Maggoty

joined 2 years ago
MODERATOR OF
[–] Maggoty 1 points 8 minutes ago

Oh I'm sorry, the financial elite. Happy?

And yeah there are a lot of factors. But one pretty universal one is a functioning economy.

[–] Maggoty 0 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

The Japanese version of Wall Street disliking deflation is not the great point you think it is. And yeah if it was so bad you would see a drop in statistics like life expectancy. The fact that people were able to largely keep going with their lives means it's not the apocalypse.

[–] Maggoty 1 points 5 hours ago

Once you've spent some time the algorithm learns what you like. For example my feed is a lot of indie music, civil rights, and table top role-playing stuff. Once it gets enough information on the stuff you like you don't really need to do more than swipe past the ads.

[–] Maggoty 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

That's one hell of a jump.

[–] Maggoty 1 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Accused? Sure. But there's quite a bit of LGBTQ content on there so the accusations ring a bit hollow.

[–] Maggoty 1 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

That's wild, I guess all those posts on my FYP with the trans flag aren't real?

[–] Maggoty 1 points 6 hours ago

Pretty sure Meta and X and out of control at this point too...,

[–] Maggoty 3 points 6 hours ago

Not really they keep taking huge hits on their subscriber numbers. 10% dropped after the non-endorsement crap. I'm interested in finding numbers for Ann Telnaes' departure and the bleeding of the newsroom. But there's a reason they show ads on their page now.

[–] Maggoty 5 points 6 hours ago

I'll admit they suckered me with a really good deal when Ann Telnaes left. But this is showing that she was 100% right. It's time to cancel WaPo folks. It's no better than the US Chamber of Commerce's* press releases.

Note - Not actually a government agency, they're a business lobby that cosplays a government agency.

[–] Maggoty 1 points 6 hours ago

They mean we won't even abide by our own laws anymore. While our political elite love to yeet the military all over the world, the rank and file has been largely subject to international laws of war while overseas.

Now they want the rank and file to have as much impunity as our political elite.

[–] Maggoty 20 points 6 hours ago

That would be because they're lying. Not the guy in the meme. Companies are constantly saying they're short of workers without actually hiring more. There's several reasons for it, but mostly it's to influence regulation on training and safety standards. In teachers it's a political preference for private schools at the expense of the normal school system.

We produce enough nurses, pilots, and teachers. But the shortage myth justifies running skeleton crews, treating them badly, and hand waives high turnover.

[–] Maggoty -1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

It's any app they can point to as being controlled. It does not matter where it is based. As an example they could allege that one of the owners of Discord has Russian contacts and is therefore controlled by a foreign adversary. (He was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine; where contact between Russians and Ukrainians wasn't uncommon before the current war.)

Congress can request a briefing but if they want to prevent a fire sale they have to pass an entirely new bill amending the law.

And this article is so transparently an ad for Red Note it's ridiculous.

 

A CBS News investigation found dozens of law enforcement leaders — sheriffs, captains, lieutenants, chiefs of police — buying and illegally selling firearms, even weapons of war, across 23 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., from the Deep South to the Midwest, Northeast and California coast. 

 

A CBS News investigation found dozens of law enforcement leaders — sheriffs, captains, lieutenants, chiefs of police — buying and illegally selling firearms, even weapons of war, across 23 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., from the Deep South to the Midwest, Northeast and California coast.

 

That's it, include a link of course but otherwise it's unchanged.

31
Sidebar Rules Are Updated (self.newcommunities)
submitted 2 months ago by Maggoty to c/newcommunities
 

Several people pointed out that our rules for behavior weren't immediately apparent. While I would say this shouldn't be an issue in a community about posting new communities, I have been proven wrong on multiple occasions. So I have made the list in our sidebar. These are a paraphrasing of Mastodon.World's rules. So there is no functional change. We will continue to use their rules as a master list. But they boil down to being civil. If you don't like something or someone and have no constructive criticism, then you just move on.

I'm going to put changes here as well so people on apps can see them easier.

The rules for behavior are a straight carry over of Mastodon.World’s rules. You can click the link but we’ve reposted them here in brief, as a guideline. We will continue to use the Mastodon.World rules as the master list. Over all, be nice to each other and remember this isn’t a community built around debate. For the rules about formatting your posts, scroll down to number 2.

  1. Follow the rules of Mastodon.world, which can be found here.(link)

A. Provide an inclusive and supportive environment. This means if it isn’t rule breaking and we can’t be supportive to them then we probably shouldn’t engage.

B. No illegal content.

C. Use content warnings where appropriate. This means mark your submissions NSFW if need be.

D. No uncivil behavior. This includes, but is not limited to: Name Calling; Bullying; Trolling; Disruptive Commenting; or Personal Criticisms.

E. No Harrassment. As an example in relation to Transgender people this includes, deadnaming, misgendering, and promotion of conversion therapy. Similarly Misogyny, Misandry, and Racism are also banned here.

72
Civility in New Communities (self.newcommunities)
submitted 2 months ago by Maggoty to c/newcommunities
 

Guys I understand there's big stuff going on in the world. This community though is really just about finding other communities. For now, on the theory that people kind of forgot where they were, some temp bans were handed out. I have no pretensions of this being c/news or something. But I also have no pretensions of this being c/news. It is absolutely beyond the pale to post your political broadsides here while people are trying to figure out the best place to have their community. The only way politics is acceptable here is if you're talking about opening or moving a community about politics or because of politics. And it should absolutely remain civil. A simple, "I don't like your ideology", is enough here.

 

Here we go again.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/403754

A Federal Reserve database of master accounts reveals “stunning” information in Wyoming-based Custodia Bank’s precedent-setting lawsuit against the Fed for denying its master account.

 

The Biden administration wants to set up a deconfliction line with China in much the same way they set one up with Russia during the Cold War. They're also signaling that future cooperation may come in the financial sector or by refining sanctions by tapping the Treasury Secretary as one of the next US officials to meet with Chinese leaders. The Commerce Secretary may also be about looking for a ways to offset the US bringing chip production home.

view more: next ›