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  • Were the BLM protests of 2020 a success?

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  • Define "BLM", "protests", and "success" because any combination of different variables produces a different result. Additionally, even then, there is a lot of nuance to being successful when it comes to political movements.

    The protests undoubtedly brought more attention to policing and racial issues in general. They obviously didn't solve either problem. Some states passed progressive policing laws, some regressed out of spite or in reacting to the other states.

    Then you also have the category of "well, it might have made an impact on this but we'll never know". For instance, does Biden win in 2020 without the Black Lives Matter protests? No idea, and nobody truly does or even can. That would be an enormous impact on many things, some of which may not even have been goals of the protests.

  • Study: Social media don't displace in-person hangouts for teens

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  • Or, maybe it was never quite so bad as we all believed? There is no doubt that the internet and social media impacted all of our lives and routines drastically, but I think some of the impacts of social media are exaggerated by layfolk just reacting to how they feel about it. There are tons of great studies showing its impact to the mental state of children and we have to work on that, but I don't think it has entirely uprooted the childhood experience. Just my two cents.

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    Why are black people still Christian?

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  • Oh, so we're even bringing back the full cringe, fedora variant of atheism from early reddit? Cool.

    I have even more personal reasons than most to hate Christianity, but this is so reductive of Christianity, black people, and the reasons why people seek out religion.

  • Does anyone else remember when "they" broke up the anti-work movement on reddit by putting a mod on fox news then dividing the community by creating the work reform sub?

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  • While I absolutely think the latter exists, I just cannot justify assuming that every dumb opinion I see from someone I am on the same "side" with is some evil spy. Any movement with that sort of view will eat itself alive in no time. Starting to see traitors in your midst is falling into their trap just as much as the conservative who thinks that's what leftist thought is defined by.

  • Does anyone else remember when "they" broke up the anti-work movement on reddit by putting a mod on fox news then dividing the community by creating the work reform sub?

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  • Lol I guess it wouldn't bother me much. I'm a SocDem, which makes me fail the purity tests pretty quickly. I just want a movement with a leftist heart and a pragmatic head, so we can actually win rights instead of performing while the Titanic sinks.

  • Does anyone else remember when "they" broke up the anti-work movement on reddit by putting a mod on fox news then dividing the community by creating the work reform sub?

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  • Why is it that everytime someone on the left does something stupid online, it's automatically propaganda? Why can't it just be the case that there are a lot of politically and generally uneducated people that are part of the movement, which is consistent with every populist movement for all time? This has to be reckoned with and mitigated if the left ever wants to actually hold power and do something with it.

  • White House eases sanctions on violent Israeli settlers

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  • No, it doesn't. They did not ease the sanctions. They clarified what sanctions were already in place. I'm with you, stricter sanctions are needed here, but they did not remove any restrictions because that restriction was not truly in place before.

  • Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun to step down in management shakeup amid safety crisis

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  • Oh this can absolutely happen at the less luxurious positions. For instance, FAANG (the big 5 tech companies, if you don't work tech like 3/4 of the Fediverse) can afford to pay salaries well above any other employers. We're talking 200k-400k here, not obscene billionaire-class stuff. Once they grab you, they can treat you worse once you get adjusted to the salary that no one else can match. I've seen it happen to a lot of people who end up miserable until they leave and have to go through the readjustment period.

  • This was the first result on Google

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  • Wow, those are some serious Licensed Insurance Agent skills

  • Russia ‘ready’ for nuclear war, Putin claims

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  • This is definitely clickbait. Russia, a nuclear power, decided to continue not losing its nuclear power status. Wow!

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    Politics sub has tankie mods

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  • It's the Fediverse. Go make/run your own. I'm no tankie fan, but if somebody puts in the work to set up and moderate a sub, they kinda get to own that space.

  • Facebook and Instagram are currently down.

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  • Yeah I'd be less worried about internal pressures (which should be minimal at a halfway decently run org) and more about the externals. I don't think you would actually end up dealing with anything, but I'd know those reliant huge corps are pissed.

    Man, your on-call situation sounds rad! I was salaried and just traded off on-call shifts with my team members, no extra time off. Luckily though, our systems were pretty quiet so it hardly ever amounted to much.

  • Facebook and Instagram are currently down.

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  • That's fair. Yall, I was really not trying to be shitty. It was just shorthand I used, thinking of their HQs. No ill intent intended and I apologize for any harm it caused.

  • Facebook and Instagram are currently down.

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  • I've been an SRE for a few large corps, so I've definitely played this game. I'm with you that it was likely just the FB identity or ad provider causing most of these issues. So glad I'm out of that role now and back to DevOps, where I'm no longer on call.

  • Credit card late fees capped at $8 under Biden crackdown on 'junk fees'

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  • Disappointed in the comments here so far. There's a cardinal rule of improv that also works well for many other things in life, politics included: "yes, and".

    This is a great change that will save folks money and make the country just a little bit fairer. Celebrate that, and then use the momentum to push for more. This builds alliances and a shared vision, instead of devolving into petty squabbles around direction.

  • Facebook and Instagram are currently down.

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  • The country where all of those services are maintained and hosted in... Just colloquial shorthand, not trying to be exclusionary.

  • Facebook and Instagram are currently down.

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  • Looking at the downmeter shot someone posted above, it's half the SREs in the country. Not sure what the root cause will be, but damn that's a lot of money down the tubes. I would not want to be the person who cost Meta and Google their precious thirty 9's of availability lol.

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    Unanimous Supreme Court restores Trump to Colorado ballot

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  • This will be contentious maybe, but I don't think the supreme court should ever care about consequences. They are interpreters. In the theoretical framework of our government, the consequences were considered and locked in by the legislature and it's up to the executive to use discretion in enforcement.

    However, all that being said, the consequences for this would have sucked so hard. Every single election season, wall to wall coverage of court cases in all 50 states trying to toss candidates. Judiciary gets juiced even more than it already is, and judicial takeover becomes even more political than it already is. The presidential election hardly matters when the judiciary has become your new honorary electoral college.

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  • Not going to respond honestly with someone who edits their comments after people reply to make themselves say something completely different.