I wouldn't say that. It varies from subreddit to subreddit, community to community, instance to instance. And sometimes they are just staying within goals for the given space, regardless of whether it is Reddit or Lemmy. Your personal experience will often vary with how aligned you are with the viewpoints of mods, if they engage in heavy viewpoint discrimination.
Yup. I made a comment on !worldnews@lemmy.ml that criticized the recent rigged Venezuelan election, complete with citations. Banned for "misinformation". Sure, you can just go elsewhere, but "better mods" is subjective.
I just reviewed the rule that was cited, Rule 1, including the Code of Conduct. If any instance rules were violated, it's beyond me.
7.7 million people have left the country since Maduro came to power, the largest refugee crisis in the Americas. Polls show that in a free and fair election, Maduro would have struggled to stay in the double digits. Colectivos actively worked to interrupt the opposition's recent primary election via armed disruption of voting. Whatever that book is basing its research on, Maduro simply no longer represents the vast majority of Venezuelans and the Venezuelan diaspora.
I wonder what changed in the last 8 years.
The video shows easily hundreds, and it's clear there is a larger crowd behind them.
Maduro didn't win. He's wildly unpopular. More than 40% of Venezuelans have said they will consider emigrating if he clings to power. Even rigging the election ahead of time by kicking other candidates off the ballot for made up reasons wasn't going to be enough. He absolutely cheated and everyone knows it.
There's a reason that countries started agreeing on a set of laws of war, and it wasn't the goodness of their hearts. It means if your own soldiers get captured by an enemy working under the same rules, they should ideally be treated with at least a minimal standard of care. But every incident like this or Abu Ghraib weakens those protections and norms.
Sometimes it feels like certain parts of humanity just didn't really learn all the lessons that they should have from the Holocaust about dehumanizing people.
I don't want to dig into life too much, just to respect her privacy, but I was very impressed with her response to her so-called father's bullshit tweet. Nice of her to post it on a competitor to Twitter while she's at it.
Chinese economy is successfully reorienting away from real estate towards high tech
functional government
Speaking of functional government, provinces rely on land use sales of various lengths. Many of them heavily overborrowed to build out infrastructure in anticipation of future land sales that are now lower or non-existent. And meanwhile, the real estate crisis is still quite active.
If the Chinese government was so special, it should have learned from the US's issues with companies that posed a systemic risk with inadequate oversight. Instead, they let Evergrande and others become way too large with too little oversight. They should have taken a cue from the financial regulators in the US, which identify systemically risky companies and imposes onerous regulations. Then at the height of the real estate bubble, Xi introduced a new set of policies that immediately popped the bubble instead of trying to ease it down. Too often, Xi in particular seems to work on principles like "people should invest wisely" instead of "if I introduce this policy, it will cause problems." The good news is that China does seem to be listening more lately, but it's already done damage.
I haven't, but I have heard of it. I think parts of Lapce are based on some Zed algorithms.
Kamala also has to win an election. Straight up abandoning Israel is nowhere near as popular as Lemmy's echo chamber would have you think.
No, politicians have to walk a fine line. Biden hadn't put much of a restriction on use of US weapons and his sanctions against violent settlers in the West Bank are ineffective. Israel has mostly ignored efforts to reign it in. Kamala could lay out some far more concrete measures that would get certain weapons revoked if civilian deaths remain high. At the same time, keeping Patriot missiles well stocked would not impact Palestinians at all.
And that would likely severely impact her chances at the presidency. The attack ads practically write themselves. Trump would just bring up the October 7 attacks, opine that how dare she side with Hamas, and promise to not to abandon Israel. As horrified as many people are by the current war, most aren't ready to completely cut Israel off, especially if it can be framed against Hamas.
Can I make the grown men cry?
I'm looking for a vegan sandwich protein recipe that is more of a whole food than the highly processed food that is often found in stores. So far, I'm going to try out lentil patties. I figure I can freeze a batch and stick them in the air fryer as needed. Any other ideas?
Do the humans in Israel’s army have sufficient control over its technology?
Russia’s top security agency, the Federal Security Service, says there are dead and wounded in a Moscow concert hall that is ablaze amid a shooting by several gunmen.
Former Richland police officer Joshua Hartfield was one of six law enforcement officers who admitted to racially motivated torture.
Alt-right conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec vowed to finish what rioters began on Jan. 6 by working to "overthrow" democracy "completely."
Museums across the nation will begin closing exhibits featuring cultural artifacts from Native American tribes in the coming weeks, in response to new regulations from the Biden administration.
Moscow's biggest bombardment of the war so far shows Ukraine's air-defence abilities are under strain.
Homes, a maternity hospital, a shopping center, and a metro station were hit as part of the attacks. The attack may have been linked to the destruction of a Russian landing ship in Crimea.
A lot of news that comes out about the environment, climate change, and the like is very dispiriting. Has anyone seen a Lemmy community geared towards uplifting stories in the area? Species that are recovering, rivers that are being cleaned up, microbes being developed to eat plastic, that sort of thing.
Hundreds of conservative operatives outlined a plan that Donald Trump, or any Republican, could use to purge climate action from the federal government.
US president says he is talking with Netanyahu in an effort to ‘tamp down what’s going on’
While the !worldnews@lemmy.ml community has always been a little feisty, the flood of Redditors has turned much of any contentious subject into pure mud slinging. Take the recent post "Ukraine war: Kyiv claims its first victories of counter-offensive". The discussion featured these insults:
- cia and nafo freaks
- I don’t think the person you’re responding to has the capacity to realize anything except their own delusions
- hasn’t achieved reading comprehension
- tankie
- fascist
- gargling Putin's cock
- weasels
- So I sincerely ask you to either become a better person or just stfu.
- loonies
- Russian dick train
- willfully obtuse
And that's just half of the page. Seems like it's time to have at least some basic civility rules in place before this community is nothing but personal attacks.
Clarence Darrow was a famous American civil rights attorney of the 19th and 20th century. His most famous case with the "Scopes Monkey Trial", but he was involved in other high profile trials. This case was for a black family that moved into a white neighborhood and were attacked by a white mob. Henry Sweet of the family fired back in self-defense, killing a member of the mob. Partially on Darrow's closing arguments, Henry Sweet was acquitted under self-defense. Charges against the rest of the family were also dropped.
Darrow's speech is well ahead of its time, especially for a white man. He doesn't shy away from things like asking the all white jury to consider its own prejudice. In the hundred years since this speech, many Americans still are resistant to confronting their own prejudices.
True multi-core concurrency is coming to Python in 3.12 release and here’s how you can use it right now using sub-interpreter API
A change in how Python handles `str` and `int` mixins in Enum classes might break your code when you upgrade to Python 3.11.
Nearly 37 million people in China may have been infected with COVID-19 on a single day this week, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing estimates from the government's top health authority.
VOTE QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Resolution, DESCRIPTION: Providing for a correction in the enrollment of H.J. Res. 100, VOTE TYPE: Yea-And-Nay, STATUS: Passed
