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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

There is logic behind not prohibiting people from fleeing from a legitimate threat.

But if his comments don’t also include the statement that people protests blocking traffic don’t constitute a threat, it’s just implicit permission to harm protesters.

[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“Walkable” to a gas station is a strong indication of satire.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That is pretty cool. But I have to think since the US is the country in which this is pertinent an iOS app would be most effective.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I legitimately have an idea for an app that solves this problem. Its key feature, besides being open source, would be that people without uteruses could use it too, making any data conceivably collected useless.

I don’t have the skills to make it myself (yet), but if any developer wants to talk I’ll give the idea away. I just want it to be made.

App would be open source, all data local. Perhaps the option to sync to encrypted iCloud or Android equivalent, but certainly not a cloud-based option you need a new login for. All the features currently in these kinds of apps and that make them useful for menstruating people. Now replace “period” with “hair cut”. Non-menstruating people can now use it, earnestly, for tracking when their last hair cut was, making it useful and the data (if it were to be collected somehow) just noise.

I even have a name in mind: “hair**.**cuts” (heavy emphasis on the period in the name.) Idea is that anyone with it on their device has plausible deniability that they are using it for period tracking, but the “period” in the name is an implicit wink so we all know what it’s really being used for.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’ve thought about starting a charity doing exactly that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

If 2025 was a photo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m not saying they conflict, I’m saying they are separate things, both laudable.

How to treat content with racist undertones (or overtones) is certainly worthy of debate; I tend to agree that not hiding them, but rather to used them to educate, as they’ve done heretofore, is probably the best. But even if the decision is to hide them, I don’t think it falls under the DEI bucket, at least not directly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Totally. Not calling out the title of the post.

I’m questioning Disney’s “reasoning.” As far as I can tell, racial sensitivity ≠ DEI.

Btw: thank you (earnestly) for this post. I’ve perused The Life and Times… before, but now I’m on a mission to find as much Barks and Rosa stuff as I can. Watched a lot if related YouTube videos on them this afternoon.

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

WTF does this have to do with DEI?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Because “Killing in the Name Of” is still relevant.

 

Had a bit of a showerthought this morning. c/books could do a monthly book club pick but with the additional feature of inviting a related community to participate. For example, if the book pick was "Two Wheels Good" by Jody Rosen, [email protected] could be invited to participate. Seems to be a great way to encourage more people to read and more people to subscribe to the sub.

 

I have an instance running (blitzen.org), and right now just two other instances are in my white list (lemmy.ml, lemmy.ca). If I wanted to mirror, say, lemmy.ca's white and black lists, is there a way to export/import such a list?

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I heard once that the case for which instance (for any federated app, be it Lemmy or Mastodon etc) on which to sign up is to choose based on "administration" not subject. That is to say, it is better to experience the fediverse through moderation and other administrative decisions than it is to do so on a server that is "subject based." Thoughts?

 

Say what you will about reddit, at least an established subreddit was the place to gather on the topic, ie r/technology etc.

With Lemmy, doesn't it follow that similar communities on different instances will simply dilute the userbase, for example [email protected] and [email protected]. How do we best use lemmy as a (small c) community when a topic can be split amongst many (large C) Communities?

This is an earnest question, in no way am I suggesting lemmy is inferior to reddit. I'm quite enjoying myself here.

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