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Cake day: March 14th, 2025

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  • Did you know that Monopoly was originally invented by a woman whose point was how horrible monopolies are? It originally had a co-op mode that could topple monopolies through unions and co-ops.

    Her game was bought by a jerk who removed the co-op mode and then claimed Monopoly as his own game. She died penniless.

    If the capitalist system incentivizes me to outcompete others and hoard my wealth and, conversely, punishes me for my altruism; then, I am forced to play by the rules of such a system.

    So change it… or be a pebble in the mountain of change.
















  • Apparently, it was required to be allowed in that state:

    Reading a bit more, during the sentencing phase in that state people making victim impact statements can choose their format for expression, and it’s entirely allowed to make statements about what other people would say. So the judge didn’t actually have grounds to deny it.
    No jury during that phase, so it’s just the judge listening to free form requests in both directions.

    It’s gross, but the rules very much allow the sister to make a statement about what she believes her brother would have wanted to say, in whatever format she wanted.

    From: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/18471175

    influence the sentence

    From what I’ve seen, to be fair, judges’ decisions have varied wildly regardless, sadly, and sentences should be more standardized. I wonder what it would’ve been otherwise.