They’re one of the most respected sources, it makes sense to link to them rather than some semi-tabloid where possible.

Bert on the cob

I’ll give ya a hint, women, or any other involuntarily grouped together association of peoples (gender/race/sexuality/etc) are not a monolithic block that should be generalized in some fashion.

Taking issue with A woman is one thing, saying ALL women is another. An individual is not the standin for the group.

Groups that one wilfully joins who act badly as a standard protocol can be shit on all you like. Nobody is going to flame you for shit talking a nazi, but saying ‘women (or pick a group) are like this’ always has exceptions.

An interesting point, to some extent I think that response can be strongly correlated to generational lines. Those of us born not of this century can be a bit curmudgeonly and take it as an attack on the self rather than seeing it for the impact on society.

The phrase ‘man up’ has a different connotation when it was instilled from a young age to mean ‘be strong’ rather than being seen as an isolationist closed off mindset.

It takes time, even for those willing to learn.

Today we have a new poster Bob, coming in fast and furious on comms across the spectrum…

Ooh! It seems ‘King’ tried to pull the ‘women bad’ card, and I just don’t think that’ll work out for him…

Looks like it’d still a thing

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/google-antitrust-ruling-firefox-search-deal

Maybe the boat needs a banana hammock

Google puts up a major chunk of the funding Mozzia gets in a year. If you don’t want them being the default choice in search or having your queries fed to their bots then start putting up the money to make their support no longer required.

Sooo, they act as an admin and can assign mods instead of using someone else’s node and being a mod?

Aside from what I understand as an inability to actually remove bad content that gets in, how does that differ from something like hosting a fedi site?

Then you get things like the platform you’re on where in my case it resides in my house and lets me be that big scary admin/mod. Having the ability to purge bad content and actors from a central space is needed for anyone but the most thick skinned masochists to use a platform.

Plenty of people just want to go talk/post without wading through a swamp of the crap that one uncle brings up at Thanksgiving on a regular basis.

The system formerly known as Freenet has a module known as the web of trust that uses a similar model. It’s interesting but runs into a problem of forcing users/hosts to propagate content and messaging they don’t wish to be associated with.

There’s a reason places like gab or hexbear end up isolated islands, the general population has no desire to be preached to be the lunatic fringes.

Last I ever was hearing this pushed around the fedi the big ‘sell’ was that mods/admins can’t delete posts making it a ‘freeze peach’ platform.

The only people typically drawn to those are the people who tend to get banned for being intolerable on civilized platforms.

The words of a panicked person trying to thing of the questionable (and wholely unrelated) distraction they can on the spot. If you know this is coming you should probably be prepared at least.

Guess that’d depend on how muchos needed/taken and how well it’s absorbed. Far as I’ve ever seen the seasonal affective disorder (usually what people look at for D-ficiencies) tends to be a subtle shift rather than a solid good/bad moods.

Is this the turnip’s health care plan to make Murica healthy? All one big ruse to give people a target to fight against?

I sometimes think he’s just scared of the spooky pen moving like a ghost was using it…

Crockoffs one could say

Tried, but things got so slow the picture hasn’t made it here yet.

I’m something of an outlier in the use level for sure with all the self hosting. When my kids starts downloading these several hundred GB games for the consoles though that take hours to pull it can sure eat the bandwidth up. Makes me wonder what the more typical home user’s average is.

There’s a fiber build in progress around here that I expect is going to kill all the existing local carriers, or at least force them to drop prices by a drastic amount. Nothing close to $5 though.