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Admiral Patrick
Admiral Patrick @ admiralpatrick @lemmy.world
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China has secretly installed kill switches in solar panels sold to the West - which could see Beijing plunge its enemies into darkness

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    • Giant meat companies are trying to roll back hard won legal protections for american meat and poultry farmers that supply them

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  • Per rule 4, can you please update the post title to match that of the article?

    Article title is "Livestock Producers Seek to Defend Packers and Stockyards Rules from Industry Attack"

    • Taking Caffeine pills make more sense in every way possible than drinking Coffee.

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  • I thought you could? If not, feel free to re-post it without the personal attacks.

    • Taking Caffeine pills make more sense in every way possible than drinking Coffee.

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  • Your cited sources check out. Despite the saltiness, you're mostly fine here.

    EXCEPT where you call them a moron. If you can edit the comment to remove the personal insult and reply when you're done, the comment can be restored.

    • Permanently Deleted

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  • There was an episode of QI where Stephen was playing with a device where you point its directional microphone at someone, and it plays their voice back with a slight delay making it very difficult for them to speak. The guests had to try to read a children's book aloud while he pointed it at them. None of them except Alan could do it.

    I would like to buy one of those devices lol.

    • [NO LONGER ACTIVE] Announcing an April charity event!

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  • !whitelistsilver

    • Trump says Palestinians will have no right of return to Gaza under his plan

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  • Are we? I feel like that's a pretty necessary "/s" considering the mental gymnastics I've heard IRL and on Lemmy. If they edit their comment to add that very necessary qualifier, I'll happily throw 'em an upvote. As-is, I genuinely have no idea.

    • Trump says Palestinians will have no right of return to Gaza under his plan

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  • And idiotic absolutism is why we're in this mess.

    Good job!

    Edit: If you meant the /s on your comment, my bad. There's just so many insane takes going around, I kind of need that to differentiate.

    • Kansas joins effort to stop counting noncitizens in census, but communities fear damage.

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    • Kansas joins effort to stop counting noncitizens in census, but communities fear damage.

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  • Hi, Dot/Joker/000:

    You gonna nuke this account and all conversations attached to the posts, too?

    • Trump Administration leaked memo banning observance of MLK Day, Pride, and Holocaust Rememberance Day as part of crack down on DEI

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  • Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

    Rules:

    1. Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

    Is Xhitter an article? Is this unsubstantiated image?

    No and no.

    Please familiarize yourself with the rules OP.

    • Because if you're not stupid then you're choosing it willingly and that's still stupid.

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  • Nothing for or against the content, OP, but removing since it violates rule 1 which prohibits political posts.

    • Elon Musk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a nazi salute.

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  • Posting this to sticky it in the comments.

    This post is somewhat in the realm of rule 1 (no politics), but it's highly topical (for better or worse) and not specifically political. So as long as the discussion remains civil and without devolving into endless volleys of Godwin's Law, I'll allow it. Please don't make me regret this lol.

    • Community Locked / Going Dark in Protest [Meta] [Updated 2025-01-13]

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  • That's good news (hopefully). Thanks!

    Will keep an eye out, but community is remaining locked until the clarifications are published and deemed acceptable.

    • Community Locked / Going Dark in Protest [Meta] [Updated 2025-01-13]

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    • Community Locked / Going Dark in Protest [Meta] [Updated 2025-01-13]

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  • My stance has always been keep the server/instance rules generic / non-micromanaging and let the communities do what they do (so long as they're in compliance with the generic server rules). That's pretty much been LW's stance until yesterday.

    Re: fiefdoms

    Many times I've seen new communities spring up as alternatives and people slowly (sometimes rapidly) moved over organically. That's one of the big benefits to the Fediverse. My experience has been that, letting the Fediverse do what it does, the problems will generally sort themselves out as bad mods/instances are identified and avoided with alternatives springing up to fill the gap.

    • Community Locked / Going Dark in Protest [Meta] [Updated 2025-01-13]

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  • I'm with you in spirit, but I can't and won't endorse that kind of behavior (not even saying that to cover my ass; I'm truly against it).

    However, should that occur organically (and it will), feel free to shine a "I told you so" spotlight onto it.

    • Community Locked / Going Dark in Protest [Meta] [Updated 2025-01-13]

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  • As I understand it, yes, that is the intent of the policy. However, as-written and presumably as it is to be enforced for all mods LW-wide, it has wide-reaching implications with worse side-effects.

    Basically, the proper tool is a scalpel and they brought out a machete.

    • Community Locked / Going Dark in Protest [Meta] [Updated 2025-01-13]

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  • I never said I was against the goal they were trying to achieve, just the means by which they're using to achieve it.

    • Community Locked / Going Dark in Protest [Meta] [Updated 2025-01-13]

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  • I'm mostly with you, though with a much more strict stance against allowing misinformation/conspiracy/etc. On that:

    The beauty of the fediverse is that I also have no problems with someone setting up a competing community that takes a much less tolerant perspective and has a rule that participation is conditional on agreement to certain perspectives.

    That's what this new moderation policy abolishes: That competing community is now apparently required to platform misinformation, propaganda, et al while also being more or less required to spend time refuting every claim lest it stand unchallenged. As I said in the announcement post, it's holding the doors open and saying "no, after you" to gish-galloping the mods and platforming every crackpot conspiracy, propaganda, "civil" hate speech, etc so long as they're civil and not spamming it.

    Yeah, the Fediverse allows for "just moving to another instance" but for the largest Lemmy instance to force a "both sides" stance on its entirety is a slap in the face.

    Vote manipulation is common in Lemmy. While the actor described in that post has changed tactics (and that post barely scratched the surface), they certainly did not stop. All they need to do is boost the misinformation and downvote the rebuttals when previously, the misinformation would just be correctly modded.