I have no photography background and I’m just using my S21 ultra camera. I found this one hard to get the lighting right. I also wish I had gotten a bit more of the left side of the tree in frame.

This was taken at the south end of Camano Island, Washington, around dusk. The tree is on the cliff about 60 feet above the rocky beach.

  • roguetrick@kbin.social
    4·
    7 months ago

    Two of Trump’s experts in particular, Jason Flemmons and Eli Bartov, argued that valuations are inherently subjective, and Engoron sharply criticized their testimony exculpating Trump, his family members and business associates of wrongdoing.

    “Bartov is a tenured professor, but all that his testimony proves is that for a million or so dollars, some experts will say whatever you want them to say,” Engoron wrote.

    A research professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, Bartov conceded that he billed nearly $877,500 to Trump for his testimony, and he said that money came from the Trump Organization and Save America PAC, the former president’s primary fundraising vehicle.

    But Engoron said that Bartov “lost all credibility” by claiming Trump’s financial statements were accurate in every respect, even though a pre-trial ruling established the “numerous obvious errors” that they had.

    This shit is the exact problem with our adversarial expert witness system. This should not happen in a court.

    • orbitz@lemmy.ca
      1·
      7 months ago

      Yeah when you take the Obi Wan stance of, ‘what I told you was true, from a certain point of view’ in court, there should be some repercussions. Like we get there can be different points of view but if 9/10 people say one thing, that 1/10 person’s view probably shouldn’t count when figuring out the truth in court and is basically wasting time. Though I think this is up to the judge to decide so it was mostly a delay and seem like they have some sort of defense for his followers.

  • ZeroCool@feddit.chEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    “We’re going to win. We’re going to win so much.

    We’re going to win so much, you’re going to be so sick and tired of winning, you’re going to come to me and go ‘Please, please, we can’t win anymore.’

    You’ll say ‘Please, Mr. President, we beg you sir, we don’t want to win anymore. It’s too much. It’s not fair to everybody else.’” “And I’m going to say ‘I’m sorry, but we’re going to keep winning, winning, winning, We’re going to make America great again.”