They’re our Reform UK, our Rassemblent National, our Fratelli d’Italia, our Fidesz – arguably our AfD at this point.

Answer: no.

Yeah, but injections look much more precise and clinical rather than like brutally murdering someone, so they keep up an appearance of humaneness to the public. So it’s clearly still the preferable choice.

I’m just so surprised that in addition to not deterring crime at all (and possibly making it marginally worse), not being humane whatsoever, and being far, far more expensive, it’s also completely wrong all the time.

Anyone who still supports the death penalty state-sanctioned murder at this point is either grossly mis-/underinformed or is a “but it’s fine as long as we make really, really sure they did it!” person (not realizing there’s a decades-long appeal process or that administrations who use it don’t actually give a shit about the certainty of a conviction). That, or revenge just makes their pp hard and they genuinely don’t care about the fact it’s categorically worse in every way.

“Ban books having anything to do with sex from public libraries so that children are less likely to realize and communicate they’ve been sexually abused by the church. It’s foolproof.” –the GOP probably

Honestly, I think you chose right just because I don’t think this is that unpopular an opinion. Maybe there should be a grindsmygears community for people to air their annoyances, but I can imagine that going downhill from sensible stuff like this to kind of a cesspool.

100% agreed, but this doesn’t seem like a shower thought.

Anti-gay Japanese politicians right now:

Decentralization actually can be really powerful to give you a backup even if you prefer Signal; Signal’s servers very infrequently go down, but when they do, you entirely lose that channel for an unpredictable amount of time.

Not joining the rooms Element suggests on its own client? Element will show you a list of suggested, popular rooms to join, and a fuckton of these are overrun by spammers and worse. If Matrix has basically zero ability to curate these rooms outside of “here’s what’s got the most members”, then it absolutely should not in any capacity be recommending them, let alone as a way to get started for new users. It’s fucking ridiculous, and before you say “Well why should they be expected to curate the rooms they suggest?”, imagine the fucking disaster Discord would have on its hands if it started recommending servers, and several of its top 100 claimed to be related to popular FOSS applications but were actually completely unmoderated and filled with CSAM and Bitcoin scams.

Soooo… I don’t think this bot should be used in general, but an objective improvement would be to only have it list a source at most one time per comment.

Bro I think somebody murdered a crab, took off its legs, and let it rot in a vat full of acid and raw sewage for two weeks before serving it to you.

Russia today is far-right by about every conceivable metric, so it makes sense.

Tankies don’t actually care deep down about ideas like anti-imperialism or progressivism; they want control. That, or they’re brainwashed enough to jump through layers upon layers of doublethink to reach the conclusion that an oligarchical, bigoted, and repressive oil state constantly and brutally invading its peaceful, democratic neighbors is secretly anti-imperialist and progressive but that this somehow gets tainted through the lens of muh westoid propaganda.

Ancoms fucking hate Russia. Democratic socialists fucking hate Russia. Everyone in their right mind fucking hates Russia.

I know it’s easier if you try to classify things in terms of what you already understand, but you really shouldn’t try to shoehorn the political factions of other countries into Republicans vs Democrats. It’s really just going to impair your ability to actually understand what’s going on.

(Linus is, incidentally, not a billionaire; he has a net worth of about $150 million.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Droid

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fossify.clock/

Ghost Woodstock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can't_Do_That_on_Television

I hate to tell you this, but there’s a neologism for exactly this kind of problem called citogenesis, and the Kansas City Star’s (the Freep is just republishing this) lack of a source here makes me worried that their source is basically just user-generated content they found online and thought looked plausible (this Fandom article proceeds that Star article by about 7 years, so at least it’s confirmed it wasn’t this one). There are numerous times when this has happened because of Wikipedia alone. For instance, a couple months ago, Rachael Lillis, the voice actress for Misty, died. Want to know what happened? The first outlets to report her death – effectively glorified blogs like CBR etc. – said she died at 46. Their source? In all likelihood, her IMDb page. This escalated up to more and more credible sources, and eventually, USA Today, BBC News, etc. all started reporting 46.

Well the NYT actually bothered to reach out to her family, and they confirmed she died at 55. CBC News independently reached out and also verified that age. Some outlets corrected their articles, but if you look up Rachael Lillis’ obituaries, you’ll find a good chunk of them still report her as having died at age 46.

That aside, my actual concern is echoed by @Chozo@fedia.io’s comment, namely that a Fandom article without a source is almost as good as worthless.

This list is just on a wiki with no sources, so unless the individual articles have that source, the source is as good as “I made it the fuck up”.