Iceblade
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Iceblade@lemmy.worldto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Is there a "normie" or more mainstream instance for Lemmy?English62·3 months agoPlease do stay!
Yeah, a lot of the fediverse has an extreme left slant, and that’s coming from someone living in a rather left-leaning country.
As someone who jumped the reddit ship during the blackout protest and has been here ever since, mostly out of principle, it has slowly been getting better as more people filter in.
Iceblade@lemmy.worldto Programming@programming.dev•did user engagement drop significantly in programming forums?0·6 months ago90% of the time if I ask for help on forums the answer will be one of three things:
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Completely absent
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Just google it scrub lmao (nevermind the fact that search has gone to shit)
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Doesn’t actually answer the question
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Iceblade@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's your stance on "donating" blood plasma?3·8 months agoIn addition to what @LwL said - It has to do with how testing is done, and that some diseases can’t really be tested for. It is quite expensive, and is generally done on small samples from lots of people mixed together. If it is positive they split the batch and test again (look up binary search).
The lower the incidence rate of diseases, the larger batches can be done. Ditching certain denographics with significantly higher risks for certain diseases can make testing orders of magnitudes cheaper and faster. (Other groups, at least where I live, include people who recently changed partner, recently went abroad, have ever gotten a blood transfusion, have gone through a recent surgery, have recently been sick, etc. etc.)
Mint is a very nice starting distro tbh, it was my first too!
Iceblade@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Musk legal victory to pause California misinformation, hate speech reporting law.English0·8 months agoThe court’s order for an injunction applies only to the sections relating to defining and reporting data on content violation categories. Social media companies will still be under the remainder of AB 587’s requirements, which include semi-annually creating publicly viewable reports to California on the current terms of service, how automated systems enforce the terms of service, how companies respond to user-reported violations, and what actions the companies take against violators.
Seems like the higher courts ruling is sensible overall.
Iceblade@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Advertiser exodus from X gathers pace with 26% ‘planning to cut spending’English0·8 months agoI download videos using revanced and seal, works flawlessly. Really neat.
The country implementing this is Brazil, so I am comparing them to Russia - and if we implement this in the EU, it will be a huge step towards Russian style authoritarianism.
As for why such a move would compromise the effectiveness of our votes, see my other comment here.
Your comment makes it apparent that you fundamentally do not even understand what censorship is. Legality has nothing to do with what censorship is and everything to do with limiting freedom of communication. Even something as basic (and undeniably both good and necessary) as taking down cp content is censorship.
In my view, censorship is inherently good only in limited circumstances, usually involving either that A) The very creation of the content is irreversably harmful (see above) or B) The content is highly intrusive (essentially forcing the audience to partake) in combination with consumption of said content being irreversably harmful (consider regulation of advertising in public spaces).
Historically, freedom of communication and organization has been the primary antidote to many authoritarian organizations (organized religions, autocratic monarchies, fascist & totalitarian regimes, corrupt leaders etc.), and this necessarily requires that centralized institutions cannot (in general) be allowed to dictate what is and is not acceptable discourse - that includes regulating “disinformation” outside of limited scopes.
Fundamentally, if our leaders say we are incapable of discerning fact from fiction, and rob us of that autonomy, they are also robbing us of our ability to freely choose our leaders, effectively demolishing democracy.
I’ve written more than enough to mysteriously fall out a window in Russia or disappear into a “reeducation” camp in the PRC.
However, if you crave the boot of censorship so much, why not try it? Trade places with one of the more than billion people chafing under it in one form or another and we’ll see if you can report back after a month or two.
That’s frankly a terrible idea. Us not doing this is what differentiates the free(er) world from authoritarian regimes like Russia or the PRC.
Iceblade@lemmy.worldto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Lemmy.World's !News sides with Mark Zuckerberg in Censoring PalestiniansEnglish0·9 months agoOh !worldnews@lemmy.ml does have moderation. The mods there are very deliberate in the things they do(n’t) allow. Woe betide you if you ever criticize certain historic (or current) authoritarian genocidal regimes.
Here’s a few reasons:
Not funny
Not nuanced
Bad art
Comes off as smug/condescending (author)
Makes fun of/disparages broad groups of people
Assigns positions that people don’t agree with to labels they identify with.
Etc. Etc.