So, what service have they been doing for me (genuine)? It has been some time (since now I have a backup of important stuff to not need recovery), but I took a laptop in for cooked hard drive and got a thumb drive back with what looked like they were able to copy everything from the top level folder. Opening the thumb drive brought me to what most people see at the top level - a bunch of folders named My Documents, My Pictures, My Computer, etc Obviously stuff was missing from the crash, but they got a bunch of stuff from a fried laptop.

Idk Best buy and an IT place here offer disk recovery for about $100. Everything they can save from it, copied to a thumb, disk, or external hard drive. I didn't realize this was such a service. If you have them, try a best buy I guess. I've taken laptops and HDDs to the IT place just cuz they're local business but I know I've taken dead desktops to BBuy to get a disk salvaged

Last time I posted a no-text in memes they got mad, so I came here.

It isn't legal, and you already said why lol

$2,500 in CS and you won't be going anywhere, spiderman

"you legally gotta tell me!"

That's weird so like people can just report a non-rulebrraking post and even if it doesn't break rules "sorry not enough up votes to make it worth saving"

That's fair. I can't only post winners.

At least tell me I got hit with "silence brand" so I can post a new meme 😭

Police dogs are (normally) one rank higher than their handlers. This means abuse or mistreatment is tantamount to harming a superior. On the low end he probably won't be allowed to be a K9 handler anymore, and might lose his job at this location. On the high end you could go all the way up to facing actual charges for neglect/abuse/ death of an animal he was charged with protecting. K9 dogs take forever to train and trainers time is expensive and laborious - this is one of those moments and officer more than likely won't walk away Scott free since he directly hurt his employer. Don't bite the hand that feeds type deal.

You right they quickly get prohibitively expensive. But because of the 3 year gap idk if he asked them to sue or they thought they had a good case or what that arrangement looked like.

Shhh I'm pretending it's not there so people gib updoots

The defense would be the state, the state failed to argue he didn't deserve it, and the ACLU their cut. I don't remember if the article said it was by judge or jury, but even when a jury comes out with X number a judge can still say "yeah no that's too high, I'm awarding Y instead." So either way it was achieved, a judge felt that this was a fair number. Idk what to say beyond that other than I wish I could make 100k off something so silly but that is a lot of bullshit to put up with to be right. ACLU deserves some cut for doing probably all this man's legal grunt work and legal time since he likely didn't pay out of pocket for a retainer.

But I get what you mean about tax dollars. It should have come from the department something more tangible for the state patrol to not do this again

In law it is the defense who is supposed to argue the amount is too much, and the plaintiff should ask for as much as possible because at that point it is punitive. Second, while you may not feel threatened by any single interaction with police, this officer was angry and had to have exhibited aggressive behavior. These ingredients have resulted in lots of interactions going south.

Thirdly, let's put you in this man's position, we will make one assumption - that you know flipping a cop off is settled law and protected free speech. You're driving home and you get pulled over. For what? You were just driving and not speeding, what gives? "Licence and registration. Do you know why I pulled you over? Because you flipped me off". This is not a first level offence. This isn't being on your phone. This isn't driving without a seatbelt or speeding. This isn't driving erratically. This cop just told you he's going to ticket you because you flipped the bird, but you didn't. You try to explain you didn't and he's going to get mad because you called him a liar. Now you have a citation in hand and you try and NOT swear and actually flip him off. He has deprived your freedom of speech and given you a ticket for it and you know it. If you're gonna get a ticket you may as well do the crime right? So the officer, rather than writing another citation you know will get thrown, has your car towed. He settles you with a $300 tow AND a citation OVER A GESTURE that he is legally and constitutionally WRONG about, and you know he is. He then arrests you for it, and you spend an hour at the precinct settling this. Then when you're free to go, you have to bum a ride to go get your fucking car. A month or so later, you have take time off work to go to court. You miss making probably another $300 because a day off. It gets dismissed because it's a first amendment issue - you knew this would be the result all along. A minor feeling of vindication because you are now out $500 for missing work and other legal fees, maybe an Uber to go pick up your car, and have been harassed by a state patrolman, spent an hour in jail instead of whatever you were driving to go do. 3 years later the ACLU says "hey so you were right, and we want to sue over it. Would you NOT say "yeah fuck that dude" and sign on for it?

Minor footnote, he won 100,000, and 75,000 went to the ACLU

We are on different instances it's possible yours is still federated with something that that world has blocked

Holup

For my question: What is your take on the memes here now compared to before the rexodus?

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I've had this in my roll for a hot minute

I clicked exclusively to see where pasta fell. Am disappoint.

Lich. He meets the criteria way better.

No really please someone else start posting most of my memes are part 1/2 and "spot the stand user" I haven't been keeping up with part 6 memes and don't have time. This has all been from my meme stash. I'll post until I don't have anything I feel is actually funny, and that's maybe a week or 2. I'll post more when I find em in the wild but for the most part it's been a good run here. Thanks for having me