with the armband as well it seems like kind of a dogwhistle

mm, delicious bait! 😋 go on then, which proxy war does the US have "actual moral footing" to get behind?

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

terrifying to me that someone could look at the world around us and think a big change would be a bad thing...

"wuhan virus" opinion discarded

good news!

also another sad example of how arbitrary the word "natural" is. LSD derives from the (very "natural") ergot fungus, MDMA from sassafras - but I guess they're not included because [mumbles something about test tubes]

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)

yes, using bigoted terminology throughout tech is a great example of the cyberpunk DYSTOPIA that fiction warned us about.

meanwhile, in the political side of punk, we're antiracist and finding new words is the least we can do

I was going to make this post myself, thank you 😍

"customer" instead of "passenger" on public transit. implies the kind of ludicrous thinking that public services "lose money"

counterargument: TLDs have been a corporate-minded, US-centric joke since they were invented, the joke got even worse when ICANN wouldn't hand over authority to the UN, worse still with the naked cash grab / branding exercise that was gTLDS (remember the shakedown that was .xxx and .sucks?) and now that .amazon belongs to a creepy oligarch's predatory monopoly instead of the countries containing the ancient giant life-giving rainforest of the same name they may as well just change all TLDs to .clown and let DNS die in peace