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gedaliyah , 4 months ago

Well, that’s in my head now.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

In my opinion, the major difference between instances is moderation practices. There may also be technical aspects such as down time or frequency of updates that may affect your experience.

I find that lemmy.world has well balanced moderation. They don’t allow spam or abuse, and they’re not pushing an agenda.

It’s a good place to start.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

For example, beehaw.org is known for more strict moderation. It’s a very positive place in my opinion, but there’s a trade off that not as many different voices are tolerated. There are also some like lemmyNSFW.com that let users post/say whatever they want as long as it’s legal.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

A lot of people left reddit because of the way admins were inserting themselves into communities. There is a different dynamic here.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

This seems like common sense to me.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

Yuuuuuup.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

Misgendering is a cornerstone of the antisocial system of harrassment that contributes to trans deaths. Calling it a mild form of harassment is deeply misguided.

By the way, this is one of those places where engaging in transphobia (or any other form of bigotry) will get someone banned.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

What I don’t understand about the ruling is that congress has already exercised their power. Donald Trump was impeached by congress in 2021 for inciting an insurrection. The states are only enforcing the law based on the ruling a of the House of Representatives and a majority of the Senate.

gedaliyah OP , 4 months ago

This can be reposted a thousand times and it would never be too much

gedaliyah OP , 4 months ago

Tea Party was just embryonic Trumpism

gedaliyah , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

How do the google guys manage to keep themselves out of pictures like this? I know they keep a low profile but isn’t it one of the most evil corporations on the planet?

gedaliyah , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Can I put in people who drive their cars in the bike lane?

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

That’s a very thoughtful thing to say!

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

Powered flight was fifty years away from about the ninth century onward. Until 1903. After that it was trivial.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

Is this art or AI?

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

Darn it! Why doesn’t he just make peace in the middle east already? How hard can it be??

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

They’ve turned down every ceasefire proposal so far, but eventually they’ll have to accept one. Israel is not going to go home when there are still over a hundred hostages in Gaza.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

If Israel were interested in wiping out Gaza, the death toll would be in the hundreds of thousands or millions, which would be consistent with other world conflicts.

Clearly Hamas infrastructure still exists, if they are releasing highly produced videos of hostages to torment their families.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

Any thoughts on codeberg? I’ve seen a project or to there.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

I’m religious and I’d rather trust my kid with a Satanic Temple volunteer that some born-again wingnut any day.

Chaplains are not qualified to serve in schools.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

If it’s not slightly irritating to someone, is it even shitposting?

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

It seems like for lot of countries, oil is a poison pill. The entire economy as at the whim of a single market, and there’s very little room for a middle class. There’s just the wealthy who own the oil and the poor who have nothing.

South Sudan started as a beautiful dream, but without responsible leadership and developing a more diverse economy, that dream may be lost.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

This is such an awesome project! They should be federally funded for every city over one hundred thousand people.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

Stop forcing your lifestyle on me! /s

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

The lawsuit, first filed in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Indiana, alleges that Senate Bill 480 violates the U.S. Constitution on multiple fronts, including the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In addition, the lawsuit claims that the law violates the federal requirements of the Medicaid Act and the Affordable Care Act, because it prohibits essential medical services that would otherwise be authorized and reimbursed by Medicaid

Via ACLU

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

!lemmybewholesome

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

Nashville has had a pride festival for the past thirty five years. They were a member of the confederacy for almost exactly five years.

BuT iTs our hiSTorY!!!

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

That’s true. The ebay search is S tier for sure.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

They have all the top brands like Florgu, Kremplo, Barbentron, Zelimbio…

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

Maybe it’s regional, but the webpage doesn’t say anything about a donation. It uses language like “store,” “purchase” and “subscription.”

gedaliyah OP , 5 months ago

How messed up is it that the conservatives who warned against Russia in the early 2000s turned out to be right?

gedaliyah OP , 5 months ago

in English, and especially UK newspaper reporting, “refuse” is also used to indicate that it’s something unexpected. I’m not sure that we can do away with sensationalist headlines without also banning all british news sources.

gedaliyah OP , 5 months ago

Of course! Mutual interest and strong economic ties have a long and well-proven history of building peace.

We’re learning that certain regimes are too fundamentally poisonous. They will undermine their own peace and prosperity just to dominate their rivals. See also North Korea and Iran

gedaliyah OP , 5 months ago

https://thumbsnap.com/i/sirwC94a.png

gedaliyah OP , 5 months ago

The photo was just an illustration that this really did happen, and at the time was considered a total “zinger.” At the time I really considered Romney a complete tool but here we are a dozen years later and I’m the one with egg on my face.

I think it was about 2 years later that Putin started attacking and annexing parts of Ukraine.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

Is it naive to think that this could be the first step toward the first Palestinian elections in decades? Abbas is in the 20th year of his 4 year term.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

So you’re upset because a reporter is checking their information rather than rushing to premature conclusions? The video was taken down by Twitch and could not be immediately verified. Now that it has, the article reads:

Leading up the incident, Bushnell said in the video that he “will no longer be complicit in genocide.” Later, as he burned in front of the Israeli Embassy, Bushnell could be seen on the livestream yelling “Free Palestine!”

Waiting a few hours for reliable information is exactly what a good news agency should do. People demanding news that rushes to conclusions regardless of their information is what leads to misinformation.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

So should we automatically believe every video that circulates online? Basic journalistic standards require verification of any source. As has already been pointed out, the article was updated with the relevant information once it was available and verified. This is common practice among every news source that publishes online.

Journalists have two options in the midst of a developing story. They can rely on rumor and instinct to publish whatever version of the story they think is the truth, and if they get it wrong, update the retraction later. Or they can wait until they have verified information, and report on only what they know. Frankly, I think there are too many sources out there who do the former, and too few who take the latter path.

You’re upset over basic journalistic standards and projecting them into something they’re not. There’s a reason that articles published online list the date/time of the most recent update, not just the time of publication.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

An earlier version of the sentence reads (bold mine):

As of Sunday afternoon, NPR was not able to independently verify the man’s identity or motives.

Although there were indications that he was a US servicemember (he was wearing a uniform) and likely his identity - as you mentioned, he recorded the video - they were not verified at that time.

Once his Identity was verified, the reporter removed that part of the line. Once his motives were verified, she removed that part of the line as well. This is just how news reporting works.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

Except they did report on it. This is from an early version of the story before they had access to a verified video. This version of the story was only up a couple hours while they were working to verify the information they had.

That’s it.

People are really working to make this something that it’s not.

gedaliyah OP , 5 months ago

Calling PBS and AP - two of the most highly regarded news sources - “blatent propaganda” says more about this comment than the article.

You linked the Wikipedia article:

The Houthi movement is a Shia Islamist political and military organization that emerged from Yemen in the 1990s.

In 2003, influenced by the Lebanese Shia political and military organization Hezbollah, the Houthis adopted their official slogan against the United States, Israel, and the Jews.

In late 2014, the Houthis repaired their relationship with [former president Ali Abdullah] Saleh, and with his help they took control of the capital city. The takeover prompted a Saudi-led military intervention to restore the internationally recognized government, leading to an ongoing civil war

As far as I know, even their allies Iran and North Korea don’t recognize them as the legitimate government of Yemen. I’m not sure where you got your information, but I believe perhaps you misread or misunderstood something that you read.

gedaliyah OP , 5 months ago

That was Saddam Hussein who did that anyway.

Trust me, the us government has done enough shitty things what without needing to make up stuff.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

So post them here. Everyone who follows this community wants to be better informed. That’s why we’re here

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

It looks like there is already a (somewhat) active community at https://lemmy.world/c/wallstreetbets

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

So I think it’s fair to say that “AI” is officially the new “Blockchain.” If you put it in your name people will automatically think that it is some kind of techno-wizardry that makes everything work better. And then they’ll give you lots of money.