It lets the pencil stay the same length and not need a sharpener.

It’s bordering on conspiracy, but there’s an argument to be made that record labels pushed gangster rap and downplayed others to keep black communities down.

It’s about 80% that can read. Only about 10% can understand the concept of a metaphor though.

Pretty involved scam then as I’ve actually met Someone that served with him.

Those leaders are still Japanese. A country notorious for ignoring and downplaying their atrocities. It’s like forgiving a Holocaust denier because they weren’t alive to drive the train.

If genocide is something you care about I wouldn’t be defending a Japanese company that existed in imperial Japan.

I wouldn’t go that far, but it’s probably most. I’ve had a few middle managers that were good, less than 5 though.

It has more to do with legislators using the tax code as a way to give away money for certain activities than tax prep lobbying. It’s also a lot of fear mongering by those companies, and a general lack of reading comprehension. If you don’t have to file quarterly, your taxes are likely very easy.

This actually helps AI, once his writing gets tagged as an attempt to confuse models it can be adapted to. Also because humans aren’t as good at random as they think they are it’s likely easy for an LLM to recognize.

Fun fact, that scene was the first audible fart joke in film, so it being censored originally makes a little sense.

Beef is dense enough that parasites can’t penetrate the meat, so you only need the outside to be cooked for safety.

The post office looks cheap because they get paid to deliver those 300 pieces of junk per week.

A 40k quote with democracy on the end feels so awkward.

That you may have to get the justice system involved to support your rights. I suppose you can call that a consequence.

This is why don’t feed the trolls was a popular refrain. Those people want a response, and banning is a response. It’s a tough line for moderation though, and why shadow banning exists.

You are free to walk down the streets of Harlem with an “I hate niggers” sign. The law still protects you from assault or other actions that others may take against you. You may get fired from your job for such an action, but even then you would still have the right to pursue a wrongful dismissal case.

As for libel/slander. First of all, it’s a civil issue, and you won’t be jailed for it. Secondly, in the US it requires a significant burden of proof. A plaintiff must show it was more likely than not that:

• there were actual damages.
• the statements were false.
• the person knew the statements were false.
• the person intended the statements to be harmful.
  There’s also anti-SLAPP laws which provide additional protection from entities attempting to use a lawsuit to stop speech.

The knork is a dessert/cake fork.

Old reddit culture was just watered down \b\ culture.

Backup communities don’t really exist right now. There are copies of things on other servers l, but they can’t become functioning communities. This has caused some communities to disappear when their instance went down. The biggest I remember is movies and TV related things.

Having a ledger helps with discovery, because instances now don’t know about other communities by default, it requires extra effort to seek them out until someone else has found them and subscribed. It’s not a big deal for established communities, but it does hurt building a new one.

I don’t have a great solution for admin of creation/movement of communities, but this isn’t meant to be a 100% solution. Distributed consensus is a concept that exists though. There’s no reason a community can’t go on a users instance as default, it just enables a community to potentially migrate for various reasons.

This doesn’t necessarily create a walled garden, as no one owns the walls. It does encourage everyone within Lemmy to maximally federate. I can’t say it significantly changes integration with other implementations as they were never very robust in the first place.

It’s not so much recreating reddit, as it is realizing that the content is the important part, not what server holds it. I want centralized content, because that’s how you get critical mass for communities to flourish. Decentralizing the ownership and hosting is where the federation benefits are anyway.