• brown567@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15 days

    To those like me who are confused because Skyrim is single-player: it was a Kik username inspired by Skyrim

    • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
      14 days

      Thanks. Also isn’t kik notorious for illegal shit? Like csam?

      • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        14 days

        I’ve never heard of it in any context other than illegal shit.

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nzEnglish
    14 days

    ‘found no evidence connecting him to the girl, the messages, or the images involved in the case.’

    So the ONE piece of evidence was a username?? And he was convicted on that?

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      14 days

      More like the shit police work and complete lack of evidence. How the hell could that make it through the courts all the way to sentencing?

        • AnyOldName3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14 days

          In the UK, it’s because it’s the defence’s job to notice this kind of thing, but paying for a good lawyer is life-ruiningly expensive, and public defenders via legal aid are paid hourly, but have a cap on the number of hours that’s never enough to deal with anything properly, so are either rushing everything and miss things, or are massively overworked and earning well below minimum wage when their unpaid work is included.

          I don’t know if the same problems extend to Canada, but it’s fairly likely, as the adversarial approach just inherently means the defence has to do loads of things that would be someone else’s job or not need doing at all under alternative systems, so you have to have a trained professional doing lots of work, and that’s inherently expensive, but taxpayers don’t like spending money on defending people who probably did crimes.

      • scratchee@feddit.ukEnglish
        14 days

        Apparently the defence missed it too, which is pretty damning for whoever was (supposed to be) defending him, I’d think.

        • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          14 days

          Even if the user name was correct, after a full search turned up no evidence of wrongdoing or behaviors consistent with the allegation, it should have been insufficient for sentencing.

  • HerbGrower@slrpnk.netEnglish
    14 days

    Yeah you really should be asking how the fuck you send someone to prison with zero fucking evidence of them committing a crime.

    Surely bare minimum is that several people in the legal system need to be losing their jobs over it. If not facing criminal negligence charges of their own.

  • Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15 days

    it is this rife lazy shit right here from cops, prosecutors and anyone who should know better and are paid to know better is why im always correcting people on the spelling of my name even if it is one letter off.

    • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      15 days

      1. Wrong country. We don’t do that up here. Overall, we find this results in fewer unnecessarily dead people.

      2. Let’s say he’d had a gun, and used it against the police. He would just have gotten hit with an additional charge that could have been anything from resisting arrest to first-degree murder, depending on how good a shot he was. So he’d still be in prison even after being proven innocent of the original charge. Real smart.

      • No Thanks@lemmy.4d2.orgEnglish
        14 days

        i believe the implication is that when injustice is commonly met with this response, those seeking to exert force upon others do their due diligence

        versus the “only the state can do violence and we never make mistakes hurr hurr” that (ahem) they really want the global population to internalize

        • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          14 days

          You can’t stop the state from committing violence with a handgun, for crying out loud. Or even with a million handguns. The state will always have better equipment than you, most of which doesn’t require anyone to get within handgun range if they don’t want to. Granted, big missiles make a tremendous mess and they’d rather not use them, but the possibility is always there.

          Expecting citizen violence to overthrow a modern government that’s dead set on preventing it is, to put it politely, unrealistic. Unless you can convince the military to take your side or at least bow out, removing the government’s ability to exert force, but you aren’t going to accomplish that by directing violence at the military.

          • No Thanks@lemmy.4d2.orgEnglish
            11 days
            • not really the direction i was pointing out, but i’m always interested in the arms race between citizens and those that seek to rule. do you foresee heavier munitions being deployed (by any side)?
            • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
              11 days

              In which country?

              I keep on remembering a line from an old anime: “An unjust peace is better than a just war.” It keeps on floating through my head because it’s true for most people most of the time. Things have to get really bad—really bad—or at least you have to persuade people that they are, before you start seeing organized, armed insurrection on a large scale.

              So what does it take? Lots of people being killed, maimed, or raped, at random and without any recourse, usually. Stealing enough children might also do it. Or a faction deliberately whipping the less-intelligent part of the population into a frenzy. Or really poor quality of life over the course of decades that makes people think they have nothing to lose. And even then it takes time if everything was peaceful for a generation or more before that, because at first people will hunker down and claim they’re dealing with “isolated incidents”, and that it can’t happen to them.

              On the government side, what most governments want is to keep the economy running, because these days GDP is the measure of national success. For that, they need live workers and functioning civilian production equipment. That makes tear gas, handcuffs, and rubber bullets their weapons of choice and first resort.

              For the government to haul out the big guns, one of two things has to happen. The first possibility is that it thinks it’s losing control to a point where it no longer has enough jack-booted thugs to keep its interests protected, and starts killing people and destroying material assets to make sure that at least no one else can have them.

              The other possibility is that the upper echelons go completely Nazi Germany/Khmer Rouge level batshit, and enact bizarre murderous policies founded in deranged idealism. At that point, they often cease caring how they kill. (This includes governments that define some group of the people living in their country as subhuman.)

              Are we going to see heavier munitions deployed in Canada over civil insurrection in the near future? I doubt it (and if it does happen, it’ll be in Alberta, not over the judiciary mistake from the original post). Is it going to happen anywhere in the world in the next decade? Possibly, because there are countries out there where people really do have nothing to lose and no way out, and governments whose grasp on power is shaky.

      • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15 days

        Or maybe if you had the 2nd they wouldn’t be so quick to arrest the wrong guy ad actually did their fucking job and investigated… No no that to lofty of a concept in canada…

        The 2nd protects the 1st and you don’t have free speech.

        • grte@lemmy.caEnglish
          14 days

          Yeah, no one is ever wrongfully arrested and convicted in the USA. You guys are famously standing up to tyranny, brave yankee.

          • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
            14 days

            We have the freedom of speech which as we all know States side went out with blackface trudeu in canada then used the emergency act (for the US thats literally Marshall Law) to quiet down protesters in Ottawa.

            Only time ever used, for honking horns. Then seized their bank accounts. So much freedom.

            Say what you will about us here but you guys really lost your spine.

            • grte@lemmy.caEnglish
              14 days

              Buddy, you live under a corrupt government that is robbing you blind. You have the opportunity to prove that your gun shopping hobby is not just consumer fetishism right now!

              But you won’t, of course. You might as well be collecting dildos.

              • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
                14 days

                LOL you are in a country of ccp shills. Tell me how you lost one of the best cell phone manufactures to chinese spies. 30 million people and you can’t find housing because its all foreign owned…

                I haven’t bought a gun in at least 7 years. Prolly cause I got all the ones I want (Others than a 686). But my dildo’s have value and use and you can’t have them up there.

                • grte@lemmy.caEnglish
                  14 days

                  Oh, we are all aware of what you use your dildos for. Certainly not “defending against tyranny.”

        • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14 days

          Or, you know, you’d end up dead on your doorstep for trying to invoke your 2nd amendment to the fucking cops. That’s a good way to end up getting a Darwin award.

          • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
            14 days

            Some say its “Better to die on my feet than die on my knees.”

        • thebestaquaman@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14 days

          You do realist that “I am innocent, armed and will shoot if you try to arrest me” is possibly the worst conceivable way to avoid being unlawfully arrested, right?

          There is quite literally nothing you could do to make it more certain that you will be either killed or arrested than trying to shoot your way out of being wrongly arrested.

          I hope you also realise that the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and has a long and proud history of arresting and/or executing the wrong people. Literally any other system than the one you’re advocating for is provably superior when it comes to preventing the wrong people from being arrested.

        • Croquette@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          14 days

          The US is currently having some concentration camps and ICE literally kidnapping people on the street and no 2nd amendment nut is doing shit.

          So shut the fuck up with your dumb rhetoric.

      • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15 days

        lol right, I still can defend myself, have free speech and you have this. Bang up job!

        • SirSamuel@lemmy.worldEnglish
          15 days

          My favorite part is how this chud thinks they can “defend themselves” when cops come to their door with an arrest warrant 😂

        • Taco2112@lemmy.worldEnglish
          15 days

          Considering the original scenario is cops coming to arrest you, I don’t think you’ll get very far in “defending yourself”. But good luck in not dying in the shoot out with the cops.

          • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
            15 days

            This site is full of “FUCK GOVERNMENT!” “FUCK THE POLICE” and its full of people that will lay down. No wonder your government is running rough shod over you…

            If no one stands up you die on your knees.

            • Taco2112@lemmy.worldEnglish
              14 days

              No wonder your government is running rough shod(sic) over you…

              Since you talk about the 2nd Amendment and Open Carry, I’m just going to assume that you’re American, as am I. I could be wrong but that would mean you’re just a shill.

              If we’re both American that means the same government is running roughshod over both of us. The only difference is you have a bunch of guns that have never used against the “government” and probably will never get used against them. So please continue to espouse your violence while hiding behind a computer screen.

              • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
                14 days

                First Nations and an American. Granted my tribe is from mostly Ontario I have zero trust in either government.

                And me talking smack behind a screen, yeah ok.

    • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.netEnglish
      15 days

      As someone with a concealed carry license, you give us all a bad name. Sit down and shut up.

      Also, this is in Canada. Not the US.

        • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.netEnglish
          15 days

          At this point I have to assume you’re just a troll who’s trying to make actual gun owners look stupid to further the stereotype of all gun owners being second amendment trailer trash ass holes who don’t understand anything other than beer, guns and fucking. Because surely you can’t be that stupid. But, I’ve been proven wrong by other people’s stupidity before. Let’s just all be shocked someone with your intelligence level isn’t sitting in jail for a negligent discharge that killed someone.

          • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
            15 days

            Ah personal attacks. I said nothing insane like your post

            I own an ATF stamped machine gun

            I own an ATF stamped SBR

            I own 7 ATF stamped suppressors. (sucks now that they are free)

            I have almost every NRA certification.

            I train weekly and regularly do IDPA events.

            I have never had an ND/AD.

            Be a man, I open carry.

    • psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish
      15 days

      Just so you can go from innocent to become cop killer?

      • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15 days

        Or defending your rights in the US as I feel everyone on the planet should have those same rights.

        Wrong guy, a freedom of speech issue and they arrested the wrong guy in the wrong fucking country!

        You want to lay down thats on you, I’ll die with my boots on.

          • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
            14 days

            Tell me about the “Emergency Act” that was enacted, first time ever used in Canada.

            I know more about Canadian history then you want to play with. turdue runs basically mashall law and seizes bank accounts and youre more free than me? Are you serious?

            Because truckers protested. That shit would never fly down here.

        • psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish
          14 days

          Not sure what’s worst, getting wrongfully arrested because cop can’t do their job right or getting wrongfully killed because cop think you have a gun.

    • Thorry@feddit.orgEnglish
      14 days

      I’m going to guess you have a “Don’t thread on me” flag up, but also a “Thin blue line” flag at the same time?