Unions as a 21st Century Anti-Fascist Force
Unions as a 21st Century Anti-Fascist Force
Trump and his MAGA movement are conspiring with oligarchs to turn the U.S. into a rightwing authoritarian state. The labor movement can play a key role in fighting back.Gridwork
Trump Tower Moscow, Rare Earths and Geopolitical Perks: How the Kremlin Plans to Bait Trump Into a Grand Bargain
Trump Tower Moscow, Rare Earths and Geopolitical Perks: How the Kremlin Plans to Bait Trump Into a Grand Bargain
As Moscow prepares for possible negotiations with Washington aimed at ending its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it is seeking a far more ambitious outcome than a mere ceasefire: a global reordering of spheres of influence.Pyotr Kozlov (The Moscow Times)
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“The main thing is that they [the Americans] don't interfere in our affairs and don't tell us how to live,” said a senior Russian official familiar with the Kremlin’s negotiating logic. “That they don’t hinder us in doing what we are doing.”
That being invading and subjugating weaker neighbours.
German teens denied entry to US for traveling ‘under false pretenses’ and ‘intended to work’: Border Patrol
The teens claimed CBP targeted them because they hadn’t booked hotels for their entire stay in Hawaii.“They found it suspicious that we hadn’t fully booked our accommodations for the entire five weeks in Hawaii,” Pohl said. “We wanted to travel spontaneously. Just like we had done in Thailand and New Zealand.”
German teens who 'intended to work' were denied entry to US for traveling 'under false pretenses': Customs
Maria Lepere and Charlotte Pohl, 18 and 19, arrived in Hawaii on March 18 with short-term travel permits ahead of weeks-long US trip.Alex Oliveira (New York Post)
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Well, then they have to face the consequences of not paying attention to the things happening in the place they intend to go to
Like, yeah, ideally you wouldn't need to worry about this, but this is always a risk when traveling, and politics has that trait of being interested in you whether or not you are interested in it back
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This really doesn't seem like something the administration has a hand in.
The administration has set the tone of "Fuck with people as much as you want. Lie if you want to. There will be no consequences."
Me: "I don't know man, take an Uber?"
I'm from Canada and had to explain to border officers what my accommodations and means of personal support would be for a two week stay in the US. I was almost denied entry because I wasn't carrying sufficient cash on hand.
That was almost twenty years ago.
Oh no! This dastardly Europeans wanted to come here and work! How dare they! Deport them!
This country was cooked a long time ago.
From another story about the event, it wasn't even like odd jobs for a host, it was small job remote work for people in Germany and Asia. Stuff they would be doing at home and just kept doing during downtime on a long vacation.
Don't reply to any business emails while lounging by the pool, you need a work visa for that!
German Teenagers Denied Entry To US, Jailed After Confessing To Remote Work While Backpacking
German teenagers were denied entry to the US, jailed, strip-searched, and deported after admitting to doing remote work while backpacking.Matthew Klint (Live and Let's Fly)
I guess they learned their lesson.
I think it is sad, I would really like to travel in the USA as I think the nature and the culture are really interesting. But for my entire adult life the USA actually would have been a gamble to travel to.
The laws around entry to the country are also really weird, as the immigration officer that checks your visa has the ultimate authority of whether you are allowed entry. There are no concrete laws that limit their say over this.
You really are shockingly naive. Yes, CBP officers are assholes dispositionally eager to treat non-Americans harshly and changes in administration do change policy, both explicitly and implicitly. Like their comrades in ICE, they've been itching to "get tough" the whole time.
Do you seriously think German teenagers were regularly getting strip searched for muddled responses to whether they would do any work and it was just for some reason not reported on prior to a couple months ago?
A relative of mine just had a baby, and her mom came from out-of country to meet her grandchild and help mom and dad in those first crazy weeks with a newborn.
But when she told CBP that she was "coming to help her daughter with the new baby" she got detailed and questioned for 2 hours. Eventually they let her through but they were really trying to pin her coming to work illegally on a tourism visa.
If you or a loved one are in a similar situation, just say you're "visiting family". Apparently it's a legal gray area in this shithole to help your child take care of a newborn.
I don’t know the full context of your situation, but sometimes it’s easy to fall into the mindset of always feeling like a victim. I’ve seen people of all backgrounds get scanned or checked at airports. Have you considered if there might have been a specific reason you were stopped?
Personally, I’ve been stopped several times too, and in some cases, I later realized it was due to something simple, like forgetting to take keys out of my pockets, which triggered the sensors.
Every time I've been to Cuba I show up in the airport and basically have a car rented, maybe first night in a hotel. Then we drive wherever we feel like and usually pick up a hitchhiker or two that will have a "sister" that has a room for rent.
It has almost always been clean, friendly, cheap, and a good breakfast. Rinse, repeat. I love travelling like this and have generally done this everywhere I've gone in the third world. Apparently the US doesn't even measure up to third world.
You're comparing between different sample pools, which matters when we're talking about probability adjacent stuff. We're not asking "from this large pool of people at an airport, who is likely to receive additional scrutiny?" Because of this, your comment about how you've seen people of all backgrounds get scanned isn't relevant to OP's point.
The scope we're looking at is the pool of experiences across one person's trips. Imagine if it was every time that you got stopped for additional checks at an airport, even when you couldn't see any mistakes that you had made. If you get checked because your keys triggered the sensors, then that's a mistake that you can learn from, but consider how it would feel if you meticulously complied with everything you were meant to do, but were still consistently pulled aside for additional checks.
I know that on the internet, you never know whether someone is being hyperbolic, or straight up spinning a yarn, but try to take OP on faith here and consider how dismissive your comment comes across. I don't know OP's particular circumstances, but I have previously made a comment similar to yours to a friend, who called me out on being an asshole. Back then, I was oblivious to the reality of these things.
My friend explained that the first time they were pulled aside for additional checks, they opted to believe that it was just a random thing. The second time, they felt more uneasy, but actively resisted the "victim mentality" (their words). By the 20th time, they had come to expect it as inevitable, and that no change to how they packed, or what they wore would change things. They desperately wanted to believe that they weren't being targeted for additional searches, but after a certain point, it becomes impossible to believe that these things are random.
Like I said, I don’t know the full context of OP’s situation—I just wanted to offer another possible explanation, which may or may not apply to them.
I’ve come across similar comments from people who are convinced they’re facing discrimination, but when you take a closer look at the facts, it’s not always so clear-cut. For example, I once saw someone say they always get rejected from jobs, often instantly, and were certain it was because of the photo on their résumé. But when you actually read their CV and look at the roles they applied for, it turned out they didn’t meet any of the listed requirements. Having two years of bootcamp experience won’t typically land you a role at a startup asking for four years in a specific tech stack.
If you always assume you're a victim, it can prevent you from growing and might lead you to overlook areas where you could improve.
Again, I’m not denying that discrimination exists or saying OP is imagining things—I just think it’s important to consider all angles.
I was responding to the original comment above : "Having not fully booked your accommodation for the entire trip could get you denied entry to the US before Trump. Just saying. Especially if you aren’t white. Same with not having an outbound ticket."
Not to the strip searching, abuse, etc.
I agree it is absolutely heinous what is happening in the US and I wouldnt travel here either but the process of denying entry for a combination of limited/no accommodations, limited funds, varying answers, etc does lead to .
I think you are really exaggerating there. It doesn't happen for all people coming from SEA or northern Africa. You don't see all the people from SEA or north Africa being pulled and scanned every time.
I don't know for the US but clearly not in Europe. You really need to think about why you always getting scanned.
I have read somewhere that someone is always scanned at the airport because they were in the S database of France.
I don't think it is common. I just know it happens.
The process looks like .
Sort of a good example because it happens to be a traveler going into the United States for vacation, 5 weeks, 1.5k cash, but still denied entry. They always ask for purpose of entry, what itinery looks like, funds, etc.
There's tons of backpackers, as a one bagger myself, I've never had trouble. I think its when you may have limited/no accommodations plus other factors: stories not lining up, limited funds, no/limited knowledge of itinerary, etc. That gets people in trouble. I think most people know where they are going, what for, and how they are going to do it.
Even as a US citizen I'm happy I'm not traveling internationally for a while though. Seems most people are free game regardless to CBP, citizen or not 🤮
You're saying you've been arrested, handcuffed, strip searched, sent to jail and then deported -- and that's been happening for a long time?
The people just walking were checked at departure and are local citizens.
CBP told them their entry was denied — and that they would be detained until their deportation.
Both say they were handcuffed and sent to a detention center, which they claimed was more like a prison.
“We were searched with metal detectors, our entire bodies were scanned, and we had to stand naked in front of the police officers and were looked through,” Pohl said. “Then we were given green prison clothes and put in a prison cell with serious criminals.”
Well I'm clearly not capable of your levels of communication and unfortunately haven't been for some time.
I foolishly thought of people's real world experiences to explain a reality, when all you wanted was validation of your claim by—I dunno—an ATM receipt, or something... As I said, I am struggling to communicate on this level. I am so daft, you see.
Have a W-shaped cookie. You got me!
But teenage German girls, that's a novum
It's not the entire country that stops working but there's indeed a significant reduction. If you don't have children you'd have to be crazy to take time off work during the school holidays in summer (and also like the heat if you're going somewhere in France because nowhere has mild temperatures anymore).
The legal minimum for full time jobs is 5 weeks but most people have more since they have jobs where you get extra rest time since you work more than 35h/week. Some affluent French people go skiing 2-3 times a year for a week or two each time and then also take two weeks off in summer, all paid.
I used to have 56 paid days off (that's 11 weeks because Saturday and Sunday didn't count) each year because I worked a lot more than the legally mandated hours and I had advantageous time credit for showing up early and leaving late and 4 days extra because I never took time off during school holidays (incentive to keep the shifts fully staffed). The pay was shit but at least I could go on trips all the time. I did end up getting a lot of those days paid instead because I didn't have enough money to travel all the time and I couldn't be bothered to stay home.
With this much time off our productivity was still very good, everything was timed and we always went above 100% of targets and long-term projects always done early.
Blue collar work in the USA looks like a scam in comparison: working the same job I would have had less purchasing power (sure the numbers entering your bank account are higher, but the health insurance alone cancels it out), more working hours and a lot less paid leave.
But overall CBP looks at funds. If someone can't afford their stay, they become suspicious.
EDIT: Adding, they ask how much people intend to spend or call banks to verify
Where you intend to stay is part of the questioning when you enter and they can get quite suspicious if you don't have a plan. Source: An Austrian, white friend of mine who went to the US. He also just wanted to travel around but was warned in advance (by other, mostly white europeans) that he shouldn't state that when asked. It's just not worth the risk.
While that's not the same as having to show hotel bookings for the whole stay, it is a thing travelers have had to worry about for quite some time now. I'm sure it's worse and more complicated for anyone of color.
I know every country has its problems and that there are desperate people everywhere.
but its very much american exceptionalism, that americans would assume people coming from a country that has infinitely more worker rights, would move to their failing state just to work.
not the only ones spreading death and displacement,
Russia, Turkey, Israel, and Saudi Arabia to name a few of the worst offenders
Because you didn't offer any. You didn't offer any cuz you don't.
Now sit down, this isn't debate class
This is pretty standard treatment. There are only a limited number of holding cells in an airport, moslty for men.
If there is no returning flight that day they are sent to a local jail (known as a remand centre outside of the US) and stripping and searching is standard at those places.
The women said that they were going to do work in the US.
Ahh. i hope you gave a long memory and the capacity to learn shame, cuz this is a bad look that a future-you should remember and cringe at.
save these, ok?
and are still way better than China
Oh man, I have news for you. As a UK/Australian citizen I would genuinely feel much more at ease travelling to China tomorrow than the US.
That is not a recent change either.
The US has a very scary reputation worldwide for its psychotic police force and guns everywhere.
I have been to China before, just as a no-fuss tourist. I detected no edge, and had a fun time.
US sets tariffs of up to 3,521% on South East Asia solar panels
US sets tariffs of up to 3,521% on South East Asia solar panels
Several Chinese solar companies with factories across the region could face steep new tariffs.João da Silva (BBC News)
Some solar equipment exporters in Cambodia face the highest duties of 3,521% because of what was seen as a lack of cooperation with the Commerce Department investigation.Products made in Malaysia by Chinese manufacturer Jinko Solar faced some of the lowest duties of just over 41%.
Another China-based firm, Trina Solar, faces tariffs of 375% for the products it makes in Thailand]Neither company immediately responded to requests for comment from BBC News.
Yeah, I don't understand (amongst many other things) why distinguish between 3,500% and 3,521%? What insane sum was used it generate that figure?
Also, at this point a part that costs $10 is now $362.10. Is there any point using tariffs here rather than just making them illegal?
Or just moron numerology. The last tariffs were calculated by taking the trade deficit and dividing that in two. E.g some country imports 10 billion to the US but exports only 5, so trump claimed there was a 50% "tariff" by that country and slapped 25% "counter tariffs" on them.
At least they capped it to a 10% minimum as otherwise there would be a bunch of countries the US should have added a negative tariff for making that stuff cheaper.
3+(5)+2+1
8< >8
By the weird power of made up numerology, that gives you 88, you can never be too careful with these lots.
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You know what's funnier? I mean, it's not funny, but it also kind of is. At the same time, the Trump administration is pushing coal burning power plants.
Aside from the high levels of pollution, including greenhouse gas emissions that coal plants produce, no one in the US is building new coal fired power plants. Twenty years ago, coal generated over 50% of the electric power in the US. Now it's less than 20%.
Even if they were, it takes years and a huge investment, including getting rail access to the plant, to even bring one online. Electric utilities spread their capital outlays over decades rather than years.
So I would expect that convincing the industry to switch back to coal, with the understanding that they'll have to maintain new coal fired plants for the next 40 years, is going to be a nonstarter.
All tarrifing solar panels will do is push power utilities toward natural gas and exacerbate the (actually legitimate) issue of insufficient base load generation capacity that they've been whining about for years.
Oh, and also kill residential solar projects.
Long way of saying this action will continue to weaken our already strained energy infrastructure.
You could try to incentivise domestically produced solar panels. But this is not how you would do that.
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So many people didn't expect the insanity to return.
I have no idea why, other than I suppose they were too young the first time around.
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At first, I thought it was 3 point 521 percent because we use "comma" for decimal points and "period" for thousand separators.
Nvm it is over 3000 percents !! Might as try 9999 % and make a meme out of it.
FFS which world lines are we on?
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So I’ve completed the cosine similarity function, which means the script is now recommending videos in a raw way. Below is just a ranking of videos that match my watch history (all three are most likely videos I’ve already watched):2: {shortUUID: "saKY2TWfwNYgPUQFkE4xsi", similarity: 0.4955}
3: {shortUUID: "kk7x8GAs7gNvkzaPs6EPiU", similarity: 0.4099}
4: {shortUUID: "uXeAyVfX1WEzqSPsDxtH3p", similarity: 0.2829}Getting to this point made me realize: there’s no such thing as a simple algorithm—just simple ways to collect data. The code currently has issues with collecting data properly, so that’s something that needs fixing. Hopefully, once the data collection in this script is improved, it can be reused for future Fediverse algorithms.
There are countless ways to process the data. Cosine similarity is a simple concept and easy to implement in code, but it has a flaw: content you’ve already watched tends to rank higher than anything new. So a basic "pick the highest cosine similarity" approach probably isn’t ideal. It either needs logic to remove already-watched videos, or to bias toward videos lower down in the ranking. But filtering out watched videos isn’t perfect either—people do like to rewatch things.
The algorithm currently just looks at how much time you spent watching unique segments of a video, then assigns a value in seconds to all the words in the title, description, and tags, and sums that over all videos.
The algorithm is actually okay—subjectively, it’s better than just sorting by date. I picked a few videos at random from the top 300 ranked by cosine similarity , and there was content interesting enough to watch for more than 30 seconds, and some that was just too weird for me. Here are a few examples:
- dalek.zone/w/7zifNjSwiafLnsoVV…
- peertube.1312.media/w/92B9U3DQ… (Japanese Spider-Man video—I'm not into it)
- peertube.wtf/w/gmmi53JorcBQLEZ…
- peertube.wtf/w/5eeLAVm5ZQBMK1P…
Some of these links are across different instances because no single PeerTube instance has all the videos. I loaded metadata for over 6,000 videos across five instances during testing.
The question is: should the algorithm be scoped to a single instance (only looking at content on the user’s home instance), or should it recommend from any instance and take you there?
funny thing to note is that there might be a linux pipeline in this algo
GitHub - solidheron/peertube_recomendation_algorythm: currently just a browser extension that monitors your the peertube videos your watch and stores them locally
currently just a browser extension that monitors your the peertube videos your watch and stores them locally - solidheron/peertube_recomendation_algorythmGitHub
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So you are basically building a classifier that tries to assert if a user will like a video. While many are against any kind of "algorithm" within the fediverse, I believe that it's a necessity. But, I think allowing users to tag content and then building classifiers that allow you to filter based on that would be a more aligned with the fediverse.
Anyway, cosine similarity has worked for a lot of things, so I think it's a solid foundation to get you started. Another thing you can try is using an embedding model, specifically a model that receives a segment of a video and yields a matrix with the property that similar input will result in outputs relatively close to each other (cosine or euclidean distance).
Another thing to consider is building a platform that will permanently store data. If you can come up with a set of endpoints, I can implement something in python to get ypu started. I don't have experience with video processing so I cannot help you with that, but the crud aspect is no biggie.
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I did make a classier for for videos that inputs title, tags, description, and closed caption into an LLM. I got roughly 1000 entries classified that way, issue is that most of them were non-english videos and then new videos come from somewhere on peertube that don't hace these classifiers.
Video processing is cool just expensive computationally. Also watchers could classify the videos themselves then use a cosine similarity (or whatever algo) on that. I did suggest to peertube to share the categories people say a video is with other people (like it's a Mastodon post) eventually it morphed into an idea light weight peertube instance that only does api.
I think it needs to work across instances, since we're concerned wit the Fediverse and federation is one of the defining mechanics. Also when I have a look at my subscriptions, they come from a variety of instances. So I don't think a single instance feature would be of any use for me.
Sure. And with the cosine similarity, you'd obviously need to suppress already watched videos. Obviously I watched them and the algorithm knows, but I'd like it to recommend new videos to me.
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New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
New images could change cancer diagnostics. ICE detained Harvard scientist who analyzes them.
Without Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.Jean Lee (NBC News)
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Do you have a source handy? With ICE backed by this administration, I wouldn't imagine Russians with bad takes on Ukraine would be targets.
Edit: I misread the original comment and now understand why a Russian opposing the Russian invasion of Ukraine would be a target.
I'd imagine Russians opposing the Ukraine war would especially be targets, maybe you misread the comment and the "bad take"? Trump would be eager to get rid of pro-Ukraine speakers for Putin.
(A source would be nice too)
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Looking at a couple publications from the lab funding appears to be from a couple different foundations but nothing commercial. Pharma barely puts anything into basic R+D unless they're a startup. Established pharma R+D is largely clinical trials and/or process development. If her work is patented by the university then pharma may pay the university to use her work. University would then give a smaller kickback to the lab/scientists.
NCI (national cancer institute-part of NIH) was the largest cancer research funder in the US, about 7B worth and even then less than 10% of proposed projects were being funded. The ACS (American cancer society) funds about 100M.
Somewhere in here is a perfect counter balance to right wing speak.
"A scientist who was about to publish a cancer curd has been arrest by border agents with Trump's authority. Trump received billions big pharm funding."
The trick with the right is it doesn't need to be entity true. It just need to tick ther correct set of emotions.
I see where you're coming from and agree from that perspective, on the other hand, I feel like it highlights and billboards the stupidity of this regime extremely well.
Like: "Hey we could have a cure for cancer any minute now but no, these dumbnuts are too busy scaring and/or extrajudicially kidnapping people who would better humanity."
I hope her lawyer is skilled and the court responsive to arguments - and she gets her freedom back.
If I was her, one of my first actions would be starting to teach a colleague to replace me, while asking colleagues abroad about open jobs in research (followed by questions about legislation, immigration and civil rights).
Basically, I would not stay in a country whose officials wronged me for no reason, and might do that again.
ICE detained ~~the~~ a Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Oooffff... Full support to this person but scientism is part of the problem.
A facet of Scientism, as I understand it, is a sort of hero worship of "Great" scientists. Part of this is because it's easier for us to build a narrative of history if we focus on key figure, but that's antithetical to how science actually works. It neglects the importance of the wider scientific "ecosystem", which includes mechanisms of peer review, academic teaching and learning etc.
I've known people who were pretty prominent academics, who got some of their best ideas from random places, like hanging out in a bar with academics from outside their field. But a good idea on its own matters very little: science, in practice, works on a foundation of trust and community, and basically any research has an entire team of people behind it.
I have no doubt that the scientist mentioned in the headline is exceptional at her job, but by presenting her as the scientist who is working on this presents an inaccurate perspective of how these things actually work. I see why the headline chose to present her as more essential than she likely is, but as it seems to for the person you're replying to, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth
problems list, but it it is still good to be aware of such biases.
I find Scientism concerning because I am a scientist who is quite concerned by the gap between actual science, and how people use science-shaped rhetoric. An example of this is how in the UK, during COVID, the government repeatedly claimed they were "following the science", despite many of their policies being completely contrary to what the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) had recommended.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of the scientific method — I wouldn't be a scientist otherwise. But writing news headlines about the achievements of scientists exists beyond science. Being opposed to Scientism isn't being opposed to the scientific method. Rather, it's more like acknowledging that science isn't a universal tool for solving all ills. Personally, being against Scientism also means being against the weird way we put science, and scientists on a pedestal. I understand the sentiment (and hell, I'm probably a scientist in part because a younger me was chasing that pedestal), but I think it's probably harmful long term — both to society and to science
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Gov. Ferguson signs bill restricting out-of-state military forces in Washington
Gov. Ferguson signs bill restricting out-of-state military forces in Washington
Gov. Bob Ferguson has signed a new law that restricts out-of-state military forces from entering Washington without explicit permission.Sana Aljobory (KATU)
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Wish me luck I am too curious about how delulu people are
Edit: That was a mistake, that is weapons grade stupidity
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Heh these are fun.
Edit: Hmm, I made 3 comments yet only 1 shows up. I wonder if they’re actively deleting anything that doesn’t fit the Trump narrative. All 3 appear if I’m logged in, very shadowbanny.
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unless they are mobilized by the president.
So is this purely performative or is there some case where this would somehow be relevant?
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They have as much authority as they can get away with claiming. Since the president is brazenly defying laws, courts, and the constitution, there’s no reason states shouldn’t push for more autonomy, even if that autonomy may be legally contentious.
But really that’s beside the point. If the state government is too afraid to take a meaningful stand on this, they should focus their attention on other pressing issues instead of passing meaningless laws that make people feel better without materially changing anything.
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WELL, IF ALIENS FROM SPACE, THEY WONT FIND ANY INTELLIGENT LIFE THERE.
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So, im IP banned from lemmy.world? Or is this cloudflare or smth locking me out? How do I proceed?
I have wanted to leave .world for a while, probably in favour of dbzero, but I would still at least like to delete my account and/or download some data beforehand?
I don't think I did anything wrong, and believe it is a cloudflare thing, but how will I contact the mods, if I cant open their front page to find their emails? Anyways. Any help is appreciated.
Also, sorry if this is the wrong community, but its the only one I know that maybe can help?
Edit 1: I can access the instance if I use a VPN, but I still dont know what to do. This kinda confirms it is cloudflare, but how can I get off their "naughty list"?
Edit the last: it seems to have solved itself after some time. I just used tgis instance for a while, and now its working again.
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OP has trouble accessing their account, likely IP or cloudflare related
sorry about the late response, got a lot of stuff going on currently and it seemed like you got useful replies here already anyway when i checked before.
we currently have a rule in place that blocks traffic with too high of a threat score. this rule was implemented before i joined, i'll have to check with the team about the original reason for this and if we want to relax this.
at least the error message should be improved if we can do that, i think that's just returning a static message currently.
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Nancy Mace yells 'F**k you!' at man she assumes is gay for asking her a question in an Ulta store
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This bitch is psychotic.
She did the same to someone who told her that if it wasn't for DEI/AA, she would have never been allowed to enter The Citadel in the first place. Not shitting on Mace's achievement, she made it, and graduated. But... did they let her because she was the first, as a PR stunt... ?
Mace lost her mind, ranted, and abused the person who mentioned it. But it still stands: if not for those social inclusion initiatives, she would have never been ALLOWED to step foot on the grounds in the first place.
What an absolute piece of shit. Speaking of Mace, of course.
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I'm sure her daddy didn't intervene at all...
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You're welcome! I have a Citadel connection, so I know more about the school's history than I ever cared to learn.
Edit: If I remember correctly, The Citadel was the last military school to admit women. Way to go, South Carolina!
The Dean Scream: What Really Happened
Twelve years ago, just after the 2004 Iowa caucuses, Democratic candidate Howard Dean raised his voice, balled his fist and entered political history as a man w…FiveThirtyEight
First House Republican calls for Pete Hegseth's ouster
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) on Monday became the first Republican member of Congress to openly indicate support for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's removal from office.
Why it matters: Hegseth is under fire for a series of scandals including the departures of several of his top officials at the Pentagon and new reporting about his use of Signal to discuss sensitive information.
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/21/don-bacon-pete-hegseth-signal
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If a Democrat did this we'd be demanding a scalp. I don't like hypocrisy. We should be Americans first when it comes to security," he added.
Why it matters:
It doesn't matter. Don Bacon is not representative of Republicans. He is from a split district that voted for Biden and Harris by about 5 points each.
Pity American firms in China. Xi Jinping is hitting back
Pity American firms in China. Xi Jinping is hitting back
From Apple and Boeing to Nike and Starbucks, there is a lot of money at stakeThe Economist
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No, I don't think I will; buy that ticket, take that ride.
Paywall-free link:
(Also, those gear teeth in the illustration are not even close to the same size! No wonder they don't mesh D:)
‘F-CK YOU’: NANCY MACE LOSES IT IN PUBLIC ARGUMENT WITH CONSTITUENT
Nancy Mace Says ‘F*ck You’ During Heated Exchange With Constituent
Rep. Nancy Mace posted a video of herself arguing with a constituent in an Ulta store.Peter Wade (Rolling Stone)
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Just to point out that SHE POSTED THIS VIDEO.
This isn't some candid thing, SHE POSTED THIS VIDEO.
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-Nancy Mass, Crisis Actor ~~Extraordinaire~~Mediocrinaire.
Good! This is EXACTLY the Type of Jesus Loving Family Values I EXPECT from my Leaders!
-Republicans protesting DRAG QUEENS!
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The stereotype of white trash living in a trailer park, and being dirty and poor has always been wrong.
She, Gnome Boebert and Trashy Taylor Greene are all poster children for white trash. Add to that elon and fat donnie!
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Russian attack that left bodies scattered on city streets is not a ‘mistake’ — it’s a strategy
Donald Trump described Russia’s double ballistic missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Sumy that killed 35 and wounded 117 as a “mistake” by the Russians.
But it’s no such thing.
The Sunday attack on Sumy, like the April 4 strike on Kryvyi Rih, where a Russian ballistic missile filled with cluster munitions killed 20 people and wounded 80, is actually part of a Russian military strategy. The aim is to terrorize the civilian population and turn them against the Ukrainian military and government, forcing them to sue for peace with Moscow.
Russian attack that left bodies scattered on city streets is not a ‘mistake’ — it’s a strategy
But terror-bombing Ukrainians may not bring Russia many benefits.Veronika Melkozerova (POLITICO)
I'm honestly kind of shocked about the reporting this gets. Russia has been doing this since the start of the war. Why is there such a wave of reporting about this topic that sounds like this is anything new?
In fact they have been doing these exact things in every war they’ve fought for decades now. This is who these people are. It’s their doctrine. And they won’t change it.
Meanwhile everyone is taking about peace, deals and ceasefires. There can be no such thing as long as the people making these decisions are in power in the Kremlin.
Maybe journalists should write less about Trumps sham peace talks and follow Russia's actions more closely, maybe then they wouldn’t be so surprised by this attack on civilians that, while gruesome and despicable, has been their modus operandi for a long time.
Musk wants to leave politics because he’s tired of ‘attacks’ from the left: report
Speculation of Tesla CEO’s possible departure comes as his influence in the administration appears to wane
Elon Musk is reportedly set to leave his government role because he’s tired of the what he sees as a litany of vicious and unethical attacks from the left, according to a report from The Washington Post.
It remains unclear when Musk will depart as head of DOGE; his special government employee status will expire at the end of next month. A person familiar with his thinking told The Post that Musk thinks that his work at DOGE won’t be diminished because of his departure, noting that staffers have already established themselves across a slew of federal agencies.
But speculation of Musk’s possible departure comes as his influence in the administration appears to wane. The New York Times reported last week that the acting commissioner of the IRS was being replaced after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained that Musk had his preferred candidate installed without Bessent’s support. Musk has also annoyed other cabinet members by failing to coordinate with them in cost-cutting moves.
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As sad as it sounds, we'll also have to watch his 13 specifically IVF male children, which he calls "legion", to see what they do with pieces of his fortune as they grow older. He reads dystopian sci-fi media and wants to build that.
I'm keeping Vivian Wilson out of that nonsense because she has publicly disowned him and is awesome.
They already did de facto insider trading advice when the Mango Mussolini posted "this is a great time to buy" on Truth Social hours before pausing his stupid tariffs.
That cesspit is TECHNICALLY publicly available, but apart from a few journalists with the shittiest assignment ever, the only people likely to be there at 9:37am are members of his cult and adjacent sickos.
Besides, even if it's not insider trading, it's one of the most blatant examples of deliberate market manipulation ever, which is also illegal.
'Great time to buy:' How Trump's tip on social media made money for investors who listened
President Donald Trump offered financial advice on Wednesday morning that ended up making a lot of money for any lucky investor who listened to him. He posted on his social media platform Truth Social that it was "a great time to buy.Bernard Condon (AP News)
Likely, but also he might have gotten bored with his new toys.
Powerful people are like that.
I'm almost certain that he has been ordered by his board of directors to get back to work, or be removed as CEO of Tesla.
There is almost certainly a shareholder class-action suit brewing over his reckless and irresponsible behavior over the last several months, which has directly caused severe, and possibly irreparable, damage to the company's brand image AND it's sales around the world, as well as tanking the stock price, an unforgiveable sin in the investing world. Now that the bubble has popped, it will never inflate again. As future earnings reports are released, and sales continue to slide, the stock will continue to decline, and the cycle will continue until bankruptcy. And it is all traceable to Skum's self-indulgent, egotistical behavior.
The only question is will Skum be the only defendant, or will the lawsuit also name the individual members of the board, for not reigning him in, or firing him. They don't want to be sued alongside him, so they are forcing him to get back to work saving Tesla, thus letting them off the hook for legal liability.
Its doubtful Skum will be able to save Tesla at this point, its almost certainly too late. It is also probably too late to avoid a shareholder lawsuit. Investors have lost millions of dollars, not due to the vagaries of the market, but due to Skum's outrageous behavior, which, as CEO, he should have realized would damage his company and its investors significantly.
And arguing that he didn't recognize the danger in advance is no excuse at all for a CEO, who should have been able to predict the response to his self-indulgent ego bender.
Shareholders have lost many millions, and they won't just let that go with an "Oh well." He's likely going to get sued, and the board is just making sure they don't go down with him.
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He might discontinue his role formally but will still be involved.
I think he means "tired of the pushback and profit loss from actively bribing the system into becoming the shadow POTUS running the world behind the scenes".
How else could he attempt to advance to Mars Colonization, his lifelong dream as someone with a God-Iron-Man-Savior complex, during his lifetime?
He knows with the current progress rate he could help pave the way to Mars for humanity, but not live the dream himself, or take full credit for that achievement. And we know just how "selfless" he is.
"Scumbag musk has got all the info he needs from all the government servers. Now he's going to distance himself from everything then use that info as blackmail, or sell to Russia etc etc."
Primary goal was to neuter and disarm any agency that was actively investigating him, or had the authority to investigate him in the future.
The stolen data was just a happy little side dish he came into, that I'm sure isnt totally already in Russias hands. Just like how government credentials and login information didnt immediately end up in Russia's hands after Musks sham of an agency got a hold of them (it totally did)
He did a Nazi salute at the presidential inauguration.
There’s no “being part of society” anymore. There’s no coming back for him at all. What a fucking moron
Dark MAGA in the process...
The future looks dark for Murica
Wouldn't have changed at all.
That event didn't change him at all, for fuck sake
He tried, but he colflated a person on the leaderboard of a video game with a likeable personality
(No offense to likeable people on leaderboards)
And it has nothing to do with the expiry on the special appointment coming up where Trump will either have to make him a real federal employee with all the legal exposure that confers or let him go.
As others have pointed out, he’s already compromised systems, downloaded what data he could for Peter Thiel/Palantir, broken those organizations to the furthest extent he is able, and likely will have continued access to the data through illegal means in the future for himself/his handlers.
He’s not ‘leaving politics’ because those mean liberals, he’s leaving because as a useful idiot, he’s fulfilled his use and maybe realized he was being used as an idiot, but likely not.
Trump can do whatever he wants. The Supreme Court said so, Congress won't complain, and he has already completed the first round of purges of the executive branch.
He could declare a horse his co-consul and the only downside would be some snarky mentions in some histories written by the senatorial classes.
I don’t think he cares one lick about legal exposure. Others are just pushing back against what he wants to do, and he doesn't like obstacles.
Holy shit, I didn't think the bullying campaign would acturally work. This is a grand victory for all workers of the world and a sign of whats to come. When all the workers of the world unite we can overcome the iron hand and destroy any fascist.
NEVER BACK DOWN FOR THEY ARE WEAK AND WE THE WORKERS ARE STRONG
Politics is a form of negotiation with other elements of leadership to make a nation's major policy decisions.
Musk, you never DID get involved in politics. You hired a private army and got involved in criminal intimidation.
"Elon Musk is reportedly set to leave his government role because he’s tired of the what he sees as a litany of vicious and unethical attacks from the left..."
OR...hear me out...Trump is sick of him and wants him gone (because two egos that large cannot coexist in the same space indefinitely) and this is the cover story.
OR...Elon has already accomplished 99.9% of what he wanted by gaining access to all the data he wanted and further embedding SpaceX, Starlink, etc., into government contracts.
OR...some mix of all of the above.
They like to flout the law in real time because they know there are no real consequences, but Musk still doesn't want to leave an opening for a federal or state DA to sue him for financial disclosure and conflict of interest, if only to avoid the PR scandals from discovery.
He's probably going to 'officially' bow out, but maintain a totally-not-suspicious amount of digital communications with the army of fuckup loyalists he installed.
You know, just like that time the fuckup in chief relinquished control of his extraordinary number of conflicts of interest.
House Democrats warn Trump that Musk must leave by May 30 and demand the president agree to the timeline
Musk has said DOGE will have accomplished ‘most’ of its work by May deadlineJosh Marcus (The Independent)
It's up, despite them completely shitting the bed on earnings. We'll see if it stays that way. Having traded stocks as a hobby, the market can be stupidly irrational sometimes. I believe it's up because he said he was going to distance himself from doge a bit, and do more for Tesla. Imo the damage is done, and he has done irreparable harm to the brand. Working less days for Doge doesn't change the fact that he founded Doge and pissed a lot of potential customers off in the process.
In all honesty, if he left politics and stayed out of it I wouldn't my just leaving him to his harem and 40k.
America's democracy is in dire enough straits that we don't need to be stuck fighting the world's richest man on top of the whole mechanism of government. If he'll get and stay gone, I say leave him to it.
On the other hand, he's rich enough that he can jump back in at any time and go back to fucking our democracy and he's proven to be impulsive and mercurial, willing to throw his lot in with fascists because he got trolled on Twitter over how skin deep his progressive credentials are.
Must be nice just dropping (what he claims is) important work on the ground when you need a nap.
He's really demonstrating his famous work ethic. Maybe that sleeping on the factory floor legend was not about work ethic but about spontaneous napping when he feels a tantrum coming on.
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Trans pilot falsely blamed in Potomac plane crash sues conservative influencer
Military pilot Jo Ellis said she had to hire private armed security for her family because of the false claims, which went viral on social media.
A transgender military pilot filed a defamation lawsuit Wednesday against a conservative influencer who falsely claimed on social media that she was flying the helicopter that collided with a commercial jet near Reagan National Airport in January, killing 67 people.
“I want to hold this person accountable for what they did to me,” Jo Ellis, a pilot who has served more than 15 years in the Virginia Army National Guard, said in a statement to NBC News. “It’s become too common that people can say horrible things about someone, profit at their expense, and get away with it.”
On Jan. 30, less than 24 hours after the crash, conservative influencer Matt Wallace, who has 2.2 million followers on the social media platform X, shared a post from another account he operates stating that the helicopter pilot was transgender, according to the lawsuit. Wallace included a photo of Ellis, and the post went viral, the lawsuit states.
Trans pilot falsely blamed in Potomac plane crash sues conservative influencer
A transgender military pilot filed a defamation lawsuit against a conservative influencer who falsely connected her to the Potomac River plane crash in January.Jo Yurcaba (NBC News)
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Soon after Ellis’ statement on Facebook, Wallace shared another X user’s post with Ellis’ video, writing that it was an “Important Update!” and adding that Ellis was not piloting the helicopter and is still alive. Wallace also wrote in another X post that the original rumor that Ellis had been flying the helicopter involved in the crash came from another account with the handle @FakeGayPolitics, which is no longer active. Wallace said the rumor “seemed credible” because Ellis, whom Wallace misgendered in his posts, “wrote an article calling out Trump’s trans military ban only a few days ago.”
How does this logic work in his head?
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I think their tiny-Trumpy-brained syllogism goes:
- Trans people bad.
- Helicopter crash bad.
- Therefore, trans people helicopter.
Premise 1 is false, but other than that you simply can't fault the logic.
trans people helicopter.
"I identify as-"
Yeah goddamn I bet that made perfect sense in his head.
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"if someone said anything negative about me, I would gladly murder dozens of people JUST to make them look bad, therefore this is perfectly believable!"
That's the logic.
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They/them feels just as wrong to some people with gendered identities as some people with non-binary identities feel with gendered pronouns. Especially if they are trans and binary, because it takes a lot to get to the point that people will correctly gender you.
What I'm saying is, you might feel like you're not misgendering, but if someone is binary and you use a non-binary pronoun, you are misgendering.
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I'm one of those people that prefers to have my name used instead of she/her or they/them, and it works quite well once people shake the cobwebs off their brains.
However, living your life as "he" while knowing you are "she" is full of moments that hurt. The English language may not require the distinction, but in practice it is how we define people. Why would you continue to hurt someone by using a pronoun that isn't what they've described themselves as? It's like someone who has gotten your name wrong, and no matter how often you correct them, they continue to call you the wrong name. Except it isn't just one person, it's a class of people that is filled with both those that hate your existence and those who refuse to understand it.
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Strong disagree. Using 'they/them' when you're generally unsure about a person's gender isn't misgendering.
I'm a binary trans woman. If someone is generally unsure about my gender, because it can be ambiguous from time to time, they/them when referring to me is perfectly acceptable. I would suggest most other people are fine with they/them in this instance as well.
Pronouns can be quite a minefield to navigate, especially for those not used to using they/them when all they've ever known is binary terms growing up.
Speaking as an 'elder' trans person, some pronouns in use, which are just as valid as mine!, are genuinely difficult to remember because there are so many of them. I'm talking about the ones that aren't part of the English language in common use. I default to 'they/them' in those instances because using the person's assigned gender at birth would be genuinely hurtful; I don't want to hurt someone.
I feel very much that our own, gender diverse, community is driving those outside of it away by being so strict with/overt policing of pronouns, that those who aren't gender diverse find the whole 'pronoun' thing too complicated, then either refuse to engage with us or deliberately misgender because its easier. This is especially true for older conservative cis people.
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I literally said "some people", because there are certainly some who don't care if people call them "they". Like I straight up acknowledged that in my first sentence. My point was that it isn't going to jive with everyone, and that maybe people should reconsider that safety blanket of "non gendering".
How is "just using they/them for everyone" not "misgendering because it's easier"? Because asking someone what their preferred pronouns are is too hard for many
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What I'm saying is, you might feel like you're not misgendering, but if someone is binary and you use a non-binary pronoun, you are misgendering.
I don't disagree with your first statement.
However I do disagree with your second statement, quoted above, because it's so broad that even people trying to do the right thing, or least harmful thing, can be accused of misgendering or be policed by others for simply trying to be inclusive.
Whilst a technicality, it really rubs non-gender diverse people the wrong way, and makes it harder for gender diverse people, myself included, to drive broader acceptance of us in the community when all we're known for is telling others they're 'wrong' when they accidentally mess up a pronoun or three.
There's a very fine balance to be struck between being inclusive, and being correct.
If someone gets a person's gender wrong accidentally because they were unsure, that shouldn't, and doesn't in my view, count as misgendering simply because it was a misunderstanding.
However if someone deliberately, or maliciously refers to someone as their assigned gender at birth, that's misgendering which should absolutely be called out and derided.
they/them when referring to me is perfectly acceptable
Thank you for stating your own personal preference. I'll try to make a note of it.
But ... is that automatically anyone else's preference? My friend Sandra prefers she/her, and rejects the they/them as it's apparently confusing.
I'd ask the two of you to figure it out but its not my business.
But ... is that automatically anyone else's preference?
No, and that's the really hard part. Most would agree that 'they/them/they're' (and so on) is generally safer than a gendered pronoun if unsure. It's also really hard when someone's pronouns, again for those in the back: are just as valid as mine, aren't ones in common use.
There's a non-exhaustive list here: lgbtqnation.com/2022/08/incomp…
It's much easier with friends, as you'll generally get into a groove eventually. However, is less so with strangers.
Even asking someone's pronouns could be met with confused looks from time to time. Context matters. If I asked for the pronouns of a farmer with a thousand yard stare and sun-kissed leather skin to match in my part of the world, despite growing up in the country, I'd probably be punched in the face. 😂
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Uhm. Hey, I know you are well meaning and I'm only saying this to inform, not to call out, shame or attack.
But most trans people deeply dislike what you're doing, it's called degendering and it's not an appropriate or respectful way to refer to us.
Detransphobia was found to be rooted in cisnormativity and transnormativity, together with socio-politically-located anti-transgender stereotypes related to the process and the outcomes of detransitioning. Detransphobia compounds gender minority stressors and social exclusion in those who shift or reject their past transgender identity through the process of detransition.
I understand you are worried about saying the wrong thing, but this is a way to deny trans people their identity but talking around it. It's extremely noticeable and as someone who has attended more than a few trans support groups, it's dehumanizing and upsetting. Just as non-binary folk use they/them, binary trans folk use she and him. We have one correct way to refer to us, and apart from sentance where you are referring to a group, "they" is not a safe one size fits all.
Again, I say this respectfully in effort to inform. You seem well intending, but I implore you to reconsider.
(De)Transphobia: Examining the Socio-Politically Driven Gender Minority Stressors Experienced by People Who Detransitioned
Existing research on gender minority stress theory largely presumes that transgender identity is a categorically immutable characteristic often tied to a unidirectional gender transition, neglecting to consider individuals whose gender identity/expre…bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org
Like I replied below,
Then we can't win, it feels like people are purposely making it impossible to be respectful to everyone by always having an issue. So I will go with offending the gendered people.
If y'all gonna have a problem with using neutral terms then you will have to live with being offended because it's not fair if we can't just use your name.
"It feels like people are purposely making it impossible to be respectful to everyone...." Yeah by ignoring simple social cues (or a written article) that would have allowed them to correctly and respectfully refer to another person, if they would have had the energy to allow a single additional neuron to fire off in there.
"...I will go with offending the gendered people." You know everyone here can see your previous posts right? Where you correctly gender Trump, Musk, and probably every other cicgendered person without having any trouble. But nice edgy touch.....
For the better part of 30 years I have used a non-gendered language when possible. I was elated to find that "they" was originally, 13th century, a single pronoun instead of plural. I have probably used "one" way more times than is healthy.
~30 years ago I was living in/near Hillcrest, San Diego. Gay, trans, drag and everything else. I was online and people's genders were frequently unknown. In 1993 we already had the issues that On the Internet, nobody
knows you're a dog.. Now we have AI which has no gender pronoun, I'm voting for "hal".
Point is that avoiding gendering text has been and will continue to be the safer option for general purpose writing. Some people will get bent out of shape that you didn't use gender specific language because the Narcissism of Small Differences means they must see you as the enemy even if you agree with them on 99% of things. Trying to have a generally non-discriminatory pronoun policy? That's a paddling. Your good intentions must be stopped because they aren't pure enough.
It sucks. Instead of focusing on the slander used by hate speech and the remediation sought by the one who was wronged we are totally lost in the weeds and focused on if we used the right three letters because avoiding the wrong three wasn't enough. It's thought police with the best of intentions but it's still thought police.
Point is that avoiding gendering text has been and will continue to be the safer option for general purpose writing.
I do the same, but if someone's gender is known it's really not hard to use one of their preferred pronouns.
I don't think that's being the 'thought police' and it's certainly not something to focus on instead of hate speech, we can do both.
And figuring out their preferred pronouns isn't always easy. Can you trust the news source to have gotten it right? You end up getting stalkerish and seeing if they have made a public statement on their pronouns and you have to make sure it's current because gender can be fluid and maybe it changed since the story broke. And do you need to go revise your previous posts and comments to update the current status? Or do you go with evergreen and neutral because you definitely don't want someone digging through your history and seeing something different from whatever is current and then jumping on the cancel wagon without checking the calendar to see if it was appropriate at the time.
This isn't as simple as a lot of people want it to be. Going neutral isn't a slight. It's not misgendering. It's a way to avoid accidentally making an error even with the best of intentions.
My old roommate was trans. They went through multiple gender identities before settling on that. And every post I made mentioning them is still clean because I went with the gender neutral before they had ever made their first change.
And figuring out their preferred pronouns isn’t always easy.
usually the pronouns are listed somewhere or you ask
This isn’t as simple as a lot of people want it to be. Going neutral isn’t a slight. It’s not misgendering. It’s a way to avoid accidentally making an error even with the best of intentions.
There's a reason many trans spaces in Lemmy require listed pronouns, it removes the guesswork and you can reference inline.
If you're using gendered pronouns for most cis people but then specifically degendering trans people it's going to eventually rub people the wrong way. People aren't going to care if you make an error while being well intentioned, especially if you ask for more information and correct yourself going forward.
many trans spaces in Lemmy require listed pronouns,
That's great, for people in that ecosystem. I'm not there. I help when asked, I get in the way if there is a problem just like I do during domestic abuse extractions, but I don't go into trans spaces for the same reasons I don't go into black ones. I'm not wanted there unless I'm bringing a donation. And I'm too poor for that.
If you're using gendered pronouns for most cis people
That would be a problem. If it was something I did. Fortunately by being consistent that isn't an issue.
Sounds like you have no reason to be defensive. Here's some posts of yours if you wanted to edit the binary pronouns used for cis people to be they/them to be more consistent though.
lemmy.world/comment/16503438
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They won't.
Edit: they did, I stand corrected.
What Audio Analysis Reveals About Aid Workers Killed in Gaza - bellingcat
What Audio Analysis Reveals About Aid Workers Killed in Gaza - bellingcat
Hundreds of shots fired at aid convoy that resulted in deaths of multiple aid workers, audio analysis shows.Carlos Gonzales (bellingcat)
What Audio Analysis Reveals About Aid Workers Killed in Gaza - bellingcat
What Audio Analysis Reveals About Aid Workers Killed in Gaza - bellingcat
Hundreds of shots fired at aid convoy that resulted in deaths of multiple aid workers, audio analysis shows.Carlos Gonzales (bellingcat)
Haiti nearing ‘point of no return’ amid gang violence, UN representative warns
Haiti, where rampant gang violence has surged in recent weeks, is approaching a “point of no return” leading to “total chaos”, the UN special representative to the troubled Caribbean nation has warned.
“As gang violence continues to spread to new areas of the country, Haitians experience growing levels of vulnerability and increasing skepticism about the ability of the state to respond to their needs,” María Isabel Salvador told the UN securitycouncil.
“Haiti could face total chaos,” she said, adding that international aid was desperately needed to avoid that fate. “I urge you to remain engaged and answer the urgent needs of the country and its people.”
Salvador cited cholera outbreaks and gender-based violence alongside a deteriorating security situation, particularly in the capital, Port-au-Prince, with authorities struggling to cope.
Haiti nearing ‘point of no return’ amid gang violence, UN representative warns
María Isabel Salvador tells security council the country could face ‘total chaos’ without necessary international aidGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Banned DDT discovered in Canadian trout 70 years after use, research finds
Residues of the insecticide DDT have been found to persist at “alarming rates” in trout even after 70 years, potentially posing a significant danger to humans and wildlife that eat the fish, research has found.
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, known as DDT, was used on forested land in New Brunswick, Canada, from 1952 to 1968. The researchers found traces of it remained in brook trout in some lakes, often at levels 10 times higher than the recommended safety threshold for wildlife.
“DDT is a probable carcinogen that we haven’t used in 70 years here [Canada], yet it’s abundant in fish and lake mud throughout much of the province at shockingly high levels,” said Josh Kurek, an associate professor in environmental change and aquatic biomonitoring at Mount Allison University in Canada and lead author of the research.
The research, published in the journal Plos One, discovered that DDT pollution covers about 50% of New Brunswick province. Brook trout is the most common wild fish caught in the region, and the research found DDT was present in its muscle tissue, in some cases 10 times above the recommended Canadian wildlife guidelines.
Banned DDT discovered in Canadian trout decades after use, research finds
Potential danger to humans and wildlife from harmful pesticide discovered in fish at 10 times safety limitSinéad Campbell (The Guardian)
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150 year half-life in aquatic environments.
Also, just because it’s not officially used doesn’t mean it’s not unofficially used; I’m sure there were some barrels that went missing here and there.
India continues to manufacture it and China only stopped in 2007.
I have a friend who's grandfather was a chemist who at least claimed to his family that he mixed up small batches of DDT for mosquito control on his property.
I have no way of verifying that, but I wouldn't be entirely surprised if some rogue chemist with a vendetta against mosquitos was out there doing it.
My grandpa was farming in Saskatchewan during those years and he regularly used DDT. He died in '68 of colon cancer.
It was a time when regulation and testing was not good and companies were just throwing stuff onto the market. Which explains some of the soil & water toxicity problems we're facing now.
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