I was skeptical of this claim so I went and had a look. Here's some of the posts I saw:

"Polar Ice Sheets are thicker than ever despite predictions that the Arctic and Antarctic would be ‘Ice free’"

"Leftist Parents “Flee” Florida Because Of New Laws Blocking Child Mutilation"

"It’s strange how you never see pedophiles, im sorry, drag queens reading to old people instead of kids"

So yeah some pretty insane takes there

damn, she hot

I just had a look at the main page, and saw a post with the line, "The lying cunts at shit Just Woke are trying to claim that we're Nazis because we fight against their far lefty woke ass shit about transgenderism and how it's used to groom and mutilate children", and another that says, "Reeeeeeee!! Don’t you understand that unless I read soft porn children’s novels to five year olds about the joys of anal sex, that trans kids will literally be genocided!!?! Reeeeee!!"

Yeah I'm comfortable with people not wanting to associate with an instance like that. You wanna be a part of it, go for it. Doesn't mean the rest of us need be exposed to that kind of ignorance, bigotry and hate.

I'm all for getting into old school tech, I even like to browse neocities.org on occasion just for the hit of nostalgia for the old web rings. I never got into newsgroups though, and I'm wondering what reasons you might use that instead of something like Lemmy, Mastodon etc?

Apart from the piracy side, I know all about that already lol

"Someone could get the most votes, and not win!" McCarthy said at the time.. "So if you come in 3rd, you win. What? 'I got a lot of second votes, I got a lot of 3rd vote — what does that mean?'"

I don't think it's the "Black areas" that are getting confused about how it works. Or perhaps he's just pretending to not understand? 🤔🤔

yeah I knew a person who took heaps of benzos on a whim, then fucked up the next 10 years of their lives with a crippling addiction

My guess to the biggest reason not to do this is safety - if somebody is being electrocuted, you want to be able to pull the cord out of the wall as quickly as possible to maximise their chance of survival.

Wood is mostly cellulose and lignin, which holds no nutritional value to us humans. Another comment said that termites have certain enzymes which digest it, but it's actually the bacteria in their guts which break down the woody fibres so they can turn it into glucose. So, theoretically, maybe we could isolate those bacteria and somehow incorporate them into our guts too? I mean it probably wouldn't work, but you never know until you try right?

That was a good read with some helpful tips, but they didn't have a conclusion at the end so they never answered their own question!

I would like to see a breakdown of useage by region. For example I found stats that said India's share of linux users rose from 9% in May to 15% in July. That's quite a sharp increase in only 2 months! With a population of over 1 billion people, I'm betting this rise would have a significant increase in global stats, so I wonder what is behind it..

Source: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/india

I looked for a lazy way to get myself a Tux sticker and found this pack of stickers for $1

https://www.stickermule.com/products/unixstickers-pro-pack

Bargain!

What it seems to me that you're suggesting is essentially crowd sourcing a mix of investigative journalism and data analysis, which is not a skill I think that just anybody can pick up and do properly. To be fair I've never tried my hand at investigative journalism, but I have done a few units of data analysis and trust me there's a hundred different ways to do it wrong. Even among the experts, there's a lot of disagreements to what the best approaches are. I had a teacher even say that if you give a set of data to 10 data analysts, you'll get back 12 different ways of interpreting it.

That is all to say that I'm not sure how much you'd be solving by providing another forum for people to post their takes on public policy issues, but then again if you manage to attract the right crowd of critical thinkers, who also happen to be open minded enough not to insert their own agendas into matters, perhaps people might hold each other accountable?

BTW have you checked that something similar doesn't already exist? Insert obligatory xkcd comic:

This is the kind of alarmist media that cripples people with anxiety and leads to learned helplessness. We want to be giving people hope for change, not taking it away.

What am I missing in the "end Kernel panic" one?

I wish he had the balls to follow through with it

err you can have anal with women too

Unfortunately the Republicans agree with them on this point

Maybe to avoid confusion, they should just display units in GB instead of GiB? Or just display both

I wish I could just up and buy a farm, that sounds like the life to me.