The Patriot Front is one of the groups that perpetuate the conspiracy theory about the secret Democratic cabal of child sex abusers. So the emphasis here is quite relevant. It’s like saying “anti-LGBTQ man arrested for soliciting gay sex” (something that also seems to happen with depressing frequency). If membership of a group is relevant to the alleged crime then or course it should be noted.
In Israel the right-wing government is currently using the same argument to try to muzzle the supreme court so it can push through legislation. It’s always a bad idea. Anytime we Democrats remove these mechanisms it always comes back to bite us. In 2013 Harry Reid led a vote to reduce the Senate supermajority requirement for bench appointments from 60 votes to a simple majority. The direct result of that was the Republicans removing the supermajority requirement for the Supreme Court which culminated in the mess we have today.
The founding fathers built in these safeguards to force us to seek compromises. The alternative is rule by the extremes which is what we see today.
“Vested interests create “checks and balances” primarily to make political systems non-responsive to demands for social reform.”.
It is thanks to checks and balances that we don’t currently have a dictator Trump running this country. Anyone who thinks checks and balances are a bad idea need only take a cursory glance at the world over the past few years to realize we would be far worse off without them. From Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil to Boris Johnson in the UK, would be autocrats were thwarted in their quest to remain in office by these same checks and balances.
There are 300 fatalities a year from toasters. Maybe we should ban them.
I understand what you’re trying to show but this doesn’t really work. Every one of the categories you list could also include members of the LGBTQI+ community. Also the numbers should be relative to the proportion of each group in society and not raw counts in order to really answer the question.
No-one in the comments seems to have read the ruling. The discrimination is not “based on the client’s sexual orientation” at all. It’s based on the specific message that the client wanted to display.
If I, as a devout Satanist, believe in a womans sacred right to have an abortion I could refuse to design an anti-abortion website for a Christian group, but I couldn’t simply refuse to design a generic website simple because the client is a Christian.
I’m not saying I agree with the ruling, I’m just explaining what it means.
Except that with the USSR falling the transition of power for Russia was a bit more peaceful
At the time that wasn’t a given. Gorbachev was under a lot of pressure from hardline communists within the party to crack down on the uprising and no-one really knew where the loyalties of the military lay. As it turned out Yeltsin won the day and the transition went peacefully but it could very easily have turned out differently.
Just to add to this, a Prigozhin government would likely be far worse for Ukraine. While Putin had few qualms brutalizing civilians and committing war crimes Prigozhin has none. He’s a ruthless, murderous thug. The best outcome would be that he is defeated by the Russian military but that they have to withdraw troops from Ukraine, allowing the Ukrainians to seize the initiative with their offensive. The worst outcomes don’t bear thinking about.
Hopefully the whole debacle will focus people’s minds on the real problem. The US government is spending more than it is taking in, and that’s a problem with only 2 possible solutions (continuing to raise the debt ceiling doesn’t count as a solution). We must reduce spending or increase revenue by raising taxes. There is nothing else to discuss… kicking the can down the road only hurts us more in the long run.
Spending money on worthwhile endeavors is a good thing, but you have to have the money to spend in the first place. If you don’t and you just kick the can down the road it puts a much heavier burden on future generations. We need to get serious about raising taxes on those who do not pay their fair share.
18C . We live in a condo building that is well insulated so setting it any lower wouldn’t help. I agree, it’s preferable to sleep when it’s cooler. 24C in winter is insane - if you’re cold just put on a jersey or a fleece.
I think it looks great. Simple and clear
Shadow banning… one of the most Orwellian moderation tools ever.
Even if they lose 50% (unlikely) the changes they make will still be more lucrative for them. The people who leave are probably not their most profitable demographic in the first place. The new API fees will easily make up for that. Twitter was the same … as much as people predicted it’s demise it’s more profitable now than it ever was.
I’m just hugely happy and grateful to the people behind Lemmy whose hard work and unselfish behavior allowed us all to benefit.
User caps might be a good way to decentralize and ensure that we don’t end up with just a few mega-instances. If there were a page showing available instances with percent of max users then people could use that when selecting.
Since communities (aka subreddits) are hosted on different servers (instances) I thought I would need a separate account on each instance to be able to post them (kept getting “not logged in” message).
Once I actually read the instructions everything was good. One account (choose the instance you want) and then use search … but you must enter the remote instance url exactly as written… no wildcats or anything.
TIL a new verb
I spent a few hours searching for communities that matched my reddit subs. So far there’s not too much there but I’ll certainly try to do my part to change that.
I spent a few hours searching for communities that matched my reddit subs. So far there’s not too much there but I’ll certainly try to do my part to change that.
My parents were British and they used to have two washing bowls. Pile the dirty dishes into one and fill with warm water and dish soap. Clean water in the second bowl for rinsing. After a while the second bowl builds up residual soap so it needs to be emptied and refilled. I figure I use the same amount of water rinsing under a running faucet. But the soak thing is a great tip - leaving dishes in water to soak makes cleaning them so much easier.