When the ICC next probes war crimes claims against the chief sexual misconduct prosecutor:

True. See WP:NOT and WP:CON for some idea of how this whole thing works.

I definitely avoided Lemmy the first go-round with the API fuckery because it seemed from the outside like basically just a tankie protest Reddit in a similar way to how Voat was just a neo-Nazi protest Reddit. To the Lemmy devs’ absolute credit, they don’t push new users toward any of those, though.

I thought one day after having had a Mastodon for some time that I might not have given Lemmy a fair shake, so I went back and ended up finding that most instances are basically normal Reddit fare but honestly less shitty than Reddit proper (there’s a trade-off that posts are less frequent and that small, niche communities can attract unwanted attention by having their posts almost immediately show up in ‘all’).

The reason we have these eradication programs is actually predominantly because the flies are harmful to farmed animals. However, they have little or no negative impact on the environment when eradicated. This not only affects wildlife (whose suffering I think should absolutely be considered if we can determine it won’t have knock-on effects), but it also affects humans in impoverished areas. While animals eating other animals is almost always excruciating and fucked up, a screwworm infestation means you get eaten alive over days in basically constant pain, at which point the wound is now susceptible to secondary bacterial infection and death. The world currently spends a bunch of money keeping them contained (and trying to push them further south), and getting rid of them altogether would mean not needing to spend in perpetuity.

Am I allowed to steal the chatroom analogy?

You fail to realize that this is the most meaningful action that the UN General Assembly can take against the US on this matter. The UNGA can be very effective in facilitating international cooperation and settling minor disputes but really has no tools in its arsenal to meaningfully effect action to stop something like this.

I can hopefully demonstrate this by asking you what lever(s) the UN can pull to actually directly address this. Before you say “send aid!”, they are. And before you point to something like its past military intervention in Korea, be fully aware that that’s not at all applicable here: the US has a permanent seat on the Security Council and therefore absolute veto power; the only reason the UN was able to intervene in Korea was because the USSR didn’t use their Security Council veto; and the US is not capable of being directly matched militarily by any nation on Earth, let alone in their home waters. And before you say “sanctions”, well I’ll give you one guess what organ of the UN controls sanctions.

It’s still worth voting to show the basically unanimous agreement. 187–2–1 (with one of the ‘Against’ being the US itself) is a clear expression of overwhelming disapproval – to an extent that even I, a US citizen who supports lifting the restrictions, didn’t know how pervasive and long-lasting it’s been until seeing this. It forecloses on any sort of bullshit argument that “that was then, this is now” or that it wasn’t like that for some period of time or whatever. And it showcases the complete abdsurdity that no country on Earth except the US itself and what’s effectively a US protectorate actually thinks there’s any merit to this policy.

For what it’s worth, it’s actively strengthened my already strong resolve that this policy is insane.

Anti-gay Japanese politicians right now:

Decentralization actually can be really powerful to give you a backup even if you prefer Signal; Signal’s servers very infrequently go down, but when they do, you entirely lose that channel for an unpredictable amount of time.

Not joining the rooms Element suggests on its own client? Element will show you a list of suggested, popular rooms to join, and a fuckton of these are overrun by spammers and worse. If Matrix has basically zero ability to curate these rooms outside of “here’s what’s got the most members”, then it absolutely should not in any capacity be recommending them, let alone as a way to get started for new users. It’s fucking ridiculous, and before you say “Well why should they be expected to curate the rooms they suggest?”, imagine the fucking disaster Discord would have on its hands if it started recommending servers, and several of its top 100 claimed to be related to popular FOSS applications but were actually completely unmoderated and filled with CSAM and Bitcoin scams.

Soooo… I don’t think this bot should be used in general, but an objective improvement would be to only have it list a source at most one time per comment.

Russia today is far-right by about every conceivable metric, so it makes sense.

Tankies don’t actually care deep down about ideas like anti-imperialism or progressivism; they want control. That, or they’re brainwashed enough to jump through layers upon layers of doublethink to reach the conclusion that an oligarchical, bigoted, and repressive oil state constantly and brutally invading its peaceful, democratic neighbors is secretly anti-imperialist and progressive but that this somehow gets tainted through the lens of muh westoid propaganda.

Ancoms fucking hate Russia. Democratic socialists fucking hate Russia. Everyone in their right mind fucking hates Russia.

I know it’s easier if you try to classify things in terms of what you already understand, but you really shouldn’t try to shoehorn the political factions of other countries into Republicans vs Democrats. It’s really just going to impair your ability to actually understand what’s going on.

“War is merely the continuation of politics with other means.” –Carl von Clausewitz, Prussian general and notoriously American

100% agreed. You’re always welcome over at [email protected] if you’re not already there. I imagine some of the 18:1 upvoters so far statistically haven’t realized – owing to deeply rooted doublethink – that I’m also talking about something they directly pay for on a subdaily basis.

Good. Animal abuse in any form can’t be part of a decent society.

And both call a lot of things communism that aren’t actually communism.

A paragraph reads:

The significant finding may be the largest collection of human remains found in one place within Petra, according to researchers, and it was featured Wednesday on the season premiere of “Expedition Unknown.” (Discovery Channel is owned by CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery.)

And then they immediately thereafter show a picture of a regular-ass clay cup with the caption:

Within the tomb beneath the Treasury, archaeologists found a ceramic vessel resembling the [literally just a fucking motif in fictional stories and not a real artifact, we conveniently forget to mention] Holy Grail. (Discovery’s Expedition Unknown)

I fucking hate corporate journalism so much.

Oh yeah, to be clear, no disrespect to people who use trucks routinely for their intended purpose.

Up to you if you want to adopt this, but I’ve taken to calling those tiny, useless afterthoughts tacked onto modern trucks “vestigial beds”.