They had no issues directly with Ada (the head admin) but imo the way moss (the 196 mod) acted at the time was pretty indefensible, and was the main reason they defederated.
That plus the way ada took a fairly strong "no politics, no language police" stance when someone asked another user not to equate queer topics with politics kinda soured me on their mod team.
polite request to not use the word rape to describe annoying website practices
Being called a "great person" imo should take a history of fighting for equality and dignity for everyone, and for most of his long career Biden has been doing the opposite of that.
I think they mean the hardware volume down button, not the one to reject the call
Nationalize them 😳
No seriously I think companies that provide such basic logistics services should be under public control. Amazon's statistics/planning department is basically our (better) version of the Soviet gosplan agency. Yes the investors would be sad, yes they are also the ruling class but a man can dream
The reader suggested context blurb is the best thing to ever happen to Twitter
is the fucker some kind of emoji I'm missing or are you guys just being friendly
Those things affect other non consenting people. If someone voluntarily joins an instance with mod policies you dislike a) it's their choice b) they are free to leave whenever and move to a different instance
Looks like turnaround was in the 1950s, start of the cold war and the rise of anticommunism as organizing principle domestically as well as abroad, combined with free trade policies that let us exploit foreign workers- by suppressing their own unions with tactics that to put it mildly wouldn't fly in the United States (aka imperialism)
https://www.epi.org/publication/unions-decline-inequality-rises/
If workers rights in China improve capital may simply move on to idk Mexico, India, lots of places with cheaply exploitable labor and pliable governments.
It's like that for many vices such as alcohol- it's harmful but banning it is much worse than regulating it (see the history of 1920s America). I'm not convinced porn consumption is harmful but even if it was, it shouldn't be banned.
well, yes?