The downside to shitting on landlords is that they will make sure that shit rolls onto tenants. Limiting security deposits to one month, for instance, has forced tenants with bad credit histories into shittier housing stock where the landlords have no choice but to accept lower credit scores. Before, they could put up two or three months of security so the landlord would look past their credit scores. (If you're asking why someone would have a shitty credit score but three months of security deposits, the answer is generally undocumented persons or persons working under the table.)

Making it harder to evict non-paying tenants will only exacerbate the effect. With only one month of security deposit and a one-year minimum for evictions, landlords will require stricter credit scores and income qualifications.

LOL. "Privilege goblins" are the assholes running a business who get pissed when an employee demands fair pay. Even worse are the collaborators who, rather than get fair pay for themselves, get angry at those who do.

I'm amused when people complain about the budget deficit, and refuse to either cut spending or increase taxes to fix the budget deficit.

You are very clearly wrong but you're still arguing. No idea why you think you know more than an appellate court.

You're making an emotional argument and an appeal to authority. The appellate court overturned the decision of the prosecutor and jury, so my appeal to authority defeats yours. If you want to say that you know more about the law than the appellate courts, then you are free to do so, but it would not hold much water because it's just your opinion supported by your emotions. At the end of the day, are you saying that the appellate court was wrong?

It's clear that the crime here doesn't meet the requirements of the law. We aren't supposed to bend the law because we hate the defendants. That's why there's a saying that tough cases make bad law: we twist the law to fit a certain situation then that ends up with bad consequences down the road.

The torture law requires:

the defendant acted in an especially cruel and wanton manner pursuant to a course of conduct intended to inflict and inflicting torture upon the victim prior to the victim's death. As used in this subparagraph, "torture" means the intentional and depraved infliction of extreme physical pain; "depraved" means the defendant relished the infliction of extreme physical pain upon the victim evidencing debasement or perversion or that the defendant evidenced a sense of pleasure in the infliction of extreme physical pain;

In the context of murder, everything leading up to the death is going to be horrible. The law says that it has to be "especially cruel and wanton manner" and it has to be intended to inflict and actually inflict torture. The other ways to get convicted of first degree murder are pretty extreme and rare:

1. Knowingly and intentionally killing an on-duty cop, firefighter, EMS, corrections officer, etc.;
2. Killing a witness to silence them;
3. Killing a judge out of vengeance;
4. being a serial killer;
5. Killing anyone while you're already in prison serving a life term;
6. murder for hire;
7. a killing while conducting a rape, robbery, or burglary.

Pulling him out of the deli wasn't meant to infect torture. It's a law meant for really specific purposes and the prosecutor tried to stretch it.

The law is a harsh mistress. For first degree murder, the law requires a showing beyond a reasonable doubt that "the defendant acted in an especially cruel and wanton manner pursuant to a course of conduct intended to inflict and inflicting torture upon the victim prior to the victim’s death." A single stab wound that results in death almost certainly cannot constitute torture under this law as a single action cannot be a "course of conduct". The idiot was convicted of second degree murder.

To give you an idea of how hard it is to get a conviction for first degree murder by torture, only three convictions have been obtained in the thirty years it has been in effect.

Amex Plat?

I think it was Joe DiMaggio who said to be nice to everyone because it could be the first time or the last time they ever see you.

Addictive as hell. Seriously!

>Grandma showed 7News her scar from the teen snatching her keys. The
police report said the would-be-carjacker left the scene in an
ambulance, and Grandma said the teen is now in lockup."And they
said it’s a wonder he wasn’t dead," she said. "On 22nd Street? He must
didn’t know where he was. Nobody has seen this boy before."

Cement board is not water proof. Use Red guard.

https://youtu.be/Hdd-RIFvkd8

You didn't point out any facts that contradict my statement that COVID culls populations of the weakest persons, which is almost undeniable. You are simply arguing that COVID isn't killing enough people.

My point is that herd immunity can be achieved using vaccinations at a far lower cost in money and in heartache. No matter how much you try to dismiss the downsides of COVID, the fact is that the downsides of the vaccination are even lower. From a cost-benefit analysis, there is no evidence that vaccination is bad public policy if you value human lives and the reduction in overall sickness.

It doesn't appear to do so. The problem with comparing natural immunity is that the COVID infections murder the weakest victims so the culled populations will tend to be more resistant than vaccinated populations.

Check the various statistics reported by the state health departments in the U.S.

I'm sure that even if we stick to "violation of existing laws" we will still root out a lot of corruption. The MTA hasn't even gotten all their workers using time clocks.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/highest-paid-mta-employee-2018-sentenced-8-months-overtime-fraud-scheme

The federal government should give the DOJ an extra $10 billion a year just to root out public corruption and corruption in public contracts on both the state and federal levels, and in the administration of government benefits programs. I bet that would make huge returns on investments.

It's utter BS but that's the situation that we find ourselves in. Roe v. Wade was precedent for decades until SCOTUS stepped in and found that it was so wrong that it wasn't precedent.

Copper elbows are the shittiest. Always bursting and fucking up and shit. I try to clamp elbows down but they are always a PITA.

I'm not trying to be a twat but a lot of it lies in installation. I would believe that sweated joints are more reliable than a Sharkbite. But I've really seen a lot of shitty welds that leak. Sharkbites also need to be installed properly, and Sharkbite failures are all installation error and not mechanical failure. The pipe was deburred or pushed in far enough.

I've always been against PEX v. copper pipes but apparently PEX is better! The original fittings were crap but the new ones are apparently very reliable and the PEX is less likely to burst when frozen.

NATO doesn't need to send troops to Ukraine to eliminate all Russia military positions in and around Ukraine. It'll be a fusillade of cruise missiles, drones, and air strikes.

"Why should I die for Putin," is a commonly thought idea in the heads of the oligarchs.

You're the guy who follows YouTube videos. If you were in charge back in the day, we'd all be dying of smallpox and polio.