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ABC is greatly, greatly softening the severity of what the Prosecution is alleged to have done.

It is much, much worse than just 'Prosecution accidentally violated his HIPAA rights'.

https://www.courthousenews.com/luigi-mangione-accuses-prosecutors-of-fudging-subpoena-for-his-health-records/

“The district attorney falsely made up a court date — May 23, 2025 — and drafted a fraudulent subpoena that if Aetna did not provide documents on that date, it would be in contempt of court,” Mangione claims in a New York Supreme document, filed Thursday.

(In legalese, 'Mangione claims' means that his lawyers claim this in an exhaustive report/complaint to the judge of this case.)

The Prosecution appears to have served Aetna with a literally fake, fradulent subpoena.

That subpoena included a court date which was never actually scheduled in the court system.

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You cannot do this.

Any request for a subpoena like this has to go through and be approved by the judge.

Circumventing the judge and essentially falsely acting on a fraudulent representation of their authority is actually potentially a crime, bare minimum, something a lawyer can be disbarred for.

And this is the District Attorney of New York leading the legal team against Mangione, whom Mangione's Defense Counsel has now formally accused of doing this.

Mangione's counsel has requested to the Judge that, bare minimum, whoever on the Prosecution team is actually responsible for this be removed from the rest of the proceedings, ideally, have the entire trial be dismissed as a mistrial.

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Here is the entire complaint to the Judge from Mangione's Defense Counsel:

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/mangione-hippa-defense-filing.pdf

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This could actually blow up at least this New York State level case against Mangione.

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There are currently two simultaneous cases going on, one at the New York State level, one at the Federal level, all of this is irt the NY case.

Sweet is what you call a uh, a sucka.

He's a true believer, a fool, who is dedicated to a whole bunch of rhetoric that objectively is not true, does not function in reality the way he believes it should.

He should know that literally nobody else goes by his code of conduct and honor anywhere near as strictly as he does, because he has repeated, first hand experience with that, but he doesn't learn, because he is so broken as a person from all the horrible shit that has happened to people he genuinely cares about, that this code is really all that remains as the basis of his identity.

He is a broken, angry, incompetent man who was sold a lie, and that lie is all he has left.

He is a tragic character, traumatized as fuck.

"Unlike migrants in America who come there just like that, do not assimilate, and at the same time want free handouts.”

Ah, so he has learned the Russian language to a degree at least approaching fluency?

As has his wife?

And he has been teaching his kids Russian as well?

He does, after all, very seriously consider language as a fundamental element of a nation's culture:

https://usa.news-pravda.com/usa/2025/06/05/323684.html

[Regarding Huffman's stance on the Russo-Ukraine conflict, as of ~6 weeks ago]:

They took away their language and their religion from these inhabitants. They were oppressed, they tried to suppress their Russian culture. You can't do that. I believe that the residents of Donbass are full members of a large Russian family. To tell the truth, I can't fully understand what the Ukrainian government didn't like, but I think it was just harassing the residents of Donbass. President [of Russia Vladimir] Putin tries to protect those whom he sees as members of his family, his brothers.

Hey... wait a minute...

[From another part of the article]:

... - emphasized the interlocutor of the "First Russian".

No, of course he doesn't speaking any fucking Russian, he's a dumbass gun nut hyperconservative from Texas, he most likely can barely even speak English.

Ah you see, Americans who move abroad, no no, they aren't immigrants... they are ex-pats, which is a totally different thing guys, for real.

What a fucking idiot.

I feel bad for his soon to be orphaned kids.

And dog.

Not his at least equally stupid wife though.

... your... appearance.

This is basically a message board.

You do not even have a profile image.

So you ... think I just know what you look like?

Is that narcissism or paranoia?

[Whisper Yelling]:

SSSSHHHHHH!

The pastor is praying! Shut up!

Deeply communicating that you are an asshole, by continuing to be pretentious?

By showing that you are actually confident that being consistently pretentious is a good way to showcase this, despite claiming you have no confidence?

By disproving that your asshole status is self-evident, by showcasing that it actually requires a sustained interaction to demonstrate this?

I dunno, I've been around a lot of assholes, constantly contradicting themselves in 'clever' ways is pretty bog standard behavior.

Wait, what?

The mirrors work as in-Matrix point to point portals?

I thought the only thing close to that is... the 'maintenance hallways', the certain specific literal doors that work as portals only with specific keys.

To the best of my memory, a mirror as a point to point portal doesn't happen in the OT, nor the Animatrix.

That also didn't even happen in MxO, the Matrix Online, to the best of my memory... though the canonicity of all that is now essentially... either totally disregarded, or exceptionally complicated.

The rest of what you've said is basically correct... but... I do not recall any instance in the OT era stuff of using a Red Pill / Mirror to travel within the Matrix.

MxO handled that by using Pay Phones and I think a few special landline phones as basically fast travel points/hubs.

Is there... an offical comic I'm missing, maybe?

Am I not remembering this happening in Matrix 4?

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Also uh, potentially worth mentioning...

A Red Pill / mirror is not actually strictly required to exit the Matrix, as per the Animatrix and I think some other canon.

A few individuals, the Kid, the sprinter from World Record...

...they believe so strongly that... their world is not real, that they are not bound by its rules... that they actually 'self-substantiate'...

...they pull themself out of the Matrix, or... cause their local experience of it to crash, w/e, and they then wake up in the pod.

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Also also, what the Red Pill actually does is act as a traceroute to your actual, physical location in the real world, so you can be recovered by a hovership crew.

Its just that red vs blue pill is also used in a less literal, more colloquial sense to refer to those ready to leave the Matrix, vs those who are not.

Ow my brain.

Perhaps ironically, this is pretentious enough to convince me that you may indeed be an asshole.

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I just view it as a pointless 50 year old squabble, it's current name is SQL to me so S-Q-L it is, ig I didn't have "old timers" to corrupt me during the formative years of my career though so maybe that's why.

I mean hey, there ya go!

Regardless, my real beef in this is if someone makes hiring/firing/promotion decisions based on that. Like a fun office debate about it, cool, it's whatever. Choosing not to hire or promote someone over something so petty is asinine IMO

Oh I completely, 1 million percent agree, and that kind of bullshit was a huge factor in why I left MSFT and went to work for other places, rofl!

Way, waaaaay too many coked up MBAs with tiny small dick syndrome, who compensate by developing a god complex and constantly shaming people over not knowing all the latest buzzwords, which they often themselves just literally heard for the first time in their previous meeting.

Do you say hetips for HTTPS?

No, because there isn't an easily pronouncable equivalent word that already exists in english.

The sequel thing didn't even start naturally, it picked up this sequel moniker because of some ancient trademark beef in the 70s between the original devs when it was named "Sequel" and some company (That isn't even in business anymore)

They renamed it SQL and out of protest against the company people continued to call it sequel even though it makes no sense and 50 damn years later here we are.

Yep, and I've worked with a bunch of old timers who were around when that happened, and picked up their pronunciation.

If it was originally called SQL and the above never happened, I guarantee it would just be another DNS or HTTP and many many pointless debates about it would have never happened.

I mean, I am not ... debating in the sense of 'my way is objectively correct and everyone ahould say it this way'.

Obviously I know what anyone means if they say S Q L and this does not bother me, I just am used to more commonly saying it as Sequel.

Though it is worth mentioning that... history did in fact happen, the original name was SEQUEL, for Structured English QUEry Language, and it had to be changed because a small aircraft company happened to already own the trademark for 'SEQUEL'.

Disclaimer, this doesn't apply to the MS product that is called sequel.

Ah, well perhaps that explains why I am so used to the Sequel pronunciation;

I used to work for MSFT, and a number of other Seattle area companies with siginifcant SQL database backends...

... and, given that Seattle was mainly known for Boeing before it was mainly known for Microsoft and Amazon and Starbucks, it does make sense that Seattle area old timers would get pissed over a rival, foreign aircraft company (Hawker Siddely, later merged into BAE) forcing a name change of the software they routinely use.

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EDIT: So basically, it actually was originally an acroynm, and then got forced to become an initialism, and most the people I've worked with and learned from remember when it just was a pronouncable acronym.