So, just for people reading this, it’s actually not legal to interrogate people that long. Cops rely on you not knowing your rights. The best thing you can do is demand a lawyer and shut the fuck up

Generally, they must get a warrant to arrest you; or put you in front of a judge for a probable cause hearing (ostensibly within 48 hours of arrest.).

Once you ask for a lawyer, the interrogation is supposed to end until one is provided. If they keep asking questions, keep asking for a lawyer and say nothing else. And remember, cops are allowed to lie about things.

So ask for a lawyer and shut the fuck up.

I don’t know if I would believe them. To put it bluntly a fairly large number of people lie. If you never lied and explained that you had a conviction but you were innocent, I’d be significantly more inclined to believe you.

I also don’t know that I would care. Someone that got popped for smoking dope as a teen in the 90s is not a crime I’m worried about. Innocent or not doesn’t matter. Something more violent or problematic to the company is going to be a different story.

If you were honest from the start I’ll give you time to explain, but if you lied on the resume, that gets to the “problematic for the company” bit.

Ask any of the hundreds of people who’ve been tossed out of windows.

And I mean that literally.

or the hundreds more who got poisoned with novichok.

They aren’t doing it by hand though.

The machines are just getting attacked by the horta because the miners are melting their eggs.

Star Trek wouldn’t really function well as a society.

They hand waive away a lot of the issues. Like who gets to go to the outpost to extract dilithiim vs who gets to go be an artist.

I don’t think anyone in the Horta episode would be there if there wasn’t something more than “we just like rocks”

these days, they do stick a governor that tunes down the performance curve back into the thing. a good shop can fix that for you, though.

whatever is common in your area.

you’re not going to outrun the cops. your better off trying to play coy.

Keep the skinny blond kid away from that cat!

Lawyers still do. but mostly only in court.

also, while to a significantly lesser degree than jews, catholics were frequently rounded up and stuffed in concentration camps.

“Copy clean link” in your friend.

Perspective bias, in reality the butterfly in the protagonist, Pixel is the villain.

if you fully submerge them, the airpocket will be on the bottom (fat side) of the egg. IIRC, eggs always have an air pocket there.

FWIW I agree. A 50 year old guy “dating” a 25 year old woman has an increased likelihood that a power imbalance exists. However, it’s still profiling and prejudiced and a generalization.

It’s not prejudiced at all. a key component of something be a prejudice is that it is unfair, or is somehow unreasonable, etc, and that it is not based in fact. As you yourself noted, there is significant reason to believe such a large age gap may prove to be problematic.

I think the technical term is ‘risk factor’, if you prefer that.

And yes, significant age gaps are significant risk factors for a toxic relationship. it’s not the age itself, necessarily, but it increases the potential for things that are absolutely abusive, and if your doctors know about it, they’re going to be fielding more detailed questions to determine if there’s a problem. And family might be people who have something to say about it as well. That’s not inappropriate.

And it’s not really “profiling” either. That’s an investigative tactic of collection information about a person. profiling becomes problematic with the information is their race (or something to that effect) and their race becomes the justification for extra attention.

except- as I’ve already noted- that a 35 yo person is more likely to have an established career and financial stability in a way I wouldn’t expect a 25 year old.

again, context matters, but whether you want to admit it or not, the age gap is straddling major life milestones.

I largely agree that it’s not the age that’s the problem.

The thing is that the age is a useful proxy for all sorts of things that might lead to such power imbalances.

Including:

• emotional/mental maturity
• life experiences to avoid such imbalances
• financial stability and well being

It isn’t absolute, and context matters, but it is a useful proxy.

Context matters.

25, they’re either still in college or just getting into building their career.

35, there established and stable

Could it be predatory? Absolutely. Particularly if the 35yo is the one paying bills and the 25yo is financially dependent.

That said, no one who is in a coma for 10 years is going to be waking up the same as they were when they went into the coma. They’re going to be different persons, and they’re going to be having ridiculous amounts of medical bills. Suffice it to say that the coma-person might be the victim here, too.

The first Ironman suit was built by taking components from (probably) multi-million dollar missiles, and many other comments provided by an overly rich asshole benefactor.

And that’s ignoring the ongoing costs of maintaining the suit, or R and D on new suits, nor the costs of liability and litigation when you fuck up and accidentally murder an innocent.

So no. It’s not even close to a possibility in any context where reality can’t just be dealt with through handwaivium.

defense attorneys are a vital aspect of modern justice, and its not simply unethical but utterly tyrannical to think that people aren’t entitled to a vigorous and competent defense.

Without the process of a trial to determine guilt, you’re literally just taking the prosecution’s word for it. Without a defense attorney being a right, the outcome of trial is more likely to be predicated on if they can afford a lawyer. the average person simply cannot competently represent themselves. Hell. most lawyers know better than to represent themselves.

keep in mind, if someone is clearly guilty such that it can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, most defense attorneys won’t let you not plead guilty for a deal. Their obligation is to seek the best possible outcome for their client, and sometimes that means pleading out.

Technically, you’re only entitled to child support if a judge determines you are. While pregnancies from one night stands will usually require the father to pay child support, there are some exceptions (like if another parent adopts the kid.)

Additionally, those funds are only supposed to be used for the kid, and not for anyone else, so if the other parent is found to be neglecting things, they may lose custody altogether and instead owe child support.