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queue, 2 months ago

Maybe before, but not these days. They take donations claiming to help abortion rights, but also quietly admit they can’t defend them. jezebel.com/satanic-temple-abortion-rights-religi… queersatanic.com/the-satanic-temple-cannot-help-y…

Plus the Temple was sued for harassment of it’s members/advocates. The people were linking publicly accessible info about the Temple’s internal issues and then sued for libel and defamation. newsweek.com/orgies-harassment-fraud-satanic-temp…

Then when Newsweek covered the lawsuit, they themselves were sued for libel, when they literally showed that a lawsuit for telling the truth was being made in courts. law.justia.com/cases/federal/…/27/ casetext.com/…/the-satanic-temple-inc-v-newsweek-…

TL;DR: The Satanic Temple sues you for telling publicly known truths about itself, and then takes money that could go to actual help for abortion rights.

queue, 2 months ago

I wish I could go back to a Lemmy thread showing how Mastodon and other Fediverse instances were blocking Meta ahead of it’s integration, where people went “Oh you’re just being paranoid, why would they do that?” And when given examples of companies taking open standards and either making themselves the biggest source of users or killing it (Microsoft, Google, Apple) they either went “Well that happened in 2006, it’s 2023!”

I know the bootlickers wouldn’t actually change their mind, but jesus christ. It’s frustrating for groups of advocates to be ignored and proven right each time. Cassandra syndrome is real.

queue, 2 months ago

I recall hearing how Russia had dozens of them, and the ROI of a 40 million dollar missile taking out a 400 million ship was great. And then Ukraine got worse and nothing happened, with zero of them ever found or used.

And North Korea thinks it can even attempt that. I guess we need a “new” geopolitical boogieman to pander for increasing military budgets, since Russia is losing and China does it usual “we will take over Taiwan, unlike last year!” every year.

queue, 2 months ago

Interesting, thank you. No one in the circles I’m in who were hyping up Russian hypersonic missiles as the next ICBM mentioned this.

queue, 2 months ago

I’m curious on if it’s possible to do multiple queues, and if not, to rate limit lemmy.world.

queue, 2 months ago

Interesting, gotcha. I’m not a backend dev so I assume you have more info than I do on all this, just spitballing.

queue, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

My main reason is I’m an American, China (probably) can’t do shit to me. But here I’m subject to so much shit America can do legally and illegally, with zero repercussions.

If China fucked me in particular over, odds are it would at least spark debate here. If America spied on my messages and stopped me from protesting something, that’s just a Tuesday afternoon here.

The only reason why Congress wants to ban it, is due to pressure from news agencies and the government, because TikTok can’t be controlled by the CIA. You can’t manufacture consent of the people if the content comes from someone else you don’t control.

www.npr.org/2024/03/13/…/house-vote-tiktok-ban

They’ll ban tiktok but won’t punish overly aggressive police.

They’ll ban tiktok but won’t make food or rent affordable.

They’ll ban tiktok but won’t denounce Israel’s bullshit.

They’ll ban tiktok but won’t cancel student loans.

They’ll ban tiktok but won’t take Covid seriously.

queue, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

www.npr.org/2024/03/13/…/house-vote-tiktok-ban

Advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, have called the bill “censorship plain and simple,” arguing that “jeopardizing access to the platform jeopardizes access to free expression.”

At 27 years old, Florida Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost is the youngest member of Congress, and he opposes the bill.

“I think that it is a violation of people’s First Amendment rights,” he said. “TikTok is a place for people to express ideas. I have many small businesses in my district and content creators in my district, and I think it’s going to drastically impact them too.”

The fact that Republicans started it is enough for me to be at least suspicious of why its even being considered.

EDIT: Also lol at “strong first amendment rights” when redneck states ban any books with queer or black characters. And lmao at “Strong first amendment rights” when people get fired for talking about forming a union, let alone even trying to make one.

queue, 2 months ago

This set is looking to be fun!

queue, 3 months ago

I never understand why in 2024 you’d buy nvidia, unless you like paying more for less, or buying from scalpers for even more money. I guess some people really just go “More money spent on it, more better” no matter what.

queue, 3 months ago

Just another reminder that sports are segregated by gender because men got upset at women beating them, not because of “muh muscle mass” or “muh bone density”.

It’s why Chess is fucking segregated by gender. The most “giga brained chess grandmasters” didn’t like being beaten by women.

queue, 3 months ago

If you’re talking about Lemmy’s 196, it’s not a rule and never was for us. “Post before you leave” is a “rule” but titling it rule is not. It’s just an injoke.

queue, 3 months ago

We actually made INGSOC from 1984 do it for us, we’re very evil that way.

queue, 3 months ago

It’s not a rule for us, just an injoke. The “rule” is post before you leave, not “every post must have rule”. We also can’t/don’t ban people for not posting before you leave. We literally don’t have that power at all, so we can’t use it.

queue, 3 months ago

I can’t find you in the Modlog for any actions but maybe I’m missing something, if you feel something happened feel free to email the mod team.

queue, 3 months ago

Maybe, I just wanted to see if you were and why, so maybe there was a chance on resolving it or not. Take care!

queue, 3 months ago

It’s not inherently bad, it “fails” the Unix Philosophy of “Do one thing and do it well” but since Linux’s kernel is:

• Unix-like, not Unix
• Fails this philosophy, as it does more than one thing but does all of it pretty well
• systemd is just a bundle of tools that do one thing and do it well under one package, like Linux’s kernel

It used to be a mess, but that’s solved. The biggest reason to avoid systemd is mainly user preference, not anything malicious. 90% of current distros use systemd as its easier for the maintainers and package programmers to build for the general than each package and each distro having their own methods of how to do an init system and other tasks.

How Debian and Arch and Gentoo and Slackware and other big distros worked was different, and the maintainers of those packages had to know “Debian’s way” and not a general way that most places accept. Systemd actually solved the Too Many Standards! issue.

I’ve never really seen a big argument against systemd, but maybe I’ve just not heard it.

queue, 3 months ago

Yeah he seems kind of like a weirdo jerk.

queue, 3 months ago

🤓

queue, 3 months ago

I was slightly okay with Audible’s DRM when the credits you got each month stacked with the older ones, so you could have 4 over the months as you still listened to the books you already had, and then exchange them for newer books of the series and what not.

And then my brother and I stopped paying, and the credits were there for a month. Check back later, 0 credits. The books are still there, but the credits we paid money for are gone. So that sucks. Fuck em.

queue, 3 months ago

I meant exchanging the credits for the books, not books for books. Apologies if that came off as unclear.

And a lot of the online ads on podcasts and shows constantly state “it’s all yours to keep as long as you want” so my brother and I, both thought it was to all, not just the books. It’s why we were okay with paying for another month to allow more credits to stack up, as not every book was 1 credit.

queue, 3 months ago

That would imply Biden/democrats have any fucking balls. I would actually love it if Biden’s team just went “Full immunity? Fuck it, we ball.” and just go full hog wild and just push for wild things to actually help people and punish the literal fucking nazis.

But it would be cool.

queue, 3 months ago

King Solomon says no.

queue, 3 months ago

It’s hip!

queue, 2 months ago

I thank you for proving me right, but this a 4 month old thread. Not complaining, just giving you a heads up.