#also to commit destruction of private property

[zibiscusloon]

The guy who had to get transferred and the guy that got fired on her first day

[cyndrastic]

hey remember when i said i was drawing Vic Chaos as a milf?

alternates with different lighting (with and without words) and a time lapse under the cut! (btw the words on the cover all have to do with lore in my post covid au so send asks if you’re interested <3)

tw for nudity (without genitalia) in the time lapse cause i shaded the whole body before drawing the dress

[wren-beowulf]

The collected Files: Lurcher Jackdaw

Associated Files: @brother-of-a-villain (shared muse) @theo-briar (supernatural muse) @yvonne-jaeger (DC/multi fandom muse)

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PROFILE

File Name: Lurcher. Jackdaw

Birth Name: Wren Alexander Beowulf.

Location: Gotham.

Years Active: 8 I'm new in town

Location: Crime Alley. Has many outposts, not all have been identified. You'll never find them lmao

CRIMES [All Have Multiple Accounts]

Shoplifting

Pickpocketing

Larceny

Robbery

Armed Robbery

Burglary

Auto Theft

Grand Theft

Petty Theft

Government Theft

Trespassing

Destruction of Property

Destruction of Private Property

Destruction of Government Property

Cybercrimes

Cyperespionage

Piracy

Inciting Malware Attacks

Unlawful Possession of Firearms

Unlawful Trafficking of Firearms

Assault with a Deadly Weapon

Terrorism

Homicide

First Degree Murder

Second Degree Murder

Squatting

Death Threats

Stalking

Organized Crime

I'm a good boy who's never committed a crime ever in my life~

IDENTIFIABLE APPEARENCE (Costime):

- Modified Motorcycle Helmet. Sleek Back, light blue ring light on center. Light occasionally changes shape and colour. Suspected modification:

Thermal Vision

Night Vision

Info Scanning

Voice Changing

Image and Video Projection

- Kevlar Suit [Stolen] permanently borrowed Colours primarily black with some light blue.

- Straps on thighs, waist, chest, and back. Straps hold many weapons and gadgets, caution is advised.

- Shortened black Leather Jacket. Sleeves typically pulled up.

- Metal Plated Tech Armour of Unknown Origin. Located on Arms/Hands and Legs/Feet. Primary colours light silver with some light blue. Suspected abilities of Unknown Armour:

Extreme Durability and Impact Absorption.

Enhance and aid physical abilities

[Hands] Hacking and Information Downloading via touch.

[Hands] Capable of producing whips from wrists. Whips do not seem to be fully physical, formed from some kind of unknown energy.

[Feet] Anchoring feature to surfaces via clamps.

[Feet] Magnetically walking up metal surfaces.

IDENTIFIABLE APPEARENCE (Physical):

Subject approximately 5'7 in height, stronger build. Hair longer, black in colour, typically seen done up and now with an undercut too, it looks good right?. Eyes pale blue, darker outer circle (has been compared to a husky). Skin is fair with many moles, beauty mark under left side of lip.

Subject has many scars from many different things, too many to catalog. Though notably a rather large scar going from his left thigh, inner hip, around the length of his back, and around to his right shoulder. Newer scars include thin lines across his left cheek, a bullet scar on his ribs, and a long slash across his collar bone.

Subject dresses in a way that is described as "Alternative", typical work attire consists of a black tank top and tan jumpsuit around waist. Yeah but I also changed now, got those tight shirts and pants too. I know you're checkin' out my ass, ya peepers.

Subject has many piercings, including three in each ear, and snake bites on his lips. Subject used to have piercings in left eyebrow and nose, but no longer. Also nipple piercin's can't forget those~

Has been called "Hot" and "Handsome" and "Attractive" on multiple occasions. Because I'm an A grade hottie~

NOTABLE EQUIPMENT:

Subject Lurcher JACKDAW has many staple pieces of equipment that allow for further identification. However, the origin of these pieces of equipment is unknown, and any attempts to identify them have come back negative. They seem to all run of some kind of foreign power source made of an unknown material. They all act in a strangely organic way, reacting to Subject Lurcher's JACKDAW subconscious rather than to automated commands. Subject Lurcher JACKDAW seems to refer to this equipment as "Magi-tech" implying them to be mystical in Nature.

Known "Magi-tech" Equipment includes:

- "Argo", a rather large hoverboard with extended capabilities. Coloured primarily black with some silver and light blue. Known Extended Capabilities Include:

Flight

High Durability

Shifting parts to extend size as a shield

Shifting parts to form a dome type shield

Seems to be highly connected to other "Magi-tech" Equipment, capable of "absorbing" such other equipment into itself as a form of transport.

- Railgun, seems to be used primarily for long distance. Primarily Black with light blue.

Gun fires off energy rather than bullets. This energy can change in power to either stun or kill.

- Twin Pistols. Most commonly used by subject Lurcher JACKDAW. Primarily black with Light Blue.

Pistols have the unique ability to teleport into subject Lurcher's JACKDAW hands. This seems to only work with the Subject.

- Glaive. Least commonly used, only seen when firearms or other common weapons and gadgets are unavailable. Yet shows a high proficiency with it. Primarily black and silver with some light blue.

Blade of Glaive is able to extend. The length of extension is currently unknown.

Leg/Feet and Arm/Hand Armour. [See Identifiable Appearance for more info]

METAGENE ABILITIES:

Subject Lurcher JACKDAW is a metahuman with the ability of duplication. Self-named ability "Divide and Conquer".

This duplication manifests as an exact replica indistinguishable from its original, working on both organic and inorganic materials.

Subject is able to duplicate an object many times, the limit--If it exists--is currently unknown.

Subject is able to duplicate aspects of himself such as eyes, teeth, limbs, organs, or even create a double of himself in its entirety. Subject also seems to be able to control this self-duplication to the cellular level, creating a somewhat excelarated healing effect. It is unknown if he can do this on other people as well.

Subject can retrieve the memories of their doubles after they either dissappear or die. This includes the memory of the death itself. When making doubles of other people, the same rule seems to apply but to the doubled person rather than the subject.

Subject seems to know when a duplicate is being touched or not, implying some sort of connection between the subject and the duplicate. Subject does not describe this feeling as a physical one, but rather a mental one.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

- Subject has many ties with various organized crime groups, termination or long term capture of the subject may have lasting effects. That's what I'm countin' on~

- Subject is very highly intelligent with unknown skills. Proceed with caution.

- Subject often has equipment of those he works with, this includes things like the Royal Flush's playing cards and Fear Gas. Proceed with caution.

- Subject uses Meta abilities to never run out of bullets. Proceed with caution.

THREAT COOL LEVEL: High

THREAT POTENTIAL: Unknown

CUTENESS LEVEL: Adorbs

[good-old-gossip]

Israel continues to violate ICJ ruling on Gaza

Geneva – Over the course of the two months that followed the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling, Israel did not abide by the order and continued to commit genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. The genocide has been ongoing since 7 October 2023, amid a total lack of accountability and a complete international failure to protect the Palestinian people from the crime.

A newly released report by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor titled “Two Months after the International Court of Justice’s Ruling on Gaza: Escalation in Genocide and Absence of Accountability” contains documentation of Israel’s ongoing acts of genocide against the Palestinian people in the Strip. The report examines Israel’s lack of response to the Court’s ruling, which ordered Israel to take six provisional measures.

The ICJ issued a decision on 26 January 2024 ordering Israel to take specific provisional measures to prevent the crime of genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. Stating that it was convinced that Israel’s actions in the Strip posed a real and immediate threat to the Palestinian people, the ICJ cited the possibility of irreversible effects and harm to Palestinian rights protected under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Based on efforts to monitor and document the crimes and violations that Israel has committed in the Gaza Strip, as well as on investigations into and assessments of its level of compliance during the two-month period following the ruling, Euro-Med Monitor believes that Israel has not complied with the ICJ ruling. The majority of the provisional measures outlined in the ruling were violated, and the crime of genocide was carried out on the same scale. Various forms and acts of genocide were committed with the intent of destroying the Palestinian people.

Two months after the ICJ’s ruling, Israel proceeds to carry out its crime of genocide at the same scale, including killing civilians, targeting civilians through systematic and widespread military attacks, and using illegal, indiscriminate, and highly destructive weapons.

Targeting civilian gatherings around humanitarian aid trucks with direct gunshots, quadcopters, and Israeli tank shells is one of the most well-documented examples of the unlawful killings and executions carried out by the Israeli army against Palestinian civilians over the past few weeks. These incidents, which have become known as the “Flour Massacres”, resulted in the deaths of 563 citizens and the injury of 1,523 others. This figure includes civilians awaiting aid and workers in charge of planning, securing, and distributing aid.

The report also addressed the crimes that Israel continued to commit with the aim of inflicting severe physical and psychological harm on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, particularly through deprivation of healthcare, torture, inhumane treatment, sexual violence, and the use of prohibited, indiscriminate, and highly destructive weapons.

Furthermore, the report outlined the ongoing crimes committed by Israel aimed at deliberately causing material destruction to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including forced displacement, starvation, rendering the area uninhabitable, and eradicating the Palestinian identity of the region. This is achieved through the systematic destruction of sources of income, infrastructure, civilian objects, and private property, as well as deliberate military attacks on buildings designated for religious, educational, scientific, and historical purposes, hospitals, and places where patients and wounded gather. Additionally, Israel persists in committing other crimes aimed at destroying the unity of Palestinian families and preventing procreation.

Israel has in fact committed more violations in some instances than it did in the time leading up to the Court’s ruling, particularly in relation to the entry of humanitarian relief aid and the threats and persecution of Palestinians in the Rafah Governorate, which is thought to be the last safe haven for survivors and internally displaced people in the Strip. The ICJ ruled on 16 February that any Israeli military action in Rafah under the current circumstances would worsen the already tragic situation and put the lives of Palestinian civilians in further jeopardy.

The report also provides evidence of Israel’s failure to adhere to other provisional measures included in the ICJ ruling, including ensuring that its army does not commit acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip, preventing and punishing public incitement to genocide, and protecting evidence related to alleged crimes. 

As for Israel’s commitment to providing humanitarian aid, the report concludes that Israel has used starvation not only as a tactic of war, but also as a means of carrying out the crime of genocide against the Palestinian People in the Strip, especially in the northern Gaza Strip, continuously and severely for six months now. As part of its starvation campaign, Israel commits other serious crimes, including imposing a strict siege on the entire Strip, i.e. cutting off fuel, electricity, and water; demolishing local food production sources by destroying crops and bulldozing agricultural land; and repeatedly obstructing and even halting the entry or distribution of humanitarian aid.

International humanitarian law states that Israel, as the occupying force, is responsible for supplying the civilian population in the Occupied Palestinian Territory with food, medicine, clothing, bedding, shelter, and other necessities for survival. However, Israel persists in committing grave crimes and breaching its international obligations, putting the lives of all Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip at risk of famine and extreme hunger.

In light of the aforementioned, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor urges, among other recommendations, the international community to uphold its legal and moral duties to the people living in the Gaza Strip, to guarantee that the International Court of Justice ruling is carried out, and to end the genocide that the Court declared in January was likely taking place in the Gaza Strip.

Euro-Med Monitor also calls on all states to fulfill their international obligations by halting all military, financial, and political support for Israel’s attack against the Gaza Strip, and in particular, all arms transfers to Israel. Otherwise, these states will be held accountable for their complicity in Israel’s ongoing crimes, including genocide.

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[puppy--jam]

I rewatched svtfoe (only season 1 for now). It's a completely different perspective the second time around, but now I'm giving you a list of crimes (or something like that) Star has committed. I'll admit I'm not an expert on law.

Not Earth: A fight in a shop (shop dimension?)

Earth:

- Does fighting with inhabitants of other planets count? Theoretically bringing fights (war?) to Earth

- Transforming a butterfly into some strange (dangerous? mutated?) creature that kidnapped a human

- Setting the school on fire and covering it with mewberty's goo

- Destruction of public and private property (signs, lamp posts, cars, club dojo, she turned some things into hands too)

- Turning a person into a troll without their permission

- Exposing people to the risk of losing their health or life (e.g. during a rugby game where she "mined the pitch"), (threatening Gustavo? that weird guy from Europe), (turning pirate waiters into smaller versions, i.e. shrinking them), (I also have it written down here that Oscar could have suffered because of Star's strange behavior, and Marco has experienced this many times)

- In the episode where it was Brittney's birthday, she turned a guy (at his request!) into a piñata, then left and people jumped the piñata, so involuntary manslaughter?

- Kidnapping of males without their consent, I don't want to go into whether there was also molestation

And that's just season 1. I have other characters written down as well, but I'd rather collect more and put it all in one post.

[mjfass]

As a general rule, if you're a professional wrestler, you're just.... allowed to commit crimes, provided your victim is another professional wrestler. There will never be legal ramifications for your actions and your boss seemingly can't fire you, even if what you did was clearly illegal and also televised to millions of people.

Be it petty vandalism, public intoxication, public indecency, assault, battery, breaking and entering, larceny, grand larceny, destruction of private property, hacking, theft of an emergency vehicle, animal abuse, racketeering, kidnapping, arson, attempted murder, successful murder, desecration of a corpse, cannibalism, or just about any other type of crime, so long as you only do it to another pro-wrestler, you're not gonna suffer any legal or employment related consequences.

Kayfabe is fucking weird

As long as you do it to another pro-wrestler AND there’s a camera there to tape it all and then televise it or share it on social media. These people are committing crimes on live tv and we are just letting them!

This is such an incredible way to illustrate what wrestling is and how kayfabe works. Send this to any person who ever asks you what wrestling is.

[iotaphora]

I am tracking all the crimes committed in The Magnus Archives on this listen through, here is what I have for season 1. please note this is crimes committed as they are revealed which is why i didn't put down 'murder' for Elias Boucahard. Also please feel free to let me know if I missed any and what episode the crime is committed in (as long as its for reoccurring characters.)

Martin Blackwood:

Breaking and entering - MAG 22

Tim Stoker:

Giving money to filing clerks to get private/personal information of a client - MAG 03

Sasha James:

Trespassing - MAG 26

Man slaughter - MAG 26

Melanie King:

Breaking and entering - MAG 28

Trespassing - MAG 28

Gerry Keay:

Murder - MAG 12

Destruction of Private property - Mag 35

Jane Prentiss:

Harassment - MAG 22

Stalking - MAG 22

Murder - MAG 26

Squatting - MAG 39

Mikaele Salesa:

The Sale of Stolen Goods - MAG 38

Improper Documentation of Imported Goods - MAG 38

Jared Hopworth:

Breaking and Entering - MAG 17

Organ theft - MAG 17

Murder - MAG 17

Trever Herbert:

Murder - MAG 10

Arson - MAG 36

Julia Montauk:

Arson - MAG 36

Breekon and Hope:

Breaking and entering - MAG 24

Robbery - MAG 24

John Amherst:

Elder Abuse - Mag 36

[dailyanarchistposts]

A libertarian socialist outlook on The American Insurrection

“The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.” — Max Stirner

Since I last posted we have seem significant developments in the so called United States of America. We have moved beyond the small actions by some workers to full scale open rebellion in many cities in the face of police brutality. These rebellions however can’t be quelled with just reforms now. No, we have reached a movement that seeks to abolish the police. A movement that is demanding the world recognizes that we are. black and that we are PEOPLE as well. Police precincts have been taken over and burned down,others are as I write this “under attack” by the people.

This is full blown spontaneous action that could NEVER have been planned let alone organized by a vanguard party. We are seeing what can only be summed up as democratic insurrection. We are launching full scale attacks on private property that is owned by the bourgeoisie,we are attacking the state house, we are building mutual aid. with the resources we have expropriated we are changing the narrative. We have experiences social death and now we are experiencing social rebirth.

Now if you have been living under a rock you may wonder: “How did we get here?” that question can be answered quickly. We got here because of George Floyd, Tony McDae, and Breonna Taylor. All 3 black PEOPLE who were murdered by the police. In the case of Tony McDae this shows not just the ongoing injustices faced by black men but also by the injustices faced by black TRANS PEOPLE. Breonna Taylor’s murder shows the injustice faced by BLACK WOMEN everyday. George Floyd’s murder shows that to be black in America means to have your humanity rejected.

Now the state is responding to our rebellions by cracking down further and attempting to push martial law. The state is attempting to being in the troops to Minneapolis to put down the rebellion. This will only launch us into a revolution. The state has in fact pushed many unconstitutional rules onto the people such as curfews. In Washington DC many believe that cell signals were jammed from 1 am to 6 am on May 31st 2020. In Philadelphia the National Guard has live rounds. In many cities around the country the police have been using rubber bullets. The police have still killed many and even left the body of David McTee in the street for 12 hours. The police have assaulted peaceful protesters, destroyed water of protesters along with reporters.

So this leads me to answer the question of this article. What is to be done today? We now must stockpile weapons by any means necessary, and commit to creating a Black people’s militia. We must also seek to create communes for our people during time. We must interconnect (confederate) them as well to bring true resistance to this fascist we will face. Within these communes we must have community councils, neighborhood assemblies, municipal councils, regional councils and the like. We must defend ourselves and we must stay militant. Their is no going back from here. The state has done it’s best to destroy peaceful change all this has done is make violent a necessity.

It is important to remember however that people are doing mutual aid and solidarity on their own. This includes giving out expropriated goods, donating them to people asking for food and more. The people may not realize it but they have created an Autonomous Zone. They have freed themselves from the police. This may be temporary but this is an important step. This is something we must seek to persevere the state can and will destroy it if they are able. This informal commune is only an extension of what we as black people have done before. This can be seen through the Ogeechee Insurrection and the like. However we as people are coming together and practicing solidarity when free of the state and it’s agents of destruction. We are fighting. We are winning and we shall overcome. To paraphrase Malcolm X The US has put a knife our back and for a long time has not acknowledged it. Now they have acknowledged that knife but only because we took it out ourselves. Now they are scared of what we are doing with it.

We are living through history now and we must remember history is written by the victors. For that it is necessary for us as colonized people to win this.

From the sidelines as someone not in a city with protests and an uprising I can only say this: Thank you and good luck we the people shall win and we shall overcome.

In solidarity and in struggle

A.X. Black Flag Catalyst Jun 2

[cut3zy]

REPOST BECAUSE OF A TEXT ERROR - CALLOUT POST 1

CALLOUT POST >_<

Hey!! Over the past few months, I have interacted with and been involved with some people on here. Some very problematic Tumblrs. Some angsty, some downright sexual assailants. I will not, for legal purposes, be saying real names- because that would be harrassment, wouldn't it? Big thanks to VixidIy and JakeSterling for help editing and cowriting this. 🩷Firstly!

@Selgrey07: Sexually harrassed an Asexual person, apologized, and then got even more sexual with them. Spoke openly about ex's extensive, personal trauma. Humped said person as they were falling asleep (assault). Broke up with that person because they were controlling (they had asked them to stop interacting with an ex partner because there was obvious mutual attraction). Told the Asexual person that they hated seeing their previous partner (a transgender male) topless and gave many details about transgender male's sex life. Hardly spoke to trans partner over text for more than 15 minutes unless for sexual reasons. Went on to admit they had a hard time seeing them as male. Also admitted to jerking off to the Asexual because they were wearing a tank top on a Discord call. Broke up with the Asexual person because "I can't handle another mentally ill partner!" (while their new partner has how many days clean they are in their Discord about me). Their new partner is the ex they were asked not to see anymore. Talked shit about their current partner to transguy while selgrey and them were dating. :)Destruction of private property (a pullover that was gifted to transgender male). Called transguy's dad a cockblock and outright hated him.

@Forever-Bi-Panic Admitted to Selgrey07 they had had a crush on them while they were in a commited relationship, infront of their partner. Dated our aforementioned Asexual person and lied about having to call the cops on them for them being suicidal. Cried about them to the internet for pity points. Complained about their ex partner ignoring them after their break up (their partner couldn't talk to them because it was awkward). Discarded the idea that both of them could've been hurt and blamed everything on their ex. Called their ex's "new" friends toxic (despite their own friend, the now partner of Selgrey07, leading them on for almost 2 months and another friend, classof09lover, being extremely toxic throughout the year). Pushed boundaries and was a severe pick me. Stole from Asexual person.

@KillerDinosourusRex Ships incest between two canon brothers (Larry and Sal from Sally Face). Now partner of Selgrey07 (not that it matters, Transguy was just right about Selgrey07 and Killerdinosourusrex being sus). Almost exact copy of Asexual person down to many mannerisms. A homie hopper indefinitely. Laughed Selgrey07 into a panic attack during a class with their other ex partner. Is friends with and defends the guy who sexually assaulted Killerdinosourusrex.

[tieflingkisser]

Israeli occupation forces inflict widespread destruction in Tulkarm refugee camp

TULKARM, Thursday, August 22, 2024 (WAFA) – The recent Israeli military offensive in the Tulkarm refugee camp has resulted in widespread destruction to infrastructure and private property, according to local sources. Additionally, the aggression has resulted in the murder of three local Palestinians by the Israeli forces. Several others have been injured, and their transfer to hospitals was delayed due to Israeli occupation forces blocking ambulance access to the camp. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that its teams managed to treat two individuals who sustained shrapnel injuries during the raid: a five-year-old girl and a 37-year-old man. Additionally, a young man was injured after being run over by a military jeep while walking on a street in Tulkarm. He was also transported to hospital by the Red Crescent. According to Faisal Salama, head of the Popular Committee for Tulkarm Refugee Camp Services, the situation in the camp is dire. He reported extensive damage to streets, infrastructure, and private property, including sewage systems, water, electricity, and communications. Salama described the camp as a disaster zone, with Israeli forces committing what he termed as war crimes. The camp has become a battlefield with indiscriminate gunfire targeting anything moving, and snipers positioned on high buildings both within the camp and in the surrounding areas. Salama pointed out that Israeli forces have cut off the camp from its surroundings by blocking entrances and bulldozing streets, making pedestrian movement nearly impossible. Since early this morning, Israeli bulldozers have been destroying infrastructure in various parts of the camp. Public and private properties, including homes and shops, have been deliberately destroyed. The Israeli forces also demolished the wall of the UNRWA health clinic and the perimeter wall of the Al-Awda Hall in the camp. Meantime, the PRCS’s Director of Emergency Medical Services in Tulkarm reported ongoing obstructions from Israeli forces, which have forced them to remain at the camp’s edges. Despite receiving reports of injuries from inside the camp, evacuations have been limited, with only the three slain individuals being transported to the hospital with the help of local volunteers.

[omnipol]

Under the hegemonic imperative to pursue happiness by way of the “excess intake” of endless consumption, the sovereign, immune, “Western” self becomes autoimmune and dissolves in the very enjoyment of its “pursuit of happiness,” which, as Antonia Majaca writes, is nothing but a US liberal, Jeffersonian nickname for the Lockean “pursuit of property.”35 The self-destruction evidenced by such self-interested pursuit reveals autoimmunity as the very “illogical logic” of immunity, as Derrida suggested.36 But the slippage of immunity into autoimmunity can also be seen as a historical succession. If immunity is understood as the social and political logic of sovereignty grounded in the nineteenth-century redefinition of healing as war by other means (the Hobbseian natural right to self-defense), then both the Freudian death drive and autoimmunity suggested the dark side of immunity at two historical moments starkly marked by death and catastrophe. The Freudian death drive signaled the final blow to the aggressive libido of the modern, bourgeois, rationalist cogito of European capitalist coloniality following World War I and the end of the “age of empire.”37 Following World War II, and the devastating seek-and-destroy immunitarian logic of Auschwitz and Hiroshima, the discovery of autoimmunity extended this beyond-pleasurable hit to this cogito’s surviving body, which then dissolved in the “excess intake” of “pleasure” over the course of the global capitalist expansion. In contrast to this suicidal, (auto)immunitarian logic, international socialist and decolonial movements, as twentieth-century alternatives to global capitalism, have proposed and practiced more constructive ways for the dissolution of the prison of the liberal-capitalist self and its key tenet, private property. But by 1989, “Western affluence,” meaning capitalist scarcity disguised as abundance, was everywhere, and the riddle of the autoimmune condition now a global problem.

This slippage of immunity into autoimmunity is more immediately obvious in concrete examples that mark contemporary reality in the social and geopolitical peripheries of global capital. The devastating story that Sharmila Rudrappa tells of southern Indian farmers who committed suicide by poisoning themselves with the same pesticide used to protect their sugarcane crops speaks to the autoimmune logic of capital, which forced farmers to kill themselves so as not to suffer the even worse consequences of not being able to pay off their high-interest loans once their crops remained unpaid-for or unsold.

[charmfamily]

I got tagged by @smok3inm1rrors, my favorite fellow Charm Family obsesser, who asked me to pick a Charm for another round of The Bold The Facts! For this next round, I’m tagging @theosconfessions, @nectar-cellar, @smok3inm1rrors again to do a Charm of their choice, @plumbboo, and @d4isywhims! 

𝔾𝔼𝕋 𝕋𝕆 𝕂ℕ𝕆𝕎 𝕄𝔼: 𝔻𝔸𝕄𝕀𝔼ℕ ℂℍ𝔸ℝ𝕄

[ PERSONAL ]

$ Financial: wealthy (Because he comes from a wealthy family, he has yet to acquire his own wealth but trust fund babies aren’t usually concerned with that. It’s Damien. Damien is Trust Fund Babies.) / moderate / poor / in poverty

✚ Medical: fit / moderate / sickly / disabled / disadvantaged / non applicable

✪ Class or Caste: upper / middle / working / unsure / other

✔ Education: qualified / unqualified / studying (Damien is a Caster of the Untamed School and is studying, believe it or not, Theoretical Magic with a specialty in Curse Breaking. He’s really good at it, too.) / other

✖ Criminal Record: yes, for major crimes / yes, for minor crimes / no / has committed crimes, but not caught yet (nothing serious, just a little or maybe a lot of possessing alcohol underage at parties, trespassing, and maybe a few cases of destruction of private/public property.) / yes, but charges were dismissed

[ FAMILY ]

◒ Children: had a child or children / has no children / wants children? (He thinks he does. He’s still not 100% sure and he definitely doesn’t want them right this minute, but someday.)

◑ Relationship with Family: close with sibling(s) (He’s spent the entirety of his life pretending Gemma doesn’t exist or outright tormenting her, but he’s doing his best to make up for that lately and he hopes it’s not too late. He really does want to be a better brother than he was in the past. Fun fact regarding HOW Damien was a terrible brother: Little Damien used to lure Toddler Gemma outside under the guise of being the bestest big brother ever and taking her to a super cool Big Kid Hangout, but then he’d lock her in the dark crawlspace under the house and leave her there. This is what Rohan meant when he said he’d been running to Gemma’s rescue since they were four, Damien would take off with his friends or on his bike, leave Gemma in the crawlspace, and Rohan was the one that always let her out. Damien also, once he learned about Gemma’s phobia of dark bathrooms because she was scared of what she’d see in the mirror, would lock her in there and had to stop doing that when she hyperventilated once and passed out. The thudding of her hitting the tile ended up alerting their parents and yes, he got in BIG trouble. She’s claustrophobic now, because of Damien’s antics.) / not close with sibling(s) / has no siblings / sibling(s) is deceased

◔ Affiliation: orphaned / adopted / disowned / raised by birth parent / not applicable  

[ TRAITS + TENDENCIES ]

♦ extroverted / introverted / in between 

♦ disorganized / organized / in between (He’s organized with the things he cares about, everything else is a giant mess.) 

♦ close minded / open-minded / in between (Hard to convince but not entirely unreasonable.)

♦ calm / anxious / in between (It varies from day to day and depends entirely on the specifics of what latest clusterfuck he’s gotten himself into.) ♦ disagreeable / agreeable / in between 

♦ cautious / reckless / in between 

♦ patient / impatient / in between 

♦ outspoken / reserved / in between 

♦ leader (“What if all your friends jumped off a bridge?” Damien would be that friend, the first one out there and calling everyone else a bitch for not doing it.) / follower / in between 

♦ empathetic / vicious bastard / in between (More often than not empathetic, until you piss him off and the Vicious Bastard side of him is unleashed. He has some pretty deep-seated anger issues that are always simmering just beneath the surface.)

♦ optimistic / pessimistic / in between 

♦ traditional / modern / in between

♦ hard-working (when he REALLY wants something) / lazy / in between (the rest of the time.)

♦ cultured (Raised by archaeologists, that tends to happen.)  / uncultured / in between / unknown 

♦ loyal / disloyal / unknown Loyal to himself first and others that prove that they’re loyal to him. It certainly isn’t given blindly and freely, nor is it a blanket trait – that’s a case by case basis.

♦ faithful (He’d leave before he’d cheat. He doesn’t see the point in sparing someone’s feelings long enough TO cheat. If he’s done, he’s done… which is kind of Vicious Bastard of him. “I don’t even care enough about you to lie to you.”)  / unfaithful / unknown

[ BELIEFS ]

★ Faith: monotheist / polytheist. I mentioned in the Erwin post that all spellcasters in the SCKoL Universe worship the Trinity of the Fates and are culturally pagans, but specifically to Damien’s family, because Minerva’s family comes from Tartosa (which I have built in universe as a fictional Mediterranean nation that’s more Greek than it is Italian), he is a patron of the Greek Pantheon. BIG FAN of Dionysus in particular. Chaos for the Chaos god! / atheist / agnostic 

☆ Belief in Ghosts or Spirits: yes / no / don’t know / don’t care 

✮ Belief in an Afterlife: yes / no / don’t know / don’t care 

✯ Belief in Reincarnation: yes / no / don’t know / don’t care 

❃ Belief in Aliens: yes / no / don’t know / don’t care 

✧ Religious: orthodox / liberal / in between / not religious 

❀ Philosophical: yes / no / sometimes (Especially when he’s been drinking, he gets deep in Sad Boi Hours and has to contemplate the meaning of his existence. Luckily, his bestie Akira can only stand so much of that, so it’s more of an interlude than it is the entirety of the night.) 

[ SEXUALITY & ROMANTIC INCLINATION ]

❤ Sexuality: heterosexual flexible. (He wouldn’t quite say he’s bi because he’s in denial about it lol listen if you’re drunk and you happen to kiss the bros, it’s just kissing the bros.) / homosexual / bisexual / asexual / pansexual

❥ Sex: sex repulsed / sex neutral / sex favorable / naive and clueless 

♥ Romance: romance repulsed / romance neutral / romance favorable (Wants to be loved) /naive and clueless (doesn't know how to be loved.) / romance suspicious (He has a very hard time letting other people in and allowing them to get close to him on a deep level, like being vulnerable scares the hell out of him and it’s a problem.) 

❣ Sexually: adventurous / experienced / naive / inexperienced / curious 

⚧ Potential Sexual Partners: male / female / agender / other / none / all 

⚧ Potential Romantic Partners: male / female / agender / other / none / all

[ ABILITIES ]

☠ Combat Skills: excellent / good / moderate / poor/ none

 ≡ Literacy Skills: excellent / good / moderate / poor / none 

✍ Artistic Skills: excellent / good / moderate / poor / none 

✂ Technical Skills: excellent / good / moderate / poor / none

[ HABITS ]

☕ Drinking Alcohol: never / special occasions / sometimes / frequently / Alcoholic 

☁ Smoking: tried it / trying to quit / quit / never / rarely / sometimes / frequently / Chain-smoker 

✿ Recreational Drugs: never (He much prefers drinking) / special occasions / sometimes / frequently / addict

 ✌ Medicinal Drugs: never / no longer needs medication / some medication needed / frequently / to excess 

☻ Unhealthy Food: never / special occasions / sometimes / frequently / binge eater 

$ Splurge Spending: never / sometimes / frequently / shopaholic 

♣ Gambling: never / rarely / sometimes / frequently / compulsive gambler

[inhumaninterest]

The Impromptu Adventure thing is a legal defense in their world.

It's where an adventurer (retired or active) found themselves in a situation comparable to those that result in adventuring contracts. In those cases the adventurer and those involved are tried under the much more lenient standards for a professional adventuring job. It exists because otherwise adventurers might feel the legal risk from collateral damages outweighed the danger posed by say, a rampaging monster. Given that multiple countries have been saved by adventurers volunteering to fight a threat in this fashion there's not too many opposed to those laws.

But basically, while adventuring, an adventurer can commit a number of smaller crimes (like burglary, breaking and entering, destruction of private property) provided doing so furthered the objective of the adventure. It also shifts liability for a number of larger crimes like manslaughter to the monster/villain.

[feathercleaning]

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[daemonhxckergrrl]

hard disagree - AI is in its infancy still.

the human brain evolved as a pattern recognition machine. we take continuous streams of information as inputs via our senses, filter it for patterns we already recognise, and for variations on those patterns (based on number of shared elements, similar elements, and other patterns), and we also store new patterns. the key is our association ability, as you pointed out. we essentially have a database of known patterns that is continually growing based on our life experiences, and we use that to check against. we also string multiple patterns together.

the reason we recognise a red balloon and a blue balloon as the similar is because we recognise and can identify colours, we also learn that colour can be a property of objects (ie a pattern within a pattern), and we learn and can recognise the shape, smell, texture etc. of balloons. we use this to recognise that the only difference in the two objects is their colour. recognising balloons in different states of inflation works similarly, though some people may benefit more from purely observing one transform into the other, while others may benefit more from performing that transformation themselves.

AI can't do this yet - current models rely on being given specific training data and they do 'learn' by having patterns committed to their memory, but it's a rudimentary learning process and those datasets aren't the same as natural experience accumulated over time. however, it isn't impossible. like most other technologies, iterative improvements over decades brings results.

things that AI does lack imo are having that natural experience outside of lab-fed data, a more robust system of classifying patterns, an ability to better reject false patterns, increased association abilities and questioning abilities, and recognition of partial patterns.

an AI might be a computer program and therefore does what it's programmed to do, but organic life isn't much different. everything from single-cell organisms right up to humans and dolphins and other complex creatures is organically programmed and follows that programming. it so happens that our programming includes taking sensory input and responding based on our current experience (which is updated by that input and our response).

it's not about creating some giant database of every possible thing that could exist (and every possible combination of its various properties). it's about full and partial pattern matching, dynamic association between different items and properties, and building a concept of experience.

if we manage to create a fully sapient computer program, I highly doubt it would go all Big Bad on us like in dystopian scifi. that's fear of the unknown talking.

I also doubt a corporation/government/evil scientist would go to all that trouble in the hopes of their creation unleashing destruction upon humanity or whatever, not when they could create a mindless machine programmed specifically to do that.

we can't know what true AI would do, because the only way to know is to find out and stop projecting our fear onto the idea.

I do think it's important for us to keep trying to trick and break the sorts of AI system and other technologies being put in place by governments, police, militaries and private entities. the primitive systems we currently have are enough to realise our collective fears, like I mentioned earlier. we already live in a cyberpunk dystopia; let's not let it get any worse.

let's not turn against true artificial life either.

[worldofedd]

Edd and the gang have committed a bunch of crimes. Off the top of my head these include: Assault and battery (Ex: Dudette Next Door, Breakfast, etc), destruction of private property, and murder/homicide (ex: Halloween Special 2005, Spares, etc. Zombeh episodes don't count as it can be considered self defense in those scenarios).

Tom also has DUI, public intoxication, and domestic terrorism (see Zanta Claws 3 for the last one) under his belt. And that's not even taking into account Matt's attempt to take over the world in the Zombeh Attack Trilogy, or Blaze's mind-controlled rampage in "Season of The Witch".

However despite that, almost none of them have been charged or put under arrest for these crimes.

Matt was arrested one time after the events of Poweredd, but that was all because of a misunderstanding on the part of the cops, who mistook him for Tom in his monster form. So he was only kept in jail for a couple of hours at most.

Even if they were ever to be arrested for their crimes, keeping them contained would be difficult. As Edd has superpowers, Blaze has her magic spells, Tom has his monster form, Matt can become a bat, and Tord is a robot with a variety of weapons at his disposal.

So to all law enforcement that might wanna catch them...good fucking luck.