The pollution is the direct result of other countries outsourcing their manufacturing to exploit chinese labor for increased profits

The Chinese government allows this… Why is this the fault of everyone else? It’s the government’s job to regulate the industry and manage trade.

The point of this statement is not to say “nuh uh the pollution is america’s fault”, it’s to say that this manufacturing would have happened somewhere in the world regardless, and is not for domestic consumption, so it’s a bit silly to say “look china’s polluting so much” when they are producing goods for the entire world. China turning away manufacturing work to “reduce” emissions would not decrease emissions globally, if anything it would likely increase them, as few if any other countries can muster the economies of scale and wide trading relationships that chinese industry have access to

I have to admit I do love trashy pizza on a very rare occasion,

there’s so many better options though

I mean shit, caseys, literal gas station pizza, is much better

and its the usual buffet thing where its only a good deal if you’re eating a metric boatload

God damn the benefit nazis. Solidarity, friend

Wrong comm

maybe try !writing@hexbear.net. I have thoughts on this but don’t particularly want to put them in a doomed thread

their own speedtest servers? first hop outside of their network? it is kinda silly in the abstract, but if you dig through enough FCC documents I’m sure you could find a consistent-ish definition

do it. Almost anything beats comcast, on price, speed, reliability, customer service, anything

I picked a random spot in their coverage area and this is the plans it offered.

Cowardice, even for germans that sucks ass.

The obvious solution here that I haven’t seen mentioned is: if you are living in a censored jurisdiction, don’t fucking insert yourself into the chain of legal liability. Shut down the comm, shit shut down the whole instance, and move it and the mod team to a less censorious jurisdiction.

Your little fedi fiefdom is not more important than the ability of people to condemn israel unconditionally and call for the end of zionism, and it’s self-centered bullshit to be like “oh I don’t agree with it but our hands are tied”. If you don’t agree, and you aren’t willing to take any legal risk, then fine, shut it down. Move the discussions someplace else, don’t just comply you spineless twits

Which of course all leads one to assume: they aren’t anti-zionists just worried about the law, they are zionists wielding the law and personal sympathy as a cudgel.

some dipshit decided to make the rules on that one say OC only. admins should probably just step in and change that lmao

getting mixed messages here

didn’t chapo do this bit a month ago

It’s an issue but its a pretty niche one. Even software that works great on most distros might misbehave when you have multiple desktop environments installed. And http_proxy use doesn’t appear to be standardized by freedesktop, LSB, etc. Though it is pretty well adhered to: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/01/27/we-need-to-talk-no-proxy/

So yeah, I agree with the spirit of this but its tough to follow the standard when there is no standard

ehhhhhh no its a genuine issue to honor gnome settings when gnome isn’t running IMO. That isn’t the correct system/user configuration to load if you’re running under sway…

goddamn, is this going to turn into another situation where everyone just kinda goes “oh… well anyhow” and then he quietly gets everything he wants

if so I might have to reconsider my position on adventurism

I haven’t seen it actually upvoted in a long time but sometimes theres an undertone.

OTOH I feel this way IRL and it never seems to actually be how people feel about me so I try to assume similar is true of hexbear comrades

How stupid do you have to be to run your whole operation on IT services that aren’t in your jurisdiction where you’ll have no recourse if they decide to fuck with you? I mean for businesses it’s whatever, but the US notoriously hates the ICC.

The banking sanctions are more surprising to me

if they were openly, seriously anti-colonialist or communist protestors… yeah probably. It’d be pretty easy to fearmonger people into supporting it if nothing else. Protests as they currently exist (mostly libs) though? nah, most wouldn’t be immediately on board with that. Not that they couldn’t be convinced

There’d be a lot of people saying FAFO

“oh it sucks but what did they expect, they threw rocks at the police”

That burger brains might try to do a revolution in the dumbest possible way and fail spectacularly

I guess just to say that it’s translated and wasn’t posted in english but a little odd yep

bump