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Cake day: March 3rd, 2024

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  • I’m not your dad, but I’m proud of you. Not for the A-levels, not for the Bachelor’s, but for the effort and work you put in to achieve those milestones. Getting through school is hard. It’s like having a job with several bosses all wanting to be your first priority, each one with different requirements for how they want the work done. That takes a lot of patience, a lot of time management, a lot of sacrifice, and as above, a lot of work.

    The diplomas and degrees represent those things. I’m proud of you. You’re going to have plenty more opportunies to be patient, manage time, sacrifice, and work - and not all of them are going to have concrete rewards as evidence. Be proud of yourself; there’s no shame in that.


  • You do not have to say anything or sign anything.

    Not exactly true. If you want to exercise your Fifth Amendment rights to remain silent, you must explicitly and clearly invoke them. “I am exercising my Fifth Amendment rights” works. “I want to speak to a lawyer” also works. Simply remaining silent can be interpreted by police as “being uncooperative” or even “being threatening”, and can bring associated consequences.

    You have the right to make a local phone call, and if you’re calling your lawyer, police are not allowed to listen.

    While this is true, you don’t get to choose where or more importantly when that phone call happens. You also won’t have your phone, and police are not obligated to let you get phone numbers from it.

    Don’t argue, resist or obstruct the police, even if you believe your rights are being violated.

    Unless you have reason to believe that your life is in danger because of the police. If you have reason to believe that you will be rendered to a foreign prison, for example, fight for your fucking life.

    Finally, yes, you have these rights. They can and will be trampled upon. If you desire recourse, you’ll need to find and pay a lawyer, and spend lots of time navigating the justice system. The odds that you will succeed in that endeavor are vanishingly small. If you do eventually manage to get a judgment in your favor, good luck collecting on it.