If Nick had done 4 hours twice a week since he got sentenced I think he'd be done?
But he waited until the last moment apparently and now he needs them done, so the PO isn't feeling very generous about letting Nick string it along.
I don't think he HAS to do them before August, but I think he was told doing them would look good for getting off on jail time and now he's realizing how hard the internet will bully him for doing time and he's panicking.
This was also my line of reasoning when it came to his community service/jail time: there's nothing to say he has to do all 80 hours before August. BUT, because it's the government, there's a bit of an insinuation, or as Dennis from IASIP says, the implication. The implication that the government can decide whether he serves 30 days of jail time (with 2 days deducted for time served, so 28 days) or not and has a lot of things they can consider, like doing his community service.
It's actually funny how it seems like they're doing to him what he does to fucking everyone that makes him insufferable: we aren't
saying you have to do the 80 hours before August. But you should. Do you feel lucky? Do you want to risk it? You really think you've been a good boy long enough you won't need to serve time? If you were taking this seriously like a good boy, you'd have done them already, because you do fuck all otherwise. And if you aren't taking this seriously, perhaps you should enjoy prison. But maybe you won't have to anyways, we've let your behavior slide already. But maybe you could end up having to do it anyways. Or you could avoid it all, if you did them before August, maybe not. Maybe we haven't decided you're going to jail. Maybe we have. But still, maybe you should do it to get it over. We have a lot of things to consider.
You know, because of the implication.
I politely ask people to refrain from ChatGPT / Grok / Gemini-posting, it crops up from time to time in this thread.
There's a handful of things AI can do, and can do well (like pattern recognition, with potential applications towards medicine). Collating accurate information is not one of them. It frequently just makes shit up, enough to not be trustworthy.
Haven't there been literal issues in the court with attorneys using AI and it turns out the AI was just making up citations that don't exist?