Hmm. So are you thinking about the peer review part, primarily? Arxiv already exists and I’m guessing it’s easy to mirror.

I have a feeling, just based on how law works, that this will be highly subjective. I interpret your question as being about skill. If that’s not what you mean please correct me. (Sorry for the non-answer)

Even within criminal law, things like acquittal rate would very with the exact kind of practice - a guy that specialises in complex white-collar crime and takes easy cases might get a really good one without too much skill. Someone who takes anybody who will pay upfront will probably have a cruddy one. This could get even more extreme if you look at non-Western or historical systems where the result is almost guaranteed in advance. So, that’s not in the spirit of the question.

I seem to remember an XKCD What If where Randall Munroe mentions the highest paid (criminal?) attorney in the US, but there again, it was someone who sounded highly connected. Does that correspond to skill? (Edit: The late Ted Olson, who does appear to have defended criminal cases)

Somebody that actually knows a lot of names and legal history might be able to tell you something more useful, but just take it with a grain of salt.

Under the law of Saudi Arabia…

I’m pretty sure this is going to be jurisdiction dependent.

Kudzu won’t grow where I live either. I’m not actually sure what the equivalent would be. Dandelions are the most unstoppable plant I can think of. Creeping bell flowers are maybe a close second.

Leaves/shoots are where the energy comes from. If they get destroyed enough the root will die. Usually gardeners just aren’t that patient.

Sitting here and chilling with experts who have decades of experience and might just laugh me out of the room IRL is a miracle. Fuck magazines by that standard. And don’t even get me started on the people who live near me.

I think we might be through the worse of the (non-government-driven) press collapse, too. From what I’ve heard the digital subscription model is working well.

I’ve heard this called exterminism. Woe be to whichever proles they decide to keep as pets.

It appears the last commercial telegram was sent in 2013. 2006 in America.

As you can imagine, it was a damn small niche by the 21st century, since phones had deep penetration already by WWII, but it was there.

I’ve actually looked for none of them, come to think of it.

I’ve googled a couple of kids I lost touch with younger. It’s mostly normal stuff, but the one guy runs a marketing/inspirational speaking outfit now, which is hilarious because that’s exactly how I remember him at 7.

Mostly, or just yes.

I can’t think of a more reasonable definition of an evil person than a person who does a lot of evil.

Usually people have some kind of way of justifying an action to themselves, and there’s always a story that lead up to it. Everyone I’ve gotten to know well is part of one problem or another.

So, It’s not very interesting to ask where to draw the line, and even less useful. The important thing is what to do about it.

I’m not letting anything in my house that’s not reasonably certain to be housetrained.

I suppose if it’s a short ride or in an outdoor space, anything non-venomous and between the size of a fly and a goose is cool. (Bats are honorarily venomous, because they carry hella disease)

That’s basically the profile for an embezzler. It’s one of the few crimes you don’t expect to be done by a young male.

Wasps too or you’re a pussy. /s

I have a big dog and no yard. Getting out and moving is kind of self-enforcing that way.

Eh. It’s more that you hear a lot about the nuts ones. Number 5 on the richest list is currently a guy named Bernard Arnault, who mostly French people know about, while the infamous Peter Thiel is at 129.

Same story here. Rowling may or may not have a full billion, but she’s famous and good at getting rage views like this one.

I hate to break it to you, but there’s plenty of people waiting to take his place. I honestly hope he lives for many years because at least he’s dumb enough to repeatedly kneecap himself the way he has been.

If you do, at least pick carefully. I can just picture some guy shooting a real estate agent because he looks fancy.

In more general spaces I find bringing it up instantly summons incels, unfortunately.

It does, although the name still could use improvement. It means liberation from the other end of the patriarchy, but it sounds like it might be a men’s separatism/incel thing.