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Threatening political retribution against senators for voting against their party is generally not illegal in the USA.
I think the micro stream AAA might have just one mode but would have to check.
It does. It's a bad flashlight though. Everything (LED, optics, switch, threads) is different (worse) from the USB model, which I still wouldn't class as a good flashlight.
he deserves the team around him that he wants. It’s not up to us to determine that.
It absolutely is up to the senate to determine that. The constitution says so.
Lights with modern performance and only a single mode don't really exist. Even lights that appear to be that almost always start out on a higher mode and throttle to a lower one. The main reason for that is that to avoid burning the user's hand and/or having a very short battery life, the output has to be relatively low.
If your flashlight has much less output than most of its competitors, you will not sell very many flashlights (unless you're Zebralight - normal rules don't apply to Zebralight).
Depending on why you don't want brightness settings, there may be some good options for you. If it's that the lights you've used change brightness when you turn them on and off, almost none of the lights flashlight enthusiasts like behave that way.
Probably not. US international relations is heavily driven by an amoral power calculus.
Israel is a major foil to Iran. Iran is an ally of Russia and China and a threat to US interests in the region. Barring an extreme amount of pressure from constituents, which has not reached that threshold as far as I can tell, most US politicians will tolerate almost any human rights abuse from Israel.
I have seen that lemmy.world apparently has a very poor reputation among other instances.
It's the largest by far, with five times the monthly active population of #2. One of the main things people want out of federated systems is decentralization, and having one huge dominant server goes against that goal.
I should note .world wasn't the biggest when I signed up. I picked it because mastodon.world was a known quantity, which led me to believe the same team would run a stable server.
Most servers don't micromanage community moderation. That sort of thing could happen almost anywhere.
When I say "by default", I meant the vanilla Mastodon web client. Of course alternate clients could do just about anything.
It's quite resistant to any single entity's censorship, but if you share things most server admins consider unacceptable, other servers will block your server.
lemmy.ml... copy a sentence from the link provided which links to some article called “The Principles of Communism”
At least one of the Lemmy developers is a hardcore communist, and some people see lemmy.ml as a little sketchy for that reason. I see you found another server, which is exactly how federation is meant to work. While the overall culture tends to be left-leaning, most server admins are not hardcore communists and don't censor political positions that aren't advocating violence or discrimination.
I've self-hosted Pleroma, Hubzilla, Mastodon, and Wordpress with the ActivityPub plugin. I found Pleroma to be the easiest of those.
I think I'd recommend Akkoma today; it's a fork of Pleroma.
With a couple niche exceptions, AI hasn't started making money. What it has done is attract venture capital investment.
Venture capitalists are driven by a fear of missing out on the next big thing. A billion dollar score pays for a thousand bad million dollar bets, and AI that lives up to the hype could be worth trillions. This is also why every existing tech company is scrambling to add an AI thing to its products even where it makes no sense.