This has been internet community stuff since internet, honestly. Small websites run by a dozen school friends can wind up with this. Reddit, from my understanding, was always rife with it.

The decentralized nature of Lemmy means a lot of people curating their own communities. Walled gardens are a feature, not a bug. As long as the federation aspects are held together the ecosystem can self correct by letting those communities isolate, either internally or externally.

Just try not to take the walls personally, even when they are. We all run into them sometimes.

All sliders to middle. Moustache. Receding hairline.

Generic. Average. Godslayer. Neutral.

That’s closer to it. The local permitting jurisdictions get nothing out of approving or denying applications. They get held up for two reasons: the proposal is incomplete/unapprovable by law; and political intervention from an outside entity. Maybe the mayor or a commissioner, sometimes a director of an agency or organization. That’s where any bribery or other such shenanigans would take place. Not the permitting office.

Disenfranchised ruling class commits to counter-revolution. Repeat.

But for that specifically, it is conveniently called the Thermidorian Reaction, using this calendar’s terminology.

She was booked into the Polk County Jail in Des Moines, Iowa, where she currently lives, in September for allegedly driving with a suspended license

September through November this person was held in jail before ICE showed up.

Five minutes to match one subway car capacity.

Cancels out the threat. Math.

So you know how there’s the story of the underage girl prostituting herself to a congressperson for money for braces?

Exploitation. That’s how people are intended, nay, expected, to ‘swing it.’

It’ll be taken care of by the new Microsoft CEO: Miguel Sanchez.

Some take away from this that the grocer, the janitor, the tailor, the shoemaker, and the baker are to be forgiven as it would be inhumane to punish everyday people.

And then turn around and claim the Nuremburg Trials were inhumane because Streicher didn’t personally shoot anyone.

The banality of evil became so much more of a defense than the indictment it should have been and should still be.

It kinda looks like Hot Fuzz? It’s been a while to remember.

The ruling class of America sees the mayoral elections of Mamdani and Wilson as more dangerous and threatening than Trump and MAGA.

Thanks, though it is a username I have used variously for probably 20+ years.

I assume it is based on data of people being admitted to hospitals, as titled. So my guess is this is more about how the medical system breaks the data down, and they selected for the highest disparities of reported sex.

One of the more interesting polls out of this was whether voters were casting in support of or against a candidate.

86% of Mamdani voters were voting out of support of their candidate.

Half of Cuomo voters were voting against another candidate. (Mamdani.)

Voting against a candidate is a losing strategy.

It’s based on users sending in reports, and positive news for the left or news critical of Israel unleashes an army of rules lawyers.

Meanwhile pundits on CNN is calling this a ‘warning lesson’. Anderson Cooper and crowd fear mongering even through victory.

My understanding the media focus is about how bad it is that this was leaked and that the leakers are bad because it hurts the state of Israel.

Which is exactly what I would expect.

Bazzite is a vehicle for Steam. If your basis for using it isn’t ‘gaming through Steam’, you’re already intentionally venturing into un-average lands.

As a general rule, I am against defederation unless the instance is going to cause liability or technical problems (bot spamming, illegal content, etc.)

This instance in particular is closer to banning a user that is self hosting. It is closed, requires account approval, and thusly defederation will not catch any unknowing users in a dragnet.

So I think defederation is a reasonable exception for this instance, especially given the community vote in progress.