A society that gets rid of its librarians should not have libraries. Let them be barbarians like they want to
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Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝
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I think it's amusing how much this is a horror fantasy for a certain kind of person. Someone could write a good post -- you like it -- and then they edit the post to say "I like Hitler". Then someone could track you down by your like (or repost or whatever) and see you expressing support for that!
Marginalized people complain about features of Mastodon all the time, but I haven't heard this one because it's a concern of "allies" who must be seen as good "allies".
People on Bluesky are talking about how horrible it is for a social medium to allow people to edit posts. Why, someone could write a good post, get thousands of likes, and then edit their post to say something horrible and embarrass all of those people.
I replied that Mastodon allows people to and I haven't heard of this being a problem. Someone immediately appointed themselves as speaker for marginalized people and said that I should talk to marginalized people about it.
CrimethInc. Ex-WorkersWhile many people compare the Israeli occupation to apartheid, the Israeli occupation is much, much bloodier.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission confirmed about 21,000 deaths altogether in South Africa between 1948 and 1994. The death toll since 2023 in Palestine alone—a much smaller population—is several times that.
While apartheid policies in South Africa imposed segregation, ethnic cleansing, and racially targeted violence, the Israeli government is intentionally pursuing genocide as state policy.
And all the bloodshed up to now is not enough—today, the Israeli voted to begin hanging prisoners.
Not to mention the ongoing bombardment and occupation of Lebanon.
This post sucks. Of course the US will commit war crimes! It's what we do!
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-orders-war-crimes-then-what-iran
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#NoVotesForLiars
On Monday, UK Defence Journal reported that the US has deployed two additional B-52H Stratofortress bomber planes to RAF Fairford as part of Operation Epic Fury.
The increase takes the total number of long-range jets – which are capable of firing nuclear cruise missiles or nuclear gravity bombs – at the base to eight.
It also reports that there is a larger contingent of B-1B Lancers operating from the Gloucestershire base.
I see stuff about Chad Ohman on the TL again. Look whatever your feelings are about whether people call each other out on the Internet a lot or not, small nonprofit/volunteer organizations absolutely do not often go public with accusations published in local newspapers that their treasurer has been stealing money for years. This is something that actually happens quite a lot, the report rate is low, and when there is smoke there 99+% is fire.
Covid safety *as virtuous intentions* wraps around and becomes eugenics again. Covid safety consists of taking certain actions, which may or may not work (statistically, they work a whole lot more than not doing them does). The minute it becomes "Covid safety consists of virtuously thinking about others" while not taking the actions because you can't, you're headed to a bad place.
Someone posted a Covid Safe Date site featuring "You may have a shitty job that forces you to be maskless in order to stay employed. You may share a household with people who don't avoid the plague like the plague."
I don't like "Covid-safetyness" as a subculture. America loves to turn stuff that it makes unsafe into subcultures, where it remains unsafe but people sympathize with each other.
If you have a job that forces you to work maskless, you're not Covid safe. Intentions do not count.
Two notable things about this:
1) The physical shortage will arrive in April. Right now shipments at sea that were loaded before the war are still arriving.
2) Countries that don't import (like the US) are not insulated from price shocks, e.g. when China wants oil it will be willing to pay more for oil and the global price goes up.