Lack of democracy enables dictatorial regimes like that in Russia to maintain their grip on power, enabling corruption and denying minority groups equal rights.

Every shift away from open Android that users accept emboldens Google to lock it down further.

Apple is of course still far worse, but users shouldn't be accepting Google's changes to Android without complaint.

He didn't have any way of knowing at the time what Linux would become.

I guess the GTA VI leaker is tying to establish a "principles"-backed cryptocurrency?

Two years ago, Zainab Bibi Ahmed thought she had turned her back on the Democrats for good.

People like that helped get Trump elected. Harris was far from the ideal candidate, but she would have been far and away better than Trump.

"For communicators, Reddit's value is in the real conversations that people are having about your brand today, not where it surfaces tomorrow," said Adam Collins, Reddit's chief communications officer.

Reddit defining its platform as a place for consumers to discuss brands speaks volumes about its motives.

Good to know that Buc-ee's is a business to avoid. If they were sticking to their principles, however, they would have opened locations in West Virginia instead of Virginia.

An ironic article to write given the Forbes AI voiceover and AI article summary...

Words like ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid,’ applied to a corporate transaction, aren’t just wrong — they’re a bridge too far, and they cheapen the very real suffering those words are meant to describe.

73,001 deaths, 173,200 injuries, and the destruction of Palestinian society and infrastructure aren't 'very real suffering'?

Another disgusting false application of 'antisemitism' to disguise Israeli war crimes. It's like if the Nazis responded to criticism of the Holocaust by calling its critics 'anti-German'.

I do think it's a bit ludicrous that much conflict in the Threadiverse stems from discussions about Israel and Palestine when the vast majority of users are pro-Palestine in one form or another, merely having differing views in the context of being pro-Palestine.

Far less divides the users here than many might think. People letting those differences get to their heads and not being willing to engage with each other civilly is harming the platform.

The fact that 44% of voters are glad to elect another Republican regardless of the Democratic opposition after how much of Project 2025 has been enacted already demonstrates that even in 50 years the U.S. probably won't be as liberal as the EU is now.

People being too poor to use actual shopping apps yet still feeling the need to satiate the feeling of shopping via other means is emblematic of a capitalist dystopia.

He should also receive comprehensive training in due diligence and in how to properly use a powerful tool like Flock for effective crime-solving," said Chrisanna Elser, who was falsely accused in the case

She must have quite the confidence in the police to not be entirely anti-Flock after it was used to accuse her of a crime she didn't commit.

It's just a bit two-faced and dishonest for Reddit to be marketing itself to users as a platform for genuine discussion while in actuality being a marketing platform for brands.

If more Redditors realized what Reddit has become, they might be more willing to join a platform without the centralized control that enables manipulation.

How generous of him to volunteer for right-wing austerity measures. /s

Astroturfing will come, but the platform itself can't as easily be designed to enable it with preferential algorithms and tracking. If an instance injects ads into its frontend, users can easily switch instances or use an alternative frontend or app; if a specific instance is known to host promotional posts, it can be easily defederated or otherwise blocked.

The same cannot be said for blocking ads or tracking on Reddit, particularly for mobile users.

'Liberal' in general U.S. political usage is a catch-all term for the left; when being more specific, one can also distinguish 'Progressive' as being those further to the left.

My point was that many of the goals of democratic socialism in the U.S. are policies that are already widespread in the EU.

Getting a better tablet with a de-Googled version of Android would have been a far better use of resources.

Even more effective than carbon capture would be not drilling and releasing that carbon in the first place.