I had a public defender once and they pushed hard to take a plea, like hard hard. If I had the money for a real lawyer, it would have been in my favor.
Almost like tone doesn’t come across in written form for all the people reading it, maybe we should develop a form of tonal punctuation to show satire in forums like this.
The interrobang is purportedly for indicating sarcasm, though I and other people generally only use it as a silly “?!” ligature.
Personally, I still believe that if satire can’t be detected, either it’s shitty satire, or your audience is too dense to understand it even if they recognized it.
I can’t seem to find anything about it being used to indicate sarcasm at all, only as an exclaimed question to express surprise, and is the same thing as the symbols next to each other as you used in example.
If we want a reasonable effort from them, we might want to not overwork them so hard. Maybe just, y’know, hire more.
Frankly though, if we’re going to make them basically do paid residencies now, why don’t we make them work as public defenders? Would solve our problem, and they’re young, fresh grads, so you don’t have to pay them as much yet anyway.
Certainly public defenders shouldn’t need it if they’re just churning their clients through with plea deals
Edit: /s, jfc guys
That’s a weird attitude to take. Do you specifically hate poor people?
I took it more as a calling out that most public defenders do just churn out plea deals, not as praising them for doing so.
I had a public defender once and they pushed hard to take a plea, like hard hard. If I had the money for a real lawyer, it would have been in my favor.
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I’m convinced it was sarcasm
Lol I’m a little surprised it needed saying, but you are correct
Almost like tone doesn’t come across in written form for all the people reading it, maybe we should develop a form of tonal punctuation to show satire in forums like this.
The interrobang is purportedly for indicating sarcasm, though I and other people generally only use it as a silly “?!” ligature.
Personally, I still believe that if satire can’t be detected, either it’s shitty satire, or your audience is too dense to understand it even if they recognized it.
I can’t seem to find anything about it being used to indicate sarcasm at all, only as an exclaimed question to express surprise, and is the same thing as the symbols next to each other as you used in example.
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Huh. Must just be me remembering things that never happened, then.
I didn’t design the system nor do I like it, just saying I could easily manage what they’re currently doing without passing the bar
If we want a reasonable effort from them, we might want to not overwork them so hard. Maybe just, y’know, hire more.
Frankly though, if we’re going to make them basically do paid residencies now, why don’t we make them work as public defenders? Would solve our problem, and they’re young, fresh grads, so you don’t have to pay them as much yet anyway.