Sure, it's simple. The crime of setting up a raping is worse under the law than faking the crime of rape.

In my experience, the people who downloaded my book for free were way less likely to read it or reach out to me that they read it than those who paid for it. This just goes to my decades-long theory that "piracy" has barely any actual effect on LIKELY purchases because people who download things for free were unlikely to buy them anyway... or even use them.

A lot of accidents in the past few decades happened because the captain skirted the rules and seemingly didn't think they needed to follow basic checklists.

> What you're describing is premeditated, not targeted.

insert eyeroll here

All I said was that it didn't seem like a "targeted attack" which would be a different charge. Meaning, he didn't get in his car that day to drive over a bunch of people on bikes. Something happened at the moment and he acted recklessly and caused deaths.

Yeah. But if you watch the whole video, this captain had a lot of issues with following the rules and handling incidents well.

Different incident.

For the law, it is always worse when you do it intentionally/plan it out.

For the victims & their loved ones... not sure. Maybe it doesn't matter.

> He's also being charged with three counts of aggrivated assault

If he said he was fucking around and meant to "scare" someone and accidentally lost control this would be a reasonable charge without him intentionally meaning to hit anyone.

Based on what I'm reading, this doesn't seem like a targeted attack. More like careless driving. That's why he's being charged with manslaughter.

Interestingly enough, Mentour Pilot JUST had a video about an incident where the pilots thought they were on autopilot until they reached about 28,000 feet when the plane started to bank too much and the captain overreacted and forced the plane into an unrecoverable dive.

This may surprise some people but... it's possible that everyone talking to the press about this story thinks they are 100% correct about their assessment. Because there may very well be "good people" on the Russian side who, after Mariupol fell under Russian control, "helped" the family and showed them kindness.

Not everyone in Putin's murder machine is a cold-hearted Soviet Union wannabe. And so, when shown kindness, people who have suffered may truly believe they are now "on the right side."

OR, possibly and simply, the parents did what they felt they needed to do in order to keep their kids alive.

I have doubts we will ever find alien life by listening for them. There's just so much space... what's the chance we'll be listening at the right time, in the right place, on the right communications system?

Yep. I definitely feel strangely comfortable in insane situations. When I worked IT for a big bank in NYC they used to have me give really bad news to people (like, we lost five years of your work due to a stupid tech) because when people were super upset, I calmed down.

I was a bouncer a long time ago and I would home in on problem people quickly and couldn't figure out why my co-workers seemed so clueless about the obvious signs.