{"id":9645,"date":"2026-02-01T12:40:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=9645"},"modified":"2026-02-01T13:03:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:03:40","slug":"practical-civics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/02\/01\/practical-civics\/","title":{"rendered":"Practical Civics"},"content":{"rendered":"

The upshot of a convo with an AI about the real-world risks of blowing off a summons for jury duty. <\/p>\n

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Oh no! Not communications!<\/p>\n

So yeah. I’m leaning hard toward pretending I never saw it. Damn the torpedoes. I got important<\/em> shit to do. <\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Context: I’ve been summoned many times, including once for a grand jury in fucking Phoenix, and appeared like a good drone citizen. I actually served in a case exactly once (it was local). My experiences as a potential and real juror, and my study of my society and its institutions, have consistently led me toward the considered opinion that ‘the justice system’ has fuck-all to do with actual justice. <\/p>\n

For the simple reason that that’s the sooth as I know it, “serving” a broken system as a volunteer cog holds zero interest for me. <\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

For deeply connected reasons, I’m going to look into un-registering to vote, if that’s a thing. I know that they’ll still bother me with this jury nonsense simply because I hold a license to drive in the state, but …<\/p>\n

Maybe it’ll cut the number of summonses in half? A potential minor upside to something I should probably do as a matter of conscience anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The upshot of a convo with an AI about the real-world risks of blowing off a summons for jury duty. Oh no! Not communications! So yeah. I’m leaning hard toward pretending I never saw it. Damn the torpedoes. I got important shit to do. *** Context: I’ve been summoned many times, including once for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9645"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9651,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645\/revisions\/9651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}