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Words form sentences form paragraphs. You need to be able to hold more than one thought in your head to be able to comprehend an argument. You should try it.

If your reading comprehension is really that bad, it might explain the low quality of your opinions. You should probably try working on it instead of embarrassing yourself in public.

The kinds of things that some parents bully, punish, disown and/or murder their children for should very much be hidden from them if the child chooses to hide it. It’s no one else’s business and, if the child has not yet told them themselves, breaking their confidence is an attempt to ruin their life and quite possibly end it.

This is stochastic terrorism from this fascist government, desperate for any distraction at all from their kleptocratic ways.

Lots of lovely laws, none of them enforced. Liberals* are really very bad** at this game.

*in the political science meaning of the word, not the US colloquial meaning

**or good, depending on your perspective and/or the sincerity of their declared intent

It’s like a Calibri-fied version of Trebuchet. You can actually tell the difference between I and l without changing the font to check. It’s an improvement.

applied by centre left and liberals

It’s a term that originates with the left. Specifically, those who broke with the USSR over imperialist invasions, referring to those who did not. More broadly, it refers to the authoritarian left (as opposed to the anarchist left).

They probably will realise that 10 million is less than 1% of 1.6bn and that they can safely ignore people making shit up.

That’s not true. Instagram has 1.6bn users and all can use their Instagram logins to sign in to Threads. The roughly 1% who have signed up already have chosen to activate Threads, it’s not done automatically.

Thanks for this. Turns out they also made it hard to make anything other than Edge your default browser (you have to set it separately for each file extension). How to fix that here:

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-set-default-web-browser-windows-11

I have met enough far-left authoritarians who are openly racist, anti-lgbtq, and who advocated for violence against people solely based on their family background that I don’t think the extreme right has a monopoly on hate.

Yeah, they’re banned from lemmygrad. Rule 5:

1. No capitalist apologia / anti-communism.

1. No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.

1. Be respectful. This is a safe space where all comrades should feel welcome, this includes a warning against uncritical sectarianism.

1. No porn or sexually explicit content (even if marked NSFW).

1. No right-deviationists (patsocs, nazbols, strasserists, duginists, etc).

Fold, for sure. Actually pocketable, and secure once pocketed.

I have an e-ink tablet that runs Android. Copes with most apps and can deliver stuttery video.

E-Ink can’t be far off replacing glass screens (at least as an option) because the benefits for battery life are substantial. But I’d think it would replace them rather than be in addition to. A phone with screens on both sides would be so fragile.

This is the mantra of lemmy.ml.

Tell us, how are russian and chinese cops?

It’s more of an anarchist thing, to be fair.

They’re bastards, obv. Like it says in the OP.

I’m not USian but I’d be astonished if that was legal, even in the barbaric hellhole that is the US healthcare system.

Ask her to put it in writing and then challenge the insurance company.

Put a pissmat in front of your bedroom door.

Perhaps show more affection towards your flatmate? I mean, I’m not saying you treat her like shit. But perhaps the dog needs to know you’re not a threat to her? Bring her food or something, I dunno.

So that people give them free advertising by taking pictures and putting it on their social media.

And so that the kind of people who post photos of their food on social media will come there for the pictures, not the food.

because people like being where people are

That’s exactly the problem with mega-instances. From the link posted above:

As expected, no Google user bated an eye. In fact, none of them realised. At worst, some of their contacts became offline. That was all. But for the XMPP federation, it was like the majority of users suddenly disappeared. Even XMPP die hard fanatics, like your servitor, had to create Google accounts to keep contact with friends. Remember: for them, we were simply offline. It was our fault.

Misleading title.

Reddit only handed over the details of one user

Reddit pointed out that the anonymous speech rights of its users shouldn’t be violated, as long as the filmmakers have other ways to obtain the information.

Your 1% figure comes from misrepresentation of a ‘study’, pushed by Purdue and others for criminal gain.

The One-Paragraph Letter From 1980 That Fueled the Opioid Crisis

Purdue Pharma, which makes OxyContin, starting using the letter’s data to say that less than one percent of patients treated with opioids became addicted. Pain specialists routinely cited it in their lectures. Porter and Jick’s letter is not the only study whose findings on opioid addiction became taken out of context, but it was one of the most prominent. Jick recently told the AP, “I’m essentially mortified that that letter to the editor was used as an excuse to do what these drug companies did.”

Don’t get me wrong, pain is miserable and treatment needs to be better. But around 80% of opioid addictions start with prescriptions for people in genuine pain. What percentage of prescriptees that is, I don’t know. But it’s not a trivial issue, and it is a very difficult problem to solve.