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.

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.

Political defined as:

Pictures containing a politician from any country

Which is a prettyanageable definition. It’s a cliche that everything is political, but it’s also somewhat true. Banning pictures from protests would be a weird move IMHO.

I kind of agree, but on the other hand it’s quite a good snapshot. It really does capture a moment in history and the failure of a country, in all its blurredness.

If this was a photography community, I would be more reluctant. But it’s an interesting pic.

I think that would be most people these days.

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.

Yeah, I honestly have no idea. Probably a mix of both.

If people are silenced from sharing their stories because they also ask for aid this seems potentially bad. It’s also unfortunate that it’s hard to say what has really gone down since the record is deleted, though it’s probably available somewhere online.

In either case I think it illustrates quite clearly the advantages of true decentralization for censorship resistance. What is allowed or not on Bluesky is decided by a tiny board of Americans, with no meaningful way of bypassing their moderation decisions.

Could be referring to Bluesky’s silencing of Palestinian voices.

I’ve seen the open letter linked in that article shared a few times on Mastodon. I’m not sure how big a deal 3000 boosts makes it on Bluesky. But browsing the thread quick and seeing it full of posts shared by the publisher of the letter being deleted is a bit worrying.

on many communities and instances

Bingo!

We have no ambition of being more lenient than Reddit, it’s just less centralized. If people want to be bigots they can find themselves an instance and a community for that, and other people can choose not to be exposed to their 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.

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!

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.

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.

Edit: That said, this logic only applies if you do it for yourselves because it’s fun. If it’s something you do as a dating strategy it is, indeed, doomed.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I guess the scammers are also in the process of figuring out how to use the Fediverse. Give them time. :)

Would make sense for the dealer. Teslas in Europe are becoming unsellable, better to cash in while the insurance companies still have to pretend they have value.