The Saudis are separately at war in Yemen and against the Houthis and have been since I think 2015.

The Houthis have just endured a decade of fighting a US backed coalition, which isbwhy they’ve become increasingly capable of expanding their operations to interfere with shipping lanes unrelated to their direct civil war.

MIC knows it must sustain war and conflict and will always play all sides to keep the orpham crushing machine going.

If it stops, or even threatens to slow, well… stonks go down faster than any tarriff effect.

For things like frozen nuggets? It’s already just a breaded and deep fried protein paste at that point. Easy bar to clear and stay vegan.

Okay, so you’re talking about the 1890s-1920s “Progressive” Era of Prohibition and Sufferage.

Yeah, as that’s what that time period is called: “Progressive Era”.

Not the 1930s-70s New Deal / Great Society period of progressivism

No, I am not referring to the period following Prohibition Era and the Great Depression which was an intermediate (1920s-1930s) before New Deal.

If you’re taking issue with the ‘Progressive Era’ being called ‘Progressive’ then sure. I get you then. It mostly just achived women’s suffrage as a meaningful milestone, as I said.

For what it is worth, Jim Crow predated and outlasted the Progressive Era in the US. I wouldn’t so much apply causation there.

But it also ended in the 20s. It mainly achieved Women’s suffrage in the US.

Remember, communities are more akin to private walled gardens than public open fields.

Most of the time you’re walking into someone’s house to make a post or comment.

The Fediverse is built on the efforts of relatively few individuals on their own motivation and convictions. There are no duties to uphold for shareholders or governments.

People are welcome to be as open and inclusive as they can manage, but there’s no actual obligation to the public at large. So it’s wise just to be respectful in general and let this stuff roll off your back.

These folks include presenting a false person as being of age, then switching to underage at the time of meetup when the target shows up.

A group descends upon the target who is now told they’re a pedophile.

Then the group tries to kill the person who was trying to meet what they thought was an adult.

And the perpetrators think this is justice.

Yeah I believe the next step in this process is to make the easy jump into hunting all those people expressing ‘Pedo apologia’. Half this thread suddenly is fair game to ‘investigate.’

It’s a bottomless well, really.

Hell, KiwiFarms style tactics is becoming more and more common and mainstream. It’s on Lemmy too.

Here you get to see individuals acting in their own capacity to do the same, sometimes ironically and/or unintentionally.

I worked in a rural county where there were roads so bad, so riddled with potholes, that you could barely drive more than 5 mph. Undulating speedbumps and you’d have to zigzag to avoid the holes large enough to catch your wheel entirely.

The county’s solution to poor response times from 911 calls? Cops bought a humvee.

That’s the kind of content instance admins are and need to be concerned with on the topic of defederating instances. However most of the time it’s over whether some user in a shitposting thread was unfairly moderated.

Instances are servers that host communities.

Instances are servers that host user accounts.

Federated instances allow users from one instance to view and post in communities on other (federated) instances. If the instances are defederated there is no connection whatsoever being made between the users and communities.

Now, there are communities that have very strict and often very political moderation policies. Technically only the instance administrator has the power/authority to override communities, but only on the instance they administrate.

This can become an issue, especially when people who get moderated run to the admin demanding to talk with who is in charge. The netKarens get really mad if the admins back up the community, so they’ll start these instance crusades demanding defederation and such.

So as a result there are some natural divisions across the major instances based on how the admins tend to back up community rules.

So for a rough examples: .ml communities have zero tolerance for American Liberalism. Lemmy.world allows communities to be heavy handed against criticism of NATO or Israel. Blahaj.zone has zero tolerance for transphobes gatekeeping. My instance, sh.itjust.works, allows for combat footage and communities dedicated to documenting(harassing) the .ml instance, their admins and the lemmy devs (who admin .ml).

The average user need only pay attention to the communities they post in. The instance of the user is mostly irrelevant, nevermind the butthurt individuals who want a worse and fragmented Fediverse.

I can’t read these runes. Life sense, roll for initiative.

A key derivative of PEs having the right to stamp plans is that certified (stamped) plans are often a requirement or stipulation in all sorts of laws, permits, and settlements. Fraudulently certified plans can unravel all sorts of legal liabilities far beyond the engineer.

If it is useful at only playing games I think it will be a popular option nonetheless.

I saw the layout and instantly recognized it for what it was. The trailer park loop is unmistakeable.

But otherwise, man private developers love thematic street names. I got some pirate themed, herb themed, and gemstone themed developments around me. Worked with someone who lived in a house on the corner of Zircon Ct and Zircon St. But not the other corner which was the corner of Zircon St and Zircon Ct. Also a Zircon Ave.

I think once Valve polishes SteamOS for desktop environments there will be actual largescale migration.

There has been more movement towards changing that in the last year than I have seen in twenty years combined. Hope isn’t yet dead.

I don’t see any mention of cleaning anything up.

Chrono Trigger is one of those games you can play just for the music.