Right, I was just misunderstanding your statement, then. Thanks for the interesting read!

Interesting! Just a question, are you saying that the Germans were holding back during their bombing runs of London? I’m no history expert, but that doesn’t sound right to me, and if it is, I’d love to know more about it.

I suppose there’s also little reason to siege cities nowadays, given that city walls for defense are no longer a thing.

While I agree with your opinion, you could certainly have been a lot less of a jerk when saying it

Honest question, how does this mesh with sieges of cities in earlier periods of history? When cities would surrender because of sieges. What are the differences?

If votes became truly public

There’s no ‘if’, they already are.

what would stop a malicious user from automating crawling the fediverse to get a list of every up and down vote a targeted user has ever made?

The same thing currently stopping them: nothing but time and effort.

Admins can currently do this, I assume given enough time and intent? Yuck.

No, anybody can currently do this.

That’s the issue with decentralisation. The info is out there. It’s that or trust a megacorp with it.

ITT: Lots of people who have no idea how the tech works and couldn’t be bothered reading the comments before posting

It matters when all 3 of them are mortgaged and the mortgages are now more than their actual value.

(Before you blame the buyers for being dumb, realise that due to cultural context and other factors, pretty much the entire middle class is in this sort of situation).

Also the only country besides the Vatican (which arguably isn’t even one) where divorce is straight up illegal.

Those rumours have been around for years, every time he drops out of public view for a while

Could we actually stay at least somewhat on topic?

300 is the obviously low, official govt estimate. The protestors estimate between 1k - 2k deaths.

Shrug. Probably? It’s not like I’ve heard of her before today.

“I thought the Olympic Games were about sport. No longer,” Russian MP Mariya Butina tells me.

“It’s about politics, religion, everything. It’s very sad because the original idea of the Olympics was to create peace.”

“But Russia has invaded Ukraine,” I point out. “That’s not ‘peace’, is it?”

“Russia has been protecting its people,” Ms Butina responds, echoing the official line here that Russia’s war in Ukraine is all about self-defence.

In reality, the Kremlin’s “special military operation” amounts to the invasion of a sovereign independent nation.

Good to see the media not ‘both siding’ for once.

MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY

I’m just gonna drop this here as an example:

• https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-jerusalem-report/
• https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-jerusalem-post/

The Jerusalem Report (Owned by Jerusalem Post) and the Jerusalem Post

This biased as shit publication is declared by MBFC as VEEEERY slightly center-right. They make almost no mention of the fact that they cherry pick aspects of the Israel war to highlight, provide only the most favorable context imaginable, yadda yadda. By no stretch of the imagination would these publications be considered unbiased as sources, yet according to MBFC they’re near perfect.

Who’s outraged, besides the war criminals?

Without any way to indicate tone or context, OPs intent can be validly interpreted in many ways. More so considering how many people post serious takes which are totally inaccurate. For example, the annual wave of posts about how the Year Of The Linux Desktop is coming.

According to the report, the capsaicin levels were calculated based on the Scoville scale information disclosed on Danish retail websites selling the noodles, rather than the noodles themselves, as no specific measurements of capsaicin or total capsaicin content are provided by the manufacturer.

False advertising by the Danish themselves.

According to the report, the capsaicin levels were calculated based on the Scoville scale information disclosed on Danish retail websites selling the noodles, rather than the noodles themselves, as no specific measurements of capsaicin or total capsaicin content are provided by the manufacturer.

False advertising by the Danish themselves.