>the thoughts and notions of a victim and their family should play a role

Should they? At the end of the day, the question is guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and the feelings of the victims have no bearing on that. For sentencing, maybe there's an argument there, but I'd argue that the point of the justice system is to take that kind of vengeance out of the equation.

It happens, sorry if I sounded harsh there

>Justice Prelogar

Hmm, going to take a pass on this particular site

Incredibly prescient by Sagan

I'm not sure how applying your personal experience with faces (which is quite unusual for humans, who are great at recognizing faces) makes sense when we're talking about bees.

Also, the studies used pictures of faces and stylized faces, so no actual humans were being recognized - or smelled.

Why?

"Pickle" is actually more like a chutney or a relish. The American pickle is called a gherkin

Branston, salad cream, and fingers are all worth a try. Have the first two on a cheese sandwich.

Had to scroll much too far for the topology joke

Isn't that broken when you sleep, or when you get knocked out? I'm not sure that's the biggest issue with teleportation

They are illegal in the sense that courts won't enforce them. So while we should be careful, there no need to worry too much about them imo. Even things like mandatory arbitration gets regulated, though it varies by state.

What is management science and engineering? Sounds more like a business degree with a fancy name

Ever heard of the z list? That's what happens when you're the kid of a rich donor who can't get into Harvard normally. They admit you and make you defer a year in between. So if you seen the child of a rich or influential person going to Harvard after a gap year, it's possibly because of that cough Malia Obama cough

What does that even mean?

Don't know how I missed that, I edited my comment

Based on the article it doesn't look like they compared men with women, but higher ranked with lower ranked women, and found that the former were trusted less. They also found that higher ranked men were trusted more than lower ranked. But they didn't do a comparison across the genders.

Edit: seems like they did compare

What about the fact that there have been Spanish speaking communities in places like Texas, California, and Florida before there were English ones? What about people who speak English but whose understanding of what they are voting for would benefit by having it in their native language? What about native Americans?

Care to explain why?