if only Facebook had started in 2004 and not 2024 we might have some historical evidence about how the company handles moderation or community safety or protecting user data or…

if only threads wasn’t launching literally today and we knew if they’d enthusiastically welcome hate accounts like Libs of Tiktok https://www.mediamatters.org/libs-tiktok/timeline-impact-libs-tiktok-told-through-educators-health-care-providers-librarians

Wikipedia is hilariously biased, especially on any politics or history topics.

here are extensive lists of complaints of bias, from both left- and right- wing alternatives:

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia

https://www.conservapedia.com/Wikipedia

not the person you’re replying to but yes, anyone on an unpatched server is vulnerable

3 downvoters will only accept first-party Apple™ servicing of the iBoot™ on their tongue

under any coherent definition of “whataboutism”, it would mean saying “any crimes against humanity committed by the North Korean government don’t matter, because of [something an unrelated regime did]”.

instead, I was responding to @Marsupial@quokk.au, who was saying that the US invading North Korea wouldn’t make the citizens’ lives any worse – to which, talking about the history of how US invasions have affected people seems, I don’t know, extremely relevant?

unless your comment is meant to be satire about how “whataboutism” is coming to mean “any criticism of the US government whatsoever”, in which case it’s a beautiful job 👏

just like the neutral-to-positive impact caused by some good ol’ apple pie war crimes in Viet Nam, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc…?

“unfortunately, there was just no way around it - they built their own weapons instead of buying them for billions each from Lockheed Martin, so the US government just had to murder hundreds of thousands of their civilians” said Spacemanspliff, ruefully taking a toke in memorial of the people who’d chosen to become victims of war crimes

sure, I wouldn’t say no if airbnb instituted a global 2-address-per-person policy 🤝

but not everyone’s “inhospitable for over half the year” is the same, I know more than one person whose local community has been basically destroyed by second home owners, there were plenty of people wanting to live in those places full-time but they were priced out.

somewhat with you except for the “2” - if you agree that taking homes out of the housing pool to run mostly-unregulated hotels is bad, why allow even one per person?

it requires a paid subscription now, it’s not outrageously priced but it feels like it kind of goes against the ethos, and a lot of people have moved to alternatives like bewelcome

JFK - oversaw massive expansion of the US military and laid the groundwork for the Vietnam war, started a military alliance with the Israeli government, helped fight tooth and nail against Black civil rights except for some minimal concessions, promoted a giant tax cut for the rich, etc. etc.

how you think the USA has a moral or legal right to prevent people from entering the country, while denying native american / first nations claims for land or reparations?

I have a lot of questions, but this is the main one

your second linked article begins “The newest are much larger than they used to be”.

the abject state of the USA car industry - that a “mini” is smaller than the even-bigger, also ridiculously over-sized cars on the road - does not change physics. or justify why you feel the need to choose between the terrible options that are the latest models offered by homicidal car manufacturers

the last compact minis were made decades ago and you can buy them without giving BMW a cent. “mini” is just marketing for giant tanks now

https://jalopnik.com/you-can-swap-an-ev-battery-in-china-for-7-1848277018

https://hackaday.com/2022/02/09/china-loves-battery-swapping-evs-but-will-they-ever-make-it-here/

Maybe there was a glitch on Codeberg? it’s working for me currently anyway

Magpie Market aims to be a federated alternative to Etsy, allowing sellers to leverage the fediverse to sell their goods and services.

don’t see mention of magpie market yet https://codeberg.org/MagpieMarket

it’s the only place I know where it’s common to have your whole battery pack swapped out, much quicker than recharging a battery, and leaves the difficult job of battery maintenance up to professionals

Yes, we can see he did that. Yes, she said that afterwards. She showed no signs of it at that moment.

1. please explain what kind of “sign” you are thinking of.

2. please then make an earnest attempt to empathise: you are in a public situation, your boss, who has an immense amount of control over your future career, makes an unwanted sexual advance. how confident do you feel enacting the “sign” in point #1

3. please then rate, on a scale of 1-10, where 1 is “not at all convincing” and 10 is “completely convincing”, the “sign” in point #1, and the public statement after the fact that the kiss was not consensual, in terms of you believing that Hermoso did not consent. in rating the public statement after the fact, please bear in mind the risks of the public statement to Hermoso (including the lawsuit mentioned in this article, the potential career damage in point #2, and the potential harm that thhe player is likely to cause to people who have experienced sexual assault, were she to be discovered to have been lying about not consenting)

@JustinHanagan@kbin.social i think you might have the meaning of “Luddite” backwards https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/