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  • Hung jury is the reason for the mistrial. A mistrial is any trial that ends invalidly before a final verdict.

    A single juror’s vote can only be challenged for a small number of reasons, like disregarding the judge’s orders, doing outside research, discussing the case outside the jury room, and curiously, mentioning jury nullification.

    This is where the details of Lone Juror’s idea come into play. Unless it’s something wacky like “it’s possible aliens did it” or “demonic possession”, Lone Juror would not likely be challenged.


  • It’s not as easy to ship electricity around as you might think. Electricity attenuates over distance, and when green sources are far from population centers, that effect is higher. To use electricity, you have to be physically tied to the power grid, or carry batteries. Those are heavy and require a bunch of heavy metals sourced from questionable places.

    Hydrogen is more portable and transferable than electricity. It can be used for off-grid purposes, like vehicles and wherever you’d use propane now. And its efficiency compared to electricity doesn’t really matter if you’re producing it using waste voltage from surplus.

    Both have their places. Converting away from fossil fuels isnt going to have a monolithic solution.


  • The quote is that he couldn’t “prove what he was saying,” which suggests that he had his own idea of what happened instead.

    We don’t know what that idea was (yet?), and depending on what it is, Lone Juror may be justified or not.

    Because of the way the justice system is configured in the US, a juror’s vote is unassailable. This is what jury nullification stems from. That can and surely does go the other way, where someone is convicted of a crime they didn’t commit, just because the jury felt like it, damn the evidence or lack thereof.

    Can’t wait until they decide that federal juries get to be handpicked by a “neutral party.”











  • What she’s doing is manipulative. She may not (entirely) intend it to be, but in practical terms, it is. And the longer it goes on, the more her brain will train itself that “doing this gets me what I want.”

    As my autistic son has told me more than once, “Yes, you’re going to have difficult reactions with autism, but it’s not permission to be an asshole.”