I could almost see your point, except that "don't show this anymore but don't bother cleaning it up" is what "delete" means all throughout the internet. Following a tradition that goes back to BBSes, Usenet, and MS-DOS.

Trying to delete in social media is like trying to un-publish yesterday's printed newspaper. Maybe it'd be sensible to label the action "hide" or "declaim", but that's probably a whole seperate topic.

Delete means to remove from database, no recovery

From a technical standpoint, this was not at all the case historically. By the time we moved from floppy disks to standard UNIX commands the presumption was that your data would be backed up and thus recoverable, and early RDBMs treated the equivalent to a DELETE SQL command the same way FAT did.

Nowhere in the English language semantically will you find that "delete" implies that you can recover it.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/518243/origin-of-the-word-delete

Delete as originally brought into English from Latin referred to smuding out in your wax slate, and later blotting out your writing to hide a mistake. In both ancient usages the mistake was potentially recoverable, a non-contradicting inference that continued on to the computer age.

Note that we don't generally say "delete" to mean "remove unrecoverably" in other contexts, either. The rules for handling classified material do not merely say "delete", but always compound it with qualifiers or expansive instructions such as "delete unrecoverably" or "delete files and backups".

As far as the hardware you are executing "delete" should follow that command.

Final point: the actions of a user with regard to their posts on Lemmy are not hardware commands. They are pure software concepts that interact with a distributed and abstracted system that is several steps removed from such.

If you are 20 years old, expect to live to 100, and can imagine maybe spending $1 million per year, your maximum lifetime expenses are only $80,000,000. Once you have a large enough share of this that investment returns can earn the rest, you do not ever need to work again

The threshold for "no need to work" is way lower than $1,000,000,000. More than 12 times lower, in fact.

Free speech does include bigotry. But also the appropriate "eww, you're spreading hate you bigot!" reaction.

I don't think people should be set on fire for being bigots. Heck, I don't think they should even be fired or banned from social media for doing so. Just banning them for actual harassment or firing them for insubordination would be regulation enough.

The real issue is when bigots buy platforms and try to rebrand their bigotry as "common sense".

This is generally called the "Wyoming Rule", because since 1990 it's been the least populous state.

https://gigafact.org/fact-briefs/was-nevada-the-least-populous-state-until-1960/

That's so absurdly dumb I somehow feel smarter about never going there.

Let me see if I can translate this article to a less trendy version:

.About 80% of the packaged foods marketed for children between 6 and 30 months include ingredients only used when creating packaged food at scale. Half of these either contained more fat, sugar, and salt than the WHO recommends or did not abide by the WHO's advice to eliminate food coloring.

"OMG, they believe it when they say gender is just a performance and they will respect reported identity no matter how badly you pass!"

Was he expecting to be mocked like a white man in blackface? Only something like 25% of trans women are on HRT; the rest make do with clothing and makeup and being deeply closeted.

If you want to lie that's on you. We're just accountable for our own actions, and it'd be better to believe a thousand transphobic tourists than misgender one t-folk stepping out for the first time.

They say "people will work less" like it's a bad thing.

Parenthood has taught me that anyone who thinks they don't want kids should absolutely be free to follow that and not have kids.

It's also taught me that all of the cringe goofball nonsense is 100% sincere. Being a parent changes the human brain in weird ways. Which is good, because babies need someone to clean them up after they puke on themselves and shit their plants so hard it gets in their hair.

(Parenthood can be considered a necessary mental illness.)

The idea that a pedestrian walking anywhere but on a limited access highway would ever be at fault for a collision with an automobile is a direct result of century-old propaganda by the moral equivalent of the NRA.

If i made a self-propelled battering ram with remote controlled steering I would rightly be held to strict liabily if anyone was hurt. But if we put a a chair in the same thing and call it a "vehicle", suddenly the rules change in our favor.

I like cars and driving, and can easily imagine a number of mitigating circumstances that would shift liability away from the driver, but the presumption that once-walkable city streets are for cars is the result of fierce industrial lobbying and not a reasoned public policy process.

Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are doing incalculable damage to Democratic party unity by not enforcing their party's candidate for NYC mayor.

It doesn't even matter at this point if Mamdami loses -- any call by either "leader" for party unity will be met with "you didn't endorse Mamdami, why should we endorse your pick" by anyone to their left, forever.

"if we just made this opt-in" has become the bleakest nonsense in IT.

Be it LLMs or ads or "free" albums, tech companies just can't accept that "make me say yes" should always be the default.

Denying any one of a prisoner's rights is the first step to denying all of a prisoner's rights.

If not the right to his religious text, then why the right to be visited by a priest? If not a priest, then why his family? And if not family, then why a lawyer -- and if not a lawyer, then why even bother with a trial?

Hey, let me try re-writing that headline:

"Republican senator interjects transphobia into a hearing about banning abortion ; OBGYN refuses to misgender her trans masculine patients."

Men can absolutely get pregnant. Because trans men can get pregnant, and trans men are at least as much men as bigoted transphobia like Hawley.

This isn't true. Go look up the definition for either word, and it doesn't comport with the usage rules claimed.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/labyrinth

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/maze

If you do want to draw a sharp distinction in modern usage, you could posit that a labyrinth is a type of maze that was made intentionally and can be walked through.

I'm very relieved to hear it was only water and apple cider vinegar. "Unknown liquid sprayed by an attacker" is just short of actually wounding someone when it comes to anxiety induced.

MN should throw the book at him. And at anyone who helped him do it.

The Republican party chose not to impeach him when he sent a mob to stop a pro forma session.

The Federalist supreme Court declared him immune for prosecution for whatever shit he does in the white house, and exempt from punishment for what he does outside it.

Fucker didn't declare himself above the law. He just finally realized what his traitorous party has been saying for years.