Except I’ve literally seen several of those blanket defenses on ml, as well as posts claiming that these countries aren’t even dictatorships, as well as posts justifying and defending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and placing the blame for the continuing war on Ukraine for not surrendering. All of which I’ve seen posted, and upvoted uncritically on ml

Just because the US is a pile of crap doesn’t make it remotely acceptable to defend brutal dictatorships that will arrest you for simply being gay. Or throw you out of a window if you complain about their dear leader too much.

Your internet traffic is already encrypted in transit, that what the “s” in https means.

A VPN does exactly two things: Hides your traffic from your ISP (but shows it to the VPN provider instead) and masks your IP and physical location.

Everything else is advertising and marketing gimmicks

UK government caring more about lobster welfare than that of trans people.

I’ve repeatedly seen posts on lemmy.ml defending Russia and NK, both brutal dictatorships that tread on human rights with feet, so no. I am most certainly not making stuff up

Make it green, and add the line “If this sticker is red, then I’m going too fast”

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Pretending Russia, China and NK are flawless just because they’re (former) communist countries isn’t left of AOC, it’s just plain idioicy and propaganda.

Those aren’t visa workers genius, those are outsourced foreign workers

They teach literal children to not judge a book by it’s cover, but I guess you must’ve been out sick that day in kindergarden…

Visa workers aren’t replacing American workers, they supplements them. Workers on visas are a pain in the ass. No company is ever gonna hire a non permanent resident if there’s an equally qualified native citizen available for the position.

Countless studies have shown that immigrant labour is a boon to the economy, and immigrants statistically create demand for more jobs than they take.

Foreign workers are also a massive boon to tax income. Some other country spent 18 years paying for their income less childhood and education, and then they leave that country, and start paying taxes in America.

Because circle all have the same proportions. You can take any circle, and just evenly make it bigger or smaller to make it perfectly overlap with any other circle.

The ratios of shapes only ever change if their proportions change. That’s why every single square also always has the same ratio between it’s side and diagonal (√2).

And the ratio of a rectangles side to it’s diagonal will always be the same, regardless of size, as long as the aspect ratio is the same.

That’s literally what a ratio of a shape lengths are supposed to measure: if you scale two shapes of equal ratios to the same size, they will always be identical, because that’s what ratios are defined to tell you.

And since any circle is completely indistinguishable from any other circle, except for size, all ratios of a circles size will always be identical

Ah yes. “Come work for us, also you never get to on holiday or visit your family ever again” is sure to be a big draw for foreign workers.

Trump sure knows what’s good for the economy…

How do you expect an investigation into how it happened to occur without the files ?

I mean I’d say the TERFs willing to ally themselves with reactionary neo conservatives and literal, open Neo Nazis just because they hate trans people so much, are the ones who actually hate women.

Trans women are doing more to advance feminism and women’s rights for all women than TERFs ever will. In fact, their willingness to ally with these right wing group means TERFs are actually HARMING and REGRESSING women’s rights for everyone.

I’m not a fan of gen AI either, but this feels like taking it a bit far. Getting pissed over them using gen AI for placeholder art, that was then replaced by human art in the release feels utterly ridiculous.

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Click bait is anything that is designed to bait people into clicking a link. Virtually every headline and content title on the internet is click bait to some level.

Malicious click bait is when headlines either outright lie, or imply things that aren’t accurate to the content.

The phrasing of this title implies that the creation of a privacy tool is what the creator got arrested for, which is in fact inaccurate to the content, as the reason wasn’t creating the tool, the reason was using the tool for money laundering.

So imo it’s 100% fair to call this title malicious clickbait

The title is click bait because it falsely implies that the privacy part of the tool is why the creator is being penalised, rather than the money laundering part.

It’s a bit like writing a headline about a drunk driver killing a family of four and making the headline “He bought a red car. Now he’s going to jail”

He wasn’t really a scapegoat, he is the one who caused it to tip over. Both corporations and citizens were polluting the lake, seemingly legally in the absence of regulation, or at least enforcement. After the critical state of the water was discovered by Lisa, everyone, including, Burns stopped dumping waste in the lake. It would have started to slowly recover over the next couple of months-years, as the newly introduced anti pollution regulations were (at least initially) effective.

Homer was the only one who actually illegally dumped waste, and he did so in full knowledge of the consequence, and for literally no other reason that he wanted to eat donuts after the health department shut down the donut shop.

He’s not solely responsible for the pollution, but he is solely responsible for adding the straw that broke the camels back, and he did so in full knowledge of the severity of the consequences, and for utterly banal and selfish reasons.