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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

The commenter is being needlessly pedantic like they aren't aware of the Civil Rights Movement at all. Even assuming they weren't one of the people that studied it, the USA's Civil Rights Movement is a common topic of study in history curricula in the UK because it has a significant cultural impact and is an excellent study of protest, the importance of civil rights, racial tensions, and context of the USA which is a dominant presence across the world.

The Civil Rights Movement had an incredibly low popular support before the Civil Rights Act was passed.

Protests are meant to disrupt. No progress is made unless you have a moderate and an extreme movement. That way the status quo compromises to the moderates to prevent the extreme from gaining ground.

So frankly, Just Stop Oil is too gentle. We won't see change until people get extreme on their protests against fossil fuels.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Listen old man, you're just forgetting the forgettable cartoons of your generation. Nothing has changed. If anything there is simply likely more art being made now, but in the same proportions of high-vs-low quality as before.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Please could you tell me how to contact your Ultimate Troll Warrior? Do I need to go on a quest?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I found one source! It was sponsored by the British Tobacco Company, lol.

Nah, it's difficult to find recent data of it - because I get the impression from the papers I have found - the idea was thrown out as a marketing ploy in the 50s and has no significant impact on risk.

Instead it just makes cigarettes worse for the environment - because the filters don't decompose.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

As far as I understand, this isn't quite right (unless it's changed recently).

If A defeds B, then A no longer sends new posts to B, accepts comments or posts from B users, or receives new posts from B. Any comments from B users on A's old posts (made before defederation) are no longer acknowledged by A.

I think A users can still interact with B's posts, but then I haven't seen any beehaw users in forever. So perhaps not?

C can obviously still interact with both A and B posts normally. On posts from C, both A and B users can still interact.

So, in short defederation creates a hard wall preventing interaction between A and B. The only way A and B users can interact is on C.

It's unfortunate as beehaw would have benefitted from a uni-directional defederation (i.e. preventing .world users from posting on beehaw, but not preventing .beehaw users from posting on .world. Unfortunately, it's both.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Nobody says hiccough.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Man, I'm still waiting for mine...

If only I wasn't my landlord...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah, it should definitely be a circle.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Need to move the UK to outside the diagram :(

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The worst past of renting is the Landlord. The worst part of owning is being the Landlord.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Beans, Beans They're good for your heart The more you eat, The more you fart. The more you fart, The more you eat, The more you sit on the toilet seat!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Which beer advert is this cut from? I've been conditioned by 30 years of marketing techniques. I need my fix man! TELL ME WHICH BEER TO BUY!

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