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🌐 **Globally**:
Half a century ago, the Left appealed mostly to the poor and uneducated, and the Right to the rich and educated.
Nowadays, supporting leftist parties still correlates with lower income (and supporting the Right with higher income), although that link has weakened.
What's most interesting is that correlation along the “education” axis has _reversed_: today, it is mostly _educated_ people supporting the Left, and _uneducated_ people supporting the Right.
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Everyone loves their own liberty. But libertarians love others' liberty, too. This is why right-wing reactionaries masquerading as libertarians just aren't: They don't love others' liberty, but instead view the state as a barrier to excluding or oppressing those they dislike.
Anyone have an idea of how many Tbps this would be? 17.2M requests/sec sounds like a lot, but even on a normal day Cloudflare handles billions of requests before I'm even up for breakfast.
Cloudflare says it mitigated a 17.2M rps DDoS attack last month, ~3x larger than any previous DDoS attack, targeting a customer in the financial in...
@freemo Ohh that makes more sense now. Thanks!
Can someone tell me what the difference is between 'subscribe' and 'follow' on #mastodon? The docs seem to only refer to cases where someone is on another platform that doesn't support 'following.'
I understand that if a locked account doesn't approve your follow request you can subscribe instead to see public toots, but is there any other reason to use one over the other?
Real smooth transition there Sean
The American right is nothing but grifts, all the way down. https://www.thedailybeast.com/hannity-uses-afghan-crisis-as-pitch-line-to-sell-pillows-...
@skells I can never decide which is worse, them or the Arch forums. So I participate in neither...
@freemo Good points. I assumed a lot about the OP's motive. I would disagree that the rationale behind male circumcision is purely cosmetic, but I'm not sure it really matters. That rationalization doesn't stand out to me as being better than any of the others I've heard. And of course I do concede that it's less terrible than something like clitoridectomy.
@freemo Worth a chuchle at least.
Interesting though how in this scenario wearing masks and removing statues of confederate traitors (which, I assume, is what they're really talking about) is equivalent to performing unnecessary surgery on a male child's genitals.
Also, Islam is currently the largest religious group that mandates circumcision.
Safe to say I analyzed that one to death haha.
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Very interesting insight of an undercover cop regarding drug policy
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Where was this when I was a kid?
Nerf just made the iconic Aliens Pulse Rifle into a badass foam blaster - That huge carry handle, pump-action underbarrel grenade la... - https://w...
Side note: It's weird to think that we have been at war for so long that there are fully grown adults for whom this is just a historical fact, without context or obvious significant relevance to today's problems.
Friendly reminder that while we're bickering over whether #Trump or #Biden are at fault for #Afghanistan it was #GeorgeBush, #Cheney, and #Rumsfeld who decided to invade in the first place.
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The neocons have never been right, and their wrongness has led to immeasurable suffering. So let's just all ignore their protestations this time around, okay?
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The world would be a lot better if more people recognized that non-violence is good and moral and just, even when you think violence will get you things you like.
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Nations are the most destructive fiction mankind has ever invented. Dividing people, and circumscribing their rights, based on imaginary lines on a map has brought nothing but suffering, and empowered dangerous ideologies. Let liberty flourish instead.
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Study of 12.7M tweets shows social media amplifies expressions of moral outrage, as users learn that such language gets rewarded with more "likes" and "shares" (Bill Hathaway/YaleNews) - Bill Hathaway / YaleNews:
Study of 12.7M tweets shows social media amplifies expression... - http://www.techmeme.com/210814/p11#a210814p11
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Anonymous hacker stole $600 million in cryptocurrency, then gave it back
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/13/tech/poly-network-hack-update/index.html
@brandon I'm on android so I can't test it, but yea if it's as twitter-y as it sounds it's probably very boring. In that case why not just stay with twitter? The privacy argument always falls on deaf ears anyway.
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