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My server exists to run programs around the clock, including backups for live sites, so turning them off wouldn't be appropriate.

The fact that Lemmy doesn't calculate and show a user's total post score is proof itself that it doesn't reflect Lemmy's political leanings.

Which clause?

I don't know enough to say if it's more insular or not, I don't know how common it is to have the default sort as All, but we're definitely worldly enough for other instances to have some users pushing stereotypes on us when we comment.

You do have some point about lemmy.ml having enough instances that you can get by with Local as default, but I assume most people would be subscribing to or exploring other instances too? I really don't know.

When liberalism fails, people look for alternatives. Historically speaking, the lower classes move towards socialism, and the owning classes adopt fascism to protect their privileged position from socialists. Apart from some important exceptions, libertarian forms of socialism generally haven't been able to prevail, while one-party states have built third-world countries into superpowers more than once, which makes for an appealing role-model, especially in countries where the system beforehand was a monarchist dictatorship or US puppet pretending to be a democracy.

Nah, they're just over at the crosspost thread: https://lemmy.ml/post/24456592

Their main point is that, as the article states, erotica is outlawed whether it's gay or not. They weren't 'arrested for writing gay erotica', they were arrested for writing erotica. Obviously that's also a controversial position, but it's a very different one to the false homophobic position implied by the headline.

Well that's just it; it's not boring, but watching it usually is. Professional sports was a mistake.

Honestly, it depends on your circles and network. I only remember seeing The Picard Maneuver maybe twice, didn't know of them before this week. I've seen your username far more, for example.

I've only heard of bridges that are set up to enable, say, IRC and Discord channels to replicate to a Matrix channel, and vice versa. So we can have a conversation with you using Discord and me using Matrix, which appears to you as a Discord channel and appears to me as a Matrix room.

I just run mpv $URL

They're anti-oligarch and anti-billionaire. Ask them about the fall of the USSR and its consequences if you don't believe it. They'll tell you how the Russian billionaires looted the place and sold the children into literal prostitution. All the gains of the USSR went to waste.

Any support some of them have for the capitalist RF is 'critical support' based on their theory of multi-polarity, not support for their capitalism nor their billionaire garbage running the show.

When was this questionnaire posted? I didn't see it and get a chance to answer.

Also, I treat servers different to desktops due to different threat models. The server automatically applies security updates and keeps most feature updates sitting for a while for stability, but on desktop I just install everything within a couple of days.

Good question. It's especially a tough one in the real world, where the people who have the power to censor are typically the ones who shouldn't have it.

I personally don't think there are any hard-and-fast definitions of what should be censored and what shouldn't. It depends heavily on content and context. There's a big difference between, hypothetically, a historian discussing Nazi ideology in a research paper, and between a politician discussing it in the presidential debate. One of those has legitimate value to society, the other is anti-social, politically delusional and harmful to citizens. Same with some forms of climate denialism - there is a valid point in permitting counterviews to consensus in the scientific method, but there is also a point where mass media is outright lying for the sake of self-enrichment at the expense of the entire planet's population.

who should be the one deciding

One aspect of this is that communities often decide, to some degree, what is acceptable to say through social mores. This obviously isn't foolproof and can be manipulated, but tends to be better than having just one person at the head of a network deciding.

It is a tough question, because everyone has biases. You shouldn't have any one person or group in control of this.

That all said, my comment was meant more meant as a critique of the environment, where the owning class (that is, the ruling class) own and control the vast majority of the mass media and social media platforms. The worldview I've seen around which suggests their speech is comparable to the speech of you and me is naive. That's a big part of why nonsense is now common sense, because the ruling class and their propaganda can pervade society despite so much of it being either illogical misinformation or outright bullshit.

What did they blow up? Their own vehicle and a piece of the road? Some random bystanders? A few thousands of damage to the hotel maybe? I don't know their goals, but I don't think that's successful if they wanted anything more than attention seeking. (edit: which honestly seems like it could be the goal, why else have fireworks instead of fertilizer?)

Compare with the Oklahoma City bombing.

Speak for yourself. If you're doing nothing, that's on you.

Look at Palestine Action in the UK, who have written off weapons factories. That's doing far more to take down 'the establishment' than a poorly-executed suicide bombing. Look at environmentalists sabotaging coal infrastructure, or even Cop City actions. Look at the unions sabotaging the police in my own city.

Worldwide, people envy you. The poorest inhabitant of the USA has rights, possibilities and duties that only the richest in any other country can only dream of.

It's one thing to exaggerate or to fall for propaganda, but this is a ridiculous statement.

• The richest of many, many countries have more rights and possibilities than 90+% of the USA.
• A whole percent of the USA is incarcerated, and according to their constitution, legal slaves, many performing labor in for-profit prisons.
• According to the UN HRC 2018 report, “5.3 million live in Third World conditions of absolute poverty”. In two of the visited states, "a high proportion of the population is not served by public sewerage and water supply services".

This is not a country which has had mainland wars in the last century. This is the country creating those asylum seekers on rafts through their imperial wars.

“Muslims rape kids” is wrong, bigoted, and a gross generalisation.

Yes. That's why it's an example being used. It's not how you inform the general public of real atrocities, and the important kernels of truth behind that wrong, bigoted and gross generalisation don't justify making it. So I don't understand why you felt compelled to detail them.

We allow generalized hate speech because we believe that the appropriate counter to speech is speech.

In the world of corporate mass media where money is a microphone, unfortunately this belief is just idealist faith. Overall, good ideas and speech alone hasn't prevailed, and harmful speech has done more than counter-speech could hope to fix.

USA McDonalds is one of the worst in the world AFAIK. Actually, that goes for many of their products, from the butyric acid in Hershey's to the HFCS in their world-famous drinks (which I assume is why 'mexican cola' is such a meme in the US due to their cane sugar). The Fanta in Italy actually tastes like good oranges, because they just wouldn't be able to compete with the garbage they sell in many other countries.

Is it true German McDonald's sells beer?