#Expert Witnesses

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[forensicdefence]

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[hellenhighwater]

hi hellen! i'm a high schooler thinking of pursuing law - i know it's tough to get into, but i'd like to give it a shot. how did you know that it was right for you, and what would you consider to be the most important things to do to prepare to study it in advance? any additional advice would be great, thanks!

Well, the thing you often hear about "oh, you're so good at arguing, you should be a lawyer" is mostly bull. The actual main skills for a lawyer are research, writing, analysis/application, negotiation, debate (not arguing) and emotional regulation. If that sounds appealing, it may be a good fit!

I pretty much always tell people that you should do your bachelor's in something other than prelaw. In fact, it should be in whatever field you would want to have a career in if you weren't a lawyer. Law schools generally do not require specific undergrad majors, as I, with my double art degree can attest. Law school is geared to give you all the basic tools necessary for being a lawyer. I did not notice any meaningful advantage a prelaw major provided to my peers. If you have a particular law school in mind, look into their admissions criteria, but otherwise--get your bachelor's in your backup career.

Work on your reading and writing, and go to court. Courts are open to the public and these days most of them actually have facebook and twitter pages where they post dockets; many courts post-pandemic actually also livestream all proceedings, sometimes right on youtube. Look at what's going on in some of your local courts, and just go watch it happen. You are welcome to sit and watch court proceedings, just don't be disruptive and be prepared to go through a security check. Get a sense for what goes on!

#Also #one of the oft-overlooked skills a lawyer needs is the rapid acquisition of understanding new fields--you're trained to never ask your witn #and that means that when you have expert witnesses #you need to acquire enough of an understanding of their field to be able to plan your questions.

[fisheito]

this is what i was cookin up while on nu:vacation [avoiding event spoilers] my dream.....my hopes....... EVERYONE PUT ON THE PRINCESS GOWN🗡

#those poofy skirts are very effective at hiding their lack of hips #don't need leg game when you're in a floofy ballroom gown #i mean. it would be nice if yall had leg game. get some quads up in there. maybe even some thick calves . perchance #i need thick muscled olivine revealing his glass slippers from under his skirt #his legs are LORGE and he's wearing his pretty lil stockings and walking in his heels perfectly #he practiced a lot! and now he's an expert 😊 i'm proud of him #meanwhile i want dante to try heels before wobbling and ... well #depending on whether someone witnesses him wobbling his reaction may differ #if there are witnesses he will stubbornly swear to master the high heels. if no one sees.... #maybe he'll just swap out for a functional pair of boots. like quincy. i'm torn about quincy #one half of me wants quincy wearing the ugliest dirtiest most worndown boots under his new spotless dress #the other half is like YOU'RE GOING TO COMMIT. YOU'RE GOING TO PUSH THOSE CALF MUSCLES TO THE LIMIT. STILETTOS ON ! MOUNTAIN MAN #at first i tried making everyone's hair match the original princesses they're cosplaying as (so everyone had much longer hair) #but when i got to blade . it just. didn't seem right #then i started sideeyeing everyone like :/ this aint no genderbending hours... #i want yall as YOURSELVES. unmodified (mostly). just. wearing the dress is all #so i went back and changed yakuoli's hair to be closer to their OG lengths #BUT thEN i sat there staring at quincy kuya and garu #bc. come on. quincy with aurora's flowing golden curly locks. he was made for it. #topper put the wig on him and he can't be bothered to take it off (long hair can act as a nice cushiony pillow 😁) #and kuya without the sassy ponytail?? well... i guess i can let him keep that since he CAN change his appearance at will #and if garu is dressed up as rapunzel... he HAS to have long hair... that's just the Point #OK so yall in the middle can have some long manes specially formulated for this special occasion. #there was already something brewing within me when tjhey announced the silhouettes #seeing yakumo in his 🧍‍♂️ pose and regular pants... #i was feelin preemptively robbed of pretty princess yakumo and the injustice was just casually simmering in my veins day by day #then idololivine's words spurred me into action with a clear vision #and here we are now. #at about the midway point i was yelling at eiden #EIDEN YOU HAVE TOO MANY WIVES. I'M ABOUT TO DOWNSIZE YOUR HAREM. THIS IS RIDUCLOUS I'M TIRED

[unpretty]

oh thank god it sounds like the data they used to guess at infowars' annual net revenue was inflated for ego reasons

#original #knowledge fight #i missed it but someone said the expert witness for financials estimated 60-70mil annual #which is still too fucking much but it means the 4mil in damages+1.5mil in sanctions is a much higher percentage than assumed #which is good because i'm hearing the cap on punitive may be the much lower figure previously discussed #but in that case idk wtf the multiplier discussion was about #is there a cap on purely symbolic damage amounts??? #i don't know law things i only know money math #he still makes a lot but the prior estimates were So Much it was awful

[carefulfears]

thinking more about this moment in closure, and how his hands are on samantha’s words, and her hand is on him.

#ya know?? #he’s reaching out to hold onto anything left of his sister #she’s reaching out to be in it with him #so much of SUZ/closure is about mulder being ready to surrender the search #he’s spent his entire life tirelessly chasing after that one connection he remembers #that one person that he was just close to and loved by #and there is no closure #there is no letting that go or giving up on samantha #she’ll always be the picture on his wall and the motivation behind everything he does in his work #but he can witness the reality of what happened to her and accept that she’s not coming back #because he IS close to people and he IS loved #scully scours old files and consults experts and takes the lead and goes to talk to the nurse #and it’s because this is where it has all been heading #this is the end of the road #and yeah she loves him and wants to be sure that he’s okay #but she loves samantha too #and he’s able to be ‘ready’ in that and in the end of the road not being just him alone and aimless #it’s the two of them and skinner in the front seat and he’s ‘free’ #closure #txf.txt

[thatswhatsushesaid]

pretty much all xiyao shippers the second wangx!an and xiyao ended up in the same bracket of the latest poll tournament: well we're definitely gonna lose this one since who can really compete with the main ship in a competition like this, but oh well, let's have fun with it anyway

some rabid wangx!an shippers, who apparently just love hating the things that other people like:

anyway, reality check that this 👇👇👇 is what we look like when we act 👆👆👆 like that:

#salty peak sect 🧂 #breaking news: the overwhelmingly popular main wins ship tournament against other side and non-canon ships #local killjoys are ecstatic over their totally precedented win and decide to piss in the cheerios of complete strangers in celebration #witnesses report asking themselves why we aren't past this kind of mean-spirited behaviour #our correspondents have reached out to experts for their input. this is a developing story

[avese23]

If you’re old enough to vote this year then you were old enough in 2020 to remember how hard people, especially black southern women, worked to enfranchise enough people to secure a blue win. And that meant so much and it still does. And just like we were told when Biden one, the fight isn’t over. He’s not the candidate people really wanted, he certainly isn’t wasn’t who I would have been pushing for if I was three years older than I am. And support is even lower now. And somehow people have amnesia over the past decade?? Like I understand fuck all about politics and am still astounded by the privilege and density. And it saddens me how many people would be fooled into siding with a politic party that is intent on tanking American education even further.

There’s a reason that people with no background or care in activism were told to practice listening during that period of time in 2020 where the internet pretending to care about black people. And again after Roe v Wade was overturned.

#god I miss seminars with the reverend #I need to be in a black space where an older expert tells us to have our wits about us #woes of aging out

[zinniajones]

SEGM advisor Michael Biggs admitting under oath that some people are just trans because we're trans and because it helps to make sense of our lives and he doesn't have any idea whether that's the wrong answer for any one of us: https://transgender.agency/files/dekker-v-weida/130-2.pdf

Q. Well, no, I read to you the statement that's in your report, that there is -- apparently, there is -- people are promoting transgenderism in health care, schools, and on social media. And I asked you for the evidence that you have to support that statement? A. Yes, I've said that I think -- believe there is abundant evidence in -- for example, if you look at searches on Google trans. If you look at the -- Q. What specific searches -- sir, what specific searches, what specific evidence did you rely upon when you made that statement in your report. I'm asking you the specific evidence that you relied upon? A. If you search for various combinations and permutations of the word "transsexual child," "transgender child," "trans child," "trans kid," "trans children" and so on, you can see a massive peak in that, particularly after 2005 but more particularly after 2010. Q. Okay. So, sir, it is not my responsibility to conduct these searches. I'm asking you what specific scientific basis do you have before you made that statement in this report, what -- did you do those searches, if so, are they -- are the results listed in your bibliography? MR. BEATO: Object to form. Dr. Biggs, you can answer those questions. THE WITNESS: I did do those searches. The results are not listed in my -- in the bibliography because I thought it was -- BY MS. ALTMAN: Q. Why not? A. It was so obvious that the increase in the prominence of transgenderism in health care and schools and social media would be obvious. Q. Sir, did you look at all of the possible reasons why being transgender is more at the forefront today, like perhaps US states that are banning transgender health care -- just as an example, throwing it out there -- and then putting that in the media. Did you look at that, maybe that's the reason why people are more frequent to be discussing the issue? A. Well, bans on health care have only been around for a couple of years. I'm talking about a long -- long-term trend from -- I think I did 1990 to 2020. So it's -- yeah, that's the basis of it. Q. So other than your Google searches, is there anything else that you relied upon in making that statement in your report? A. Just to clarify, it wasn't a Google search. It was a search of Google's corpus and the entire body of printed material in -- in the English language. Q. Right. The one -- the things that you did not list in your report as resources, correct? A. Yes. Q. Sir, do you believe it's -- that it is easy to be transgender, it is appealing to be transgender? A. I believe in some cases it can be appealing, yes. Q. What about in others? A. In other cases, it is not. Q. You are not making a -- you are not providing a general opinion that people are jumping on the transgender bandwagon because it is so easy and it is being promoted, are you? A. No. I believe that sometimes it makes sense of an individual's predicament of suffering or distress about their body, about their gender roles. Q. And it might make sense just because they are transgender, right? A. Yes, it might. Q. Right. And you don't know in any particular case whether that's true, right? A. Not in any individual case, no.

The judgment snake is RAVENOUS

#transphobia #Michael Biggs #SEGM #Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine #deposition #Dekker v. Weida #Florida Medicaid #expert witness

[houston-dwi-lawyer]

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[thefirstknife]

The God-Wave and the Witness

I've recently been seeing an increase in confusion in regards to the new lore from The Witch Queen about the Hive siblings, the God Wave and the new reveals that all of it was orchestrated by the Witness.

Some even go as far as to say that this was a retcon from how it was described in the Books of Sorrow. That is incorrect. The accusation of retcons comes from a misunderstanding of both old and new lore. I want to clarify this for people who might be genuinely confused. People were confused at the time of release as well, but I thought that with time, this would become clearer? Apparently it didn't and there's still confusion about it.

The new reveal in the cutscene with Ikora and the worm is here. The same dialogue is repeated in Resonant Fury Plate lore, but with additions that I will highlight:

—-It delays our desires so that it may seek its own. These frail siblings… will soon be claimed by the Light. Unless we claim them first. Our whispers were fed to a weak mind. But we have watched these siblings. These children of the king. They are brave minds. Clever minds. Ambitious minds. Yet unsullied by the weakness of aging that plagues their kind.—-

"Then what compels them to hear our whispers?"

—-Desperation. We will tell the most cunning sibling of a cataclysm. A prophecy… of great loss. We will feed her fear. Her pride. We will say… Young Sathona. The end is coming. A great cataclysm. A God-Wave. In the Sky… there is only death. But salvation… lies in the Deep. Lead your sisters down. Your cunning will spare their short lives. And you… will be reborn. The Witch Queen… Savathûn.—-

People seem to be interpreting this as if there was a retcon about which of the siblings first spoke of the Syzygy, aka the incoming apocalyptic event on the Fundament. In Books of Sorrow:

My father died afraid. Not of vile Taox or the Helium Drinkers, but of his orrery. He screamed to me —

“Aurash, my first daughter! The moons are different! The laws are bent!”

And he made the sign of a syzygy.

Imagine the fifty-two moons of Fundament lining up in the sky. (It wouldn’t take all fifty-two, of course: just a few massive moons. But this is my deepest fear.) Imagine their gravity pulling on the Fundament sea, lifting it into a swollen bulge…

Imagine that bulge collapsing as the syzygy passed. A wave big enough to swallow civilizations. A God-Wave.

In Books of Sorrow, the Osmium King learned of the syzygy from the worm familiar and then told Aurash, the eldest sibling, about it. Aurash became obsessed with it almost as much as the Osmium King, but didn't know when the syzygy would come:

I have to find a way to stop it. Before the God-Wave annihilates my species. If I could only get back into my father’s orrery, I could learn exactly when!

This is important. At this point, nobody knew when the syzygy would strike. Osmium King was later assassinated and his children had to flee. These bits are important.

You see, the Witness acknowledges that the whispers were first fed to a "weak mind." Aka the Osmium King. The worm familiar was first his and he was not able to fully understand the whispers of the worm and he never fulfilled what the Witness wanted. The knowledge of the syzygy is still coming from the Witness, via the worm familiar, first to the Osmium King. The Witness also acknowledges that it watched his children and that they are brave, clever and ambitious, but also desperate. The Witness shifted its words to them now.

The same Books of Sorrow chapter also has Aurash acknowledging that Sathona always has a clever plan and "mad ideas" that get them out of trouble. Weeks into their travel away from home, Aurash says:

But more and more we have come to rely on Sathona’s wit. She will go off to be alone (she insists she must be alone) and return with some mad idea — steer into the storm, throw down a net, eat that strange beast, explore that menacing wreck.

Somehow Sathona seems to manufacture good luck by sheer will.

Aurash doesn't know it at this point, and the readers don't know it either, but Sathona has taken the worm familiar. She is getting these "mad ideas" from the worm. She is not manufacturing good luck by sheer will, she is being led, by the whispers of the worm. Sathona reveals this in her own chapter in the Books of Sorrow, immediately following the previous one:

1. It was my father’s familiar. I ripped it from him as we fled. It is a dead white thing, segmented, washed up from the deep sea. 2. It’s dead, but it still speaks to me. It says: listen closely, oh vengeance mine…

She also specifies that everything she told her sisters to do was directed by the worm: she says that she "knows where to find secrets," "knows where vast slow things with long memories live," "knew it [the needle ship] would be there," and that she "knows its purpose" and "what happened to the crew." She also lies to her siblings and contradicts Xi Ro who wants to sell the ship. Instead, Sathona insists that they should use it to dive into the Fundament. This is in agreement with Aurash who wants to get into the ship and command it. Sathona says:

Aurash wants to open the ship and see if we can take command of it. I know this is the right thing to do. I know because I asked the worm…

Another important part is at the start of this chapter where Sathona specifies that at the point of her writing her chapter, they've been traveling for a YEAR:

This year of wild voyaging, these lightning nights and golden days, these forays into ancient wrecks and windblown flights from monsters: these are the happiest times of my life.

Next chapter of the Books of Sorrow also states the following (Sathona speaking):

“We three will die here, in exile. Taox will outlive us. And Aurash, brilliant-eyed Aurash, you will die of old age long before you have proof of your God-Wave, or any way to stop it.”

Why does this matter? Well, a full year after the death of the Osmium King and after a full year of traveling, Aurash still doesn't have either proof of the God-Wave or a plan to stop it. Yes, Aurash first heard of the God-Wave from the Osmium King, but didn't have proof, had no clue when it would happen and had no idea how to stop it or escape it.

For a full year of voyaging, it was Sathona who was talking to the worm. The worm was telling her all sorts of things, things that Aurash believed were just good luck that Sathona was manufacturing by "sheer will." For a year, the Witness was speaking to Sathona, giving her directions, telling her how to survive, where to find the needle ship, where the Worm gods live and to dive into the Fundament.

Obviously, in Books of Sorrow we didn't know that it was the Witness speaking through the proxy of the worm familiar. But we knew, from the Books of Sorrow, that Sathona, aka Savathun, was being given instructions on the syzygy, the God-Wave, where to find the Worm gods and how to reach them in order to escape both the God-Wave and their own mortality through that worm familiar.

It's really confusing to me why people think this is a retcon. Yes, Aurash, aka Oryx, was the first sibling to hear about the syzygy from the Osmium King. But Oryx didn't engage with the syzygy or the God-Wave further; he wanted to go back to their father's orrery to learn more and for a full year still had no new information about the God-Wave or how to stop it. Savathun did. It's directly explained in the Books of Sorrow that she spent a full year being fed whispers telling her where to go.

This was further clarified in The Witch Queen, but not changed. Nothing was changed, it was just expanded that in the year of Savathun being given instructions, the Witness was feeding her fear and her pride and telling her more and more about the syzygy. The Witness also fully mentions that it tried the same with the Osmium King and that it didn't work.

Simplified order of events from the Books of Sorrow: Osmium King acquires the worm -> Osmium King learns about the syzygy from the worm -> Osmium King tells Aurash about the syzygy -> Osmium King dies -> Sathona takes the worm -> Sathona keeps the worm a secret for a year while it feeds her information the siblings need to survive -> Sathona uses the knowledge gained from the worm to lead her siblings to meet the Worm gods

Simplified order of events from the POV of the Witness: Osmium King acquires the worm -> Osmium King learns about the syzygy from the worm -> Osmium King dies and fails to fulfil the worm's purpose -> Sathona takes the worm -> The Witness uses a year of Sathona's time to feed her information and additional knowledge about the syzygy because she's smarter than her father -> Sathona fulfils the worm's purpose

Had Oryx thought to take the worm from the Osmium King, then the Witness would've told him all of this. But he didn't take the worm. Oryx simply heard about the syzygy from the Osmium King, didn't have time to learn more before his death and then Savathun secretly took the worm for herself.

Oryx still spent time trying to understand the syzygy and the God-Wave and tried coming up with a plan to stop it, but he didn't have access to the primary source of information about it; the worm. Savathun had it secretly. Oryx even noted that Savathun was often going off alone and insisted on being alone and then returned with "mad ideas." Meaning, she was off alone to secretly commune with the worm.

This is communicated fairly clearly as a sort of an early mystery in the Books of Sorrow and then explained by Savathun herself in her own chapter (which she also starts with "My secrets").

I feel like this bit in the Books of Sorrow about Savathun secretly communing with the worm alone for a year is often ignored or missed or misremembered. It's very direct in how it's told, specifically about how she suddenly appears with knowledge about the needle ship and the Worm gods and insists that they should dive, while in the meantime, Oryx is despairing about not even having proof that the God-Wave is happening. So yeah, Oryx was first of the siblings to be told about the syzygy by their father, but he had no connection to any of the actual important information about it because Savathun stole the worm and kept it secret. As she does.

Also note that the Witness' speech never says anything about Savathun being the first to ever find out about the syzygy. In the extended version from the lore tab, it states that the first to learn was the Osmium King, who failed, and then the Witness moved on to influence his children. Due to Savathun stealing the worm in secrecy for herself, the Witness couldn't reach Oryx so Oryx was left with only what his father said, which wasn't enough. Books of Sorrow specify that it wasn't even enough to know the basics, such as proof that it's happening at all. Savathun was always the sibling with the most information on the God-Wave.

Another point that's vaguely adjacent that I want to address as well is that this reveal... didn't feel like a true reveal to me. I loved the cutscene and all, but the point of the cutscene ("The Hive were lied to") was an obvious reading of the Books of Sorrow. I didn't expect that to be contentious, even in-universe. Yes, obviously, Books of Sorrow saying that the Traveler is causing the syzygy is bonkers. Traveler doesn't destroy entire planets. The Darkness does.

Furthermore, the Darkness has been consistently depicted as having gravity powers. Where there's gravitational anomalies, there's Darkness. The connection between Darkness, gravity and the Fundament has become exceptionally clear once Last Days on Kraken Mare released which went into out first proper view of what the Collapse was like and what exactly happened. Specifically, it details how the Darkness warped the moon Titan, then released it, causing it to undergo a devastating tidal wave that destroyed the Arcology. My post from 10 months before WQ released that mentions the Fundament as the first recorded instance of Darkness using gravity to destroy.

Like, that is a direct parallel to the Fundament. When this released, it was the final nail in the coffin for what really happened with the God-Wave. I genuinely didn't think that this would be treated as a huge reveal for The Witch Queen. Like, obviously, yes, the Darkness did that to the Fundament and blamed the Traveler to galvanise the Hive into destroying it.

I still loved the whole full official reveal with an absolutely incredible cutscene that still gives me chills. I think revealing things plainly and in an accessible way for everyone is the best course of action for something so important, instead of leaving it to connections between lore books that not everybody will read. I really loved that this was finally fully explained, unambiguously, as was the whole story of how the Hive were tricked. It also curbed all the edgelord theories about how the Traveler is actually evil and the Traveler did that to the Hive.

This confuses me even fruther then when people are saying there's a retcon or that it's a contradiction. The lore around the Books of Sorrow, the Fundament, the Hive and their connection to the Darkness' lies (as directed by the Witness) is one of the most solid pieces of writing in the entire game.

It's the type of lore that has always been written so well and so clearly in line with other lore that it was really easy to take hints from it and understand where the narrators were deceived. Yes, the siblings were told by the Worm gods that the Traveler is causing the destruction of their home and they forced the siblings into an eternal pact in order to make them go hunt down the Traveler for all eternity.

Meanwhile, every other lore ever is showing that the Traveler is not the type to destroy anything and clearly the Darkness it the bad guy here so obviously, the Worm gods lied to the Hive. It's what made reading Books of Sorrow so tragic and ultimately, well, sorrowful. You're kinda expected to conclude that the Hive were the victims of their circumstances who were tricked by malicious forces into doing the bidding of someone else.

I'm glad The Witch Queen fully confirmed that and explained it so beautifully and tragically. It's a fascinating piece of Destiny universe history that ties the power and intent of Darkness across time and space, from the Hive to humans and beyond.

#destiny 2 #hive #witness #darkness #lore vibing #long post #every so often i genuinely see this take #and often it's just people being confused. which is normal! there's a lot of stuff here #and books of sorrow are big and also old #but they're still relevant! and they help us fill in the blanks with this specific event #the new reveal worked directly with the books of sorrow. it didn't contradict them #i'm baffled to see people claim otherwise #you're fine if you just didn't know. that's expected and i hope anyone who didn't know understands things better! #my confusion is with people who claim to be experts and say this. especially books of sorrow enthusiasts #like i've seen self-proclaimed lore experts saying that this is contradicting books of sorrow #and no? it clearly isn't? like. it's right there in the chapters. savathun was always in charge of the worm familiar #oryx only knew what his father said #my guy didn't even have proof that it's real. meanwhile savathun was having secret zoom meetings with the worm for a year #it's actually adorable that he believed his sister is so smart that she was just manufacturing information and good luck for them #oryx vc: 'yeah my sister goes off alone and then comes back with strange instructions that make no sense. she is so smart :)' #savathun: 'get a load of this guy. i am talking to a worm bro. our father's worm! i took it! it's telling me things!' #honestly if they just listened to xivu arath none of this would've happened. absolute dumbasses (complimentary)

[pyramis-family-official]

A thing that I keep forgetting to point out (but I want to make sure you know that I know)

A while ago, the Eramis experts confirmed a doubt I had for some time: Eramis was never chosen to be a Disciple

Like, she is not like Calus or Rhulk, she didn't start off like them nor she is treated like them and that was obvious

And, if we really wanted to be cynical, the Disciple Squad should be composed solely by Rhulk, Nezarec, Savathûn and Calus while Eramis, Xivu Arath and Fikrul are "honorary members"

If we were even pettier, Savathûn shouldn't be considered a Disciple anymore, so we'd have:

- the Disciples: Rhulk, Nezarec, Calus

- the honorary allies: Eramis and Xivu Arath

- and Savathûn as an ex Disciple

For the record, yes: I will try to consider this more "canonical" distinction so we can make everybody happy

Nevertheless, Savathûn and Eramis are still part of the family, so the Disciple Quintet will not cease to exist

(and yes, the Nightmare Moth Glaive trio is still a thing, but we're talking about the pre-Collapse, so it doesn't really count in this argument)

#fikrul is included because rhulk controlled the scorn #it's the #rhulk (psuedo)adopting the scorn barons #kind of dynamic #got it? #destiny 2 #pyramis family #the witness #rhulk #nezarec #savathûn #eramis #calus #disciple quintet #the witness being the dadness #disciple squad #xivu arath #fikrul #important point #so the eramis experts won't come at me

[augustusaugustus]

11.14 Expert Witness

QUINNAN: What are you, some kind of comedian? BEECH: Sometimes, but today I’m your new DS.

MEADOWS: Who have you put with him? DEAKIN: Rod Skase. MEADOWS: Well that should be an education for both of them.

Don’s first episode and I am carefully not thinking about his exit. My personal canon ignores s16 and the Great Sun Hill Bonfire anyway.

A glimpse of the eager puppy side of Rod that you get later when he’s working with John. And, of course, his constant failure to convince women that he’s as wonderful as he thinks he is.

#the bill #jim carver #reg hollis #jack meadows #rod skase #don beech #dave quinnan #the bill: series 11 #the bill: 1995 #the bill: episode: expert witness #the bill: first episode

[cinemaocd]

Barry Scheck pulling out that police call sheet that showed that Vannater took Simpson's blood from the police station TO the crime scene was the real smoking gun of the OJ trial. In what universe do police take evidence TO the crime scene? Everyone remembers the bloody gloves and no one talks about Vannater's little blood errand.

#for the record I think oj did it but that doesn't mean he should have been found guilty #after a year all the prosecution proved to the jury was that they had no respect for their collective intelligence #Sheck also destroyed the prosecution “expert” witnesses like the Dr. Fung from the coronor's office who was caught on tape #mishandling evidence #OJ: Made in America #it was more than just fuhrman being exposed as a hard core turner diaries level racist

[pummelingbat]

do we think that herbert really killed rufus, gang. is there a general consensus on that. personally i think he was too dedicated to playing the long con with dan to risk screwing up his relationship that early on. ... but then again, i think “kill his cat -> pretend it happened by accident -> bring it back to life as a ‘present’-> win his goodwill forever” is a pretty herbert-tier strategy. idk! jury’s out on this one!!

#txt #at BEST he was a terrible little opportunist about it. so i guess its kind of moot discussion. i just think its interesting to consider. #partial to the theory that he like watched it happen and didnt interfere bc the bells of 'oh i could use this' started going off in his head #herberts expert uwu-tier manipulator but hes like. low key terrible at making fully baked plans lmfao. #i feel like this one probably just fell into his lap and he was like ohhhh awesome the cats dying we can do so much wit hthis

[ruthlesslistener]

God fucking damnit, there's this one person in the D2 fandom that I keep blocking because I cannot stand the shit they make (yandere stuff and cute family headcanons out of a canonically incredibly abusive entity that preys on emotionally vulnerable individuals to manipulate them into its genocidal agenda), but they keep fucking making alts and I CANNOT escape them

#vent #theyre probs trying to block evade the residant eramis expert in the fandom #(who they creepily call senpai) #but its hell for me bc the witness family au genuinely makes me sick to my stomach #i got no right to stop them from having fun but dear GOD i do NOT want to see that shit and it keeps HAPPENING