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[+] 264 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (33 children)
  • [–] 115 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Historically it was used by white juries to let off fellow racists who committed crimes against minorities, which is why the courts discourage it.

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  • [–] 74 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    It was also used during prohibition, and courts do more than discourage it, you can be held in contempt for mentioning it.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    How is it intended to be used then, just pretend it doesn't exist till final deliberations?

    It still exists, so when is it intended for?

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  • [–] 59 points 2 years ago

    It exists only as a consequence of two other requirements of the jury process. 1) jurors cannot be held accountable for any decision they make as a jury and 2) any not guilty verdict delivered by a jury is absolute and final.

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    [–] 173 points 2 years ago (23 children)

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    [–] 109 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    How to pass/invalidate a lie-detector test.

    They are not considered admissible evidence in court (but the criminal justice system still use them to a degree..), and they can be interpreted with intentional bias, so I think it's fine to share.

    One of my psychology professors told me that if you hide something like a sewing needle in your shoe's insole, you can ever so slightly apply pressure so that the poke causes a physiological spike. They monitor for movement, so it has to be very minute. The goal is to do this on every control question so that they cannot establish a baseline and have to give up.

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  • [–] 86 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    The best way to invalidate a lie detector test is to not take one, because you can not be forced to take one unless you are applying for a job to the CIA.

    Phrenology is more legitimate than polygraphs, and Prenology is nothing but bunk hokum.

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  • [–] 60 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I had clients in federal probation whose freedom was dependent on the results of annual polygraphs. Refusal was considered a fail, and they'd be shipped back to FedMed or prison. Inconclusive results were also blamed on the clients, and would count as a failed test.

    Was total bullshit, especially given the level of function and serious psychiatric symptoms and diagnoses of my clients.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I remember seeing some cop show a long time ago where they couldn't figure out how this guy kept screwing up their lot detector tests they were forcing him to take. They found out he was putting a tack under his big toe and using this trick so they scheduled him for another test, but they kept moving him from one building to another looking for the room they were supposed to be in, forcing him to walk a lot.

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    [–] 104 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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    [–] 101 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    You can infinitely go around and around a roundabout or a clover leaf interchange.

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    [–] 89 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    Juries can nullify any charge based on their own discretion.

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    [–] 83 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's possible to bioengineer yeast to turn sugar into morphine.

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  • [–] 76 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    The Anarchist's Cookbook is full of bad information, you should use the US Improvised Munitions guide instead

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    [–] 72 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    There are free private, and generally better-working versions of almost every software program. Including, operating systems, social media, email, telephone, etc

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    [–] 70 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    You can resist an unlawful arrest. But good luck with that in the real world.

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    [–] 69 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    You can legally create, own, and use your own flamethrower in the majority of the US.

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    [–] 64 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    How to make controlled substances.

    It's not illegal for anyone to know, it is also technically legal to make and possess if you have the correct licensing for some substances, but it is illegal to synthesize them.

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  • [–] 63 points 2 years ago (37 children)

    That you can leave the interrogation room any time you want if you're being questioned for a crime.

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  • [–] 78 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (22 children)

    What is the best script to deal with this?

    1. Am I being detained?
    • yes: (I want to Speak to lawyer) --> 1
    • no:
    1. Am I free to go?
    • yes: Go
    • no: --> repeat 1

    ♾️

    No need to go outside this script?

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    [–] 55 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Making amateur rockets and pipe bombs are basically identical -- for a rocket, one end of the pipe is open. There's a vibrant amateur rockets community nevertheless.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    You can request your trial to be done by mail, yes this is legal and if you truly want to get out of a speeding ticket or any other tickets or fine. Just do it the trial by mail and always postpone it for a greater chance of the officer just letting you win it. The source for all my information is from a lawyer, also check your local laws or state laws about this, thank you maggoty as it depends.

    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfwL6P2bc2s

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    [–] 47 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Ethyl Mercaptan, used as the warning odor for natural gas/propane, is not regulated.

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    [–] 46 points 2 years ago (30 children)

    Tails OS. I went to search what it was and read the Wikipedia article. Guess I'm on a watch-list now, cause of my dumb curiosity lol

    From Wikipedia

    In 2014 Das Erste reported that the NSA's XKeyscore surveillance system sets threat definitions for people who search for Tails using a search engine or visit the Tails website

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    [–] 45 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Probably either research chemicals or jailbreaking tech.

    As for the former I fell down a rabbit hole reading about research chemicals on some subreddit and hearing people's reports.

    Jailbreaking doesn't feel as illegal, I'm not in Japan, but it makes me feel like a badass early 2000s hacker helping my friends with their 3DSs and PS3s and seeing their reactions.

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    [–] 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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    [–] 39 points 2 years ago

    Just knowing the history of policing feels illegal. How they normalized this vile paramilitary - essentially institutionalized fascism - right from the start in the UK and the US sure as hell isn't something they will ever show you on Law & Order.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    How to make drugs.

    How to make explosives.

    "1001 ways to kill a man."

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    [–] 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    How to construct systems which are used for civil applications but can easily be turned into weapons.

    Or the good old question of science and responsibility: do you use nuclear fission to create energy or to kill an enormous amount of people?

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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Knowing how to make explosive whether chemical or otherwise

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