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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When voting for judges in elections, how are you supposed to know which are good? (Since none of them publicly express their political opinions, judges are *supposed* to be neutral)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  European legal systems are largely built around the idea that courts are apolitical, and that judges make their decisions neutrally based on the word of the law and the facts of the case.

  This is of course impossible, but some people—especially judges themselves—are afraid that the system would collapse if the public learned how political the work of courts really is. So when France started publishing all the judgments of their courts to the public, they also forbade the public from studying individual judges.

  It's pretty funky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When voting for judges in elections, how are you supposed to know which are good? (Since none of them publicly express their political opinions, judges are *supposed* to be neutral)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, studying the performance of individual judges is criminalized in France, so we have very limited ability to know about their individual performance. :)

  It's a huge lie that judges are neutral, but some argue it's a necessary lie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ANIMAL FARM | Exclusive First Look⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. I guess the piglets just represent random Bolsheviks sucking up to the Party leadership. Makes it look a bit like if Death of Stalin was set to Animal Farm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that would be most people these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty disappointing stuff, especially concerning the potential for joystick drift and the gluing of the battery. If they haven't fixed drift I think I have no choice but to skip this generation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ANIMAL FARM | Exclusive First Look⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is supposed to be Old Major (Marx/Lenin) and Snowball (Trotsky) in conversation, and Napoleon (Stalin) injecting himself?

  I'm a bit sceptical for now. I don't remember this scene from the book, and I don't feel like I see the characters as I remember them here. I thought Old Major pretty much stuck with his principles until the end, and things turned to shit only after his death? Alternatively, if the adult pig in the trailer is Napoleon, are the piglets just random partisans who had no role in the book?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE targets Windows 10 'exiles' claiming 'your computer is toast'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is 2025, and the KDE project is still using the glory of the desktop cube to appeal to Windows users.

  The desktop cube has been our single most powerful tool on the path to world domination.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Black Eye at the White House: Did Somebody Punch Elon? The list of possible suspects seemed long.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I was just horsing around with little X, and I said, ‘Go ahead, punch me in the face,’ and he did”

  "Oh the black eye? It's nothing, I was just teaching my 5-year old to punch me in the face, because that's a normal and healthy thing to do"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A rule of thumb for weirdness in age difference is age/2+7, leaving you at 51/2+7=32,5. So going by that, 30 is a bit on the young side, which is obvious also from the fact that you felt the need to create this thread.

  If one person would be in a position to judge you for it (or rightfully feel weird about it) it's your daughter. It's safe to say she seems cool with it, so whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Users report that clicking the Start button can spike CPU usage by 30% to 70% on at least one core, depending on the hardware configuration.

  Good grief. And that's coming from a GNOME user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stunt Performer Sues Kevin Costner and ‘Horizon 2’ Over Unscripted Rape Scene⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Moreover, given that Hunt and LaBella are members of the performers union SAG-AFTRA, their intimate scenes would also be subject to the labor group’s regulations, which call for prior notice, consent and a closed set.

  ...so for non-unionized talents the industry assumes it doesn't need prior notice or consent?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tom Cruise Really, Really Loves Movies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the question we should ask is not "how much does Tom Cruise love movies", but rather "where is Shelly".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tom Cruise Really, Really Loves Movies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love that Christian Bale based his portrayal of Patrick Bateman off Tom Cruise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone 4 is not getting Android 14 after all⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Might not be easier, but if there are unforeseen problems at this point maybe it doesn't make sense to prioritize the launch of 14 when they'll immediately have to start catching up to 15.

  Fairphone maintains a stock version of Google Android. They've teamed up with Murena to offer Fairphones sold with /e/OS, but they're not responsible for software updates on those devices. My Fairphone 5 with /e/OS is still based on Android 13, for what it's worth. I guess that might change with the launch of /e/OS 3.0 in June.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  on many communities and instances

  Bingo!

  We have no ambition of being more lenient than Reddit, it's just less centralized. If you want to be a bigot you can find yourself an instance and a community for that, and other people can choose not to be exposed to your bullshit. That's the whole point.

  Also, the UKSC judgment is a pseudo-scientific piece of junk. Agreeing with it is a big-ass red flag.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What is it like?

  For me, it's my favourite thing in the world. I feel more at home when I'm in the middle of the mountains not having seen people for days than when I'm in any building I've ever lived in. We evolved for these conditions, and at least for some of us it resonates with our souls - much like the ocean calls to others.

  The experience of hiking is a bit like running, just dragged out over days. In the beginning you have energy. At some point you get tired, and you might want to stop for a while and you're worried if you're going to make it. And then you push through, and suddenly your body is in walking mode. So don't get too worried if you start feeling tired early in the hike.

  As for the tent, the experience varies a lot. Is it raining? Are there lots of mosquitoes or midges? Is it cold? Are you walking until sunset, or do you have time at the camp site? What is the terrain you put your tent on?

  You generally don't have the answer to those questions. I have had a wide variety of experiences in tents - crazy tent pole-breaking winds, thunderstorms beyond anything I believed was possible, floods, cows trying to graze underneath the tent in the middle of the night. Most of the time though the biggest event is waking up to the view, or going out to take a leak at night and enjoying the night sky.

  The important thing is to always be flexible and open to improvise. When you're in up there you're at the mercy of the mountain, and you adjust your plans accordingly. Many mountain folks believe that the mountain has a will of its own that needs to be respected, and I don't hink it's too far from reality. Following from that is that the experience is never completely predictable, which is part of what makes its appeal infinite.

  Enjoy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enshittification of ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It, uhm, predicts tokens?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Annoyed ChatGPT users complain about bot’s relentlessly positive tone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you do, fellow humans 🤖🛹

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Android keyboard always worked well for me, but I don't trust them one bit. So I changed my phone keyboard into something that is worse at guessing what I'm trying to say, but I'm somewhat confident I am not being surveilled through it.

  I started using it a month or two ago, and ever since I have started making a billion typos when writing on mobile.

  Also, I guess the demography of the communities you're in matters. I think quite a few of us over here are not native speakers. Sometimes I'll also write with my keyboard set to the wrong language by accident, "leasing to all mines" of freaky autocorrects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this picture idea immature?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially if they don't take themselves oversly seriously.

  Be your goofy self, if people are turned off by that you would never be happy with them anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How exactly are people lighting Teslas on fire?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One criticism is that in some models the manual release of the back seat doors is near impossible to find, rendering them a death trap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly All Cybertrucks Have Been Recalled Because Tesla Used the Wrong Glue⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What an amazing site.

  We won't ask why you would want to glue ceramic and leather together - we just give gluing info.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly All Cybertrucks Have Been Recalled Because Tesla Used the Wrong Glue⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  • Make car out of stainless steel
  • Glue it together
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It's farmland, you see the plowmarks in front and in the back there are fields.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It has clearly been used as farmland already. And in most places where farming is common we could traditionally rely on rain, though I guess climate change is making everything funky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what instances allow you to follow users?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There's no following of users in PieFed, so in that sense it's more like Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Schumer’s Retreat From a Government Shutdown Has Young Democrats Fuming⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A generational divide, seen in newer lawmakers’ impatience with bipartisanship and for colleagues who don’t understand new media

  The man is 74 years old. They're talking about "newer lawmakers".

  I think "young" here refers to people who can't remember the moon landing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta mocked for raising “Bob Dylan defense” of torrenting in AI copyright fight - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Referring to the song Sweetheart Like You:

  Steal a little and they throw you in jail
  Steal a lot and they make you king.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can a military buy fighter jets that the seller has kill switches for?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I was being a bit cheeky - I wouldn't step on any jet plane that hasn't had access to official spare parts for a few years.

  I just found it amusing F-14s were bought in the mid-70s, which I guess is around the time many would say the quality of American cars also began dropping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can a military buy fighter jets that the seller has kill switches for?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Turns out America's greateast weapoin in its fight against terrorism is the quality of its engineering.