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  • The article says it was required:

    But they never reported Massie’s crimes to police, as required by the law. Instead, Bruckelmyer and other leaders in the church encouraged the victims to take part in forgiveness sessions — which allowed Massie, now 50, to continue abusing children, according to an investigation by the Minnesota Star Tribune and ProPublica.

    Later down:

    He said it was up to the victims to report the crimes to police, a clear misreading of the law for mandated reporters — doctors, teachers and others who are required to report crimes against children.

    “We don’t protect either one,” Bruckelmyer said of sexual abusers and their victims.

    This is the churches defense:

    Kimberly Lowe, a lawyer and crisis manager for the church, said its preachers are unpaid and therefore might not be legally required to report sexual abuse of children. Asked if she believes the preachers are mandated reporters under Minnesota law, Lowe would only say that the language of the statute is unclear.

    Propublica does pretty deep research, so I’m inclined to believe them.


  • rainwall@piefed.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHad to look this up
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    That one was on purpose:

    In the book, just like in the movie, Spearchucker reveals that the nickname “Spearchucker”, ordinarily a racial slur, referred in this case to his javelin-throwing prowess.

    They use the racism behind his nickname to address racism:

    The film also depicts Spearchucker as a particularly skilled neurosurgeon and this, together with the experience of playing football together, helps Duke Forrest overcome his racial prejudices and the two become friends at the end, shaking hands when it is time for Duke to go back stateside.






  • That and brand loyalty. If shopping was just api based, you could have your ai agent just buy X product from wherever when the price was right and never care about the company or marketing or anything.

    It would be hugely empowering to be able to make a non website based shopping list and just have “something” sort out all the logistics, biased towards reducing your costs and inconvience, but that is never going to be what even the ai companies are selling. They will funnel you to their “prefered partners” and find every possible way to extract money and attention in the process.