FirstCircle

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[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Also this article (NPR).

Here, the local gov't collects all of our plastic/paper recyclables, burns them in a gas-fired incinerator, and then claims that they're turning "waste to energy". There's zero recycling happening locally AFAIK despite all the consumer-focused marketing (prominently-labeled curb-side "recycling bins" for example, not "incinerator bins").

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Long-time Bitwarden customer, and I did the exact same thing. Prior to that I hadn't even been aware of the OTP functionality in the BW desktop app. Glad I made the move early and don't have to scramble now. This new deadline is going to be a real pain for a lot of Authy desktop users. Weird that the company didn't even feel the need to explain to users the reason for the drastic EOL change. I've used some of their voice/sms services in the past but if I need that kind of thing in the future I'm going to have a good look around at the competitors before I write a line of code or open my wallet again.

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

No, no, it's the "boarder" patrol.

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago

selection bias

He's not doing a formal study that requires random sampling. This is his blog - opinions & thoughts.

He makes the claim that nothing is done about right-wing protesters

I've read the article and I don't see him making this claim anywhere. The closest I can see to it is one of his opening sentences where he writes "actual terrorists (especially on the far right, and especially in the US) often remain unmolested by the law".

One of his topics here is the disproportionate punishments handed out to left-wing protesters (esp. peaceful ones). He talks about what he calls "extrajudicial punishments" that don't even require convictions to cause massive harm to the protester. The UK gov't seems to be pioneering these techniques to dissuade and crush public left-wing protest, but if the techniques are successful it's just a matter of time before they're employed here in the US too.

Ragebait? I guess, but given that the topics are legitimately rage-inducing, that's to be expected. While right-wing domestic terrorists in the US continue to ramp-up their threats, and acts, of violence against those they dislike (including insufficiently MAGA-loving elected officials and judges ), with very few of them being caught and punished (never mind having their terrorist networks broken-up), following the UK recipe, we have (source):

Protests against the proposed training center — dubbed “Cop City” by opponents — have been going on for more than two years. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr obtained a sweeping indictment in August, using the state’s anti-racketeering law to target the protesters and characterizing them as ”militant anarchists.”

Demonstrators and civil rights organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, have condemned the indictment and accused Carr, a Republican, of levying heavy-handed charges to try to silence a movement that has galvanized environmentalists and anti-police protesters across the country.

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

U.S. gov't support for the mass murder of civilians to further its political goals? Why, who would ever have thought ...?

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Good catch. Bad on Biden. Many would argue that "Mitch McConnell and his fellow Republicans" includes Biden of course.

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Oh I believe you, I block aggressively and lots of sites break because of it. Not so much YT though, oddly enuf, and I'm a dedicated freeloader there. Mostly I encounter IP-based blocking due to the VPN and using European IPs (I'm in the States).

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's curious, I use UBlock Origin and Cookie Autodelete on Firefox and I'm not getting blocked, with or without my VPN connected. The CNN page loads via Tor and the Tor browser too.

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Portland, so get ready for the internet trolls to start carping about the homelessness problem there and trying to blame this, somehow, some way, on the unhoused. Pay no attention to AKA or Boeing, it's the shareholders who are the victims here after all!

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Except that they (researchers) are claiming to have an idea of why something (fingers) is a certain way (chopped-off in cave paintings).

“There is compelling evidence that these people may have had their fingers amputated deliberately in rituals intended to elicit help from supernatural entities”

If you review their research and find cite-able problems with it, fine, but they're specifically asserting that they have reason to believe that these amputations were real and inspired by beliefs in supernatural deities.

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

many Americans riding the benefits of higher wagers

Ah, the Casino Economy.

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