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Stopping all fediverse activities. Good bye. Absolutely stupid indisriminate bans by mods on various instances make it clear to me lemmy and fediverse does not want content.
if I ever get back to fediverse It would be on my own instance as its clear to me nothing short of that is going to work.


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[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

As if the rest of them aren't?

Law is a profession where people dress up in funny clothes (even powdered wigs, in some places!) and say pseudo-Latin at each other. The words aren't magical incantations, but they're close enough that sovcits think they are.

It is profoundly silly.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Uh, pretty sure it's not pseudo-Latin, it's just Latin. A lot of those terms date back to legal proceedings in ancient Rome.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Pretty sure we butcher the pronunciation, though. The Latin 'Caesar' was pronounced more like the German word 'Kaiser' than the modern 'Caesar salad,' for example.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, but calling it pseudo- is funnier.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Only if you pronounce it "sway-doe", rhymes with Play-Doh

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Pronounce the p

I'm pretty sure attempted poisoning is one of those where the state presses charges on your behalf no matter what.