psychothumbs @ psychothumbs @lemmy.world

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War is hell, but few wars have ever been more justified than this one.

I do actually support that reform but it would have pretty marginal effects.

Good luck to the Palestinian freedom fighters! Apartheid must end!

Word does not use odt

LibreOffice works at least as well as Word on its own terms, the problem is how Microsoft deliberately breaks interoperability so you can't reliably share the documents you create on Libre with people who are going to open them with Word.

Huh I'm also a regular DDG user but I never have that experience.

If that's how you connect with a certain community it's not a serious option to stop using that kind of social media without solving the collective action problem of getting that whole community to switch.

I'm over here on lemmy giving it a go, but it is a real challenge.

I think shopping part of google search has the same problems as the rest of it just more so - there is a fundamental disconnect between searchers wanting neutral results and producers paying google to direct customers to their products. The more ability you have to control your search the less ability they have to sell highly ranked search results to advertisers.

Yeah I'm pretty much exclusively on DuckDuckGo these days, which is partially based on Bing but with a lot more privacy, and never really have any trouble.

I can have sympathy for people desperate for jobs, and I can understand class warfare, and yet … once again something that women and enbys spent years and decades building up, is ruined because cishet men decided it was more ‘convenient’ for them to invite themselves into spaces not designed for them.

Couldn't this same logic be used by men to justify not allowing women into the tech industry in the first place? If someone of the wrong gender being around counts as "ruining" then men could say "once again something that men spent years and decades building up, is ruined because women and enbys decided it was more ‘convenient’ for them to invite themselves into spaces not designed for them." In fact I'd say something like that attitude really is what underlies a lot of tech industry sexism.

Gender-exclusive spaces often seem appealing to the favored gender, but they're really not good for anybody.

Gender is indeed based on what an individual feels like. That's a perfectly reasonable way to categorize people - it's also for example what religion is based on. It's just hard to implement systems where you give different rights to different genders when there's no way to check what gender someone is besides asking them. Probably the best solution is to just treat people the same regardless of gender so nobody has an incentive to lie.

Companies are definitely looking for applicants there, so it would definitely be discriminatory to ban men from it. That's why it would be illegal to ban men:

"The nonprofit says it believes allyship from men is important and noted it cannot ban men from attending due to federal nondiscrimination protections in the US."

Glad to see federal anti-discrimination law working to prevent these conference organizers from being as sexist as they wanted to be.

Almost everything we think of as Greek innovations was actually the Greeks absorbing knowledge from the civilizations to their east. Greece is just when our records traditionally went back to.

I like it, seems like a good way to get to critical mass on the small subs here. Can't really offer any help, but good luck and thanks!

That's great, what happened in the last week or so to produce a boost?

I still haven't seen any confirmation of whether this means he will be out of the Democratic primary or is trying to do both.

Hey that's great, good job! I'm so unused to any disappointing decision being reversed, this really is an amazing site.

Huh? Just look at it and copy and paste it!

Not that I really care, I'm just saying that's the context that would be useful.

The text of your comment that got you banned