This is such an optimistic take. I am very concerned they will spend the next 4 years making sure whatever election we have next is more similar to a Russian “election”.

No it’s more like:

Go to trial = no plea deal at all = risking harsher sentence OR you know you can prove your innocence

Guilty plea = accepting full responsibility for the crime and accepting the prosecutions deal of (usually) a lesser sentence to skip the trial and go straight to punishment.

Alford plea = same as above but maintaining that you are innocent of the charges but cannot prove that against the prosecutions evidence.

As others have stated, an Alford plea often has to be approved or accepted by the judge or prosecutors so it’s not always an option for everyone.

They take an Alford plea to avoid a harsher sentence that could come at trial and/or they’re 1000% sure they’re innocent but can’t prove it (yet).

When a person enters an Alford plea, they maintain their innocence but acknowledge that the prosecution has enough evidence to likely convict them if the case went to trial. In contrast, a guilty plea is an outright admission of guilt.

An Alford plea allows a defendant to avoid the risk of a harsher sentence at trial while not admitting to the crime itself.

In essence, an Alford plea is about accepting the legal consequences without admitting personal guilt.

Yeah I’m sure I’m not the norm but I’m actually shocked when I see companies advertising their talent’s twitter accounts on tv broadcasts. I truly can’t believe that site is still mainstream after everything that’s happened.

Idk then I look over and see trump as a presidential candidate and ugh… I guess I’m just still not comfortable/accepting of how far off the rails things have gone 🙁

As a person with just long hair, there ain’t crap you can do. Hair is effing hot. The thicker the hair the hotter it gets.

Can confirm. Spent a bunch of time a few weeks ago setting up ECR pull through cache in AWS to alleviate this very issue.

Uh… this fediverse stuff is all on the public internet. Facebook could be slurping it up just as easily without joining at all.

There’s even a haiku:

It’s not DNS
There’s no way it’s DNS
It was DNS

It’s up over $24k now!

Tbh I thought it had been compromised by Russia for the last 10 years.

I unlock my 1Password vault(s) with fingerprint, so it’s much more useful than just logging into the laptop. which at work I log into many more times a day than once or twice.