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liberals, shitpost 

after that one I stop (for now, today, maybe, dunno):

liberals be like:

unsolicitted advice to white people who want to be helpful 

But, like, all the white people in the replies trying to be helpful by centring themselves is . . . fucking yikes.

So, for people who want to be allies:

1. Don't ask the person being harassed for stuff. If you want to help, but don't know what to do, make a separate post asking on your own TL.

2. Your feelings of guilt or shame or whatever for stuff that you didn't actually do - replying about those emotions reads like a request for reassurance. Somebody been systemically harassed should not be asked to make you feel better about their pain. If you're having complicated feelings about whiteness, this is good for your own post. Self-loathing is not a more acceptable way of centring your own whiteness.

Rule of thumb: if your reply is actually about you, just subtoot it instead.

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I think we need to encourage people to stop using phrases like "Rupert Murdoch is worth $8.3 billion" and replace them with the more accurate "Rupert Murdoch *controls* $8.3 billion." People aren't worth any more or less because of their wealth or lack of it. The phrase encourages a sloppy and immoral habit of thought.

I don’t know why taking photos of shit like this is so irresistible to me but it is

Everything catastrophically wrong with the world was done to make some billionaire even richer.

Every town that had to evacuate due to a chemical spill, strip mining, or a never-ending underground fire was done to make some billionaire even richer

Every news article that pits white people against minorities and immigrants is written to distract us from billionaires destroying democracy, human rights and the planet to make themselves even richer.

The billionaires are the problem.

meta, racism, question 

I've seen a couple of comments now from various non-white folks saying that they get proportionally *more* racist abuse hurled at them here than on Twitter.

I'd like to better understand why that is - "equally much" makes sense to me, with the culture not being less racist here, but I don't quite understand how it can result in *more* abuse than a functionally unmoderated place like Twitter.

Does anyone have any insights for me about what is causing this to happen? What protection is missing, what misfeature is amplifying the problem, or what else about the environment *or* system here plays a role in this?

(If you're white, please only respond if your understanding is based on what non-white folks have said on the matter; I'm not looking for guesses here from people who aren't themselves on the receiving end, because you're very unlikely to have the right answer.)

means testing doesn't stop determined fraudsters,

but they're an insignificant minority of applicants to government aid programs to begin with.

what means testing does do is convince people who need help that asking the government for help isn't worth the time or effort, and then provide an excuse to cut funding to said means-tested programs due to an artificially depressed number of applicants.

:anarchism:

There is a huge discrepancy between PokéDex entries and like, every canon depiction of the Pokémon world. Shit's way too idyllic for some of those entries to be true.

Either the PokéDex is as faulty as our current day "AI" is, or Professor Oak already knows plenty about Pokémon and he's just sending kids out with their version of a copy of Grimm's Fairytales to teach them some kind of moral lesson.

the iss, a space station run by joint efforts by nasa, roscosmos, esa and jaxa solely for scientific purposes, being scrapped and "replaced" with corporate projects commissioned by individual national governments is a very sad reflection of everything else happening in the world

If you have views on how a better society would work:

Do you also constantly pick out situations you see (in real life, stories, movies, whatever) where something went badly, and then evaluate in your head how your ideal society would have dealt with it, warts and all? Or is that just me?

And if you do, what's your goal with it? (I do this specifically to find gaps/flaws in my ideals)

It's #DisabilityPrideMonth :disability_pride:
Time for my annual PSA for #Video Creators:
*Subtitles Are Vital*
Also, plan on them going Over your video
When you put important info at the bottom of the screen I have to pause, turn off subtitles, rewind, play it to see the info, pause, & turn subtitles back on- unless I miss it entirely because the subtitles hide it!

#Inclusion #Disability #Subtitles #Deaf #HoH #HardOfHearing #Processing #Accessibility

Today is a single serotonin molecule bouncing 'round like a DVD screensaver day.

Let's see how long it takes to bounce perfectly into the corner, and that'll be the one cognitively productive event of the day.

: has any country ever done a comprehensive study on the cost of public transport ticketing (machines, materials, staff, checking, gates, fare management software, transaction fees, etc.), vs. the revenue that it actually brings in?

Free public transport now. Everywhere and for everyone. Dismantle the entire industry of ticketing and checking tickets.

You need to travel? Just hop on the train/subway/bus/ferry! Just goooo!

Neither spouse nor I have become more conservative as we've moved into middle age (we've actually been radicalized across a number of vectors). What I have become, however, is much more pragmatic. I am fine to talk theory and it's important to hold ideals, but at the end of the day (and the conversation, even) I want to know what we can accomplish together IN THE WORLD. I honestly consider 'workability' a MORAL issue, because harm happens in real time.

Can anyone recommend a good write-up - either their own, or one that they’ve used - for self-hosting a Firefox sync server and a Firefox account server?

Not just the sync server, please.

Alternatively, personal recommendations for keeping Firefox settings, including add-ons, custom shortcuts, bookmarks etc., in sync across multiple devices without storing data on someone else’s computers are also welcome.

I’m pretty sure I’ve tried to sync the whole profile before and ran into problems when I had instances of Firefox open on multiple machines simultaneously.

Thanks!

Edit: sorry, I should have said that I’m looking for solutions which run on Linux!

OPINION: stop studying cybersecurity because of me

im trying to get u into activism, not college

https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/please/

Is there any open source solution that could take a input of a dozen pictures (or better, videos) and then create a spherical panorama? Or even to generate a 3d scene with a reasonable precision?

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