This some fox-news level clipped bullshit that takes things severely out of context.

The fact that democrats aren’t raising more of a stink (with the exceptions of AOC/Bernie, etc) - tells me exactly where their priorities lay.

It DO! Which one am I mixing it up with then? Briar?

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“Protect the kids!” - always the first thing they use.

SimpleX doesn’t even have a desktop client. IT DO! Discord is mostly used for gaming.

It says information used for age checks will not be stored by Discord or the verification company.

Bullshit. Every time some bitch-ass company says this, 4-5 years later they’re like “we were hacked, someone took everyone’s photo IDs!”

Problem with Dumbphones is that they can’t run the Signal client. I still have a use for smartphones, but I don’t think the fairphone is it. I should probably look at the Pinephone again though.

This is an effort by governments the world over to have a real ID attached to your user online. Literally just a way to unmask you so that you can be indentified for whatever purposes they wish.

These people can scan the hair on my nutsack if they want to verify my age.

The moment this is attempted is the moment I’m no longer on discord.

I’m okay with seeing it from time to time - but when my /all would get flooded with PAGES, and PAGES of the stuff with no normal articles in between, I started muting those users.

Why? It’s too much bandwidth, too much upkeep, I already modded/ran communities larger than lemmy; I DON’T want to do it again, especially if I’m paying out of pocket for it. Having to deal with whiny cry-bitches when you DON’T ban something that they don’t like it almost as bad as having the stuff banned in the first place.

Nuh uh!

Nope. They’re federated, so no reason they wouldn’t show unless you turn all NSFW stuff off.

Nah fuck that. Mods are power hungry fat morons who exert the editorial discretion of a wet noodle. Almost every community in the fediverse is full of this crap. Things aren’t removed because they’re harmful, they’re removed because some mod disagrees.

There’s also the problem with every instance admin having access to deeper internals; I’m waiting for the day people start getting banned for upvoting the wrong thing.

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I found that a total of like 5 people post basically all of the lemmynsfw stuff. Once I blocked them, it almost all went away. Pretty sure the internet is nothing but bots now.

Also, if you’re on the internet expecting all sunshine and rainbows – leave now. The internet is not a place for that. Everything now is rage-bait designed to get more clicks, and the internet has always been the wild west with major hostilities all the time. It’s not a good place to spend your time if you’re looking to relax.

Do we have any communities for this yet? Dragonsfuckingcars or Carsfuckingcars? Asking for a friend.

Some of the actions that the Trump administration demanded of Harvard were:

Conducting plagiarism checks on all current and prospective faculty members.

Sharing all its hiring data with the Trump administration, and subjecting itself to audits of its hiring while “reforms are being implemented,” at least through 2028.

Providing all admissions data to the federal government, including information on both rejected and admitted applicants, sorted by race, national origin, grade-point average and performance on standardized tests.

Immediately shutting down any programming related to diversity, equity and inclusion.

So uh…calling bullshit. “No demand is about affirmative action.” my ass. Did you even read the article?

I don’t know if you read the article or not, but this is very clearly about race here. They mention DEI and “merit-based reform” which is directly pointing at admission practices.

Yeah, there’s some free speech shit sprinkled in there too - but it directly mentions the subject I am talking about as well.

Yes, I know the overarching subject matter is that the administration is pissed off about people protesting on behalf of Palestine, but the topic of my reply is clearly an integral part of the article as well.