Crazy how it went from this 5 months ago to this two weeks ago, talk about Streisand effect

they did and i’d be surprised if it didn’t continue with more strikes

Just to be clear, I’m not defending the decision in any way. The issue here is with letting him go free, that’s disgusting and should not have happened.

The privacy part makes sense to me. If the purpose of prison/the justice system is resocialization, instead of punishment, then having your name all over the news just screws you over forever, even if in the eye of the law you did your time and don’t pose a risk anymore, regret your crime etc., and it increases the chance of them just going back to crime when they leave prison, due to a lack of options.

Because in Switzerland a criminal is still covered by the right to privacy, so unless the person in question is a public figure like a politician or the information was already leaked(among some other exceptions), it is not published. Same for the victim. Most you get is ‘John D. from Soandsotown, 34 years old (name known to the editorial department)’, if that.

Assuming google doesn’t start blocking it to please the dictator, of course.

I only see two comments here with 1 downvote each, and those are by separate people. but maybe i don’t see what you see because of federation issues?

Selling fewer explosive vehicles seems like a good idea tbh.

I mean, they helpfully provide ranking lists. Start at #1 and work your way down

sort of. Having a system that allows multiple parties, like in many European countries, certainly helps with representation and discourse. But looking at Europe, it certainly doesn’t prevent a right-wing drift towards authoritarianism. There’s sooo many other things needed for a healthy democracy, like education/literacy, strong independent institutions, unions etc.

You can just end up with two right wing parties, an extreme and a moderate one, but the moderate one catering to the extreme positions of the extreme party (and being mostly moderate in name only), and both of them forming a majority government and drifting to authoritarianism, even if there are many parties.

Though half the time it’s

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thanks that really solved my problem, you’re amazing!

I still have mixed feelings about deleting one’s whole comment history, though i also did that when I left reddit. it’s the right thing to do, but the amount of information lost because of greedy leadership is super sad.

It’s not economical to grow. It has very specific requirements in terms of wet soil and not too much sun, it has pretty low yields in terms of weight/area, compared to other crops. and since it isn’t grown commercially, you also dont have optimized farming techniques and breeds etc.

and since it’s quite common in the wild, well, if the price is too high, you’d just go and collect some yourself. Wild garlic products in supermarkets are already too expensive for me and i’d rather spend half an hour filling a bag with 2kg than buying 50g for 5 bucks.