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Isn’t near transit stations exactly where you’d want to put high density housing?

Are you saying that because you genuinely believe your statement isn’t an instance of the slippery slope fallacy, or because you want to insult me?

slippery slope fallacy

They’re validating the policy of the instance on the basis of the police tactics potentially being used against them, not the tactics themselves

It makes it difficult to use the pavement, especially for elderly people and people with disabilities, costs the council a bunch of time and money to repair, and doing the repairs often require killing off the tree

What point are you trying to make?

That there’s better FOSS software (just generally)?

That there’s better FOSS document editing software?

That you don’t like Libreoffice dark mode?

It looks pretty good to me

As a more serious aside to the above, it is generally worth paying a bit of attention to which instance other users you interact with. There’s obviously no blanket statement you can make about the users of particular instances, but there are definitely certain instances that are more appealing to… certain groups of users.

lemmy.ml in particular has a bit of a reputation for having tankies on it, but there’s lots of very interesting and reasonable people there (or here, I suppose, given this is an ml community), also.

I think that’s largely for the same reason; their legal obligations to ensure they don’t facilitate illegal stuff means that the risk of working with companies that do e.g. amateur porn makes the potential consequences (financial processing ban, i.e. effectively the entire company being shut down) massively outweigh the potential benefits.

So you’re right that PH’s legal liability was part of the reasoning, but that pressure largely came from payment processors, for whom the legal consequences are more severe.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by web tech? I don’t know much about how matrix works

GIMP is really powerful, but goddamn its UX is abysmal, unfortunately

In the British monarchy, the monarch (“the Crown”) and the person who is the current monarch are considered distinct “people” with their own separate possessions (i.e. King Charles as the Crown owns property separately to Charles Windsor the private citizen).

So these oaths are meant to be pledging loyalty to the Crown, in its role as the embodiment of the British state, as opposed to the king personally.

The commons library is a treasure trove of information about the UK’s fascinating and complex constitution, I’d strongly recommend giving it a read if you’re interested in this sort of stuff!

Commons Library: the Crown and the constitution

In particular, I’d recommend checking out The United Kingdom constitution – a mapping exercise, which is a document intended to be a reasonably thorough summary of the UK’s constitution and where it comes from. It’s ~300 pages so I wouldn’t recommend reading the whole thing, but it’s great as a reference for the parts you find interesting.

The whole what? As in you think each Wikipedia article should start by describing every sound in the word?

Skeuomorph (sk like skin, eu like you, m like mat, o like orphan, ph like off)

That’s a very silly take

No, public companies and cooperatives are completely different things

The investors is not who they’re talking about sharing profits with

I’m a big fan of starting the command with a #, then removing it once I’m happy with the command to defend against accidentally hitting enter

Putting ~ next to the enter key on keyboards (at least UK ones) was an evil villain level decision

Specifically, it’s when it’s sanctioned through the legal system (as opposed to murders, including state-sanctioned but extra-judicial killings)

So I think executions are not murder by definition

It’s also worth adding, though, that the convention of only running for at most two terms had existed pretty much since the establishment of the republic (until FDR broke it), when Washington and Jefferson each chose not to run for third terms

It’s nice that this exists these days, but my god is it horrendously unreadable at a glance

There’s only really one big building society in the UK, which is Nationwide, but they’re awesome

I’m sure they’ll try to do the same thing as Hungary and try to milk as much from the situation as possible