Idk, I’ve had to deal with coronial inquiries and I can’t imagine what it would be like if the Coroner was just some random person instead of, well, an actual coroner.

It seems like electing your neighbour the lawnmower guy to run your divorce court instead of letting a judge do it.

What the actual fuck???

In my country you have to have been a barrister for at least 5 years and in practice it’s longer.

I can’t get my head around this system of having laypersons voting randoms into a position that requires a high level of skill.

Thanks, have updated my link.

Link for kbin/mbin

That’s hilarious!

That one looks a lot more normal but… why does it look like I can see the tree through its head???

Thanks, beautiful photo.

I’d forgotten how Metal the cicadas look over there.

Ours all just look like this so pictures like yours look like some kind of Undead version or something to me, with its crazy red eyes.

I can’t see the whole comment.

Besides which it’s a qualitative judgment so unless they did a full on Content Analysis grid on your ass, I’d probably not know what they meant, unless you were doing something really obvious like calling the Chinese “inscrutible”.

I still kind of enjoy the novelty of seeing mods censor people for this arcane stuff. I wouldn’t want to be on that instance but I quite like visiting it.

Orientalism is this stuff.

Idk I personally enjoy seeing terms I learned in grad school being thrown around in a mod log.

Paradigm shifts keep the brain nimble.

And fuck off whoever that tells me again to set up my own instance. What I want is popular instance admins and mods to

Seriously though you’re making demands that other people work for free in a manner that will benefit you.

Way I see it, either take some of the free lunch that’s on offer or make your own.

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

Onion rings do have a “scavenger” vibe, insofar as I’m handing that to the nearest seagull.

@FuglyDuck Definitely. Or even just to make that yes conditional on the client paying their earlier invoice first.

I learned that the hard way myself.

@FuglyDuck that’s a tactic described in the 19th century novel Vanity Fair for evading payment. If your dressmaker sends you a bill then immediately order more dresses.

@PositiveNoise idk, seems to me the big countries suffer from too much legislative capture for that.

I live in a country where I do my taxes for free with one click and we don’t use paypal because we can all make free bank- to- bank deposits that clear in less than an hour.

And the reason the US doesn’t have these basic things I’ve had for a decade is because of lobbying from Turbotax and the like.

@Lath the way to remember is the phrase “jealous husband”.

Obviously he doesn’t just want to have a wife (he’s already a husband), he specifically wants his own wife to be talking with him not some other guy.

@TheEntity some are, like the Prepositions rule, which was invented in the 19th century by some idiots who wished English was more like Latin.

Some are just people making observations about what everyone habitually already does, like Adjectival Order (e.g big brown dog not brown big dog).

Native speakers never have to be taught that rule because it just “feels right” since it’s how our societies talk.

Honestly you have to be able to switch caring about that stuff off, when you want to, otherwise knowing any of these rules is more a curse than a blessing.

@cdf12345 if you really want to infuriate people that should be “I could care fewer.”

@dohpaz42 here’s one of them. If you sort by removed comments or removed posts you get the picture.