My guy, you're not paying attention. I'm wishing you the best of luck in your endeavors, and your response is, as is typical of Lemmy, to find a reason to start a fight over it. Who even does that?
I'm not gonna give you the fight that you want.
Good luck in the future.
Why this sub is locked permanently
Yo peeps,
I am locking this sub and leaving .world permanently like I should have done months ago because .world moderation, administration, and the user base has proven to be one of the more particularly horrific nests of vipers I have encountered on the internet so far, and I am done putting up with it.
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SO WHY?
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I put up with .world refusing to defederate with Threads months back. I put up with the constant site-breaking and moderation-breaking bugs including blocking not working. I put up with the admins slowly showing themselves to be no different than Reddit ones by sanitizing the website to the point where people have difficulty saying #EatTheRich sentiments without problems. I put up with bootlickers on here telling me that mods can do whatever they want to anyone for any reason and if I don't like it I can go elsewhere.
I've put up with a LOT on this sub. And I've dished out my fair share of harsh words too. But what happened on .world yesterday is absolutely unacceptable.
This past day, I have found out the hard way that rape apologia and sexism are actually very rampant on this instance, and that is the straw that broke the camel's back. I have a few screenshots to show what I am talking about:
Yeah, I'm not down to hang out at an instance where "At least you're alive!1!!" is a meaningful defense for rape and rape victims are openly told to check their privilege compared to that of a rapist. Amongst the rest of the dumbassery I have borne witness to since yesterday. Whom others openly and flagrantly side with. 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦
Nah, I would sooner jab a needle through my eyeball than do that.
Since rape is apparently A-OK on this instance, I will not participate on it anymore. It's that simple.
.world is filled with truly horrific people and I will not help them by keeping this sub up.
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SO WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE SUB?
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It'll stay locked until either:
- I find someone trustworthy to keep it running,
- I delete it,
- Most likely: The admins just take it and hand it to one of their cronies, probably one of the scumfucks from that thread I posted screenshots from, to assert dominance.
I will seek out and find someone I feel would be a good mod on my own.
All of the posts will stay up.
Thank you all for participating and hanging out, and I wish all the best.
And now the ad homs start.
Stop crying. The mods sided with you monsters. You all openly defended rape and they sided with you. Learn to take your W.
Well, I suppose that's just as well. Lemmy's way too buggy and ill-conceived to really be worthwhile for hosting anyway.
I wish you the best of luck regardless. And be careful: there are some really, really terrible people on .world -- I really wouldn't stay long if I were you.
Holy fuck, this thread has certainly revealed Lemmy to be a cesspool of incels and rape apologists, hasn't it?
Jesus Christ. 🤦 This site is embarrassing to even be on.
You should take this as personally as possible: you are involuntarily celibate for a reason.
Oh lmfao
If you're going to lie to my face, you could at least try to be subtle about it. At least motte & bailey yourself like a decent rape apologist knows how to do.
I thought you made your own instance.
Not always. Say Ten Forward has a problem with .world in the future, for example. If Ten Forward defederates, they would cut out a large part of their userbase because most Lemmy users are .world users, and won't move for any reason. And, if Ten Forward stays federated with .world, that means their feed will be inundated with .world crap all the time instead of what they want: Star Trek stuff. People can't and won't just switch to a local feed; that's not the way people work and Lemmy doesn't work with the way people use the site, breaking it.
Meaning one instance will always dominate the others, and that's wrong.
I'm not knocking on what Stamets is doing. In fact, it's clearly the best thing he could have done.
That doesn't change the fact that the way Lemmy is as a community and as a platform is one of the main reasons why shit like this keeps happening.
And that means we all should tolerate rape. Or violence, or even attempted murder. After all, the arbitrary line of not being dead is the only one that matters and who gives a fuck about our quality of life while we're still alive? And it's all the victim's responsibility because rape is a normal, immutable part of life and we have to accept it. How convenient that you, the rape apologists, benefit while we suffer.
You can justify doing anything to anyone under that logic.
Also it falls apart because many rape victims commit suicide anyway, so this is a particularly disgusting rape apologist talking point. 🤦🤦🤦
Jesus Christ, Lemmy. What the actual fuck is wrong with you as a platform?
And so therefore a rape victim should just put up with rape and move on. They're still alive so it doesn't matter, and their rapist should be able to live with no consequences.
By your twisted logic, you can justify doing anything to anyone as long as you don't kill them. Rape does affect everyone for life, especially the ones who have claimed they moved on from it.
What makes you think someone won't turn around and use your own reasoning to justify doing something to you?
You parrot the same meaningless talking points every single thread that is both popular and a clear cut case to hold someone accountable for something.
You ramble about insane bullshit that has nothing to do with OP because you are here on some rape apologia anti-justice agenda.
You are angry at me trying to get something out of me when you don't even have to.
Why? Because the mods are just as sexist and in support of rape apologia as you are. They've been deleting every comment at the top of the thread that uses the terms "rape apologia" or "rape apologist" while leaving up stuff that should also be banned under civility rules but supports their side. You could just go talk to a mod and have me banned, like you always do whenever I tell you you're doing something wrong. So why be upset I won't play your horrific game?
Go cry to them about how rapists don't deserve to suffer consequences for their actions. Go cry to them how everyone else has to bear the burden and the threat of their presence because you think a rapist's right to rape is more important than the human rights of other people. Go cry to them: they'll agree with you. They've already shown they have.
Go. Go repeat your talking points to them. Go now. On your bike.
They're rape apologists. Everything they've been doing is part of a framework of Motte and Baileys they have constructed to justify and defend rape, and rapists.
Notice they're talking about the nature of trauma in life when this is actually a thread about OP dealing with a known sexual predator at work? How they have been talking about redemption, punishment, and the death penalty when NONE of those things are even tangentially related to OP? That is purposeful and intentional.
They derail threads like this, where there are clear-cut cases to hold someone accountable, because they oppose accountability on a moral level.
They do it because they're rape apologists.
Nah, I do, and Lemmy's promise was to serve as a meaningful alternative to Reddit where powermodding like what you experienced wouldn't happen, and it failed miserably. You're also not the only person to see how terrible Lemmy has turned out to be or who has suffered because of it. It's not just your former instance crap like this has happened on, you see.
I hope TenForward turns out to be a better place and that you have a better experience.
Shit like this is why Lemmy is garbage and why you all need to take better care in vetting who gets to participate in your websites. It should not have been possible for Reddit powermods to infiltrate and take over Lemmy in the first place.
I am sorry you are bearing the brunt of abuse on this platform too. Lemmy clearly doesn't hold up to its promise.
It doesn't matter because the only reason I even replied was because I didn't realize you were purposefully derailing the thread to push an agenda, and using OP and his serious, personal situation to do it.
You and your goons have said, all over the thread, the most vile, disgusting, anti-woman shit, because the truth is you condone rape and don't want to see other males suffer for it. It didn't occur to you that you could suffer such a thing and have no recourse. You clearly dismiss the extreme moral crime of expecting a victim's friend and potential victims to suffer under circumstances like that -- of course, everyone else in that place can just go find another job, right? Rapists have the right to work wherever they want but not good, normal people. The world revolves around you and your ilk, after all.
You're quite simply a rape apologist. There's no way around it. And so are the mods of this sub apparently.
I would like you to stop being a rape apologist and actually think about someone other than yourself.
Helpful hint: Responding to this requires one line not 20 paragraphs.
You wouldn't know it for the walls of text you and your ilk have been dropping on people in the thread non-stop all day, but sure, go ahead and completely ignore everything you were told so you can avoid facing how monstrous your stance is.
Hopefully you won't ever be in a situation like OP. But then again, if you were, you'd destroy your relationships with your coworkers defending the rapist, so 🤷
You're not getting your way, that's why you keep talking. Every response you give has been nothing except the ignorant, petty, immature ramblings I've come to expect out of Lemmy. Saying and doing anything to try to win a confrontation instead of sitting down and thinking about what you and your opponent is saying, and that's why I say this is why Lemmy is a perfect sample of America and why therefore America needs to crash and burn.
And you do. And you likely will at the end of the year, and it'll be sad, so sad, but you have brought every single ounce of the consequences you've been building up onto yourselves.
It never occurs to you that your behavior is alienating people away from Democrats and convincing people to vote third party in this next election either, but you don't actually give a shit about the future of your country so of course you wouldn't. 🤷
Not my problem. It's all on you.
Then don't waste my time arguing with me trying to convince me to change my opinion of you, because until you change, and Lemmy itself changes, you're not going to get your way. It's as simple as that.
Seriously, that was my only comment and now I’m also a rapist according to you.
No, I said you're a rape apologist. And you are. And a particularly gross one too, being that you're sitting here claiming you've been sexually assaulted like that's supposed to make actual rape apologia coming from you somehow valid or palatable. That claim actually makes your stance worse. If you're telling the truth, you're hurting other rape victims by arguing that they need to suffer the presence of a rapist, and live with their safety constantly being in jeopardy, simply because you allowed yourself to become brainwashed by a rape culture so you could gain access to comfort. And like all rape victims who have been brainwashed -- if you're not just some lying neckbeard, then you're not the first brainwashed sap I've run into in my life and you sadly wouldn't be the last -- you of course latch onto every dumb ass talking point the rape culture tells you to because you can't handle the reality of what you have done to yourself. You sold your soul for a place in society, and you drag down other victims, denying them their own safety, just so you don't have to face what you've done.
Do you know the story of the two wolves named Comfort and Dignity? If not, go look it up. Or I'll tell it. You need to learn it.
But it's obvious you're just here with a shitty political agenda regardless, because you came in here with a wall of text talking about vengeance when no one even fucking brought it up. No one brought up vengeance anywhere except for you and your ilk. We over here on Team Justice are talking about convincing HR to fire his dumb ass which is not only well within their rights to do, it is their moral responsibility as a member of the community. You are arguing specifically that they do not, to appease you, at the cost of dignity, safety, and the human rights of everyone else in that workplace. No one brought up Norway or Nordic countries except you and your ilk, because it's a common talking point in the sales pitch you inundate Lemmy and Reddit threads with to push an anti-victim, anti-justice political agenda.
So you obviously don't care about rape victims. So don't sit here and claim to be a rape victim and act like that's gonna inspire sympathy. It won't work on me, honey.
I was sexually assaulted too and I never sold out like you did. I didn't give up on justice. You bear the burden of that. OP's friend should never have to.
You're disgusting and vile.
It seems like all packaged foods do this now
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11612572
> I bought 175 g pack of salami which had 162 g of salami as well.
A woman who had a miscarriage is now charged with abusing a corpse as stricter abortion laws play out nationwide
An Ohio woman who’d sought treatment at a hospital before suffering a miscarriage and passing her nonviable fetus in her bathroom now faces a criminal charge, her attorney told CNN.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9769214
> An Ohio woman who had sought treatment at a hospital before suffering a miscarriage and passing her nonviable fetus in her bathroom now faces a criminal charge, her attorney told CNN. > > Brittany Watts, 33, of Warren, has been charged with felony abuse of a corpse, Trumbull County court records show. > > “Ms. Watts suffered a tragic and dangerous miscarriage that jeopardized her own life. Rather than focusing on healing physically and emotionally, she was arrested and charged with a felony,” her attorney, Traci Timko, told CNN in an email. > > … > > Though a coroner’s office report said the fetus was not viable and had died in the womb, Watts’ case highlights the extent to which prosecutors can charge a woman whose pregnancy has ended – whether by abortion or miscarriage.
Police tech isn’t designed to be accurate — it’s made to exert social control
Policing technologies are inaccurate by design.
Black Ohio woman criminally charged after miscarriage underscores the perils of pregnancy post-Roe
A Black Ohio woman who miscarried in her bathroom has been charged with abuse of a corpse. Thirty-three-year-old Brittany Watts, of Warren, awaits grand jury action.
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/11111745
> The 33-year-old Watts, who had not shared the news of her pregnancy even with her family, made her first prenatal visit to a doctor’s office behind Mercy Health-St. Joseph’s Hospital in Warren, a working-class city about 60 miles (100 kilometers) southeast of Cleveland. > > The doctor said that, while a fetal heartbeat was still present, Watts’ water had broken prematurely and the fetus she was carrying would not survive. He advised heading to the hospital to have her labor induced, so she could have what amounted to an abortion to deliver the nonviable fetus. Otherwise, she would face “significant risk” of death, according to records of her case. > > That was a Tuesday in September. What followed was a harrowing three days entailing: multiple trips to the hospital; Watts miscarrying into, and then flushing and plunging, a toilet at her home; a police investigation of those actions; and Watts, who is Black, being charged with abuse of a corpse. That’s a fifth-degree felony punishable by up to a year in prison and a $2,500 fine.
The United States has experienced a 12% increase in homelessness. Federal officials pointed to soaring rents and a winding down of pandemic aid for housing.
Right-wing legal interests funded by the megawealthy are routinely feting lower-court judges and treating them to all-expenses-paid trips, which effectively function as a reward system for judges who espouse and maintain hard-line conservative legal views.
If Lemmy.world doesn't defederate from Threads, Meta and all things Zuck within 24 hours, I will shut down my subs and leave.
I didn't come to a new service just to see it get taken over by the corporate beasts who ruined the internet in general, and I am sure as hell am not going to use an instance that doesn't care about its users.
I think the admin of this instance might have been paid off to federate with Threads, it being one of the most popular.
So, I am giving y'all 24 hours to defederate and if the Lemmy.world admins don't, I'm-a bounce and close down my subs behind me
That is all
American groups have helped to establish global web who share ideas and funding in bid to restrict gay and trans rights
When the US evangelical preacher and anti-LGBTQ+ crusader Scott Lively landed in Uganda in 2009 to warn of the “gay agenda”, he was arriving after a series of culture-war defeats at home.
More and more US states were recognizing same-sex marriage, and opinion polls were showing fewer and fewer Americans objected. Lively was there to offer Uganda’s lawmakers some advice on how to drum up outrage. “Emphasize the issue of the homosexual recruitment of children,” he advised.
Five years later, Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni signed a law that made same-sex relationships punishable by death, asserting that western groups and gay people were “coming into our schools and recruiting young children into homosexuality”.
The attorney generals sent Target a letter saying laws in each of their states prohibit the 'sale or distribution' of 'obscene matter' to children.
Seven Republican state attorneys general are warning Target that its recently launched Pride campaign, which included "tuck-friendly" swimsuits, may be in violation of child-protection laws.
Why isn't there a DNA archive for endangered species anywhere in the world?
Okay, so today I am at the zoo getting drunk and ogling animals, and after a long chat with one of the zookeepers, I am now forced to ask this question.
Like, climate collapse is a real thing that will render most species extinct, and most conservation efforts are focused on, well, conserving what we have. But I don't know of any effort to preserve samples of animal DNA, be it blood, gametes or whatever, so that if a species does go extinct, it could in the future, in principle, be revived.
So are there any zookeepers, biologists or other knowledgeable people in the house who could explain this? It seems like a serious overlooked gap in species preservation that needs to be closed sooner rather than later.
More than 6,000 United Methodist congregations have now received permission to leave the denomination amid a schism over theology and the role of LGBTQ people.
More than 6,000 United Methodist congregations — a fifth of the U.S. total — have now received permission to leave the denomination amid a schism over theology and the role of LGBTQ people in the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination.
Those figures emerge following the close of regular meetings in June for the denomination’s regional bodies, known as annual conferences. The departures began with a trickle in 2019 — when the church created a four-year window of opportunity for U.S. congregations to depart over LGBTQ-related issues — and cascaded to its highest level this year.
Church law forbids the marriage or ordination of “self-avowed, practicing homosexuals,” but many conservatives have chosen to leave amid a growing defiance of those bans in many U.S. churches and conferences.
Senate Republicans fear abortion could derail hopes for a ‘Majority’ – Fear of Extreme Views
Republican senators are looking for a way to avoid the political hit they took on abortion rights in the 2022 midterm election, when they suffered a net loss of one seat, as Senate Democrats ramp up to make it a top issue in 2024.
Republicans think they have a great opportunity to recapture the Senate next year, as Democrats must defend 23 seats, including vulnerable incumbents in Arizona, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Senate Republicans only have 10 seats up for reelection and no vulnerable incumbents to worry about.
But Senate Republican strategists warn their hopes of winning back the majority in 2024 could be derailed by the abortion debate, as they believe happened last year.
Senate Republicans fear abortion could derail hopes for a ‘Majority’ – Fear of Extreme Views
Republican senators are looking for a way to avoid the political hit they took on abortion rights in the 2022 midterm election, when they suffered a net loss of one seat, as Senate Democrats ramp up to make it a top issue in 2024.
Republicans think they have a great opportunity to recapture the Senate next year, as Democrats must defend 23 seats, including vulnerable incumbents in Arizona, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Senate Republicans only have 10 seats up for reelection and no vulnerable incumbents to worry about.
But Senate Republican strategists warn their hopes of winning back the majority in 2024 could be derailed by the abortion debate, as they believe happened last year.
"I question whether the state party has the necessary expertise to spend the money well," a top donor says
Major Republican donors to the Arizona and Michigan Republican Parties, who have each donated tens of thousands of dollars to the parties over the last six years, have ceased supplying funding because of Republican leaders' attempts to overturn 2020 election results, their support of losing candidates who tout Trump's election conspiracy theories and what they consider extreme views on issues like abortion, six benefactors told Reuters. "I question whether the state party has the necessary expertise to spend the money well," real estate mogul Ron Weiser, one of the Michigan party's biggest donors and a former chair of the party, told the outlet.
Despite Republicans' efforts to ramp up support in order to win back the battleground states that could determine whether they regain political power in the 2024 election, Arizona and Michigan's parties have been bleeding money in recent years, according to the outlet's review of financial filings and interviews with the donors and three election campaign experts. Arizona's Republican Party on March 31 had less than $50,000 in cash reserves in its state and federal bank accounts to spend on overhead expenses, compared to the $770,000 it had at the same point four years ago. And as of March 31, the total in the Michigan party's federal account amounted to $116,000, down from the nearly $867,000 it had two years ago. "They are effectively broke, and I don't see the clouds parting and the sun coming out on their fundraising abilities," Jason Roe, the former head of the Michigan GOP, told the outlet.
"I question whether the state party has the necessary expertise to spend the money well," a top donor says
Major Republican donors to the Arizona and Michigan Republican Parties, who have each donated tens of thousands of dollars to the parties over the last six years, have ceased supplying funding because of Republican leaders' attempts to overturn 2020 election results, their support of losing candidates who tout Trump's election conspiracy theories and what they consider extreme views on issues like abortion, six benefactors told Reuters. "I question whether the state party has the necessary expertise to spend the money well," real estate mogul Ron Weiser, one of the Michigan party's biggest donors and a former chair of the party, told the outlet.
Despite Republicans' efforts to ramp up support in order to win back the battleground states that could determine whether they regain political power in the 2024 election, Arizona and Michigan's parties have been bleeding money in recent years, according to the outlet's review of financial filings and interviews with the donors and three election campaign experts. Arizona's Republican Party on March 31 had less than $50,000 in cash reserves in its state and federal bank accounts to spend on overhead expenses, compared to the $770,000 it had at the same point four years ago. And as of March 31, the total in the Michigan party's federal account amounted to $116,000, down from the nearly $867,000 it had two years ago. "They are effectively broke, and I don't see the clouds parting and the sun coming out on their fundraising abilities," Jason Roe, the former head of the Michigan GOP, told the outlet.
Florida already has 53 available workers for every 100 open jobs, landing the state in the "more severe" category of labor shortage
MIAMI - Florida's so-called "toughest in the nation" immigration law takes effect July 1st, and there's concern it could cause a major agriculture and construction labor shortage.
According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Florida already has 53 available workers for every 100 open jobs, landing the state in the "more severe" category of labor shortage.