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If by “negotiate an end…” you mean carve Ukraine up for mineral and land rights, then I suppose that’s probably accurate enough.

I can’t decide if I should block them so I don’t have to read their nonsense, or not so I can down vote their neolib propaganda.

You’ve got quite the interesting comment history. Is Lemmy your full time job, or something?

I usually dislike this sort of editorialising, but you’ve pointed it out, and I can’t say I disagree.

people detained in tented camps

If we’re calling the “tented camps” at Guantanamo concentration camps, then these definitely qualify as well.

The legacy media’s failure to call Nazi salutes and concentration camps what they are is irresponsible and dangerous.

The only thing you could further do is mention that you’ve editorialised the title in the title itself by [tagging] it.

Sure! I’ll repost someone else’s explanation:

Each comment has a score from -1 to 5 (most comments start at 1), and each user has a score from -10 to 50 (start at 0). Any account that is at least a year or two old, has a high enough score, and has a certain amount of recent activity will occasionally get a package of “mod points” that can be used for increasing or decreasing the score of a comment in any thread to which the user hasn’t already posted along with the score of the user who posted the comment. (Site administrators get unlimited mod points.)

Just to add a few minor bits: Comments that reached -1 would appear collapsed by default. When voting, you’d also choose one out of a preset list of reasons (insightful, funny, etc.), and the dominant reason would tag your comment as that.

This right here. If anything, I prefer Slashdot style mod points to upvotes/downvotes as there is an opportunity cost to voting. I find it fosters more interesting and less echo-chambery discussions.

Most of us are probably guilty of this at least on occaaion, but the down vote button isn’t intended to be a disagree button.

I use pairdrop. I don’t personally self host it, but that option is available. It’s better suited to more one-off situations, as there’s no history kept anywhere.

Selfhost: https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/pairdrop

Open instance: pairdrop.net

Dear Trump:

Their goal isn’t publicity, that’s ancillary to their actual goal. Hmm what could their actual goal be… oh right: Just Stop Oil

I’m fairly certain that these JSO protesters are fully aware that they’ll probably face consequences. They might hope for jury nullification, but I doubt they’d expect it.

The judge can order the jury as they please, but the jury does not need to justify their decisions. This is exactly what jury nullification is.

The jury is the conscience of society, and their job is not only to decide whether the defendant did the acts charged, but whether they should be condemned and punished for it. The jury protects us from immoral or socially undesirable results.

Saving life has historically been an excuse for crime. But only in very direct situations.

As society has failed to properly act to avert disastrous outcomes, the threat continues to become more and more direct.

Unlike damaging electronic signs, painting or historical documents.

Won’t someone think of the lost profits, and museum glass that has to be cleaned. The wealth of billionaires is certainly more important than billions of people dying.

But when you make the choice to break the law based on what is right. You also make the choice to suffer the consequences.

No, they don’t choose to suffer the consequences, they choose to possibly suffer the consequences. The distinction is important.

There are mechanisms to stop unjust applications of the law, such as jury nullification. That they weren’t able to reach a conviction here is the system kind of working.

It’s funny that there’s one incident of class violence in the other direction, and think tanks suddenly start pushing drivel like this in attempt to control public perception.

Sadly, those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Wait, there’s a client that supports user tagging? Which one?

It’s true. All the hamster furries run in big wheels to keep the tube pressure up and the packets flowing.

He can just pile all the dead birds carcasses in Central Park. Surely that’ll help.

That’s a good question. I could see that there might be a lot of downward pressure to find this guy and make an example of him. Maybe they were just happy to fins a patsy to take some of the pressure off.

I think what’s incredibility obvious to you and I is an area of willful and encouraged ignorance for some who benefit from the results of their ignorance. I think that the media is largely complicit is beyond distasteful, but it’s also the reality we live in.

I also think it’s important for wikipedia to work through their own NPOV policies. It should be applauded that they eventually arrived at the correct conclusion, AND moreso that they spent time considering and discarding contrary positions.

Accepting one particular viewpoint with no consideration is dogmatism, and is not helpful to progressive causes.

Dogmatic? That’s pretty rich coming from the country with so much entrenched guilt that they’re willing to let the same thing happen someplace else because the ones they’ve wronged are now the perpetrators.

The correct lesson wasn’t only that ethnic persecution of Jewish people is to be avoided, it’s that all ethnic persecution should be avoided.

Or shot him as well as 2 bystanders and another cop, and then claimed he had a knife, but that it was subsequently stolen.

Backblaze regularly releases failure rate statistics of their drives, and it’s often a big enough dataset to be quite meaningful. I haven’t been keeping up with it lately, but there certainly was a period of time where there were substantial differences in the failure rates of different manufacturers.

So while you do still need to have drive failure mitigation strategies, buying more reliable devices can definitely save you time and headache in the future by having to deal with failures less frequently.

The US is struggling to even maintain its democracy, and all the while, excessive wealth extraction is strangling its economy. They’re stagnating, so it’s not at all surprising that a country with 4x the population would overtake it eventually.