That’s… disingenuous. Lot of stuff happened between those points, including the murder of homosexuals for the crime of existing.
The LGBT community keeps the fight up because complacency gets our rights taken away. Justice Thomas has explicitly stated that gay marriage is on his list of wrongs* to right. To say nothing of Project 2025.
I’ve no significant opinion of India beyond anti-Modi, and that’s a product of John Oliver. Most of my engineering team are Indian and some I like, some I tolerate. And a fear of Indian traffic by reputation alone.
But you could swap “American” with “Indian” in that first paragraph, change nothing else, and it be largely (if not entirely) accurate.
My grandmother was the county coroner for a while. She was a pharmacist professionally. In those places, it’s more “give it a quick kick and say they’re dead” (she never did that) more than anything else. She only declared death, not attribute cause to my knowledge.
The other part of it is that, for whatever reason, in my county the only higher arresting authority than the sheriff was the coroner. It was her job to serve him with papers when he was being sued and, not that it ever came up, arrest him when it needed done.
Weird system.
Duress is also a good word. “Sign this loan or you’ll be sad and poor forever”.
I’ll bet they’ll still come for you. That shit will follow you to the grave and beyond.
I mean, we weren’t forced into it. We were just told we’d be homeless (or some other stand in for poverty) if we didn’t.
Now a lot of people with loans are in poverty because of them. We weren’t forced into them is only technically true.
Oh man. That’s on my short list of games that I 100%ed when I was a kid, alongside the banjo kazooies and Mario 64.
Now I’m itching…
Personally identifying information.
For people at large, nothing. I’m a data engineer. Eyes immediately gloss over when I tell them. I do have a tool that is a one stop shop potential violation of PII rules.
Still less unsettling than his actual face.
Very true. I’m behind the US lens on this one so it’s easier to speak from what I experience. I know it’s… bad… elsewhere.