automatic renewal but now I'm questioning it...

Pinging varyk

I hope we can at least agree this was a good move and we're in a much better position now to beat Trump

Ooohh, is little Twump too scawed?

No. Many people want cops to go Dirty Harry on all black people

Thanks I hate it

I was around 7 and my much older brother convinced me to stay up until very late in the evening when the dirty softcore stuff was on tv. Must have been midnight or whatever. Finally it started... I don't know what I expected but I was like "that's it??!" It was so boring! Fell asleep a minute later.

Hey man, why so hostile? That "nobody likes you and you have no friends" thing isn't even funny, it just makes you look like a dick

My rule would be the exact opposite, lol. It's proven to be safer over and over. The main reason is because you have good vision of the road and traffic when you leave, as opposed to when you have to leave in reverse.

Not this, but Bill Maher is. I agree with the other commenter that this could be written by anyone on his staff, it doesn't sound dumb or creepy enough to be from the man himself.

You think that's all legit? I don't see permaban levels of rule breaking at all there. More admin and moderator boneheadedness causing mild irritation with users. You're asking for feedback, then ignore most of that feedback, and now ban disagreement because they're understandably frustrated with your responses.

A prime example for a cookie with "legitimate interest" is a session cookie. Your shopping cart or even staying logged in wouldn't work without it, so it's not a good idea to even give the user the choice.

Incorrect, session cookies are textbook functional cookies

Dutchie who speaks German here, I hadn't heard of the word 'Zangendeutsch' before. I get what it means, but why 'Zangen'? Does it come from tongs or does it have another meaning? Tongs-German makes no sense to me

I was joking. Just like you can't be seriously claiming there is no consensus that the bot sucks and that all the net downvotes for that bot are due to a small minority of sockpuppeteers?

Maybe for you, but that's not how I'm reading other people's comments in there.

These people were specifically trying to get the bot removed? Must have hit quite a nerve. I know it was biased in favor of Israel, but it must have been even worse. That bot sucks so bad people make mass sockpuppet accounts just to tell you they want it gone

Then you understand the negative reactions. Especially regarding controversial topics such as Gaza where the bot preferred sources on one side to the conflict

Sockpuppetting? You have any indication of that?

The other thread started from the assumption that the bot is useful and here to stay, even though the overwhelming feedback has been that it sucks and should be removed. It was a transparent attempt to increase support for it instead of an honest attempt at feedback. People still gave their feedback, of course, that the stupid bot should be put out to pasture.

At least now we're seeing the bot is gone until improvements are made, the bias stuff is gone, the bot shouldn't even appear except in select cases. That's totally different than what they're saying in the other thread.

You meant to say 'admin'

That's exactly what I meant, thank you. It was an example, I don't want to talk about covid specifically. I'm not referring to injecting bleach or that kind of nonsense, where the admins already should have enough tools to enforce. It's just that this guiding principle in case of doubt makes it much too broad. It's making a sweeping statement about all the gray area of any issue

Mods should take note that this is how you listen to community feedback. Some actual learning is happening here, instead of doubling down we saw in the other thread

Why do you insist on fixing the bot instead of directing your energy elsewhere? Fixing the media bias bot to not have any bias is a fool's errand.

I think those people already left

This is a bit learning the wrong lesson from what happened, isn't it? The problem is admin overreach. There was some disagreement on a sub, no big deal. I don't even care what it's about, I have no opinion on it. But now this admin comes in like Eric Cartman "Respect mah authoritah!". What am I supposed to make of that? Nobody was advocating animal abuse. I worry about admins who can't just let something go, who can't handle disagreement, like a cop always looking to escalate.

So thanks for the rules clarification, I guess, but what about:

• won't this general guideline of 'do no harm' stifle discussion in case it isn't clear which is the harmful position? For example covid
• is there a process in place when an admin does something in the heat of the moment, that the admin team can let them cool off for a bit?
• is removing mods going to be the norm?
• will there be more rules when another admin disagrees with a mod?
• why was this escalated like this? Don't you think removing mod status is an overreaction (procedure wise)?
• does the 'anti animal abuse' statute apply to animal consumption and animal products? Vegan community has a point there
• what about rooki?

All in all, please don't kill this instance by telling people what to think. There is healthy discussion and people don't always have to agree. That doesn't make me a 'free speech absolutist'. I think removing moderator privileges was quite out of bounds. Again, nobody was advocating animal abuse at all.

Mods and admins are here to keep discussion healthy, not impose their views on everyone else, right? So don't! And don't cover for others who do!

It's called jumpstyle. I found this video which is pretty good (at 1:20) https://youtu.be/aja2Wlp9OD0

The other dances are also very well executed. I think jumpstyle worked so well as a fad dance is because it's easy to learn, variation is pretty basic, you can somewhat blend in if you can keep a rhythm. Whereas tectonik is fucking awesome but you look like an idiot unless you're crazy good and wayyy confident.

I'm like "let's look up some jumpstyle videos on YouTube for the onlookers in this conversation" but I think it's all been deleted out of sheer cringe.

Or it might be necessary to ban rich people.

Haha, now we're talking!

You can burn out at a job that only expects healthy hours because you're an overachiever who refuses to take time off.

🙋😢

Cory Doctorow calls this one "it's ok because we do it with an app" and urges regulators to enforce the laws already on the books. It's an absurd defense legally, but there's no enforcement of antitrust or consumer law at all anymore

Another unsourced map with probably heaps of inaccuracies. Everyone will becalling out errors in this map. I know at least one: Netherlands has Dunkin' Donuts.

Can we have a rule against unsourced informational maps? They're always wrong

Charges dismissed does not mean he was found not guilty. They could charge him again. Given what we know, the cops fucked this up. No-knock raids are a death sentence.

If anyone wants to know what happened, here's an excellent video by NYT with fancy animations: https://youtu.be/lDaNU7yDnsc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Aiyana_Jones

If anyone wants to know what happened, here's the NYT with fancy animations saying police killed her: https://youtu.be/lDaNU7yDnsc

lol .ml user, of course

Hitachi:

There's a reason transbian is a word