Well I got an instant no-warning permaban from lemmy.ml
I think it was for a post in which I basically said there won't be peace in the Middle East until there's a lot less religion in the area.
I dunno, you never know who has an easily offended Sky Daddy LOL
He stepped into a political minefield and did a reasonably good job of pointing out some unfortunately too-common offensive and racist positions from an academic discipline and institution that both frankly need to do better.
Given the politics of the present situation, he would have done well to suggest concrete alternatives for a Junteenth recognition that better promotes an inclusive, tolerant society -- and his concrete plan for making that happen, using which Gubernatorial powers (beyond diktat).
I know I'm asking a lot but, he's already made at least one rookie mistake.
LibreWolf saved the spirit of firefox. Screw the Mozilla Board of Grifters. They could have just provided hosting for open source solutions/VPNs and sell lots of swag maybe host an actually good podcast ... but no, they leaned into selling user data WTF
And modern high tech parts are actually pretty traceable. Everything has a serial number and a digital trail.
People compare sanctions to the War on (some) Drugs but really nobody grows custom CMOS chips in their basement
Interesting, that dynamic is in line with the 'radiator' theory of human brain evolution.
From a more recent article:
the shift to an aerobic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle in early Homo, including long-distance running, exerted selection pressures that favored both increased endurance and enhanced brain growth
Edit: ... so, we're not batteries. We're cooling fins.
check this dope URL I picked up, I have an idea and it's totally going to be viral