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Mainly on @Aatube@kbin.melroy.org . This account to moderate subs while providing actual reasons for deletion! A feature mbin appears to lack?

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    Ex-South Korean president found guilty of insurrection over martial law order

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  • It says "found guilty". It says nothing about his punishment or rehabilitation, and with how prison conditions are, I very much suspect that jail time will not be rehabilitation.

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    Starting tomorrow, New York will increase penalties for serious traffic violations

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  • Your submission in "Starting tomorrow, New York will increase penalties for serious traffic violations" was removed as schadenfreude (rule a)1).

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  • Political Optimism

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  • one moderator of !UpliftingNews@lemmy.world here! is it fine if i make a post (and maybe even edit into the itemized-rules post) directing schadenfreuders to your commag?

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    A bill that would give legal immunity to pesticide companies such as Bayer, the owner of Roundup, was defeated in Tennessee

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  • Your submission in "A bill that would give legal immunity to pesticide companies such as Bayer, the owner of Roundup, was defeated in Tennessee" was removed as schadenfreude (rule a)1).

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    There are more registered Democrats in 2025 than registered Republicans

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  • Your submission in "There are more registered Democrats in 2025 than registered Republicans" was removed as toxic politics (rule b)).

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    New York City to quadruple intersections with red light cameras by end of year

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  • ‘You put the top on and your life is sucked out of you’: The fight to change women’s sports uniforms

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  • I would’ve removed this post if I saw it earlier. It’s an interesting article (that surprisingly hasn’t been posted anywhere else yet) but it documents another problem in our society, not any sort of progress or resolution. I would remove, say, “The fight to release the double-tap boat strike video” even if we didn’t have the toxic politics rule.

    pinging some of the other mods for their thoughts: @NickwithaC@lemmy.world, @sga@piefed.social, @wolfeh@lemmy.world

  • ‘You put the top on and your life is sucked out of you’: The fight to change women’s sports uniforms

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  • The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine | A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

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  • The article is about something much more sinister than not giving out appropriated money: The administration is now giving out nearly all of the appropriated money, but by paying a termed lump sum to far fewer projects—the only money these projects will ever get for at least four years, paid out in one payment right now, effectively halving the grant money projects receive while simultaneously meeting the obligations to congressional appropriations, decreasing investment in science and research, and preparing to allow for drastic budget cuts to science research next year.

    The article explains this much better than I can, complete with visualizations after every sentence since this is _The Upshot _:

    In the past, the N.I.H. typically awarded grants in five annual installments. Researchers could request two more years to spend this money, at no cost. Under the new system, the N.I.H. pays up front for four years of work. And researchers can get one more year to spend this money. Which means that they get less money on average, and less time to spend it.

    As a result of this quiet policy shift, the average payment for competitive grants swelled from $472,000 in the first half of the fiscal year to over $830,000 in the last two months.

    From $472,000–a-year to $830,000–for-four-years, and that’s unadjusted for inflation.

  • YSK that the First-Past-The-Post voting system allows a political party to gain an absolute majority with only a minority of the votes

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  • The Conservative government response to a 2016–17 parliamentary petition demanding proportional representation said that "A referendum on changing the voting system was held in 2011 and the public voted overwhelmingly in favour of keeping the FPTP system."[209] Tim Ivorson of the electoral reform campaign group Make Votes Matter responded by quoting the petition's text that "The UK has never had a say on PR. As David Cameron himself said, the AV referendum was on a system that is often less proportional than FPTP, so the rejection of AV could not possibly be a rejection of PR."[210]

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    French police controller named Interpol president

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  • I'm hoping it's not just because the outgoing one was controversial. If it is, then I'll probably remove this post since rotation of the Interpol president is bound to, required to happen every four years and it is borderline schadenfreude.

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    Supreme Court Denies Request to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision

    www.nytimes.com /2025/11/10/us/politics/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage.html

  • With SNAP cuts looming, some suggest handing out nonperishables to trick-or-treaters

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  • I think the uplifting part of this is supposed to be that more people are going for more non-perishable foods that'd last longer and give families more means to survive than measly plastic-wrapped bars. It's... a stretch, but I don't think we should remove it. Feel free to downvote the post if you don't think it's a good fit for our commag.

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    ‘Operation Inflation’ injects joyful vibe to Portland ICE protests

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  • Removed: I don’t see how this is supposed to be uplifting

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    US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information

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  • Your submission in "US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information" was removed as schadenfreude or toxic politics .

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    US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information

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  • It is not.

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    Still No Kings: Millions to Protest Trump On Saturday

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  • Your submission in "Still No Kings: Millions to Protest Trump On Saturday" was removed as toxic politics (rule b).

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    DHS agents retreat as Chicago cops refuse to shield them from swarming protesters

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  • Your submission in "DHS agents retreat as Chicago cops refuse to shield them from swarming protesters" was removed as schadenfreude.

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  • I am once once again asking for your bars—what should be the bar/criteria for removal?

    I think we should ask for and respect the decision of the community instead of imposing our own judgements. And of course, we still remove personal attacks (not that your admittedly negative-ish comment counted as one /gen).

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    guy repetitively referring to russians as "orc"s

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    Please stop linking to utubepublisher