Can anyone explain why lemmy decided to remove websockets, what they decided to adopt instead of websockets, and to what extent websockets are being removed? I still feel like I don't understand this move (but I'm sure there's a good reason)

The new study was based on cultivation theory, a theoretical framework that suggests heavy television viewing can contribute to the development of an authoritarian mindset. Television dramas often emphasize individual and heroic actions, including violence, to solve problems and protect against perceived threats. Cultivation theory argues that television, even in non-political programming, can subtly shape cultural attitudes and beliefs, potentially creating a climate conducive to the rise of leaders like Trump.

This sounds like great man theory and hyper-individualism, not "authoritarianism"

To measure authoritarianism, the researchers used a four-item scale called the Authoritarian Child Rearing Values scale. Respondents were presented with pairs of desirable qualities and asked to choose which quality they considered more important for a child to have. The first answer in each pair indicated an emphasis on autonomy, while the second answer reflected more authoritarian values.

so they asked people if they raise kids like conservatives, and then conservatives said "yeah", and then instead of identifying that they just made a test for conservative values, they decided it was a test for authoritarianism?

"My child should be required to read about the history of slavery and the civil rights movement" and "My child should be punished for refusing to be accepting of their LGBTQ+ friends" are both authoritarian stances that conservatives would have answered hard-no to. You could have flipped the finding of the study by using questions that imply progressive authority instead of conservative authority. The only way they could have got results like this is by pretending that the only authoritarianism comes from the conservative right.

I think this is more complicated than a "enemy of my enemy is my friend" deal, Russia is finding an ally in Belarus because of their proximity to NATO. They don't exactly hold all the same ideological lines. That, and Russia isn't exactly fighting Nazism first, they're just fighting NATO encroachment and justifying it with the convenient fact that there happen to be Nazis in Ukraine to make the war sound good domestically and to make NATO look bad. Russia is just playing the self-preservation game like any other Capitalist country does.

Besides if they were actually against Nazism in every instance, they wouldn't be buddy buddy with Belarus.

So just to be clear, in the first quote, Lukashenko states that the Jews "made" the world remember the Holocaust, as if it wasn't something to remember in its own right, only something to be remembered after some kind of big Jewish campaign. A conspiracy, one might call it.

This is a really good argument until you learn that mass shooters are less than one in a million but child sexual abusers are more than one in a hundred, despite there being tens of millions of FPS players and probably only hundreds of thousands of CSAM consumers in America. It's a catchy gotcha but it completely fails to hold up under material scrutiny.

Mass shootings and child sexual abuse are very different things, and so are CSAM and video games. You would benefit from losing some of the reductivism you've got there.

the venn diagram is a circle

also, that aside, "the resources" here are a little different, mounting investigative operations to bust lolicons/pedophiles (same thing) requires more resources than just flipping the switch off on some pedophile's ability to communicate freely

They did defederate with us (lemmygrad) long before the reddit drama actually, and definitely for political reasons, but as of lately their reasons for their recent defederation from the other, less-political instances seem much more pragmatic. There was talk of defederating with lemmy.ml too for similar reasons to why they defederated from lemmygrad, but I'm wrong about the recent reasons, the newer defederation surge seems to be for a multitude of reasons.

That's true, but if you're voting and commenting on those posts, your discussion is all isolated from the OP and the admins and mods who control the post. You're better off grabbing the link/image and posting it outside of a splinter community (Beehaw).

In short, the majority of the fediverse was (and probably still is, despite the large influx of redditors?) highly communist in nature, but Beehaw, being predominantly moderated by liberals, were getting so dogpiled for their aggressive anticommunism that they just threw up their hands and started defeferating with any instance that disagreed with them from the left at the drop of a hat. At this point they're probably cut off from 75% or more of the fediverse and I'm sure blissfully ignorant in their little liberal bubble. We're probably not getting them back and to be honest I'm not sure it'd be rewarding to have them back, if their users want proper discourse they can just make an account over here.

fwiw, you can't actually vote and comment on them, when federation is removed that means every communication from here to there is ignored - posts, comments, votes, user DMs, all of it. We can still see their posts, but what's happening is we're federally pulling their posts over to our side, you're voting and commenting on them, this instance is recording those votes and comments, and when it tries to send them over for federation purposes beehaw rejects them.

Ted fucking sucked by the way

I get the frustration with liberalism, I deeply, truly do, but they were spot on, supporting Kaczynski is extremely reactionary and as a queer person it's extremely alienating when I see other "leftists" into him for what are basically cosmetic reasons because "muh industrial revolution bad" without even digging an inch below the surface in analysis.

even after all that, we ain't got shit until he loses in 2024, because if he wins he'll just pardon himself minute one

of course that only matters if biden doesn't pardon him first for purposes of civility and non-partisanship or some shit