I still don’t get how they make the stock market appear distinct from horse racing for example. Same shit, different name. And don’t hit me with the “but you could research the stocks beforehand so it’s not random” yeah and you can research the horses and riders and it’s still fking gambling and basically 99% random. Well except for insider trading. That’s like a Mafia in gambling, it’s somehow even worse.
Life is so much more fun if you could not only lose your sanity and life, but also your liquidity.
Sounds like chatgpt is not great for breaking contracts and not getting caught.
I was gonna say, sentences in the US both server as punishment and deterrence. As outlined,it sounds like a big social taboo that was broken and it wasn’t broken randomly, there’s pecuniary gain and there’s a systematic breach. I am unsure if these are aggravating factors in the legal sense, but if not, they are most definitely factors considered in the sentencing guidelines and they serve a function and thus they are needed.
Everyone wants the state to be hard on crime; here it is, our opportunity to be hard on crime given the egregious nature of the crime. And it’s not like most criminal cases where the lines are blurry - there’s a bunch of bodies and the very clearly point in exactly one direction.
Always cool when the commander in chief promises no wars, starts multiple geopolitically unprecedented conflicts and at least one war while renaming the department of defense into the department of war. Hope he gets the nobel peace price, he seems like he really deserves it.