Absolutely, this is a good thing. The only reason why I mention it is so that people remember to keep up the pressure and don’t just start to blindly trust Biden to “do the right thing” all by himself. Biden needs “encouragement” and if he doesn’t get it from the unions, he will get it from some industry lobby.
I guess he’s trying to redeem himself
I mean that’s one way to put it, but at the end of the day, he isn’t some manga anti-hero, he is a politician and politicians want to be elected.
I am pretty sure this is about the UAW’s change of attitude that puts immense pressure on Biden, especially that they are withholding their endorsment for Biden until he “earned it”. And of course Trump is also trying to suck up to the unions, so Biden has to step up his game.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/09/17/uaw-auto-strike-joe-biden-union/70884657007/
This is less about Biden coming to his senses, at the end of the day, Biden does what is politically viable and smart for him. Sure, maybe he has become more progressive, but I think this has more to do with the UAW new militant approach.
And one important thing, which puts a lot of pressure on Biden, is that the UAW has recently always endorsed the democrats, but they now have withheld endorsment for Biden until “he has earned it” and “prooves his solidarity with the working class, not the billionaire class”.
And Trump is also trying to pander to the union, so Biden is in a lot of pressure to gain the union’s endorsment.
Temporararily is the keywprd here…
It’s similar to commercials and ads. Everyone thinks they are not affected by such things, but pretty much everyone is affected by them on a subconscious level. Why would companies such as coca cola spend millions of dollars on advertisements? After all, virtually everyone already knows what coca cola is.
Shock sites always had trouble with the law, which is why most of them have shut down by now and most social media sites remove it. Watching/consuming it is one thing, publicly and openly sharing/promoting it without effectively restricting access to minors will always bring legal issues and legal attacks… And even when the legal charges are fought successfully, it’s still a major pain in the ass most people don’t want to deal with… And then you also have to find ISP’s and hosters who are willing to host this kind of material.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten.com#Legal_disputes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestgore.com#Corruption_of_morals_charge
https://www.dw.com/de/gewaltvideos-im-netz-was-strafrechtlich-erlaubt-ist/a-49871305
https://www.skppsc.ch/de/gewaltvideos-und-illegale-pornografie-auf-smartphones/
She called her “a little b*tch”.
That’s why you get a big warning message informing you that DM’s are not encrypted and thus not secure.
But I’d think recovering nazis are frequently “people who say some anti-semitic stuff sometimes.”
Sure, or racist stuff. But antisemitism, racism and sexism are unfortunately not just limited to nazis, there are plenty of other people who say anti semitic, racist, homophobic and sexist stuff.
And I don’t like it when people call all racists nazis because in my view, a Nazi is a specific and extreme version of racist. And of course all forms of racism are bad, but some are way way worse than others.
Probably neither:
“I think the way she referred to a fellow member was probably not the way we expect our members to refer to other fellow, especially female, members,” Harris told Politico, referring to Greene’s profane exchange with Boebert.
“I think the straw that broke the camel’s back was publicly saying things about another member in terms that no one should.”
Individuals or small teams running instances which don’t take money don’t need to comply to GDPR.
Are you sure about that? So if I hosted a website that shows your name and address, you could do nothing to make me take it down because I’m not an organisation or company?
Well that depends on the comment, doesn’t it? As far as I understand it, if I posted personal information about you, such as your name, home address, etc, in a comment, you could demand from the admin to remove that comment as it would contain personal information you don’t want in the open.
You have to keep in mind, this is about protecting people’s health and lives.
And just to be clear, Nazis aren’t people who say some anti-semitic stuff sometimes. Nazis hurt and kill people. If an organisation manages to help a neo-nazi leave their gang, but that person still holds some anti-semitic views, that’s still a win and anyone who disagrees has some weird priorities in my view…
Would it be better if that person completely dropped those views? Of course, but I prefer a rambling racist 100 times to a neo-nazi throwing molotovs into a refugee home or attacking people in general.
And let’s say I wanted to use it, I’m going to install this and instruct my kids how to use crackpipe?
I mean I get your point, but if you instruct your kids how to use a tool for managing pirated games, they are probably going to see a lot harsher stuff than the word “crack pipe”…
Before last month, lemmy was very very small and comparatively inactive. Lemmy admins are hobbyists who run the server in their spare time, most did/do not want to deal with pornographic content on their server as with it come a lot of potental moderational and legal challanges.
That’s extra work, throwaway services are often blocked
Never had any issues whatsoever, it is less work to me than logging into my mail account and confirming my account, but I also like to have a separate account for every service and never use the “login with facebook/whatever else” option.
it also defeats the purpose of having a backup contact in case of loss passwords etc.
That’s true, but if you actually want to be able to recover your password, there isn’t a way around providing your email.
Why not use a throw-away email address?
Tbh when I joined I didn’t completely understand the fediverse. I tried to join Lemmy One first because it sounded generic enough. It didn’t accept new joiners so I moved to the next generic one
I understand that lemmy or federated services are confusing for those unfamiliar with it, so I don’t expect a user to be familiar with every single detail about it. But if you make an account on any site whatsoever, you either understand the basics of what the website is about or you don’t have any expectations about creating an account…
that’s the fragility you get with fediverse.
The fact that instances could disappear overnight is an inherent characteristic of federated and decentralized services. You can call it “fragility”, one might also look at it as strenght. Because even if an instance decides to just shut down overnight, the fediverse is not going anywhere and it also means that new instances can also appear overnight.
He can grow bored, decide he wants to put his money elsewhere, instance can grow too big for him to afford, etc. Ruud could easily kill this instance overnight.
Yeah sure, all of this is possible. But why would he do that? If he doesn’t want to do it anymore, he could just give the project to someone else. And even if the worst case scenario happens and he decided to shut the instance down for some reason, the entire point of lemmy is that even 10 instances shutting down would not kill lemmy.
I have no doubt Reddit will still be here in five years. I wouldn’t bet the same amount on any fediverse instance
Again, why does that matter? A lemmy instance and reddit as a media site is not comparable. It would be more accurate to compare a lemmy instance with an individual subreddit, except that the lemmy devs have no power to shut down an instance while the reddit devs can shut down a subreddit…
Or just oligarch or power addict. In the eyes of most people, wealth is about luxury, material goods and fancy toys. Of course that’s part of it, but at a certain point, wealth is no longer about luxury and toys, it’s about power and having control over resources everyone else depends on.