gay_swimmer posted:

a few years ago i was posting on /r/fatpeoplehate a lot (it wasn't banned yet at that time) and generally spending a lot of time in the basement, crying etc. turned out i was having an extreme depressive episode!!

were you fat

le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

Slate Star Codex

POLYAMORY IS NOT POLYGYNY

hey goatman did you know that the guy who comments extensively on pretty much every slate star post under the name of "DavidFriedman" is literally Milton Friedman's son

Belphegor posted:

what a ridiculous time to be alive. dytd.

there's a forum for that

Brown gave a brief statement, pausing several times as he was apparently choked up. He said the school and police communities have been like family to him.

"I just want to say that I let them down and I'm really sorry and I am willing to fulfill the orders of the court and I appreciate you allowing me to talk," Brown told the judge.

After Gill issued his sentence, Tomasi asked if the judge would hold it in abeyance as Brown is working as a driver's education instructor in hopes of earning an income to pay the restitution he'll owe Amthor. Gill declined and ordered Brown taken into custody immediately.

By pleading no contest in April, Brown did not verbally admit to having committed any crimes by pleading no contest. Gill had to rely on police reports to enter convictions on the record.

Those reports state Brown at about 12:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 11, was in the school's robotics classroom with a teacher. They used a force machine to test the trigger pull on Brown's personal Springfield EMP 9mm handgun.

After the pair left the room, Brown returned alone and used the machine to test the trigger pull on his .380-caliber Sig Sauer, another personal handgun that he brought into the school that day. The gun was not empty of bullets and the experiment caused the gun to fire a round through two pieces of drywall. The projectile entered a classroom containing about 30 students, traveled toward the ceiling, scraped a tile, proceeded to hit a cement wall, ricocheted off it, careened across the room, and struck Amthor in the neck.

Amthor was sitting at her desk when struck by the bullet. She was uninjured apart from a small scratch, police reports state.

Though Brown was engaged in conversations with school staff on the projectile's origin, he did not admit to having fired a gun, reports indicate. As a result, the school was placed in secure mode while administrators attempted to discern what had happened.

School staff gave Brown the bullet to hold, but he then tossed it in a grassy area covered by leaves, according to police reports. A K-9 Unit recovered the bullet and Brown confessed that he attempted to destroy the evidence, according to police reports.

Arndt spoke with Brown, who was "extremely emotional and explained that he had been in contact with his union representative who had advised him not to provide a statement. He did say, 'It was a total accident.'"

Following a Michigan State Police investigation, the report was filed with the Bay County Prosecutor's Office. To avoid any conflict or appearance of impropriety, staff in Bay County requested a special prosecutor. State Attorney General Bill Schuette on Nov. 29 signed an order granting the request, appointing the Tuscola County Prosecutor's Office to the task of determining whether charges are warranted.

Brown was charged on Dec. 29.

As a deputy led Brown from the courtroom, Judge Gill offered him more encouragement.

"Good luck to you, sir," he said. "I take no pleasure in this."

@McDonalds did you really get 17 packets a store or did your managers just make buku side cash #pissed #szechuansauce #ebay pic.twitter.com/pht1Ded46D

— Alice Specht (@AliceSpecht) October 7, 2017