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  • China, but also the PRC hasn’t been in a war in like 50+ years. Meanwhile the US killed a million innocent people in Iraq, and goes after whistleblowers like Assange, Snowden, and Manning for speaking out about its war crimes. And the Obama administration prosecuted a record number of whistleblowers, and had a zero tolerance policy towards them.







  • I removed this because it has nothing to do with linux specifically, and as expected, it brought out a lot of people defending the use of this historically racist term, and /asablackman’ing it.

    I’ve reinstated it and removed the offending comments for now.

    Also I don’t know why this needs a discussion at all. There’s hundreds of words in english for something that looks good, and you can be more specific about it : snazzy, sleek, cool, streamlined, nifty, retro






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    Side point, but I’ve added some additional settings and tweakability for votes here, that’ll be in the next major release.

    Adds 3 options for post upvotes, comment upvotes, post downvotes, and comment downvotes:

    • ability to allow all votes
    • allow local only (block federated), or
    • disable all

    So hopefully that will help fight vote brigading.





  • Dessalines@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlinstance wars
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    The microblogging format is truly awful. I’ve seen professors and incredibly smart writers get into childish feuds with each other, because the format almost encourages it by rewarding dunks and gotchas.

    Forcing people to try to communicate over text without paragraphs, or any way to make themselves more clear, is not a good system.