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republicans have the right to be furious about things that aren’t happening, it’s in the Constitution

Appeal to authority isn’t a fallacy if it’s a relevant authority, though. The US federal courts are a pretty dang relevant authority on US federal crimes.

the added context of the US map gives it some utility that a pie chart, which is just straight trash, does not have

a bar graph or even just a table would convey similar information more precisely and usefully, but if your only goal is to give an intuitive sense of the land use (not writing policy or anything here) it suits

cannot believe how many people are confused that the use blocks aren’t showing use in that location, just size in relation to the size of the country

alt: every Republican accusation is a confession

college students are being indoctrinated = we’re trying really hard to indoctrinate everyone, and being even mildly educated is a problem for our dipshit ideology

yeah, there’s literally a quote from a Republican in the article complaining that it’s too easy for college students to vote

‘not deeply rooted in us history’

pseudointellectual horseshit of a justification. brownshirt philosophy is as stupid and shallow as usual

No? 1) I’m perfectly happy to say I don’t like tipping in general, too. I do it because that’s how we’ve apparently agreed service workers make any money at all. 2) I didn’t explicitly say I’m in the US, altho I did imagine our tipping culture to be a bit unique, so to be clear - I also don’t have much faith in labor laws getting consistently enforced here. 3) Who is getting tipped from self-service machine screens?

You can also take the smug armchair psych somewhere else, guy.

Yeah I have no idea who the tip even goes to sometimes.

And really in those cases, I assume straight to the business/owner. And then it’s like why am I volunteering to buy this at an additional markup?

what I get from this comment is that trees are the crabs of the plant world

edit ~ oh, yes, that’s actually more or less the central idea of your link and the first comparison made. I’m still working on my morning coffee…

I don’t know whether or not this was the right decision for beehaw, although I certainly sympathize with them having staffing and mod tool issues. Modding any forum is a thankless and tiring job, and I’m sure in it’s super early state Lemmy doesn’t exactly have a mature suite of tools to work with.

I am very interested in the community reaction here though. There seems to be a shared assumption that instance creation in the Fediverse means an open exchange of users and content (outside of bad actor or extreme instances), and most instances should only be distributing technical burden and otherwise be almost just an aesthetic in the larger Fediverse.

This despite the user philosophy in the Fediverse being ‘go where you want, interact with who your want’, and federation tools meaning that philosophy applies to instances as well. And if you want meaningful differences between communities and instances, this has to be so - there has to be a strong ability to self-regulate, up to and including the ability to defederate from incompatible instances.

I think it’ll be very interesting to see how the Fediverse develops. A wider Fediverse composed of sets of federated instances which aren’t federated with other sets is possible. A largely open Fediverse with limited walled off instances is also possible. I know right now the latter is probably preferred to encourage growth, but in the long run? (these are not the only conceivable arrangements either, but this post is long enough already)