t3rmit3 @ t3rmit3 @beehaw.org

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Hold onto it in case it's needed.

Or take half, and have the admins/ mods choose 4-6 charities, and the community vote on which to donate it to.

Holy shit. Somehow it's both exactly what you expect, and completely shocking. Literal dehumanization and genocide, played as jokes.

Who's 'we'? xD

Yes, 君 is 'kun' when used as an honorific.

海 is 'umi', or sea/ocean. You are correct that the second half of the kanji (母) is the same as the standalone character for mother, but it's base radical is ⽏, which also just means mother. The first radical, ⺡, means water/ liquid, so you can sort of infer that "water mother" = ocean. Not all kanji work out this nicely with their radical structure, though.

Last part is spot on, ikou (行こう) is the shortened (conjugation?) of iku or 'to go' that expresses a suggestion to do, i.e. "let's (go)".

I have to since my partner doesn't speak Japanese, but half the time I end up having to correct lines for them once or twice, to make things make sense. The non-egregious stuff I don't even bother with. It's crazy how amateurish some of the mistakes are, or even what are clearly choices to omit entire sentences, for no reason.

おい、ゆうじ君、海行こうぜ

"Hi Yuji!"

The actions of an employee, when reviewed and released by a company, are the actions of that company. A company is just the sum of its employees' actions.

It's insane that Lieber essentially argues that free transit is bad because you can't crack down on fare evasion if there's no fare to evade.

There is definitely a spectrum of performativeness in public reading, with "Grimes sitting on the sidewalk in designer distressed clothing, reading the Communist Manifesto" at one end, and sitting in a chair at a coffee shop at the other.

We're performative every day; it's not like the clothes we wear and how we style ourselves and the choices of people we hang out with in public aren't also performances that we use to signal information to others. Whether that performance rises to the level of performativeness (derogatory) is mostly just in the eye of the beholder: A non-reader might see any public reading as performative. A non-activist might see any activism as performative. Etc.

Every news outlet has bias.

Just because it's not your bias, doesn't make it not news.

Just because it's your news, doesn't make it not biased.

The idea is to create fear. Make Palestinians scared to go to aid centers, so you can look 'good' on the world stage by allowing in a minute amount of aid, but minimize how many people it actually gets to.

Going with a Bond that young gives too much of a Kingsman, action Mary Sue vibe, for me. Bond is supposed to be an ex-British Navy Commander, iirc, which would be late 30s to 40s. Not under 30.

It will make it extremely risky from a liability standpoint to operate any platform that allows user content.

The EFF has a bunch of writeups on these types of laws. This is the last of a 4-part series on them: Link

Fediverse operators would for example be extremely vulnerable to lawsuits, because almost none of them can afford teams of lawyers to deal with claims, true or not, that they failed to enforce content policies.

Depending on how the laws are written, anyone who could find a piece of objectionable content (which will vary by jurisdiction) could sue the platforms. This makes it very appealing as a route to shut down platforms you dislike, especially if they're niche.

It consolidates power under large corporations like Meta and Xitter, who can afford to handle legal threats.

If I had the self control to not just unblock the sites or uninstall the extension, I'd have the self control to not go to them in the first place. :P

I definitely think this sounds like someone who is just lonely and missing connection and attention... and is looking for it in the wrong place (objectification).

I've never been to Chicago or Mama Delia's, but men aren't crawling into holes and disappearing from public life, and it feels like she's using one restaurant that happened to have an imbalance of men vs women to craft a narrative of male withdrawal that imo just doesn't exist.

Are there MGTOWs and hikikomoris? Sure. Are they any significant percentage of men? Not remotely.

I think this piece is more revealing of the author's own mental state, than society's.

Yeah, this is just setting up a future Fetterman/ Sinema. Nothing is stopping her from going independent, or even just voting against GOP bills as a Republican. We don't need her muddying our primaries, turning the Democratic Party into the "redemption arc" career path for conservatives.

Netanyahu is insisting that Iran is only months away from having nukes. Experts disagree. My personal opinion is this is another ploy of his to stay in power, since the "war" in Gaza has been winding down.

Technology isn't inherently bad, obviously, but in our current world it's primarily owned, controlled, and advanced by bad groups and people (for-profit companies, governments, and the rich). Until we actually extricate ourselves from this situation, we should be very wary of looking to technology for cures to out problems.

The Right will shame us for any form of violence, in order to maintain their own monopoly on violence.

It's not just expected, it's accepted by both the Left and Right that right-wingers will use the threat of violent force to their ends, but if anyone opposes that force with their own, the Right will claim they are unreasonable and evil. This is the simple manifestation of White Supremacy as an ingrained mindset, where the same actions that a WASP man takes are wrong for anyone else to, because they are lesser.

We have to move past the half-skeleton Democrats in congress lecturing us because they too have internalized this dynamic. As much as I love Bernie, AOC is correct in actively choosing not to publicly lecture protesters against using whatever means they have to protect human lives and democracy, and in pointing out that MLK only succeeded because the white government was scared of what might happen if they didn't negotiate with him.

Trump is going to escalate no matter what we do, until this country is nothing but a white christian ethnostate run by a succession of white male conservative dictators. This is not a negotiation, because he's not going to negotiate.

Excited to be there! This one feels like it's catching on much more widely than others, including 050501.

At this point, you're better of self-hosting, or even co-lo hosting. Cloud environments are good when you need to scale faster than servers can be shipped (or plan to scale down before the costs add up), but $5k a month is literally a new, decently-beefy server every 2-3 months.

In terms of solving the money issue, I feel like the only solution is a shared-cost/ shared-ownership model, where you get an initial pool of money together for the initial build-out, and then monthly costs are divided equally among all members. You can't rely on donations, you need collectivism.