I absolutely do not trust Chrome or the google team. It does not make me feel any better the only barrier to them trying to ruin a internet a bit is some backlash.
Highlights: In 2015, upstate New York judge Robert J. Putorti was overseeing a court hearing involving a Black defendant. Nothing out of the ordinary for a judge to do right? Except, when a Black man approached the stand “too quickly,” Judge Putorti pulled a loaded gun on him in court....
Not terribly surprised, new platform that’s still teething. I’ve said it before but we will go through multiple growth and contraction waves if we all care to stick around long enough.
Personally I’m liking the smaller community so far. Definitely could use some growth, but more people comes with a lot of problems reddit has.
I don’t slick back my hair, but I use a beard oil, wax and pomade on my beard and head periodically. I take a shower and add all three sometimes afterwards. More often I just use a bit of oil or pomade. Keeps the hair soft and makes it smell nice. If you want more structure, I would definitely look at waxes and pomades. Both have much more holding power.
Wow thanks for this comment, Lagrange works incredibly well. I had a lot of fun trying out Gemini, I had been doing Gopher recently but Im definitely going to add this to my goofing around.
The US is incredibly powerful and arresting even a former president is massive international news. No country wants to deal with the nightmare of the US response to that, which would be extremely hard to predict.
They dont typically charge presidents in the US either, it’s been the long standing opinion of the justice department it’s not worth the political trouble. Also “war crimes” are a complex series of international treaties and laws enforced through international cooperation. Thats why you don’t ever see any powerful heads of state tried in court, the international community is not interested in enforcing international law at gun point. It would also be harder to convict under US law, because most countries national laws rarely codify treaty or international law like that. That trial would also need to adhere to US legal standards for evidence and beyond reasonable doubt, which is a pretty high bar of proof, especially for the rich and powerful, and for a crime committed in another country.
Lastly, and most importantly, it’s an extremely political question. It’s easy to look at death tolls and call it a war crime, but the US had direct geopolitical events pull them into both wars. The level of violence present in both wars is extremely typical of any large conflict, a significant portion of the world’s leaders would eligible to be convicted for war crimes if that’s how we decide to draw the line. Those leaders will fight tooth and nail to prevent that from happening, regardless of what show they put on for tabloids.
I want to be clear, the US committed “war crimes” under any reasonable definition a layman would expect. They used strategic torture operations, and had multiple war prisons with systemic abuse of prisoners. They used an extended drone campaign with much too high of tolerances for civilian casualties and refused to hold themselves or soldiers responsible for almost anything. They knew the military had a problem with both internal and civilian rapes, but spent decades ignoring it and fighting taking prosecutorial control away from the perpetrators direct commander/friend. The unfortunate fact is that is how pretty much every war is conducted, many have been far, far worse. That doesn’t really justify it, but it does explain why a lot of world leaders get real quiet when we start talking about specific examples of unacceptable violence.
Hell look what it took to actually get indictments for Trump once he had significant political backing, or how little real consequence Putin himself has experienced despite a lot of evidence for ethnic cleansing attempts. The simple fact of the matter is the powerful will not be held accountable for their war crimes and general lack of humanity, not until they are no longer powerful for whatever reason. The US literally has a law allowing them to invade the Hague, a close military and strategic ally, if they need to free an American. It’s called “The American Service-Members’ Protection Act”, and its a monument to American cowardice, but the unfortunate truth is that’s how most countries behave.
Bloatware, adware and over reliance on software/complex electronics has ruined a lot of the experience with consumer electronics. Almost everything is festooned with half assed processing units for relatively pointless non-sense. Some of its useful, much of it over or under built. I think we have a big market correction on the horizon, it’s currently over saturated with marginally useful junk and a definite market exists for upgraded simple electronics.
Somewhat expected, probably will be multiple waves of people joining with small declines in the months immediately after. Some of those less engaged individuals will come back too, and some of each wave will stay. I stayed from this last wave of reddit users. I’ve been using three lemmy accounts and my Mastodon since the incident. I intend to keep doing it, it’s been a lot fun.
Just 48 hours before the first day of school, the Arkansas Department of Education announced that Advanced Placement African American Studies wouldn’t count towards graduation. They said they’re reviewing the course for possible indoctrination....
Notice the crowd that wanted all the confederate statues around is completely silent about an actual history course being attacked by special interest groups. It’s almost like the only common goal is racism.
I don’t really think that makes it less stupid, you could do that in a much more subtle manner without driving away users. This is just pointless pettiness from a power dork who has been blocked a great many times in his life.
They are related drugs with similar profiles, but they are not the same drug. Vyvanse is Lisdexamfetamine, which is a pro-drug, that your body converts into dextroamphetamine. This can have a big impact on some people, either making the drugs more or less tolerable. Actual metabolic rates for drugs can be significantly different from person to person.
They are not the same drug, reread what I said. You can’t be very familiar with pharmacology if you don’t understand prodrugs. They turn into almost Adderall, which isn’t straight dextroamphetamine. This changes how they effect the body, you can say “essentially the same” all you want, but it’s not true when it comes to how they actually impact people. Differing metabolic rates due to naturally different levels of metabolizing enzymes causes prodrugs to have more variance in their peak blood serum levels, it causes later onset of effect and can cause large variance in duration of effect. This can be very helpful or even dangerous for some people. They are not perfectly interchangeable, even if most people find them pretty similar.
I would make a lemmy world account personally, it’s tough to say what will happen long term with .ml domains. Even if your account still works, it may by hampered getting posts from the rest of the fediverse. Worst case scenario you have account on two popular lemmy instances.
Hungary blocks €50bn of EU funding for Ukraine (www.bbc.co.uk)
YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2883134 (!android)
Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM (9to5google.com)
The Chrome team says they’re not going to pursue Web Integrity but…...
'Pharmageddon' could close hundreds of pharmacies as protest spreads (www.nbcnews.com)
NY Judge Who Bragged About Aiming Loaded Gun at Black Defendant in Court is in Big Trouble (www.theroot.com)
Highlights: In 2015, upstate New York judge Robert J. Putorti was overseeing a court hearing involving a Black defendant. Nothing out of the ordinary for a judge to do right? Except, when a Black man approached the stand “too quickly,” Judge Putorti pulled a loaded gun on him in court....
Lemmy active users down, comments steady and posts up
So since the mass-exodus from Reddit we can see that the total amount of active users has gone down rather heavily: i.imgur.com/MeQok2F.png...
Ex-Americans are suing America to get back some of the money they paid to renounce their citizenship (www.insider.com)
Unremoval of Piracy Communities
Hello World!...
Long Haired Men, How Do You Take Care of Your Hair??
Long Haired Men, How Do You Take Care of Your Hair?...
USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix (www.theregister.com)
Why wasn't former President Bush of the USA, charged with any crimes, when we marched into Afghanistan and Iraq by his orders, under pretenses?
Television (lemmy.world)
Lemmy is losing users (programming.dev)
How can we make it more popular?
‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen (www.theverge.com)
Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history (www.theregister.com)
Google enables advertisers a look into your browsing history…
Lemmyshitpost community closed until further notice
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Arkansas drops AP African American Studies course (www.ualrpublicradio.org)
Just 48 hours before the first day of school, the Arkansas Department of Education announced that Advanced Placement African American Studies wouldn’t count towards graduation. They said they’re reviewing the course for possible indoctrination....
Twitter/X removing the block feature (lemm.ee)
Methamphetamines (lemmy.world)
Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down (i.imgur.com)
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