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Comment on Tildes exclusive: the Ethoscore Project in ~creative
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Comment on Tildes exclusive: the Ethoscore Project in ~creative
updawg Link ParentThink of a component starting an eco-friendly/socially responsible brand. Sure, you can call it green washing, but isn't it still useful to be able to tell a company "I won't buy your...Think of a component starting an eco-friendly/socially responsible brand. Sure, you can call it green washing, but isn't it still useful to be able to tell a company "I won't buy your products...but I will if they're responsibly made"?
I would say it's probably best to focus on the company as a whole first instead of dividing your focus when you don't have a product that you consider particularly accurate. That's where a roadmap is encouraging to users.
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Comment on Serbia's strongman leader Aleksandar Vučić concedes defeat to student-led movement in seismic political shift in ~society
updawg LinkI don't know anything about Serbian politics except Russia and the 1990s, but this sounds good...although as someone who doesn't know shit about this, if it's the way this is headed, I'm curious...I don't know anything about Serbian politics except Russia and the 1990s, but this sounds good...although as someone who doesn't know shit about this, if it's the way this is headed, I'm curious how Russia would react to losing its only "permanent" supporter in the region. Seems like the Students' List is a bit like if Antifa won an election in the US...it's not a real political entity with articulable foreign interests, etc.
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Serbia's strongman leader Aleksandar Vučić concedes defeat to student-led movement in seismic political shift
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Comment on Meta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case in ~tech
updawg Link ParentNo, I was responding to you saying ordinary people can now see through blatant lies and BS. If that's true, why can't voters see through Trump's blatant lies and BS?No, I was responding to you saying ordinary people can now see through blatant lies and BS. If that's true, why can't voters see through Trump's blatant lies and BS?
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Comment on Meta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case in ~tech
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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 19 in ~society
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Comment on The internet runs on cats and porn. It’s about to get cattier and pornier. in ~tech
updawg Link ParentI agree 100%. I also suspect that the odds of any of us ever manually typing out these URLs is quite low. Links and autofill are the main ways we get to sites, particularly ones that aren't the...I agree 100%. I also suspect that the odds of any of us ever manually typing out these URLs is quite low. Links and autofill are the main ways we get to sites, particularly ones that aren't the "important" sites. Opening tildes in a browser is
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Comment on #YesAllMen #NotAllMen #MaybeSomeMen How to be better? in ~life.men
updawg Link ParentYou could read "scared" as "scared of him" or "nervous with anticipation." That significantly changes how the entire thing reads. Was he pushing her or just going with the flow? What does "he...You could read "scared" as "scared of him" or "nervous with anticipation." That significantly changes how the entire thing reads. Was he pushing her or just going with the flow? What does "he tried to put his hand up my dress" mean? Was it a slow slide near the bottom? Was it aggressive?
That's why these conversations can be so fraught. Depending on your personal experience and how "actively" you empathize with people, you could interpret something in a totally opposite way than had been intended, even if you want to be supportive.
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Comment on Israel frees dozens of Americans, including US Congress nominee, after West Bank arrest in ~society
updawg Link ParentYeah, I agree. I even slightly modified the title (detain to arrest) to make it clear that Israel was the one being the bad guys here. My first read (maybe because I was too tired) was that Israel...Yeah, I agree. I even slightly modified the title (detain to arrest) to make it clear that Israel was the one being the bad guys here. My first read (maybe because I was too tired) was that Israel had rescued these people. But it was all part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing instead!
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Comment on Israel frees dozens of Americans, including US Congress nominee, after West Bank arrest in ~society
updawg LinkNAHALIN, West Bank — U.S. Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander was detained by Israeli security forces along with dozens of American and Israeli rabbis and activists on Wednesday, as the U.S. and Israeli delegation was helping Palestinians harvest olives from their grove close to a settlement in the occupied West Bank.
An NPR team was the only U.S. media to witness the detentions.
Lander, a House nominee and former New York City comptroller, said he was released from Israeli military custody "with a warning," but others initially remained detained.
By Wednesday night, one of the campaign sponsors, the New Israel Fund, said approximately 90 volunteers of what they're calling the Protect the Harvest initiative were released.
It was the largest mass detention of activists in the occupied West Bank in at least a decade, two Israeli lawyers who work on related cases told NPR. Rabbi Arik Ascherman, a longtime Israeli human rights proponent, called the detentions "unprecedented."
The Israeli military said in a statement that harvesting in the area requires the farmers to submit requests to the authorities before the olive harvest season in order to coordinate "security of the area and maintain public order." The military said Palestinians in this area did not submit a request, so soldiers and police arrived and detained those present.
"Regarding reports of the detention of a congressional candidate, we note that he was released once the matter was brought to our attention," the Israeli military told NPR.
Rabbis from the U.S. organization T'ruah, the Israeli group Rabbis for Human Rights and other activists had joined Palestinian families in picking olives at their grove in Nahalin, close to the Israeli settlement of Beitar Illit. They said they formed an international coalition of volunteers to accompany Palestinian harvesters at a time when they and their property have come under attack from Israeli settlers.
Fahimeh, 77, was picking olives from her trees on land that she said has been in her family for generations. She didn't give her last name and said her nephews were too afraid to come because of the threat of settler attacks. She said she hoped the presence of dozens of U.S. and Israeli volunteers would help keep her safe.
"For three years we have not harvested any olives," she told NPR. "I am so happy that I'm surrounded with all these people who are helping me."
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Israel frees dozens of Americans, including US Congress nominee, after West Bank arrest
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Comment on #YesAllMen #NotAllMen #MaybeSomeMen How to be better? in ~life.men
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Comment on Non-queer men of Tildes: PLEASE consider before commenting on ~life.women and ~lgbt without careful consideration. We are losing members over this issue. in ~tildes
updawg Link ParentCan you share some of those articles about South Korea?Can you share some of those articles about South Korea?
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Comment on Non-queer men of Tildes: PLEASE consider before commenting on ~life.women and ~lgbt without careful consideration. We are losing members over this issue. in ~tildes
updawg Link ParentThe US has plenty of racists and bigots, but in regard to "woke" issues, the US is the country others often hold up when discussing what they don't want to be like because the US is too...The US has plenty of racists and bigots, but in regard to "woke" issues, the US is the country others often hold up when discussing what they don't want to be like because the US is too progressive. The US has often been a global leader (not necessarily THE leader) in social issues. The place where the US has usually fallen behind is on issues with an economic impact (e.g., parental leave), but that likely is linked more to the US being less economically progressive (to say the least). If it can be changed by litigation or citizen initiatives, the US has often been a leader.
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Comment on Non-queer men of Tildes: PLEASE consider before commenting on ~life.women and ~lgbt without careful consideration. We are losing members over this issue. in ~tildes
updawg LinkI've already unsubscribed from both because I was aware of these issues, so I'm not really the target audience for this post, but I would really like to point out to everyone that we were all...I've already unsubscribed from both because I was aware of these issues, so I'm not really the target audience for this post, but I would really like to point out to everyone that we were all automatically subscribed to these groups and Tildes is not set up to have subreddit-style separation of content. Many of these post could have—and indeed, in some cases, were originally—posted to other groups and then moved. Users often have no idea which group they're commenting in. Feel free to interpret that however you want—are they oblivious or just using the site as intended?
That means that telling people they aren't welcome in a specific group means they are not allowed to discuss that topic anywhere on Tildes, because the topics would inevitably get moved to those groups.
I don't care if you are or aren't a fan of restricting their discussion ability in that way. Tildes is one site out of many and an inability to discuss something here is so minor that I don't care one way or the other.
But it's just worth mentioning because these discussions are really discussions of that policy by proxy.
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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 19 in ~society
updawg LinkTrump and Vance announce $25M whistleblower program to encourage public to report alleged fraud And it will be totally unbiased:Trump and Vance announce $25M whistleblower program to encourage public to report alleged fraud
And it will be totally unbiased:
During the announcement, Trump said payments will amount to a 1% commission on the amount of fraud the tip helps uncover. Trump also said he will decide who gets reward money in cases where more than one person claims to have provided the tip.
“I will be the arbitrator of all of these decisions,” Trump in the Oval Office with Vance and other administration officials standing behind him. “It’ll be a binding arbitration.”
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Comment on YouTube is looking to expand into audiobooks in ~books
updawg Link ParentWait did Amazon remove public domain Kindle books or did they just make higher quality versions for subscribers?Wait did Amazon remove public domain Kindle books or did they just make higher quality versions for subscribers?
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Comment on I teach at a business school. It’s time to shut them down. (gifted link) in ~life
updawg LinkThis makes sense until you see projects like the one discussed here that are incredibly acclaimed and made by someone who graduated one of Canada's top business schools. With really good grades,...This makes sense until you see projects like the one discussed here that are incredibly acclaimed and made by someone who graduated one of Canada's top business schools. With really good grades, even. Perhaps the schools are graduating the right people and we just aren't encouraging them properly.
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Comment on Prime Minister Mark Carney confirms four dead and next of kin notified after fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in Alberta in ~news
updawg Link ParentI was told it was a kill house. Sounds like they were doing some kind of assault and got trapped. Maybe they thought they could shelter inside, but that seems unlikely to me.I was told it was a kill house. Sounds like they were doing some kind of assault and got trapped. Maybe they thought they could shelter inside, but that seems unlikely to me.
Just because I want to pick a boring fight...a lack of neutrality is a defining feature of morals and generally not a defining feature of ethics ;)