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Arcka

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  • Pixelfed has reached its Kickstarter Goal in Just 13 Hours

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  • Proton is dead (for me). Let's collect and discuss alternatives! ✊🛡

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  • Right? So much of this seems like people not able to tell if actions are good or bad independent of who takes the action. There's no way their team could ever do anything bad, and anything done by the other team is automatically bad.

    God forbid you try to reinforce a rare good behavior from someone who's also done a lot of horrendous things.

  • LGBTQ+ Meta staff reportedly taking time off for ‘mental illness’ after hate speech policy change

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  • Wrong. These people can't handwave away their portion of responsibility for the current situation. They chose to lend their skills to a company with a long, well-documented track record of actions harmful to society. If you can get hired by one of the FAANG companies you could also get hired by nearly any company.

  • LGBTQ+ Meta staff reportedly taking time off for ‘mental illness’ after hate speech policy change

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  • Leopards/faces, etc. These people were fine with contributing their cogs to the evil machine that is facebook in exchange for a ridiculous salary, but now want it to be a big deal when it affects them more specifically.

  • Generated "art" does not rule.

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  • Someone stealing any physical property is likely bad for one or more reasons.

    Also, you can't steal an idea or a concept. Copying digital information doesn't deprive the creator of the original. Copying isn't theft.

  • Luigi Mangione prosecutors have a jury problem: "So much sympathy"

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  • Yeah, this is literally an 'OK Boomer' moment. Like, how expensive could it really be to live in Manhattan these days?

  • Solarpunk propaganda in recycling aesthetics

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  • Do you think the whole "not really recyclable" trope could actually be a campaign by big oil to resign people to the assertion that we just need to keep producing more new plastics?

  • BACK IT UP

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  • Bluesky breaching rules around disclosure of information, says EU

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  • The election that will take place at the DNC to replace the chair will decide the policy direction of the Democratic party. Let your voice be heard!

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  • Respectfully, when you wrote

    They've moved so far towards neoliberal policy positions that they no longer have an economic message to give their working-class base. In the absence of a coherent economic vision for the party, they keep doubling down on, "identity politics,"

    It seems like you agree with

    some Democratic National Committee members are concluding that the party is too “woke,” too focused on identity politics and too out of touch with broad stretches of America

    I also think that if the Dems want to win, they need to simplify their platform and messaging to focus on what will help working-class people the most. I agree that abandoning people is not the answer, but the messaging and focus needs to be more universal.

  • Sam Alito Got Knighted… Just Like The Founding Fathers EXPLICITLY MADE UNCONSTITUTIONAL

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  • Exactly how does it apply? It didn't come from a "King, Prince, or foreign State". I could declare that I grant you a title, but because it isn't coming from a monarch it's meaningless and that article doesn't apply.

  • Sam Alito Got Knighted… Just Like The Founding Fathers EXPLICITLY MADE UNCONSTITUTIONAL

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  • I don't think the U.S. Constitution bans anyone from getting a title from some random French family, only from a "King, Prince, or foreign State".

    Is this article intentionally misrepresenting? There's plenty of scummy things he's done without having to invent weird distractions.

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  • Don't all modern browsers allow you to disable auto-playing of video, even per-site if desired?

  • Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC

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  • Like I get it, they don't want someone torrenting 100tb of data in a day. That bogs things down.

    No, that isn't accurate and isn't getting it.

    All the data caps today are for total cumulative quantity per billing cycle. That is not a reliable method for controlling what actually bogs things down, which is the bandwidth used at any moment (speed).

    Limiting bandwidth is also done by most ISPs today, but that's not what this is asking to change. The data caps are exclusively a way to charge more.

  • Why are people doing this at voting locations in the USA?

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  • Filming / photography in public is a First Amendment protected activity.

  • US cops get gun stuck to MRI machine in bungled cannabis raid

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  • No misunderstanding - I get what you're saying and I disagree.

    I also don't agree that expecting journalists to be accurate makes someone an asshole. If they were reporting on an automobile and wrote that the spark plugs make 500HP we could guess what they likely meant, but we'd also recognize the journalist's ignorance. They should educate themselves on their subject matter so they can do their job properly.

  • US cops get gun stuck to MRI machine in bungled cannabis raid

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  • Sure they do. The gun clubs I've joined foster an environment that attracts people who demonstrate care and consideration in all aspects concerning firearms. If someone is lazy and imprecise in the manner in which they communicate about guns, that might also apply to their general demeaner. After speaking with some of these fellows during public range days, it's not surprising when later they're shooting holes in the shelter roof or bouncing ricochets off the top of the berm.

  • US cops get gun stuck to MRI machine in bungled cannabis raid

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  • Or dummy rounds (aka snap caps), or blanks...

  • Another valuable life lesson from Elmo and friends!

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  • Generalizations that are oversimplified to the point of lacking all nuance are probably untrue because there are bound to be exceptions. Instead, try including 'many', 'most', or such as an easy remedy.

    Specifically, landlords can create value when they handle property management and maintenance (and the related costs) efficiently. It is wrong that greed has made that so rare.