Don't feel bad about it. He's basically saying he thinks you're too cool to actually be real, so you must be fake. Seems like a compliment to me.
No, it's been around for awhile. In US law, any book over 95 years old is considered public property, and can be shared for free. So, there's volunteers that take old books and scan them, then put the digital versions online for everybody.
If you'd like to make digital copies of things from your native language/culture and add them to the collection, I imagine that'd probably be fine. I'm not part of the project though, so I don't know the details of how these are submitted/who you need to talk to/etc.
UN decided couldn’t possibly be a problem in the future
Less that, and more that the existence of the Security Council with permanent seats and veto powers was a requirement to get the major powers to actually want to join.
Otherwise it'd have been the post-WW1 League of Nations, which pretty quickly fell apart. The US never even joined the League if I recall, they couldn't get it through Congress despite it being President Woodrow Wilson's own pet project.
Ultimately it's easy to get a small power to join an org that basically serves to limit the options of individual countries by applying international law to them. It's hard to get a large, powerful country to sign up for that same thing. The smaller country gains from joining, but the strong country actually weakens itself by joining.
I think an additional factor is the early comment effect. Early comments get more visibility and engagement, so if you want to push your goals, you can post a comment if you get there early enough. If you don't get there quick enough and there's already hundreds or more, then there's no point in adding your own, if your goal is actually to help your political project.
Same reason I hypothesize that political extremists are more likely than other people to sort their social media posts by "new" instead of anything else.
Sure. The problem is we're too decentralized to make enforcement practical. They can try to come for, say, lemmy.world if they want, that's totally fine. That won't get them very far with all of Lemmy though. Too many servers can be housed in places where western law cannot easily reach, and regulating just those servers located in western countries accomplishes very little.
Advantages of being structured differently.
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Yeah, that's fair, an investigation is a little silly. Political points to be gained I suppose.
Honestly this isn't super newsworthy. The crowd wasn't all that bad, and most of the cops handled it fine.
Here's the most complete recording of the event that I found:
Y'know, it just occured to me, but this push towards child safety opens up another opportunity for Lemmy to grow at the expense of reddit. If reddit puts in age verification, the kids will still need somewhere to go to get answers to stuff like video game questions and random tech support problems. They won't be able to use major platforms though, they're going to be effectively banned from those. They can't be banned from all of our servers though, that's just impractical. So, they could potentially ask their questions and get answers here if they wanted, assuming we're good enough at providing answers.
This is more of a system issue than bad behavior of an individual charity.
Charities can underpay a little bit, because working for a charity has its own appeal. But if you want a talented, experienced person to run your org, you have to consider what they could make if they worked for someone else. San Diego is not a cheap city, and has its fair share of CEO positions.
If you really want to stretch your dollar though, local food banks are probably a better bet.
"If I have to create stories so that ~~the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people~~ we win, then that's what I'm going to do."
Yea, we already knew that JD, thanks.
Ah, LinkedIn, exactly where I want to get nuanced answers to weird questions from.
Yes, there probably are. Is that important?