SoyViking [he/him]

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  • SoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.nettoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml***
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    3 months ago

    The closest I can come is blackletter or fraktur scripts that were once used for generic languages. As far as letters go they are silly and overcomplicated, with Latin scripts being far easier to read and more adaptable to different visual styles.

    With that being said, they do have their own old-timey charm and there is something satisfying in being able to pick up a old book in blackletter and read it when you know that most people can not.

    Fun fact: Blackletter was only used for Germanic languages. If a text contained non-Germanic passages it was normal to set those in Latin letters while the rest was set in blackletter.






  • Someone I knew was living in an old building with old-timey fuse boxes placed outside the apartments. When she got tired of her idiot neighbours partying on a weekday night for the millionth time despite being asked to dial it down she finally had enough and went to the fuse box and took away all the fuses to the neighbour’s apartment.

    She never had trouble with noise again.




  • I don’t know the details of how the US legal system works but isn’t a plea bargain essentially the same as a settlement in civil cases?

    If so, it should (at least in theory) have very little prejudicial value since the courts did not rule on the question if Assange’s culpability.

    I know that in the real world the US regime once again learned that it can get away with murder and journalists all over the world have already learned the lesson that the evil empire will fuck them up if they air their dirty laundry. But from a legal nerd point of view a settlement should be quite useles as a precedent.