Nothing but respect for my country deciding to impose economic sanctions on itself 🫡

I don't think burying this and pretending it didn't happen is helpful when Jews around the world are telling us right now that they are terrified and under attack

I don't think he's completely wrong. A lot of people felt similarly. I know SkillUp felt similarly that if you had a really good PC and could overlook the (unforgiveable, admittedly) bugs, it had a lot going for it.

certified gamer moment

I agree. I don't want a small number of highly motivated individuals with grudges, vendettas, and ideological priors having that much power. Ban TheDonald type stuff, bots, etc. but otherwise be very careful

Classic Mastodon moment

The PLO and Fatah both recognise the state of Israel and its right to exist, have given up armed struggle, and signed the Oslo Accords with Israel, accepting a peaceful political pathway to a two state solution.

It's a really nice change of pace. Reddit can be such an unpleasant place outside of posts about cats or food or whatever. Silly stuff like that.

Paris: Macron calls police killing of teen 'unforgivable' (BBC)

French police officer detained for voluntary manslaughter after fatally shooting teen driver (France24)

Adolescent tué par un policier à Nanterre : Elisabeth Borne parle d’une intervention « qui ne semble manifestement pas conforme aux règles d’engagement » (Le Monde)

They want to burn a Qur’an right outside Stockholm’s main Mosque. How is that not incitement to violence or racial hatred?

If I burned a copy of the Torah outside a Synagogue, would that just be an expression of ‘free speech’? Or would I not be giving a pretty unambiguous signal of both what I think of the people inside and the way that we should treat them?

This absolutely should not have been allowed to go ahead. It is incitement to violence and racial hatred.

Why does Russia think anyone cares what it says at this point? Until the war ends, nobody is required to do anything for Russia.

Nobody is being forced to die for any cause. Ukrainians are fighting Russia because Russia intends to wipe their country off the map. I don't really see why you think you have the right to tell Ukrainians that they don't have the right to fight for the existence of their country.

I'd be happy to use up some of my Midjourney AI credits to generate something!

EDIT: I'm still having trouble uploading any images anywhere on this website so I'm uploading them to Imgur and I'll paste a link to the album here. I'm on mobile data (the bloody ISP is giving us the run around about fixing our connection) so it might take a few minutes but I like some of the ones I've managed to generate. EDIT2: Here's the imgur album. Any of them more or less catch people's eye? Obviously I can refine/improve from a starting point. https://imgur.com/a/p1FeMAz

I think I agree. I'm uncomfortable with the idea of going too far, too fast in defederating from servers which have people whose views some users here find objectionable. There are some cases where it's fairly clear-cut, and I'd feel comfortable. Outright fascists and MAGA servers. Bot-farms. Ones designed to disseminate disinformation and fake news.

If their users are interacting with us in ways which are hostile, disruptive, etc. then we should defederate, obviously. Though that will only go so far given open registrations.

But this server is not, as far as I'm aware, intended to be of a specific political hue, nor primarily about politics. So, I think we should be cautious and careful, partly because I've seen 'tankie' used to describe such a wide range of views, often with very little in common between them.

The Supreme Court on Thursday set new limits on affirmative action programs in cases involving whether public and private colleges and universities can continue to use race as one factor among many in student admissions.

The court held, in a 6-3 opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, that Harvard and UNC's admissions programs violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.

The blockbuster cases put affirmative action, which has been used for decades by colleges and universities to address inequality and diversify their campuses, in the spotlight. The Supreme Court had repeatedly ruled since 1978 schools may consider the race of applicants in pursuing educational benefits from a diverse student body, so long as they did not use a quota system.

Scummy company. I don't really understand why the United States doesn't have a federal level basic right to unionization. Why should the company have any say in this whatsoever?

Even when it both makes Jewish people unsafe and encourages an atmosphere of racism, which only ever results in one thing?

Does that right extend to burning a copy of the Torah outside of a Synagogue?

What is the ideal resolution for a community banner so as not to unnecessarily 'weigh it down' with a super high-resolution image?