Pat Finucane, born on this day in 1949, was an Irish criminal defense lawyer who defended prominent IRA activists such as Bobby Sands. Finucane was assassinated in 1989 by loyalist forces acting in collusion with the British state. No member of state security forces has been prosecuted for his murder.
Patrick Finucane was born on March 21st, 1949 to a prominent Republican family in Belfast. Three of his brothers were Irish Republican Army (IRA) members, two of whom would be imprisoned by the British government.
Finucane himself was a criminal defense lawyer. Although he had represented both Republicans and loyalists, Finucane’s most notable client was likely Bobby Sands, a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland.
On February 12th, 1989, while eating a Sunday meal at home with his wife and three children, Finucane was shot fourteen times by two gunmen. Twelve shots were to his face. The loyalist paramilitary Ulster Defence Association took credit for his murder, alleging without evidence that Finucane was a high-ranking member of the IRA.
Following a 2001 peace agreement, the British government promised to consider opening an inquiry into Finucane’s death, appointing an international judge to review his case. The government declined to open an inquiry, however, after the judge found evidence of state collusion.
In 2004, Ken Barrett, a member of the Ulster Defence Association, pled guilty to Finucane’s murder. The identity of the second gunman remains unknown.
In 2011, British Prime Minister David Cameron met with Pat Finucane’s family and admitted to state collusion in his assassination, but as of February 2022 no member of the British security services has been prosecuted.
On November 30th, 2020, Brandon Lewis, the Northern Ireland Secretary, rejected calls for a public inquiry into Finucane’s killing.
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Is there no straightforward way to switch Hexbear from the Web 1.0-style left-justified with infinite width text to the more modern centered and width-limited like the other Lemmy UIs (e.g. lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml)? The themes only seem to affect color, font, and compactness, but not the actual layout. I almost wonder if it’s a bug leftover from when Hexbear was more custom, since I haven’t seen any other instances. I end up just using a small window in the middle of my screen to prevent myself from getting a crick in my neck.
I know I could do it myself by combining one of their stylesheets with the custom Hexbear stuff for things like emote size, but if there’s a built-in way it would be a lot more robust as well as benefit others who might not be in the know without having to faff about with CSS.
Is there no straightforward way to switch Hexbear from the Web 1.0-style left-justified with infinite width text to the
more modernstupid horseshit centered and width-limited like the other Lemmy UIsI am generally a RETVRN to Web 1.0 simple HTML kinda person, but one of the few good things about the modern web is that text doesn’t extend in a 20-inch swathe across my monitor. Tbf, just relying on wrapping was fine when you were viewing text on an 80 column display or a 4:3 800x600 monitor, but this doesn’t cut it on large widescreen monitors. The human eye is just not meant to read that way–there’s a reason that columns of printed text are generally narrow, after all.
Unfortunately, that centering usually comes with a bunch of other bullshit baggage like 20 MB of JavaScript and tons of useless vertical whitespace forcing you to scroll every two seconds, but it doesn’t have to be that way. You can have a snappy, information-dense website that also plays nicely on all kinds of different displays.
The human eye isn’t “meant” to read any particular way, written language is much younger than anatomically modern humans. This nonsense “modern” web design idea that a particular column width is objectively better is a silly trend.
Not “meant” as in designed or adapted for the purpose, but I can’t say I find reading blocks of text 300 columns wide[1] to be very comfortable. It also makes visually scanning text really annoying because so much of it is outside the focused area in the center of your visual field. I think somewhere in the ballpark of 80-120 columns is the sweet spot for me. At any rate, it’s not that I want to force this on everyone, but rather that it would be nice for users to be able to choose between the two (ideally with some granularity for the width, although I’m not expecting that) without requiring them to be able to stitch together stylesheets from two different UIs and get them loaded into Stylus or what-have-you.
Posts and top-level comments wrap at about 297 columns with the default CSS on my monitor, although I don’t think there’s an exact figure due to the use of proportional fonts ↩︎
fuck shit fuck I’m thinking about cringe things I did as a teenager fuuuuck
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Eyeing for when one of the dwarf children finally turn 18 but actually so i can assign them a job immediately because for some reason they are single handedly the most depressed dwarf in my fortress
FINALLY! Congratulations Dastot! You will be the fortress’s newest Scholar
honestly, the fuck am I supposed to do with this?
she IMMEDIATELY fell into a depression and wouldn’t do any work.
concerned, i put her on a regime of 5g of lexapro [running the ‘remove-stress’ command in DFhack] so i wouldn’t lose her.
Give me a relatively easy not dbeat selxrion of songs to play in drums. My punk drumming is going great but I really don’t have anything to apply other drumming to. The things I listen to that aren’t punk have drummers way out of my current league
Prince songs are great for branching out, he wasn’t the most complicated drummer but he did som inventive stuff
That would probably be a great suggestion but the thing is, I really hate Prince. I don’t like the music and the dude creeps me out on a vibes basis.
