Today I learned

The Sandbox General
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Seems like most of the pushing for a State anything often come from elementary school kids. Anyone older than that, as @soyleche noted, usually thinks it is lame.

1833

here in the Gem State we have a little thing called “respect”…

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1834

Jason Isbell taught me that South Carolina was once known as the iodine state.

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1835

Hobby horsing is a real thing

1836

That & she received a kidney transplant.

1837

Ah, those nutty Finns.

1838

Thanks to Alexa’s lyrics, I learned that theres a point in Hey Jude where Paul randomly shouts “f***ing hell” because he flubbed a piano line.

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1839

You can hear the isolated piano now in various videos and there is no piano flub just before that.

I’ve heard that one present at the session has claimed instead it was Lennon putting on his headphones for “Na Na” vocal overdubs that begin right after that and the volume was way too loud, resulting in, first, a sort of “Whoa” a few seconds earlier, and then what Alexa pointed out. I don’t know if there’s any truth in that.

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1840

You can get a partial CC credit on a mischarge

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1841

Wouldn’t be more like “f***ing 'ell”?

1842

IFYP

1843

I almost posted it that way

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1844

I found this on Liverpudlian accents (not that every single person from Liverpool does this) -

A Scouse accent has three very distinctive consonants: ‘t’s (TAKE WHAT?), ‘k’s (BACKTRACK) and ‘r’s (RARITY). You’ll also find – g-dropping (NOTHIN’ DOIN’), h-dropping (HARD HAT) and plosive ‘th’ sounds (THOSE THINGS).
1845

My TV tonight told me during a soccer match that Chile and Argentina share the 4th longest land border in the world. This didn’t seem correct to me so I googled. I think they were wrong.

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US Canada seemed to be clearly the longest and that is correct. I was leaning Russia next, and thought China might be the best partner. That was incorrect, as Russia Kazakhstan is next. Chile Argentina is 3rd.

4th-6th are all relatively close. China Mongolia is 4th. Makes sense. The 5th is a big surprise to me: India and Bangladesh. 6th was Russia-China.

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1846

Spoken like a true nerd. Respect, sir.

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1847

Direct evidence isn’t any more valuable than circumstantial evidence.

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:squintyeyes:

1849

Judge’s instructions to the jury stated as such. That surprised me.

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weird

Me, too. :judge:

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I ended up googling it later.

The heart of the case is the presentation of evidence. There are two types of evidence – direct and circumstantial.

Direct evidence usually is that which speaks for itself: eyewitness accounts, a confession, or a weapon.

Circumstantial evidence usually is that which suggests a fact by implication or inference: the appearance of the scene of a crime, testimony that suggests a connection or link with a crime, physical evidence that suggests criminal activity.

Both kinds of evidence are a part of most trials, with circumstantial evidence probably being used more often than direct. Either kind of evidence can be offered in oral testimony of witnesses or physical exhibits, including fingerprints, test results, and documents. Neither kind of evidence is more valuable than the other.

I added the bold for emphasis. From https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/resources/law_related_education_network/how_courts_work/evidence/

I’d also thought conviction required “beyond a shadow of a doubt”, but the standard is “beyond a reasonable doubt.”

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