ExLisper
@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
- Comment on Would it be possible to have a successful career as a lawyer and never lie? 2 days ago:
Of course.
First, lawyers don’t say “my client is innocent”. They say “my client claims he is innocent”. Lawyers are not witnesses, they don’t claim anything in the court. They present evidence and ask questions. You don’t have to lie to do it.
Second, people imagine the job of a lawyer is to get their client acquitted. It’s not, it’s to represent their client in court.
Let’s say you are a lawyer and you have to represent a serial killer. The evidence is overwhelming and it’s obvious he is guilty but still he pleads “not guilty”. Your job is not to try avoid conviction. Your job is to make sure he is treated fairly and that his rights are respected. You basically have to oversee the trial from his side. Make sure that evidence was obtained legally, that witnesses tell the truth, that experts have proper credentials. You don’t have to lie to do any of that.
Yes, some lawyers will be experts in taking out criminals out of jails by manipulating juries, forging evidence or intimidating witnesses. Most lawyers are not.
- Comment on God lays out the rules for bad drivers and eternal hell 5 days ago:
My favorite is when they drive right next to you on the acceleration lane for hundredths of meters waiting for you to let them merge and once they merge they accelerate right away to go way faster.
- Comment on Causes of death, or track list for latest black metal album? 5 days ago:
Apropos “Cut of the Stone”. I read a book about history of surgery and one chapter was about a guy who remove his own bladder stone. Back then people didn’t have great hygiene and urinary track infections were common. Those would cause bladder stone that would get worse and worse witch each infection. The stone would block the urethra entrance so you would feel you like really need to pee but once you stand up you wouldn’t be able to. This wasn’t very pleasant so people would try to remove the stones. Typical way was to go through the taint, open the bladder, remove the stone. There’s a lot of blood vessels there so survival chances were not great. Doctors refused to do it because patients would die to often and then family would blame them and they had enough shit to deal with already. So you had traveling bladder stone removers. They would do the surgery and by the time patient would die they would be on the road again.
So this one guy, a blacksmith, tried to get his stone removed twice or had two stones removed already, it’s not clear. Anyway, he didn’t like the traveling stoncutters. So he got a sharp knife, ask some guy to assist him and did the surgery himself.
- Comment on Causes of death, or track list for latest black metal album? 5 days ago:
Someone needs to post detailed explanation of all those things. I hope it doesn’t have to be me.
- Comment on Every single time. 1 week ago:
Just tell her it’s for your boyfriend.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 1 week ago:
Shit, turns out lions are conscious! They are just stupid. Stephen Hawking said it in 2012. I honestly didn’t know that.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 1 week ago:
I was focusing more on the “hooking up conscious brain to computer” part than about the damage and infection part.
Thought experiment: let’s say we have a dead brain patient. You have verified that there is no neural activity in the brain beyond cerebellum. There’s no consciousness in the brain. Legally it’s still considered a person. You can’t for example shoot them.
We also have a 5kg blob of lab grown human brain tissue. We have verified there is neural activity in the entire blob but we don’t know what it’s doing and we can’t communicate with it.
Which one is more conscious? Which one should be considered more human and should have more rights?
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 1 week ago:
You seem not to understand what is being discussed here.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 1 week ago:
Lions are not conscious. And I’m not asking about value. Of course we value human consciousness more than monkey consciousness. We don’t grant monkeys any rights. Hell, we assign more value to unconscious (brain dead) humans than to conscious monkeys. But how exactly is human consciousness different?
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 1 week ago:
I’m not sure this is quite analagous to neuralink’s monkey experiments.
Why not? It’s a chip reading inputs from neurons. This meme doesn’t make it clear if the chip was also stimulation neurons but Neuralink has plans for neural stimulation and it’s possible this was also tested on monkeys. So what’s the difference?
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 1 week ago:
Nueralink did pretty much the same thing to monkeys that are actually concision. So it this different only because those are human neurons? Is human consciousness different than animal consciousness?
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 1 week ago:
Climbing spots are usually in very remote places. No matter how many people use public transport there will never be a bus that goes 5 km up a mountain on a dirt roads to a place visited by 10 people a day during weekends. With hiking it’s easier because hiking trails start in many different places, often fairly well connected but many outdoors activities like climbing, paragliding, cannoning, speleology or even mountain biking only happen in very specific, remote places. I you have to hike for 4 hours to get to those places those activities become way less accessible.
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 1 week ago:
Don’t bother. Most people suck anyway.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 1 week ago:
Thinking about it you’re right. Technically I would be able to go hiking or even climbing using public transport. I just would have to spend way more time to get there and carefully plan my trips not to miss some connection and get stranded. In the end it’s all about flexibility. Where I live it’s 30 minutes drive to a climbing spot. I can do it any day after work. If I would go by public transport I would need 2.5h hours to get there. That’s 4 hours more, mostly spend walking. It means I would only be able to do it during weekends and would have to dedicate whole day to this trip and would be able to dedicate less time to other hobbies. During summer it’s only possible to climb in the morning and it would be impossible to catch a bus at 5AM to get there on time. So summer would be also gone. So yes, technically is possible but not as often and with way more effort. I guess you can say this about anything. It’s not that without a car things are impossible, they are just way more difficult.
- Comment on Looks fine to me 1 week ago:
There’s simply too many things to restore. They are building metro in my town now. They started working on a new line, digging under first street and boom, Roman graveyard. Had to examine and remove 500 graves before they could continue. It’s like that all the time. So yeah, sometimes people don’t wait for specialists or permits and fuck things up. It’s not that often and it happens to some less important works. It’s only in the news because it’s funny.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 1 week ago:
This. I work from home so I barely use my car during weekdays but I spend most of the weekends climbing or hiking and it would be impossible without a car. Public transport is never going to take me to the middle of nowhere. Without cars we would be stuck in metropolitan areas and its surroundings. Visiting more remote places would be very time consuming.
- Comment on A product of his environment 1 week ago:
Check every morning if the cans moved.
Notice they move Wednesday night.
Set alarm for middle of the night (3AM) and check if they moved.
Didn’t move? Next week set alarm for 4.30AM.
Moved? 3.45AM.
Moved…
Shoot the guy trespassing on your property in dark clothes in the middle of the night.
- Comment on Forbidden pet 1 week ago:
It’s also edible. Just like pets.
- Comment on bold words 1 week ago:
Invest in Apple.
- Comment on The script is mysterious and important. 2 weeks ago:
So what? He’s still doing fine. Was he supposed to be in every blockbuster ever made?
He also won an Oscar. Keanu didn’t. I don’t think that doing Matrix or Inception would have a big impact on his career.
- Comment on oh no 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t like the show anyway.
- Comment on oh no 2 weeks ago:
Dude! No spoilers!
- Comment on oh no 2 weeks ago:
There is an episode of Braking Bad about farting deaf people?
- Comment on The size of Portugal compared to Spain 2 weeks ago:
I’ll assume you’re joking but funnily enough, there is piece of Spain in France:
- Comment on Did I discover a fake conspiracy theory? 2 weeks ago:
It’s called “Urban Legend”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_legend
- Comment on The size of Portugal compared to Spain 2 weeks ago:
What I would like to know is how big it is compared to Iberian Peninsula.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
What if it was actually you that vanished and your twin survived? Have you even thought about that?
- Comment on Expecto patronum my ass! 2 weeks ago:
What would be his name?
- Comment on Westerners, what's your impression on the Chinese Diaspora? And what does the people around your area of residence think of the Chinese Diaspora? 2 weeks ago:
Generally seen as keeping to themselves. Don’t bother anyone but also don’t integrate.
- Comment on art 2 weeks ago:
Best sci-fi I’ve read this year.
