[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Honestly I think the biggest issue in law enforcement in general... is human testimony has this kind of weight to begin with. This guy was convicted of murder... with apparently the entirety of the evidence against him being "a criminal said he did it".

Even if the penalty was JUST 20 years in prison, and death penalty wasn't on the table, that's so wrong to me. 1 man's word is not a reliable way to confirm anything. People have garbage memories, and can lie.

Agreed we can't tell which way the flip is... and that's kind of the crux of the issue... The evidence was unverifiable from day 1. So even if the death penalty was never on the table... this man had nearly 30 years of his life taken away... on literally one persons word, to top it off that one person was confirmed to be a criminal.

So yeah there's 2 major giant red flags to our justice system in this case. 1. The terribleness of death penalty to begin with. But 2. the idea of a single eye witnesses word having the ability to take decades of someone's life away,

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Or turned off the monitor and turned it back on.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I mean looks isn't even really the thing, The main 2 things are default programs, and the package managers. IE arch based are good if you want the bare minimum, and for most packages to be the bleeding edge. Buntu based if you want the default packages to be more stable versions (at the drawback of not always getting the latest without setting up a repository).

Basically it's the installers and configuration tools that are the main differences. You are right that on a practical level if you ask me to make an arch system look like a debian or ubuntu system that's set up the way you like it, I could almost certainly make it barely distinguishable.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah well still hard to get excited, Cohen went down how many years ago?

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

also worth going further on library size. There's twice as many steam deck verified games, than there are ps4 titles. Not counting any titles that work in steam deck but haven't bothered to be verified.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

In the US the law does that. Even reaction videos that basically show the original are generally OK. The problem is that generally places for the general public to post things, don't want to spend the legal costs of checking every claim. So they do a guilty until proven innocent approach where if someone has a registered business if they accuse someone it gets yanked immidiately, and then it's up to the users to prove it's not infringement.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Sounds kind of silly here. Capitalist governments specifically fight to prevent communism from taking hold. The question is do they turn into dictatorships on their own, or do they turn into dictatorships because outside entities are pushing them into more desperate levels. All governments when they are being threatened by another nation turn authoritarian.

I don't think anyones arguing outside nations didn't do major actions towards sabotaging every attempted communist society. To me that's a bit like saying homosexuality is bad because of the high rate of suicide among the LGBT. Ignoring of course that it's not being LGBT that makes you suicidal, but the actions of people on them.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

100% exactly. Which is why I believe that free market private sector should never be allowed anywhere near things that aren't luxuries. I don't have a problem with free market giving us shitty movies, video games, televisions etc... but yeah, it should have been yanked from every level of schools, medical care, police, housing etc... decades ago.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

I wish, has 4chan ever grown back to being a power to the people, rather than a Russian/MAGA group.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

and vivaldi. quite a few chrome bsaed browsers built in ad blocking.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Which also honestly makes the analogy better now that I think of it. Just as the grain of truth behind the carrot rumor helped sell it. Hard work and determination can in fact help you make more money. But of course just as an improvement in diet isn't likely a huge factor in detecting planes flying at night and perfectly pinpoint artillary at them. It's obviously not the difference between the people working 2 jobs to pull in sub 50k/yr anually and the people purchasing Yachts big enough to hold smaller Yachts.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

I don't know for me it seemed like the first and the later seasons were comparable. The shock value of the major "I can't believe they did that", was what kept most the more critical analysis of most of the rest at bay. After the red wedding, you are desensitized to just about anything, and there's no real room for shock.

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