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  • I don't live in the us so I can't comment on any change that has been or not been.

    I do know that privilege itself obscures experience. Compassion and empathy are built on experience. Therefore expecting someone who is privileged to have compassion or empathy to those without the same privilige is unrealistic. They have to be shown, or brought to a point where they can align their experience with others.

  • exclusively cishet white population who are financially well off.

    ...there's your problem.

    Why would they care? At worst they're unaffected. At best they're benefitting. What is their impetus for change?

  • After the black Saturday fires in Australia, many home owners who were insured discovered to their horror that they were under insured

    The value of their possessions and the repair value of their home had increased but they hadn't increased the level of insurance coverage to match. Despite suffering total losses, many have been unable to afford to rebuild.

    This has been in the back of my mind seeing the LA fires. This is just the beginning. It will take decades for some of these people to re establish.

  • Site size doesn't matter; prosecution of the actual people who are associated with it still occurs.

    There is practically zero risk for users of lemmy instances, but those who host the instance are identifiable through domain registration, hosting or similar.

    I don't blame the admins for acting in self interest - ultimately they're putting in the effort and wear the risk.

    If you don't agree with it you're welcome to host your own instance - with blackjack and hookers etc.

  • Hold on, think this one through.

    The admins aren't worried about jury nullification per se. They're worried about what regulatory authority can do - shut down the instance, hold admins personally accountable etc - if the instance is classified as a media source + has content which could influence a jury.

    This is no different from the advice given to other media outlets globally.

    Maybe spin it this way. If the very act of having articles celebrating his actions on lemmy.world means his defense is compromised would you be OK with that?

  • let them ask on the safety and confidential internet

    Can't tell if you're being facetious or not.

    I found it deeply uncomfortable that there's people who take the direction of an online community and base their real life actions upon it. making choices about their relationships, marriages, csaeeere, health and so on.

    For every grain of truth or solid perspective given there are 10 which are pointless or unproductive and ar least a couple which were wrong or dangerous.

    None of this is real, its tiny snapshots in a moment of time, stripped of all context but preserved.

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world

    What washes up on tiny beaches?