ChairmanMeow

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[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 points 56 minutes ago

She's not going to prison, she gets an ankle monitor and house arrest I believe.

There's no physical reason for it, it's mostly inexperience that can cause it.

Relax, do foreplay, lube up. Don't push it, take it slow. Won't be any different from any other time.

Of course, there are exceptions to this. But these are rarer than most people think.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't think they can vote if they're not a citizen, no?

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

it helps a little and with 0 negative side effects.

Here in the Netherlands we stopped in 1976 because there was an increase in migraines, stomach- and bowel issues and depression ever since fluoride was added to the drinking water supply (+5%).

Toothpaste still has it, but it's cautioned against to use fluoride-enriched toothpaste for children due to studies suggesting a negative effect on brain development. But even with fluoride-enriched toothpaste the amount is being reduced because there appear to be more damaging effects that are lessened in lower dosages, and the health benefits are seemingly not impacted.

It's a recent development, but yes they do that now.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 12 points 3 days ago

It'd be hilarious if Peru deports him back to the US.

The form required for deadlifts basically requires you to stand up straight. It's actually helped me personally to get a better standing form.

Definitely have someone explain and help you with your form though. It can be hard to tell for an inexperienced person if their form is good, and bad form is risky when deadlifting.

The weight doesn't even have to be that high, it's all about learning the proper form, which helps you realize a better posture.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I think it's a bit of a stretch. Though some people claim that because she's not explicitly called trans in the game, she isn't trans. Though that debate is mostly held in the dark depths of the Steam discussions.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

"Sir"ona Ryan, is what people speculate.

There's no evidence afaik for extensive Russian meddling in the Dutch elections. Our electoral system makes it difficult for foreign meddling to have any extensive impact. The far-right hasn't really grown much here, it consolidated into a single party. They're also not explicitly pro-Russia either.

They're stuck in a coalition government with three other parties and really haven't made much of an impact at all.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 23 points 4 days ago

Yes congratulations, you've discovered they're using Substack. This was already addressed and not in dispute? . It doesn't support your argument, because:

  • Substack is not a blogging platform. It's more like Wordpress in that it can host blogs, but doesn't exclusively do so, and this website is clearly not a blog.

  • This is the only reference to Substack on the entire website. And this footer isn't what makes a website a "blog". I'd wager that if you'd have blocked this footer using uBlock or something you wouldn't be able to really tell it's built on Substack.

  • The links listed don't lead to other accounts, instead they lead to static pages about Substack's about page or their privacy policy.

  • Dropsitenews is operating through their own domain via Squarespace.

  • Dropsitenews has several independent journalists and editors working for them, and is a news organisation, not a random blog. Their own about page explains this pretty clearly, and other websites (including MBFC) agree with that.

  • Their website does not look functionally different from a news website not built on Substack. The only "functional difference" (and I'm really stretching the definition of the word 'functional' here) is the footer you've linked that mentions Substack.

I have to reiterate here: nobody is asking you to pick-and-choose what Substack "accounts" to allow or not. I actually fully agree with you that doing that would be a bit of an undue burden, similar to not choosing which Twitter accounts to allow. But that's just simply not how Dropsitenews or Substack work.

Listen, I'm trying to help you here to either clarify the rules or apply them more consistently. You're getting a lot of flak now because you're not applying the rule as written, but through an publicly unknown interpretation where anything built using Substack is (frankly inexplicably) also banned. If that's how you want to moderate, fine, but clarify it in the rules.

Still, I have to recommend the tried and tested method of white/blacklisting (or allow/denylisting as it's often called these days). If someone puts up a new post, check the list with Ctrl-F for the domain of the post. If it's in the allowlist, allow the post, if it's in the denylist, remove it. Dead simple, takes seconds to do. If it's not listed, open the website and make a determination if it should be allowed. If so, add to the allowlist, otherwise add to the denylist and list the reason for denial. Takes a minute or so, maybe a couple minutes at worst. Put all this in a publicly viewable Google doc/sheet/whatever and link it in the sidebar. Total transparancy, dead simple to execute and basically impossible to argue against. If you want to put in even less effort, have posters submit why a domain should be allowlisted (you can put specific requirements there like a link to the MBFC rating or whatever) so you can just review the reasons and either allowlist or denylist the domain.

This still lets you blanket-ban Twitter/Facebook/Medium etc... for the stated reason, but helps avoid these issues where you are inconsistently applying the rules and banning a legitimate news organisation.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 27 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Then they're welcome to pony up for a domain registration

https://www.dropsitenews.com/ is their domain that they've registered through Squarespace?? Hello?

There are legit journalists on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube too... we don't allow links to those sites EITHER.

False equivalence. Substack is more similar to Wordpress than it is to Twitter or Medium.

This is NO DIFFERENT. We aren't going through an entire platform, account by account, picking and choosing.

But it is different, you've just elected to plug your ears regarding any and all evidence to the contrary. You don't have to "pick and choose accounts", they have their own domain and no other "accounts" on Substack are accessible through it. It's completely isolated.

This entire charade could easily be solved using a simple domain whitelist/blacklist method, yet you've decided that using that simple solution is too difficult, despite plenty of mod teams using this method due to its transparancy and ease of moderation.

Your argumentation so far has been completely detached from the reality here. You are presenting things as facts that are easily refuted by taking a 1-minute look at the website. If you can't even manage that, then I can't help you here.

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