It may make sense for specific services which are naturally bias and unfair (can’t think of any that would warrant it), but for general governance weighting citizens votes differently for any reason is entirely anti-democratic.

Also the UK’s House of Lords is no better. Giving a bunch of historically elite landowners authority based on wealth and birthright is fucking disgusting.

That might have been revolutionary in 1776, and cut it in 1950, but its the 21st C — as long as the electoral college exists the US should not be viewed as more than a pseudo-democracy at best.

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As others suggested you don’t need all your historic mail on your mailserver. My approach to email archival is the same as all my historic data — a disorganized dumping ground that’s like my personal data lake, and separate service(s) to crawl, index, and search it (e.g. https://www.recoll.org/)

I hope Ukraine drone operators drop the NK soldiers Korean language propaganda and give them plenty of chances to surrender. I wouldn’t be surprised if they haven’t even been briefed on drone warfare; just cannon fodder for dictators. I doubt they have any context for why they’re there.

Some would argue that’s the entire purpose of dragnet mass surveillance and surveillance capitalism — to have multiple layers of leverage over every individual.

America is a corporation, masquerading as a democracy, whose sole goal is generating profit. Israel’s genocide is a small part of a greater holy war which is extremely profitable.

Desert Storm 2.0 netted the MIC trillions (with a capital T) of dollars in profits, and most of that was built on lies. Another one is financially… irresistible. You think the devils in skin-suits are gonna let a little genocide get in their way? There is literally nothing more important in the universe to them, than the profits they will make from this.

Fuck that. These laws almost always seem like a move BY surveillance capitalism to ID all user traffic, using the state (regulatory capture or bribery) under the guise of “child protection”. If we lived in actual democracies, instead of capitalist plutocracies, the easiest way to universally apply this and preserve civil liberties would be to incorporate a broad age indicator — “adult”, “teen”, and “child” — into every web comms protocol. If it were at the OS / browser level parents could then setup a child or teen account and, unless the child figures out the admin password, they’re stuck with it; every request their device makes to the Internet will include it.

Then every site would only be responsible for checking that value and required to block “child” &/or “teen” from specific services or content… That’s basically how ID’s work when you visit your local alcohol dealer or sex shop - “adult” / “not adult” is all they need to know … Hell, ban all advertising, data capture, use of analytics in content discovery, etc for non-adults. Let children use the internet the way it was before parasites took over. No friction for every user. No requirements for people to hand over their PII to countless corporations (which should be limited as much as possible). No games of whack-a-mole. At the end of the day there will always be workarounds, but it’s the parents responsibility to monitor their children; not the internets, or rest of society.

Because there is no war but the class war. Always has been.

Fascism always hurts itself in its confusion, along with everyone it touches, because it’s a mental illness.

I wanna see this extended back to at least 1980, which was around the peak for nudity and sex scenes in film; after porn was legalized but before internet porn.

When you’re employed by the state to shit post as your day job, I imagine you have numerous tools — an entire web platform to efficiently orchestrate and coordinate your activity — and time to post everywhere. Strategically, Lemmy is a low investment and could potentially lead to dominating and moderating a much larger community in future.

The Times called the corresponding images of the patients too graphic to publish. “I personally wish that Americans could see more of what it looks like when a child is shot in the head, when a child is flayed open by bombs,” says Sidhwa. “I think it would make us think a little bit more about what we do in the world.”

“democracy dies in darkness”, yet there is seemingly no journalists with any integrity, capable of showing the world the reality of the war machine. “Out of sight, out of mind” enables war and genocide.

Honestly just read the raw facts on wikipedia about zionism and prominent zionists from the late 1800’s, clicking and reading the links about all the key events and people through to the creation of Israel, resulting Nakba, and everything since then. Just spending a few nights going down those rabbit holes — all very matter-of-fact and neither pro/anti either — is all that was needed to decide that this has been a planned genocide the entire time, and “radicalize” me against both Israel and zionism… and I’m an athiest who could not care any less about the ethnic “division” or religious fairy tale bullshit excuses anyone involved believes.

The MIC has more control over US foreign policy than the US political class (including the president) because America is a shadow plutocracy — controlled by the near-circular venn-diagram of its wealthiest individuals and corporations — masquerading as a “democracy”. Americans are able to vote in free elections, but 90% of the politicians on state and federal ballots are pre-approved, pre-positioned, and directly financed by the plutocracy. Most of the laws passed by congress are directly written by corporate legal teams, packed with unrelated provisions to allocate public money to corporations; they don’t even read or understand exactly what they’re voting on most of the time… This is ultimately the case in every “democracy”, just with varying degrees of gratuity and success.

The proof is honestly in most of the US’s present and past actions, both domestically and internationally (including the undying support for Israel). They’ve been allied with, and militarily supported, countless dictators all around the world for centuries, because dictatorships are more profitable for American plutocrats than democracy. Democracy poses a direct threat to corporate power and profits, and is literally why they overthrew the Shah in Iran. I genuinely believe that MAGA is more a power play by the plutocracy to formally end American democracy once and for all (with thunderous applause) and solidify the corporate dictatorship through a fascist theocracy… Otherwise they will continue to face the threat of left leaning movements like Bernie Sanders actually coming to fruition.

Well it makes sense. Nationalism is for people stuck with a primal tribal-like psychology and view of the world. I’d be willing to bet they also trend “conservative” and believe caste systems are the ideal “natural order of things”.

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Using words that frame everyone you disagree with as insects is sure to make you sound rational and not at all pro-genocide…

Bold of you to assume “starve” instead of “mass murder” to slow the depletion of Earth’s finite resources.

Some of those that work forces

This style was commissioned starting in the 70’s, when population density was lower, there were fewer trains, and average travel time was higher due to suburban sprawl and most workers employed in the inner city; many spent 1 hour or more on the train each way.

There’s a new metro project that looks more global.