Yeah I wonder if it could get darknets from the dark nasty garbage dumps they are now into a more mainstream privacy-conscious network. Basically, what they were always meant to be but only the really dark people used it and scared everyone else off.
The same crap is happening in the EU too. It’s everywhere.
The “for the children” boomers get their wish. The rest of us lose our privacy. And the kids? Well they’ll just get their smut from torrents. Those sites don’t obey the law because if they did they wouldn’t have existed in the first place. Nothing will actually change there.
And really, who hasn’t viewed tons of porn when they were young? And turned out totally fine?
So sad. This is the result of demonising the LGBTQ+ community by the right 😢 😭
Seeing the same things happening in the states but worse pains me greatly.
What’s even worse IMO is that it seems to be worsening. A lot of countries were pretty backwards in the past but we’ve come a long way through emancipation. But now things seem to be reversing.
It feels like LGBTQ+ rights are worse off now than they were 20 years ago. Not just in the US. One of my friends in the Netherlands was suddenly foaming at the mouth about his children being ‘indoctrinated’. Asking more about this, it turned out they had received a standard and pretty mild educational programme aimed at understanding of non-CIS relationships. Nothing actually ‘indoctrinating’ and the other BS he was spewing (like that 8-year-olds are physically transitioning which is just complete nonsense, it’s a strict 18-yo minimum with an exception of puberty blockers only where absolutely needed) was just made up too. He seems to be totally mindfucked by extreme-right propaganda (who won 24% in the last elections here, sadly). I tried to show him the facts but he’s been so screwed up by extreme-right tiktok propaganda that there was no point. Soon after this he began foaming about ‘woke’. I had to block him and he was a friend for 20 years.
We can’t change the past, sad as it is, but the outlook for the future doesn’t look good. I dont really know what to do about this, I’ve tried confronting him with facts but there was just no effect. And continuing to engage with him hurts me so I’m kinda done with that.
And don’t forget the Netherlands was traditionally quite LGBTQ+ friendly (at least since the 60s/70s, before that it was just as bad as the rest really)
They forgot to include the Nigerian prince in the story! Now nobody will believe it.
Well for “reuse” this is actually not that bad. Considering not all plastics can be reused.
I was imagining this to be a lot lower.
Yeah i think recycling plastic is possible, we just have to pay for it. If the market won’t bear it, simply make it a public service.
We can’t really tackle the climate and keep capitalism at the same time, they are completely contrary.
I know but that doesn’t have much to do with suppressing their own people, IMO.
What they do with dissidents and Uyghurs is pretty bad.
No, literally no. They went from empires to warlords to the CCP.
This is why they think it’s the only way. The CCP is really afraid of the people organising themselves (which makes some sense because it’s also how they themselves came to power)
But the CCP truly believes that they are doing it for the best.
It’s mostly actual people. I know some of them at different platforms (for some reason this city has become a bit of a moderation hub). Most of these companies take moderation very seriously and if AI is involved it’s so far just in an advisory capacity. Twitter being the exception because… well, Elon.
But their work is strictly internally regulated based on a myriad of policies (most of which are not made public especially to prevent bad actors from working around them). There usually isn’t much to discuss with a user nor could it really go anywhere. Before a ban gets issued the case has already been reviewed by at least 2 people and their ‘accuracy’ is constantly monitored by QA people.
Most are also very strict to their employees. No remote work, no phones on the workfloor, strong oversight etc… To make sure cases are handled personally and employees don’t share screenshots of private data.
And most of them have a psychologist on site 24/7. It’s not much fun watching the stuff these people get to deal with on a daily basis. I don’t envy them.
Unfortunately there’s another problem with archive.is / archive.ph / archive.today . Their owner has some beef with Cloudflare DNS and returns bogus results to them so anyone using 1.1.1.1 as DNS can’t visit them.
The Cloudflare side of the story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702 The archive side: https://twitter.com/archiveis/status/1018691421182791680
Note that that discussion was from 2019 but the situation was never resolved and the issue persists to this day.
Yet these companies do allow Google et al to index their stuff, otherwise the paywall bypass addons, archive.ph etc wouldn’t work. They want their cake and eat it. It’s super annoying to find something on Google and then be hit with a paywall. Totally bait and switch.
If there weren’t such great paywall-bypassing plugins I’d want a plugin that removes paywall sites from Google results, Lemmy submissions etc.
Also you really can’t expect a user to subscribe to a full subscription to read a handful articles a month.
At least offer a once off small payment but almost nobody does that.
And I’ll bet you use adblock too (I sure do) making it even more impossible.
Yes though the tracking is the most important reason there. If they just used untargeted ads it wouldn’t be such a problem.
Experts told the Vancouver Sun that Air Canada may have succeeded in avoiding liability in Moffatt’s case if its chatbot had warned customers that the information that the chatbot provided may not be accurate.
Just no.
If you can’t guarantee it’s accurate then don’t offer it.
I as a customer don’t want to have to deal with lying chatbots and then having to figure out whether it’s true or not.
Of course Elon is free to close twitter like this, as sad as it is. It’s his company (which already halved in value since he bought it…)
BUT, governments and officials really must stop using twitter for official communication at this point. It’s not OK to require people to make an account just to view their communication.
Our Dutch government actually set up their own Mastodon instance, but many politicians still continue to use twitter.
Oh ok, I didn’t realise things were so bad there :(
I have never been in Bulgaria but I was in Romania and it was pretty LGBT friendly there. But again. Also in the city. I assume the countryside is much different.
peaking of men, the Balkan macho culture created a fear of gay people (literal homophobia). On a regular basis I hear men speaking about being afraid of being raped by gay men in certain situations (think massage rooms, men’s locker rooms, bars).
So “macho” men complaining they are afraid? Lol.
And of course this won’t happen. In fact what I see is that the more kinky people get, the more important expressed consent becomes. Of course the gay scene is pretty fast and loose with consent in some circles but you won’t end up in those places unless you go looking for them.
And they were built in Ireland where rain is not exactly rare. During a time when acid rain was a thing (unlike some people claim these days, acid rain was not a hoax, it was just pretty easy to solve with things like cat converters and regulations on industry and it was solved pretty quickly)
there’s a reason modern vehicles have rounded edges
Rounded edges and soft panels that crumple easily yes.
I’m glad these things aren’t permitted here in Europe.
Crude oil isn’t really something you’d find outside the shipping or refining industry though.
I think they’re just covering their assess with the oil thing.
It’s a typical status symbol, nothing else.
Usually defended with excuses like “I have kids so I must protect them with a 2 tonne tank”
I’m proud that Spain is taking a stand here. I also love the way they push back on the US with their defence spending thing (which is only for the benefit of their military industrial complex). They also cancelled F-35 orders in response to Trump’s tariffs.
It’s a stark contrast to the Netherlands that let an already-fallen government collapse again just so they didn’t have to say anything untoward to Israel. Such stringpuppets.