anyway, even if there was a fairly hefty book thrown at the white supremacist killer in this particular case. Not that the heavier charges are likely at this point with how goddamn clownshoes this thing has been.

Mistrial probably would be pretty reasonable, though. Not with prejudice considering basically everyone from judge to defense to prosecutor probably shouldn't be within shouting distance of a courtroom, but giving the state a redo on this bloody clown circus would be a mercy for the judiciary, at this point.

Judge is a bloody trip, yeah. Was today I think he sided with the defense when they claimed they couldn't zoom in on an ipad video or somethin' like that because Apple's AI would manipulate the footage. Defense spouting literal conspiracy theories, judge just like "yup, checks out". Gave prosecution 20 minutes to find an expert to dispute the claim.

Folks have noted that regardless of the merits or lack of them of the case, this entire fucking farce is just one of the best illuminations on how goddamn broken the US judicial system is that we've ever seen. Prosecution clownshoes, defense actually fucking insane, judge at least as off their rocker, all coming together to try to get a white supremacist off the hook for killing people while otherwise breaking the law.

... they're actually calling something finger maidens? And this passed localization?