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Le système judiciaire français : les marges laissées à l’intime conviction des juges ou jurés, parfois sans preuves matérielles solides, ont mené à des erreurs judiciaires tragiques.
Il est souvent plus difficile de condamner une personne au Canada ou aux USA qu'en France, surtout dans des cas où les preuves sont circonstancielles ou ambiguës. En France, on fait davantage confiance à l’intime conviction du juge ou des jurés, tandis qu’en Amérique du Nord, on insiste sur une prudence extrême pour éviter toute erreur judiciaire.
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I grew up with smoker parents. That shit is so rank, and I grew up when smokers were extremely blasé about secondhand smoke - every room was always smoke-filled when smokers were in it, and obviously it's OK to smoke in a car with children if you open one window.
My wife and my 10th anniversary is coming up this year. She quit smoking before we got married. Years later I told her how proud I was of her quitting because it would have been a requirement of mine before saying our vows.
5 years ago she started smoking again when her father died of COVID. I was patient with her in the beginning but I have become increasingly frustrated with her unwillingness to quit. We have been looking forward to a 10th anniversary vow renewal but I told her I won't do it unless she quits. I told her I wouldn't have married a smoker. I will not remarry her while she is a smoker.
Unless you’re going about it like an asshole, no. You’re communicating, standing by your position, and setting a boundary.
She knows smoking is dangerous, she knows you don’t like it, she knows you want her to quit, she’s quit before so she knows how to do it.
Have you considered compromising with vapes? Still not as good for you as not smoking at all, but significantly healthier than smoking and doesn’t make everything smell horrific. She can get that nicotine buzz she craves with very few of the downsides. She can also then taper her nicotine content and quit that way if she decides to.
I'm trying not to to be an asshole about it. She knows my stance and I'm not budging. That said, I don't throw it in her face. In fact, I only told her once that I won't do the vow renewal until she quits. We have an otherwise perfect marriage.
We haven't had the vape conversation, but I'm not in favor of that either. You don't quit drinking by switching from beer to vodka. I honestly don't know how I would feel about her switching to vape. I hate the smell of her addiction but that's not my biggest issue. I hate the effect on her health but that's not the complete picture either. I hate the concept of a smoking addiction. It's not my identity, and I don't want it to be the identity of us as a couple. We are blue collar AF, but I still feel like her smoking diminishes us.
I used to be proud of her for quitting and staying quit. Now I'm not anymore.
That identity thing seems counterproductive. The way addictions works, you generally kind of stay addicted indefinitely even if you manage to quit and stay off the substance forever. And in contrast to beer vs. vodka, vapes are healthier than cigarettes - even if that doesn't actually change anything for you, it's definitely better for her.
Friends of Socialist China was among the organisers of a hybrid event in Portland, Oregon (US), held on 22 June 2025, discussing Kyle Ferrana’s important book Why the World Needs China.
Call Me GNU: The GNU/Linux Naming Debate, Revisited
The majority of people call the world’s most popular free software-based operating system, “Linux,” after the kernel that is most often used with it. Some call it, “GNU/Linux,” but it should simply be called, “GNU.”
The once common flame wars over what to call the world’s most popular free OS have been reduced to dying embers, with most deciding to call the system, . . . gnuguru.wordpress.com/2024/04/…
This article is offered as a meditation on linguistics and semantics; in other words, how we use the English language. It’s argument is simple: the name of the operating system is “GNU&…
As 40ish and 50 something females ruined Facebook under the lie of playing Farmville, circa 2009, they are ruining TikTok.
ICE deportations have brought out all of these 40 and 50 something females with data plans desperately trying to stay youthful as they invade late-age teenagers' TikTok LARPing as revolutionaries.
Facebook started out as a college kiddo platform. Then rapidly aging females started creating accounts to helicopter mom over their kiddos away at uni. By 2011, FB had become a service for middle aged Females to show off status with photos of grand kids, vacations, newly bought houses, and then of themselves.
Younger females opted for Instagram, which, itself, as become almost a soft core version of OnlyFans and (P)orn Hub.
More horrific footage from the Israeli settler pogrom against the #Christian village of Taybeh, #Ramallah, in the West Bank, where #settlers set houses and vehicles on fire.
i bring a sort of "it doesnt matter if youre into #porn or not, getting elitist and mad at #people for being #horny aligns you with the #agenda of the #altright" vibe to the conversation that some ppl dont like
“Even now, Israeli Forces are continuing to demolish homes…This is not just destruction: it is part of systematic forced displacement, a violation of int’l law, and a form of collective punishment,” —Roland Friedrich, UNRWA. #GazaGenocide aje.io/kaoafa?update=3801707
Kringel-Kultur ist einfach nur Diskriminierung von Leuten die etwas "anders" sind (oder einfach nur "nicht männlich"), im etwas weniger deutlich reaktionärem Gewand.
Hättest du das gleiche geschrieben, wenn es ein Junge mit einer Fußballverein-Party gewesen wäre?
The Gemma 3n model has been fully released, building on the success of previous Gemma models and bringing advanced on-device multimodal capabilities to edge devices with unprecedented performance.
Cannabis use prevalence is actually kind of low in the Netherlands, many european countries where it's illegal have higher prevalences. Turns out, legalizing cannabis doesn't turn everyone into a stoner.
In a poignant speech, John Mahama strongly criticized the colonial abuses perpetrated by Europe and called for restorative justice for Africa. Following
Islamic doctrine does not merely limit women's rights—it annihilates their sense of self-worth from the very beginning. The Quranic Sura 2:282: "A woman's testimony is worth half a man's," and Sura 4:34: "Men are in charge of women... and if they disobey, beat them," are not just verses; they are the foundation of a system built on the dehumanization of women. Girls are taught from their earliest years that they are inherently worth less than men. In court, their testimony is diminished; in marriage, their obedience is mandatory; in society, their rebellion is met with sanctioned violence. Even in Islamic communities in the West, forced and arranged marriages—often between first cousins—result in severe health issues like congenital disabilities while also sustaining a culture of honor killings, child marriage, and the systematic imprisonment of women within their own homes.
The most insidious aspect of this oppression is that it breeds its callous enforcers. Women do not simply endure this system—they uphold it, enforce it, and ensure that it perpetuates. Mothers force their daughters under the hijab before they can even understand their choice. They pressure their sons to dominate their wives, training them from childhood to be emotionally detached tyrants. Older women, robbed of autonomy their entire lives, redirect their frustration by policing younger women's sexuality. Mothers-in-law establish their dominance in the household by abusing their daughters-in-law, a cycle of cruelty passed down like a curse.
And yet, many of these women who have been conditioned to defend their oppression flee to the West, not for freedom but for security, economic stability, and the benefits of a civilization built by the values they despise. They arrive, settle in isolated parallel societies, and refuse to integrate, carrying their submission like a family heirloom. They raise their sons with the same entitlement and their daughters with the same chains, forcing their little girls into hijabs in countries where child veiling should be considered abuse. They demand the West accommodate their imported gender apartheid and cry "Islamophobia" when faced with even the slightest pushback.
we have an indoor water park in Pennsylvania and it’s not far from NYC, the young girls wear a one piece swimsuit that integrates a head covering. It’s bizarre.
The abhorrent prime minister of #Canada #MarkCarney (or Mark Carnage) had the audacity to say that he was supportive of working on "a path towards establishing a 'Zionist' Palestinian state"!!! 🤯
A "Zionist" Palestinian state?!!! He wants a state for Palestinians who put the interests of those who inflicted unimaginable suffering onto them on top of their own interests!
Mark Carney is without a doubt a Netanyahu slave, a foreign agent, "if you will".
Canada’s most prominent Muslim advocacy organization is demanding Prime Minister Mark Carney apologize after comments he made during an interview with Christ...
It's as nonsensical and as offensive as saying "let's establish a white-supremacist state for the indigenous people of America alongside the US" or "a Nazi state for the Jews alongside Nazi Germany".
Recently Mark Carney said Canada would only accept a “Zionist Palestinian state”.
As Craig Mokhiber noted in response to your comment, “calling for a ‘Zionist Palestinian state’ is like calling for a ‘Nicotine-based cure for cancer’ or a ‘Ku klux…
"The mental contortions these Western leaders put themselves through on behalf of the Israeli regime is remarkable. Calling for a “Zionist Palestinian state” is like calling for a “Nicotine-based cure for cancer” or a “Ku klux klan civil rights bill.” No to cancer, no to Klan, no to #Zionism, and no to #Carney."
Yesterday afternoon we wired in Wrack’s new electronic self-steering gear.
In keeping with a late 20th century tradition among seafarers we’ve given it a name: ‘womack’, after the sci-fi writer (and longtime social media friend) Jack Womack.
People who don't admit they have hearing loss are annoying. No, I'm not talking quietly - everyone else can hear me. Get your ears checked, pick up your hearing aid, and stop saying "what? what?"
And certainly don't suggest we go someplace noisy to continue the conversation.
Should probably get your eyes checked while you are at it. Those are probably not at their peak either.
#Amazon management ignores summons to #EuropeanParliament. “If an Amazon worker would have behaved this way towards Amazon management, they would have already been fired three times over.”
Originally published by Unity News Network ‘Events, dear boy, events’. So said British prime minister Harold Macmillan on the fallibility of leaders due to unanticipated, uncontrollable factors. ‘S…
Irish government more committed than ever to advancing the interests of the global monopoly corporations and international financial institutions. communistparty.ie/en/2025/06/i…
The British government is planning to ban the activist group Palestine Action and designate it as a terrorist organization, following their actions at a Royal Air Force base where they sprayed two jets with red paint.
This move has been criticized by various human rights organizations and political figures, who argue it's an attempt to suppress civil liberties and hide the UK's accountability in the Gaza conflict.
We've seen 20 months of genocide in #Gaza, and along those 20 months we have seen the international institutions do shit. The highest court in the world, the #ICJ, hasn't done anything to stop it. The #ICC ruled a detention order against Netanyahu and he's walking free as if nothing. The UN security Council has seen, literally, more vetoes than resolutions on Gaza.
The only exceptions being #Yemen and other, non-State actors (Hezbollah, etc.) ( #Iran has a very strong pro Palestine policy, but it didn't enter the war with Israel over it, but over being directly attacked by the entity).
We should draw conclusions from this. We should reflect on what it means that the international institutions and the world's States can't or won't 'do anything.
What does that mean. If institutions won't act, who needs to do it, and how.
For me the answer is very clearly that we need direct action, no representative or professional activist or what have you can do what we need to do DIRECTLY, by our own (collective) hands. And secondly, that if these governments and institutions don't act in our behalf, if they are the tools that carry out the genocide and the damage control over the genocide, then we need to get rid of them. Those institutions should not exist.
End the deficit in five minutes.” It’s simple, here’s the deal: you pass a law that says whenever the deficit goes over 3% of GDP, bam, every sitting member of Congress can’t run for re-election. No detours, no BS. You spend too much, you’re out.
In a watershed moment in the fight to hold corporations accountable for complicity in Israel’s war crimes, A.P. Møller Maersk has become the first global shipping company to halt the transport of goods to and from Israeli settlements.
Hospitals in the Gaza Strip received 79 martyrs (including 5 rescued dead) and 391 injuries in the past 24 hours, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip.The ministry added in its daily statistical report on the number of m
Blogger, author, and activist Cory Doctorow is the most provocative, original, and widely admired thinker on the politics of Big Tech in the world today.
The "dictator's dilemma" pits a dictator's desire to create social stability by censoring public communications in order to prevent the spread of anti-regime messages with the dictator's need to know whether powerful elites are becoming restless and plotting a coup:
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My last nationally bestselling novel was "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench.
A USA TODAY BESTSELLERWinner of the 2024 Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity"An essential read for anyone that wants to understand how we lost control of our digital spaces and infrastructure to Silicon Valley’s …
My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
Blogger, author, and activist Cory Doctorow is the most provocative, original, and widely admired thinker on the politics of Big Tech in the world today.
The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
Novelist, activist, and journalist Cory Doctorow joins Rachel and David in the cafe to talk about the enshittification of the internet and how we ended up in our current enshittogenic environment.
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