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It isn’t a security feature, more like a backdoor checkbox.

My experience with them is you can’t even find the modlog if you look when they remove comments. I guess they don’t federate it and/or it only shows if you’re logged in?

Good incentives to block their instances.

I have had comments removed and could never see why. Now I just block their instances.

They roleplay as communist censors since that’s all they can afford to do from their positions.

No but the red paste is most likely explained by the tanks that were verifiably there. They could have crushed people with other machinery but they had tanks.

They can stop tracking you, that way they don’t have to ask anything… which is precisely what they don’t want to do and why they complained so much about GDPR. Lucky for them only a handful of European countries give a crap about privacy and actually enforce it in any meaningful way.

uBlock origin has lists to remove a lot of the popups (and blocks most trackers), browsing the Web in 2024 without it is torture.

It isn’t a cookie popup law, that’s the advertising industry’s spin on it. It’s a law against taking personal data without consent and/or for illegitimate purposes (according to the lawmakers). You don’t need a popup for essential cookies.

Well in a corrupt regime where they’re not held accountable it is a problem yes, corporations funding it is a small clue why that happens all the time.

More like Lord and Saviour scrap all those insane laws and just let things happen until insurance won’t cover it. 15-minute cities are the technocratic response to make a bureaucratic solution that emulates organic city development. It isn’t the first time a technocratic solution promises to solve all our problems, the European integrated neighbourhoods made of brutalist concrete are now mostly dilapidated ghettos and have been shit for a long time.

I should have written “buildings”.

Conversion of commercial property for residential use is ruinous and suboptimal.

Single origin chocolate (not even very expensive, but only royalty had easy access to cocoa until recently and they didn’t make chocolate the way we do now).

Nice citrus fruit.

Good quality Fourme d’Ambert, Cantal or Sbrinz

Perfectly valid reason to make an account.

Complaining about X.org on Usenet also was the excuse for many people to post.

Some traditions must be kept alive.

Do you touch-type with ten fingers and never hurt yourself? That’s all that matters.

Why do you think they do not apply?

Some reasons why I think they apply:

• fish are animals
• industrial fishing is destroying the oceans and sea life (way more is killed than what ends up sold and eventually maybe eaten)
• international waters are a lawless playground for every abuse imaginable

I eat fish so I am not playing the guilt game, they’re just the ethical considerations I can think of.