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[Yoink]

The skin on and around my nose has gone all dry and rough. Not sure if it's a rash, windburn or what.
Feels different to my usual windburn. Guess I'll chuck some ointment on it and see what happens.

Edit: I just discovered 9353.
They're like a scarier, less-shit Bauhaus. From what I'm hearing so far, anyway.

[Tiruin]

Typhoon coming in. Time to brace up once more.

[NRDL]

Stay safe.

[Egan_BW]

Yes, be sure to stow your brain someplace structurally stable, it is quite valuable. <3

[Sergarr]

I learned too much on how law system works in my country D:

I'm not supposed to fear my government more than foreign ones, dammit!

[Dozebôm Lolumzalěs]

Lemme guess, US?

[Frumple]

Pretty sure serg's russian, or somewhere thereabouts.

[Avis-Mergulus]

I learned too much on how law system works in my country D:

I'm not supposed to fear my government more than foreign ones, dammit!

I'm pretty sure that situations in which somebody would fear a foreign government more than their own are rare. After all, a working government holds a monopoly on inflicting violence on its subjects. But I get your drift.
What exactly did you discover about our wonderful legal system?

[Dozebôm Lolumzalěs]

It doesn't seem like you've lived through the Cold War, Avis.

...of course, neither have I, so meh.

[Sergarr]

Pretty sure serg's russian, or somewhere thereabouts.

Yes, that's right. Apparently, Russian law system is prosecution-based, i.e. the prosecutors are the ones that actually control the process, the judges are de-facto just formalizing the already decided case, unless the prosecutor fucks up their prepared legal basis.

There is a malicious incentive system, where prosecutors get rated by the amount of cases they've successfully prosecuted and get punished if that amount of such cases is too low, which literally rewards them to successfully prosecute as many people as possible, even if there aren't any actual criminals, and disincentives them from prosecuting or even just investigating "hard" cases which cannot be quickly dealt with.

If they don't do that, due to such silly things like "principles" or something, they get fired and replaced, until the newly appointed prosecutor gets the memo. The less principled the prosecutor, the faster they can rise in organization ranks.

Also, there's like zero real measures taken to prevent them from co-operating together with police to do such wonderfully illegal stuff like "closing their eyes" on "minor violations of the law" on behalf of police, to make it "look better to the authorities". There are supposed to be some prosecutors that watch over other prosecutors, but there are no real measures to prevent them from co-operating together with the people they're supposed to persecute, as well. Everyone fucking knows each other.

I learned too much on how law system works in my country D:

I'm not supposed to fear my government more than foreign ones, dammit!

I'm pretty sure that situations in which somebody would fear a foreign government more than their own are rare. After all, a working government holds a monopoly on inflicting violence on its subjects. But I get your drift.
What exactly did you discover about our wonderful legal system?

This particular article. It seems depressingly authentic, after seeing how some of our internal university's bureaucracy works.

[IcyTea31]

For the sake of clarity, does a 'successful' prosecution require that the defendant be found guilty, or simply that their guilt or lack thereof is correctly determined? If the former, that is even scarier.

[Tiruin]

Yes, be sure to stow your brain someplace structurally stable, it is quite valuable. <3

Brain is ok
But power and internet stability isn't. Going to be waterproofing for MONDAY because college=waterproof students :V (grr signal 3 being the only typhoon weather signal that cancels our classes. AND I live far away from school that requires a walk uphill. I live in the mountains :V)

[Sergarr]

For the sake of clarity, does a 'successful' prosecution require that the defendant be found guilty, or simply that their guilt or lack thereof is correctly determined? If the former, that is even scarier.

It's the first one, yeah. That's why there's, like, a 99.7% conviction rate for court cases. If there's no conviction in a court case, the prosecutor responsible for it get a "disciplinary action" and they must do something to compensate for it, because otherwise they'll eventually get down-ranked or even just fired - and that's all for a single case ruled non-guilty. The "hard" cases where it's not immediately clear how or who must be convicted just never get to the court due to that.

It's a system quite different from the USA one, as you can see.

[Descan]

So basically, Russia operates by Cardassian rules.

[Sirus]

Do your prosecutors whip anyone that gets in their way, even the judges? Calling them "foolish fools" the entire time and never getting punished?