David Pecchia

Tech service in biopharma industry--Married with three daughters

[David Pecchia @dpecchia]

@BLackgold_5 It was touch and go there for a minute.

[David Pecchia @dpecchia]

@Steve_Sailer @phlegmatticus https://t.co/CH5bLl7Bzj

[David Pecchia @dpecchia]

@juliamacfarlane You are free to speak whatever form of English you like, but here in the US, it's soccer. If you say football here, everybody thinks...

[David Pecchia @dpecchia]

@MarioNawfal Only a simple-minded fool would believe that Iran gives a crap about Lebanon or Gaza. Their "concern" is 100% self-serving.

[David Pecchia @dpecchia]

@jchmcl09 @RBrookhiser In contrast to what I've seen since the 1990s and since, there was no big deal made over the loss--I recall asking workers in the main library at WSU why the flag wasn't at half-staff and they looked at me like I had 6 heads.

[David Pecchia @dpecchia]

@dalvinthetruth His victim died in minutes.

[David Pecchia @dpecchia]

@jbarro This depends on traffic--If you're in the middle of nowhere and can see no cars for 10 miles, who cares how fast you go?

[David Pecchia @dpecchia]

@seanonolennon Hotels usually offer laundry service, but if you're using a tour-bus, could a portable machine be installed?

[David Pecchia @dpecchia]

@svenbrimstone Prosecutors don't need to worry about a riot when they convict a local famous person.

[David Pecchia @dpecchia]

If one group of people think the law shouldn't apply to them, that leaves two options:

1. We just let that group get away with murder, resulting in an eventual break-down in social order.
2. We enforce the law and hope that they eventually learn that laws apply to all.

[SvenBrimstone @svenbrimstone]

We want to talk about optics and reform. Boy, am I ready! We should reform! We could use policing as a counter-example.

Because it's really very simple. If a whole bunch of Americans think the existing process is racist, then it actually is racist. That's how this stuff works.

[David Pecchia @dpecchia]

@svenbrimstone You're right about connected people and celebutards being very entitled, it's a self-correcting problem though, since ambitious prosecutors love to make a name for themselves by getting a conviction.

[David Pecchia @dpecchia]

@svenbrimstone Yes, justice was served and that's good. But we can't falter on this just because people are upset about it.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Let's take these lies one by one...

Lie 1: "Karmelo was invited to the tent."

That was the defense's theory and it was rejected. The one kid who supposedly knew Karmelo, Edwin Parra, took the stand and distanced himself. Witnesses said Karmelo sat uninvited and refused to leave when asked. Repeatedly.

Lie 2: "The twins were harassing him."
Austin told him to leave. Hunter told him to leave. Telling a stranger to get out of your team's tent is not harassment. One witness testified Austin was calm and said he didn't want to fight and asked Karmelo to leave a dozen times.

Lie 3: "Then all of a sudden they changed their stories."
What actually happened: a dozen teenagers gave slightly different accounts of how hard a shove was. That's what real eyewitness testimony looks like by the way. Most prosecution witnesses said the same core thing the whole time. Anthony was the aggressor. Nobody changed their stories.

Lie 4: "An all white jury."
False. Three of the twelve jurors were minorities. Asian and Indian. Six of the eighteen, counting alternates. It was not all white.

[wanye @xwanyex]

I think you just have to ask yourself whether the right to vote by mail is something so fundamental to your conception of democracy that you are unwilling to compromise on it.

Because, I have to say, on the other hand, “Black people get policed the same way everybody else does, even if this result in disproportionately more Black people in prison” actually is a hard line for me. We’re going to police everybody the same. We’re not going to make exceptions for groups that get arrested a lot because they’re frustrated about that.

[David Pecchia @dpecchia]

@svenbrimstone I've seen a ton of people in the last couple of days who seem to think it's unfair for a black man to go to jail for stabbing a kid in the heart.

[David Pecchia @dpecchia]

@RBReich There has been no cut in the Social Security tax rate.

[Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 @babybeginner]

This woman is so brilliant. So articulate. So educated. She’s a joy to follow. This post about how silence isn’t consensus is spot on. I loved it.

[Henry the hyena @Firstname12224]

@Rainmaker1973 They tackled him because he embarrassed them and for no other reason.

[David Pecchia @dpecchia]

@Rainmaker1973 Let's wait to see if he blows-up and then, when it's safe, let's all pretend to be heroes, worried about his safety.

[David Pecchia @dpecchia]

The first time I saw a solitary Japanese Beetle, I was delighted by the beautiful iridescence.

Years later, when a plum tree I had planted became infested with them, I was not so delighted by them any more.

[noah kulwin @nkulw]

hatred of immigrants is a sign of moral weakness. one of the more obvious tells that you're just not a good person.