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@mina@berlin.social Did you actually bother to check what gaza verified actually is and how it works? Or did you just see someone call it a scam - a rando who makes multiple accounts to avoid getting banned, and whom many mods of different instances have accused of spamming, avoiding bans, and being a shithead - and you just decided to believe them? The basic fact is, you are absolutely on the wrong side of this. @aral@mastodon.ar.al

@mina@berlin.social There are many situations where the enlightened-centrist "both-sides" position is not the reasonable one. If one side tries to help the victims of genocide, and you go "people can disagree and question your movies", you are not, in fact, one of the good guys and the reasonable one. Quite the opposite, actually. @aral@mastodon.ar.al

@d1@autistics.life @meganL@mas.to Pinker's work is directly impacted by him being an ideological reactionary. His books are fundamentally dishonest. It's shit science, no actual expert takes him seriously, and this is why he writes pop books.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run These are of course the same sorts of people who have no idea what the lyrics of Born in the USA say, nor those of Why we Build the Wall from Hadestown. Even though the latter beats you in the face with it.

@r3dr3clus3@infosec.exchange @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io If you don't have the data, you can be ordered to give it up by whomever, and you can't. Proton mail claims privacy, but it in fact saves enough data to identify a single individual. The headline is not biased. Proton claims things they actually can't uphold. This is not the fault of the customer. Stop blaming the victim.

@mcnado "Authorization from Congress?" I hope this is some kind of clever sarcasm, or I have to conclude that Americans are so imperialism-pilled that they say shit like this seriously.

@Tonybent @mcnado Khomeini was a terrible human being indeed, but he's also been dead since 1989. The bare first step towards complex understanding is to learn the names of the people you are talking about.

@cstross@wandering.shop I'm not a native english speaker, and I did love it when I learned that "pulchritudinous" has nothing to do with mummified skeletons in sacophaguses.

@Nonilex Maryland did not, in fact, ban surveillance pricing. It just faked that it did. https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/30/something-must-be-done/#there-ive-done-something

@MissConstrue@mefi.social Perhaps an AI slop filled garbage site is not the best source for propagating the bombshell. That hejon/cognitive loon site is so nutjob that it looks like the best way to drive people away from actual serious news.

@afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place Does this count? For some mostly unknown reason, a very very large number of place names in Estonia end in "-vere", which sounds like it means blood, or "of blood".

@ChrisMayLA6 I may occasionally lose sight of civility, I admit it, but people like you and indeed Mastodon in general just call out for it, and it makes us better people in the end.

@zenbrowser "We are anti AI" Has a dedicated AI keyboard combo.

@cloudhop@equestria.social How exactly did people "punish" Bose? Was it just saying that they only showed some documents after pushback? Is this some weird "leave britney alone" reaction?