[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 1 points 38 minutes ago

I'm no environmental sciencetist but I'm 40% sure that's a fish.

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Maybe, the technical explanation is hopefully forthcoming. The article (which I will concede doesn't seem super professional) explicitly says "banned by Volkswagen", which is what I'm curious about.

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

You dropped this, king.

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 29 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

This is very odd, agree with the devs. Seems like a very aggressive action and with no reasoning behind it?

I wonder what the real story is.. What had GrapheneOS enabled (or blocked) on user phones that got their executives so pissed they'd explicitly block GrapheneOS users from their apps?

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Don't praise this shit. No government should be putting people to death, there is far too much potential for abuse and literal libraries full examples of mistakes being made.

The people put to death in Chinese cases are quite often middle-men, bag holders. While the politically-protected people who made the real decisions pay a fine, get jail time, or if they have enough political pull.. just go free.

Even in the most high profile case like the Chinese milk scandal (where the CCP believed they had to take extreme actions to clamp down on tainting food and damaging the country's image) one of the worst offenders, Sanlu Group - got off lightly. The local party honcho CEO whom was well aware of the tainting and sanctioned it got a fine and jail, as did several other executives of the board - but a couple of middle managers at the milk plant who iirc directed staff to mix in the melamine got death sentences, even though they were just doing what their bosses asked. Justice? BS. Just more political puppetry and an isolated elite.

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Speaking of food-safe.. Who the fuck knows what a rusted out side-of-the-road BBQ has been used for..

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Still reduces the cost drastically to society, the whole exploitative college middle-man charging $150k for a degree is gone because the government says "fuck you, degrees are $40k or you don't get govt places for your course", and lo and behold.. Suddenly the same courses are $40k.

Just like how the US healthcare advocates cry that "free healthcare is socialism that overburdens the taxpayer" - and yet in countries with socialised healthcare they pay 1/4 of what the US pays for the same health outcomes and usually even less for literally the exact same medicine from the same companies.

Collective bargaining.

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

If you read the article you'd know that they specifically chose The Netherlands because the The Hague is in The Netherlands..

The Netherlands was the only country to offer to host the court, and it was presumed to be the correct place in which to hold proceedings, given The Hague also hosts the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice.

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

"Protesting doesn't work" is literally propaganda for the status quo, don't spread this crap, worse than just being defeatist and doomer it discourages others from protesting.

Protest is a step in the process of rebellion... How many people are gonna rise up with an armed rebellion when they see the most of the population can't even be arsed to attend a march or rally?

And it does work.

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago

This would be far more accurately titled as 'returns to' given FDRs New Deal and the fact that 99% of socialist policies enacted over the last century are from the Democrats, instead of the inflammatory weasel-wording 'what if socialism takes over' like it's some kind of coup.

It might be some dumb play to drum up clicks from right-wing people who have never seen a Jacobin article I guess, but it puts off their base, and looking through the article.. it doesn't hide its socialist-positive bias at all even from the first few sentences, so I kinda doubt that intent. Just dumb.

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 48 points 3 days ago

New electric car rival offers 2000KWh engine and tight styling. Comes with no batteries or wheels.

Would an article ever run like this? This is a combo deal on a motherboard & gfx card. Not sure how it became a 'Steam Machine rival'.

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"Dmitriy Kurashov is the first Russian soldier to stand trial in Ukraine for an alleged battlefield execution."

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Hi all.

First, thanks for reading. I'm not exactly sure if this is the correct location to raise a concern about a ban/deletion, but I guess it's as good as any.

So:

  1. I dont know which mod it was. Log is redacted?
  2. post deleted & banned from the News@Lemmy.world community
  3. screenshot of modlog attached
  4. screenshot of comment attached.
  5. It was an appreciated post with 106 upvotes 26 downvotes at deletion and several positive responses yesterday. When I came back today (I'm in Australia so timezones..) the comment was deleted and I was banned - and several negative comments have appeared which I would have liked to respond to.

Original post: a news article about Proton Mail.

My post: Essentially I took the time to read the article and included the quotes of what was written by the CEO that was being discussed in the article - as many in the comments had surprised me by jumping straight to him being a literal Nazi. As not a single other commenter had included the quotes to discuss the source, I thought that would be a valuable contribution. I also gave my opinions which you can see in the comment on the modlog, the formatting is messed up so I included a screenshot of the (recreated) comment. https://lemmy.world/modlog/1347

What I didn't notice was that the article writer had omitted the first part of the Twitter post from the CEO in her quotation of him - so I quoted her, and in doing so missed the context that the CEO had actually started "Great pick by @realDonaldTrump" at the start - which does of course change the context of his Twitter post to praise. This was clarified for me in the angry responses. I would have edited my comment and owned my mistake, however stood by the rest of the comment regarding Proton's official follow-up.

So, is that deletion and ban fair?

Update 10 hours later: contacted a mod directly to see if i can find out more about the ban or perhaps get it remedied.

Update 48 hours later: contacted the entire mod team, and got back feedback from several of them - all helpful. My post has now been undeleted, and my account unbanned from the News community 👍

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