www.bbc.com Arlington Cemetery strips content on black and female veterans from website
The Army-run cemetery said it is working to follow Trump's orders on ending diversity while restoring information.
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Maybe uncharitably, my first thought when reading a post like this is "what shitty thing do you want to say?".
But I don't know you so maybe I am being uncharitable.
But you have to realise the fediverse in general is not owned by capitalist orgs with high priced legal teams. Its mostly small teams of private individuals. If someone posts something illegal, including defamatory, in their legal jurisdiction (which is probably not the USA) then they might be on the hook for it too.
Even if you run your own instance if you're enough of a dick it'll get defederated or you'll be banned from multiple instances/communities.
Learn to play nice in other peoples yard. Its hard sometimes but just walking away and blocking is the best option. Sometimes I need to make more effort to do that too.
So yes, you are. Got it.
I've got zero interest in discussing anything with people so foolish they tie themselves in knots to absolve fascism and Trump. Its literally pointless.
I agree totally. All the upper-middle class socialists in this thread have no doubt been setting this in action.
Or they've been doing nothing but navel gazing on Lemmy.
My what? Are you a child?
I'm fully aware they've been under attack for a long time. I'm saying under fascism it'll get worse. Both for them and for everyone else.
Worse for non cis people, worse for women, worse for education, worse for immigrants, worse for people in countries being directly and indirectly threatened by your fascist president. Worse for people watching him dismantle all opposition and ultimately worse for anyone who thinks they're going to be able to protest any of this. The fact he hasn't made things worse for your neighbours is because he hasn't got around to it yet. Were less than 6 months in.
This is going absolutely nowhere. You make no sense whatsoever. Its like arguing with a dog chasing parked cars. I don't think even you know what you're on about anymore. I'm done.
Mate, you are just embarrassing yourself at this point. You do realise that people can read what we both write don't you? Its not just you and some imaginary people that live in your phone.
I mean that last 'gotcha' you think you posted doesn't make any more sense than anything else you posted. Here's me claiming fascism is a bad thing that must always be opposed and you compare me to a fascist? Come on, surely even you can see how idiotic a comparison that is.
Lol, five.comments all claiming that voting against fascism is somehow interchangeable with denying genocide.
I've been on protests supporting Palestine both before this latest war and now. I think Biden enabled the Israeli gvmt to commit genocide. Trump is still a much worse option for Palestine and for everyone else.
Time to get that brain of yours out of its box and put it between your ears.
"No it isn't. Another fact that is so obvious that I can only conclude you’re playing dumb on purpose."
You're literally about two comments away from chanting 'USA! USA! USA!' at this point.
No, you're wrong. Jusr twice.
If you refuse to vote against a fascist you support the fascist. Because the fascist doesn't care if you endorse him. Refusing to stand up to him brings about the exact same result.
Try and parse a bit of reality. By enabling fascism by voting for it or refusing to vote against it you make the situation worse for both those in Palestine and also remove your ability to vote out the person doing this.
And here's you going on about eggs.
Those were both me. What's your point?
If you genuinely think things aren't worse under Trump whilst simultaneously claiming you speak facts then I don't know that you are capable of reason. Couple that with your apologia for excusing voting against fascism and its very obvious you're about as left wing as Thatcher wasn't.
Blue is a colour associated with the democrat party of the USA. Maga is a cult associated with the republican party of the USA.
Referring to non Americans in terms referencing US political parties is nonsensical. Are you an American? If so it seems you're one of those American Exceptionalism types who insists everything in the world must be viewed via the prism of the USA.
Mate, assuming youre an American, whatever you need to feel better about your inaction is up to you
Bottom line: once an Americans ability to vote is gone all your catchphrases mean nothing. The fascist is the one who will take that action.
American involvement in the middle east has worsened the situation for Palestinians since Trump was elected. That doesn't mean Biden was anything but an awful leader but Trump is worse. Way way worse. Everything he does both foreign and domestic was enabled by those who both voted for him and those who refused to vote against him.
So you called me a bluemaga liberal but simultaneously you didn't assume I was am American voter? Lol, whatever.
So when you referred to my comment as 'blueMAGA liberals ' you weren't referring to what I said?
"I don’t really see why people continue to blame the lockdown for why it has impacted socializing"
I'm not blaming just the lockdown but it certainly played a part. For a lot of people who are now legal adults it happened at a formative stage of their social development.
"I wouldn’t just put the magnifying glass on 4chan when Reddit and Kiwi Farms are just as bad if not worse."
True.
I guess the same way you assumed I am?
Really? You're assuming of course that I'm am American citizen, which I'm not, or didn't attend numerous protests to support Palestinians in the country I do live in, which I did.
The whole world is not the USA.
More Updates From GOS
So, first up - our Satan Not Hatin' campaign to tackle bigotry and fascism in alt music like metal, punk, electronica, goth, neofolk etc now has over 460 opt-in participants. The campaign recently launched our second compilation album called Mortem Tyrannis - available on Bandcamp or Ampwall - and was organised by House of Heretics who are our Seattle/Washington State based Order and features 25 North American bands/artists with all money going to the ACLU.
One of our other US Orders GOS: Resurgens/Free Society Satanists who are based in Atlanta, Georgia have now added their podcast (The Ave Satanas Podcast) to the main GOS YouTube account too so you can now get twice the amount of Satanism in your ears on YT via [their podcast](https://www.youtube.com/playl
Potential conversion 'therapy' campaign
Hi :)
I’m a user on this instance and also mod of a community on this instance about atheistic/nonthesitic Satanism. We are not CoS, nor TST, we are called Global Order of Satan (link is in my profile). Many of our members across the world are lgbtqia+ , possibly even a majority but we don’t really keep formalised records so its hard to say for sure.
Our UK Order (of whom I am a member) are looking into starting a campaign into the religion based abuse of conversion therapy. Obviously we knew it happened but we weren’t aware things like exorcism were used and this clearly falls within our, uh, areas of interest!
This is a delicate subject and I have no wish to trigger anyone but if anyone wanted to share (anonymised) experiences they may have had with religion-based conversion ‘therapy’ (I keep using scarequotes as its clearly pseudoscience) via DM with me, they would be very helpful in giving us some background. If you are not happy with DMing then I am also on Matrix (links also i
PhotoGIMP Fixes for 3.x
I guess I might be the only person on the face of the planet dependent on PhotoGIMP so this might be useful for no-one but just on the offchance...
After updating Gimp to 3 and updating photogimp too, it was for me totally and utterly broken. I don't know enough to say why, but it was. It loaded the new splash screen but when fully loaded the whole interface was the standard Gimp one and all interface tools, layouts etc were also (as far as I could tell) standard Gimp. I searched for answers but couldn't find any. Maybe this is a 'me' issue or maybe the updates are too new or maybe photogimp doesn't have enough of a userbase to notice.
So, I've ended up rolling back to gimp 2.10 and the 2020.1 version of photogimp. However, this is not a straightforward process. Here's what I had to do (assuming flatpak).
Remove all photogimp bits and pieces from $HOME/.var, $HOME/.local and most especially $HOME/.config
DO NOT uninstall Gimp itself.
Then revert gimp 3.02 to 2.10 like so:
Fir
The Matrix has you (Article about algorithms/privacy)
freedomnews.org.uk The Matrix has you - Freedom News
Algorithms are shaping our thoughts and behaviours in dangerous ways ~ Matthew Gaffen ~ “The Matrix” already exists—we’re not all asleep in vats being used as batteries, but to a greater or lesser extent we have all been trapped in an invisible prison, used to subjugate everyone under its influence....
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/22523265
There’s a reason that cookies and privacy policies (in the EU at least) have become such an online nuisance. These assurances of your safety and privacy are nothing more than a pretext to get consent. Your “anonymised” data is sold to an infinite regress of third parties, analysed, correlated and de-anonymised again. Any smart device you use, your browsing habits, banking transactions, your GPS position are all used to deduce fine grain information about you. Then weaponised against you for as much profit as possible.
The Matrix has you (Article about algorithms/privacy)
freedomnews.org.uk The Matrix has you - Freedom News
Algorithms are shaping our thoughts and behaviours in dangerous ways ~ Matthew Gaffen ~ “The Matrix” already exists—we’re not all asleep in vats being used as batteries, but to a greater or lesser extent we have all been trapped in an invisible prison, used to subjugate everyone under its influence....
There’s a reason that cookies and privacy policies (in the EU at least) have become such an online nuisance. These assurances of your safety and privacy are nothing more than a pretext to get consent. Your “anonymised” data is sold to an infinite regress of third parties, analysed, correlated and de-anonymised again. Any smart device you use, your browsing habits, banking transactions, your GPS position are all used to deduce fine grain information about you. Then weaponised against you for as much profit as possible.
Alexandrite has had a few updates recently
github.com Release 0.8.16 · sheodox/alexandrite
When searching for communities when making a new post, it now sorts communities by popularity (fixes #77) You can now paste images to upload in the markdown editor You can now upload an image when ...
Just for admin info, latest version is 0.8.16 :)
Our Satan Not Hatin' Campaign Will Have A Monthly Show On Moshville Radio
Forgive the self-promotion post but I thought this would be relevant! cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/19534509
I was interviewed on Moshville Radio yesterday (you can hear the show on their Mixcloud archive) and we (Moshville and GOS) made the announcement that our Satan Not Hatin' campaign will be launching a monthly two hour radio show co-hosted by myself and my friend and colleague from the campaign DoomMetalJacket of Satanistiska samfundet (GOS Sweden).
We'll be playing the music of our participating bands and artists (nearly 300 of them now), talking about news and information to do with the campaign and hopefully getting some of the bands/artists on to talk about their music and what participating in a campaign like ours means to them.
Contra Odium, Various Artists, 2024
Forgive me pushing my own stuff here. As some of you know I'm a member of an atheistic Satanic organisation. We are currently running a campaign against the incursion of the far right and hate into various alt music scenes, including metal, called Satan Not Hatin'.
Today we have released a compilation album on Bandcamp called Contra Odium ("Against Hate") featuring the music of thirteen of the Satan Not Hatin' participants. They're all metal bands (plus a couple of punks) on the album and its a real mix of subgenres - Black Metal, Doom, Post, Gothic, Sludge.
Proceeds from the album will be divided amongst participating Orders (UK, Sweden, Pittsburgh and Seattle) and in turn passed on in full to charities local to each Order:
- GOS UK: The Sophie Lancaster Foundation and Hope Not Hate
- House of Heretics (Seattle): The Lavender Rights Project
- Satanistiska samfundet (GOS Sweden): Transammans
- GOS: Steel City (Pittsburgh): Gre
www.theguardian.com Melania Trump passionately defends abortion rights in upcoming memoir
Exclusive: ‘I have carried this belief with me throughout my entire adult life’, former first lady writes in memoir
Melania Trump made an extraordinary declaration in an eagerly awaited memoir to be published a month from election day: she is a passionate supporter of a woman’s right to control her own body – including the right to abortion.
“It is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government,” the Republican nominee’s wife writes, amid a campaign in which Donald Trump’s threats to women’s reproductive rights have played a central role.
“Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does with her own body? A woman’s fundamental right of individual liberty, to her own life, grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes.
“Restricting a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her control over her own body. I have carried this belief with me throughout
UK Enters 'Age of Atheism' (apparently)
www.independent.co.uk UK has more atheists than people who believe in God, new research claims
Experts say the UK is entering its first atheist age
An interesting article in The Independent claims the UK is now officially in its first ever 'Age of Atheism' as there are now more atheists than theists in the UK.
Clearly great news but makes it even more of a mystery why we still have 26 christian bishops appointed to law making positions in the House of Lords, why swearing on the bible is still a thing, why kids are still legally obliged to be force fed christian content in schools and why christian nationalists are on the rise amongst Tory MP's.
We won't stop until its all gone.
Our Anti-Hate Music Campaign, Satan Not Hatin' Signs Up Its 200th Participant And Radio Show Announced
Last week, our "Satan Not Hatin'" campaign - set up to challenge hate and far-right extremism in alt music scenes - welcomed it's 200th opt-in participant. That's 200 artists, bands, record labels, promoters, venues and other organisations not prepared to tolerate hate.
As well as the documentary on the project (which is still being shot), a Stockholm based radio show, Trigger, have announced they will be dedicating an episode to the campaign and playing bands that are participating!
You can read more about the campaign at it's dedicated website and details of how to access the Trigger episode (either as its broadcast via their website or the next day on their Mixcloud account) are also on the site.
Strange sudden issue rendering pages
Two days ago, LW started behaving very oddly. It suddenly stopped rendering pages - but only on some sites. For example, the default Lemmy skin is fine but the Alexandrite skin is not. The BBC website doesn't work either. A few others seemingly totally random.
The domain resolves and it makes the initial connection and then it takes up to a minute of doing nothing and then just craps out, unable to render the page. Checking the Inspector reveals no errors or warnings and the network inspector is making a connection but not loading anything other than headers and basic tags.
The page presents no errors it just shows a blank screen. <html> <head> and <body> tags load but nothing else.
All these pages work fine in all other browsers I've tested in (floorp, Mullvad, vanilla FFox and Brave).
Details: LibreWolf 128.0-2 (flatpak) on LMDE (Faye).
Any clues, pointers or advice very gratefully received. I love the browser and have it set up just how I like it so don't really want to swi
Kréen - Ecos de Olas, Céfiros y Llamaradas (Full album / Atmospheric Black Metal / Chile)
'Safe' Metal Bands and a campaign I'm part of
So, as well as subbed to this Community, I'm also moderator of [email protected] which is a Community for an atheistic Satanist organisation I'm a member of.
We recently (re)launched our Satan Not Hatin' campaign which we're running to try and tackle the incidents of hate (racism, homophobia, transphobia and Nazi shit etc) that sadly some metal bands put out. The campaign isn't just for metal bands, we also cover punk/goth/industrial/alt/indie too but the emphasis is metal bands. It's early days, but it'll continue to grow.
If you'd like to read more and see how you can help (if you'd like to) please visit the page or if you want to skip straight to the music, there's a playlist on YouTube | Invidious | Piped.
Crowley - Pyre (FFO: Green Lung, Classic/stoner rock/metal, UK, 2023)
Potential Brave Pro Subscription model?
It seems possible that Brave are building Brave Pro, which looks like its a subscription based service of some kind. A note on the Android implementation of the project reads (GitHub link):
"Implement the required runtime changes (profile settings, chrome flags, group policies, etc.) with the appropriate values that enable the Brave Pro experience. Using Brave in this mode with its default settings and making changes to the Brave Pro defaults require an active paid subscription.
When the browser has no active credentials for Brave Pro, the panel UI will promote the service and include the initial payment CTA. When credentials are present the panel UI will include the appropriate toggles for making changes to the default settings."
It also links to a private Google Doc.