2d Cir.: it violated the Eighth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment due process for NYC to continue holding a prisoner sentenced to 3.5 to 7 years for 17 days after he had already been held for 7.5 years in pre-trial detention. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/OP...

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It's just model building. It is a kind of pre-fab model building and *most* model building is pre-fab too.

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While I am here, in case The Atlantic is interested, the joy in this is: 1) slowly assembling the set, which creates a tactile kind of zen for an hour here and an hour there. The sets are obviously compartmentalized with this in mind. 2) observing the cleverness of the design.

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Basically, they should have interviewed, like, at least a few of the people who buy these sets, instead of exclusively interviewing the executives and marketing folks who make and sell them or the editors of fan magazines who write for (or about) them.

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I think some of the appeal is frankly that for someone with a mentally demanding but non-tactile job, they may not want to exert the brainpower necessary to become a competent mechanic or carpenter as a hobby; LEGOs (with instructions) off-load that burden, leaving just the tactile part.

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