Sounds like it's growing pains of an organization which used to be small and informally managed bumping the limits of that.

• larger userbase/constituency = harder to know what the general feeling is, more diversity of such
• an important part of many peoples lives = high emotions, high standards
• more organized/concerted demands vis a vis equality

Its never a bad time to (re)read the tyranny of structurrelessnes.

Do like Xenia does and get a thinkpad. My main computer is a $200 refurb thinkpad from eBay. They are known for good Linux support and because they are popular there is a big online community in case of trouble.

But your existing apple hardware can last a long time with Linux. Unlike Mac os it isn't designed to get shitty after a few years to encourage buying a new one. I also have a 10+ years old Mac mini as a secondary computer and it runs decently with Debian.

I am having a hard time visualizing this... What does the glued lock contribute to the firework situation, or vice versa?

You can't exit through the door... but also there is a firework going off so seems like you would probably go in a different direction, maybe to a different room.

I've always liked the superglue idea because it could really fuck things up but the prankster is far away by the time its discovered. Setting off an explosive at the same time sort of diminishes that.

maybe I am missing something?

Maybe the living room terminal would be like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiDWrXhzDIU

beat me to it!

maybe it lost something in translation

what a cool URL I never knew

literally the only tagline i ever saved

this is nice but there are a couple of logistical issues:

• the point of social media and social platforms is to be in touch with other people. not just random other people but the specific people/groups you are friends with or interested in.
• matrix is so goddamned complicated to use with encryption. I've honestly never gotten it up and working despite several concerted attempts. it is absolutely not a drop in replacement and suggesting it is only sets comrades up to fail and therefor feel powerless.

trumpism has its roots in disaffected working class people

is that true?

nazism wouldn't have taken the same hold in germany if their economy was [ ?wasn't? ] destroyed post-WW1

is that true? it's certainly what we learned in school. but basically zero of what schools have to say about nazis is true.

your dad seems unconvinced by the walls of text

An anti Hillary psy op it had to be stopped.

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RE: megathreads

why do people like mega threads? what is the benefit?

I've come across them on various different communities, in different platforms and formats over the years. I try to get into them but idk

It kinda seems that megathreads basically function like microblogging.

I personally enjoy the structured format of having subject lines, (optional) image, (optional) url, and body

And is it a joke to specify this as the "new" mega thread? It's always new.

change my mind.

Someone is going to have to step up to be Dr. Morgentaler

On October 17, 1967, he presented a brief on behalf of the Humanist Association of Canada before a House of Commons Health and Welfare Committee that was investigating the issue of illegal abortion. Morgentaler stated that women should have the right to safe abortion. The reaction to his public testimony surprised him: he began to receive calls from women who wanted abortions. Robert Malcolm Campbell and Leslie Alexander Pal wrote, "Henry Morgentaler experienced the [abortion] law's limitations directly in the supplications of desperate women who visited his Montreal office." Morgentaler's initial response was to refuse:

"I hadn't expected the avalanche of requests and didn't realize the magnitude of the problem in immediate, human terms. I answered, 'I sympathize with you. I know your problem, but the law won't let me help you. If I do help you, I'll go to jail, I lose my practice—I have a wife and two children. I'm sorry, but I just can't!'"

For a time he was able to refer the women to two other doctors who did abortions, but they became unavailable. There was no one to whom he could send them, and some of them were ending up in the emergency department after amateur abortions. He has said that he felt like a coward for sending them away and that he was shirking his responsibility. Eventually, in spite of the risks to himself—loss of career, a prison term for years or for life—he decided to perform abortions and, at the same time, challenge the law. ...

He knew that he could prevent those unnecessary deaths, so he determined to use civil disobedience to change the law.

In 1968, Morgentaler gave up his family practice and began performing abortions in his private clinic. He devoted his clinic to performing abortions on women as well as providing birth control and contraceptives, though it was illegal at the time.

Read the rest of the article to learn about how as a child in Poland he was incarcerated in nazi concentration camps for being jewish. Then as an adult in Quebec, incarcerated for performing abortions.

is it AI

this lady was on the street handing papers to people. I could tell it was some jesus shit due to the accessories so walked by quickly, suppressing my urge to debate her. but then in the corner of my eye I noticed it was a small horizontally-oriented comic. I had to turn on my heel and walk it back a couple steps.

"is that a jack chick??!"

"sure is"

"oh sweet, I looove those!"

she handed it to me on impulse though I think after 1-2 seconds of taking in my general vibe she understood I was only mocking her. Her expression changed as I took the thing from her. The godly document barely singed my heathen fingers.

I couldn't wait to start reading to see if it would be about some friends of mine like OP

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but it was one of the new ones, lacking the (limited) creativity and empathy demonstrated in the above. It sucked.

I mean there is a reason why Israel hates the UN. Because as much as it would be to their benefit to adhere to the US line, they can't help themselves but to appoint people like this. For all it'll do. One big puzzle for me is why this isn't a more concerning aspect for libs. Shouldn't this be their problem?

I didn't actually bring myself to read the report yet. I only opened it and zoomed out. Look at the footnotes (purple) vs text ratio in the report:

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I'm surprised at her pep. I felt tired on her behalf watching.

I only notice at the end she is wearing a gray and black kufiyyeh.

I think you found the only good italian.

fuck this is it

hmmm interesting. If I understand the story, bin Mahram Kufi had a camel renting business. al-Rashid would just show up and take whatever camels he required for his Hajj. Assuming he returned alive, he would then pay the market fee for the use of the camels. Therefor, bin Mahram Kufi was in the position of hoping for the healthy return of al-Rashid although (I infer) he was considered to be a bad dude between these friends. I guess, absent the hostage camels, they'd be hoping the whole party fell into a ditch and was never heard from again? Is there some value in preventing a bad dude going on Hajj? I'm of the impression that every Muslim goes on Hajj and I've never heard of anyone being barred from it.

In he rest of the story, included in the link, bin Mahram Kufi responded to this by ditching all his camels. He ?pretended to be too old to run a camel business. But al-Rashid saw through the pretense and knew he was under the influence of the bleeding heart lib Ibn Ja’far. And says that if they weren't such good buds he'd be in deep shit. the end

Obviously I am missing lots of context. I see how it is related. Especially when I search for Surah Hud 11:113 and found a slightly different translation

And do not be inclined to the wrongdoers or you will be touched by the Fire. For then you would have no protectors other than Allah, nor would you be helped.

I find the overall story to be a bit equivocal because it is only the prior relationship (of providing the camels) that saves bin Mahram Kufi. If indeed it saved him at all; narrative just stops. What ought he have done the first time al-Rashid requisitioned use of the camels?

But point taken anyway. Do not incline to the unjust.

footnote situation in "Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese - Genocide as colonial erasure"

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purple is footnotes in the image

307 footnotes in a 32 page document

from: Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, meets the press

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there is an American asshole from I24 at one point. It gets a bit confrontational.

He tries to "force" her into admitting her point of view that Israel is and has always been an occupier. As though it would be some sort of get. Hello her title is "UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory"

the guy looks like a fool, honestly it isn't upsetting for what he says so much as he has the smug look on his face like a conspiracy nut observing "sheeple"