correct. this move by Florida is terrifying

I’ve been under huge amounts of stress and have been mismanaged, but it never turned me into a grabass bully.

systemic issues like this don’t just come from nowhere. likewise, they didn’t just appear, either. nor will they simply disappear now that they’ve been exposed or with some glib promise to “do better”.

workplace atmospheres like this take time to develop and… fester. From what Madison described, it’s been this what from, at least, the time she started, which means these behaviors, these patterns, were existing, likely for some time.

What Linus knew, when, etc. may important in a civil case, but it’s not to me— He failed at his job, and didn’t ask for help/hire help to fix the problems until faaaar too late. If it was this bad for Madison, it had to be at least as bad if not worse for others before her who simply did not (or could not) speak out, as well as other who are still there.

Systemic issues do not affect only one person, and they don’t appear out of nowhere. Expect more bad news and expect that any resolution/fixes will take time and major change. If you don’t see any major changes over a reasonable amount of time, don’t trust claims that they’re “working on it."

counterpoint: please do.

one doesn’t have to go far to find posts of them comment-bombing in groups, trolling en-masse and generally being rude and abusive to other users. there’s a reason many other users are calling for defederation.

it’s not a matter of their politics or beliefs. there’s just a high percentage of very rude people from that instance who enjoy trolling posts and which seems to have little or no moderation.

the CEO is also a homophobic bigot and covid denier

didn’t Parler have something like this, then their entire DB got hacked handed over to the FBI just after jan 6th, complete with hundreds of videos of the traitors committing crimes that they upload themselves? since Parler didn’t strip any metadata from uploaded media, the feds were able to use it all as evidence and use everyone’s IDs to tie it all to them.

I bet they arrested hundreds of people this way and used tons more of it at the various trials

because you are sane

Germany=Nazi joke

not funny

Alito: “Regulate us, I dare you!”

Congressional Dems: “Hold our beers..."

religion, it comes from people.

hidden truth

ignoring them won't make them go away because they'll just up the stakes-- that's exactly what Carleson is doing after he got fired. the only way to beat fascism is with united strength, and there are more of us than there are of them. the problem is that we've become complacent, and too many of us have come to believe we're doing all we can or that our efforts won't be enough-- and that's wrong.

The Alt-Right Playbook: The Cost of Doing Business

about that...

SEC Charges Former BlackRock Portfolio Manager with Undisclosed Conflict of Interest

SEC Charges BlackRock Fund Advisors With Causing ETF to Violate the Investment Company Act

BlackRock Charged With Removing Whistleblower Incentives in Separation Agreements

Americans are ‘unwittingly funding’ blacklisted Chinese companies, Congressional panel says

I think this is more of an official acknowledgment and them exploring how it works, not so much “breaking news” for those of us in the know. I’d imagine most people are probably unaware of this.

Why does he still look like he's in prep school?

There's a painting of a 90-year-old Dachau camp guard aging in his attic, I just know it.

“Hawley typically cites Big Tech, Hollywood and academia as the unholy trinity of elites that has laid masculinity to waste..."

well, Hawley and his ilk, are on to something, although not quite what they think. Mass media, and more recently the internet, has brought about the democratization of media, culture, and knowledge, of discourse and interaction, for the masses. No longer controlled by the ruling elites, the masses can use and come to understand and to organize in ways that shift the old power dynamic, and now those in power on the right see the people - and, especially, their means of empowerment - as a threat.

So, it's not that straight, cis, white men (or even masculinity itself) that are under attack per se, it's the current power dynamic that progressive movements seek to change. its dominance by straight, cis, white men is, academically speaking, just a coincidence. When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.

it's the pattern buffer. Neelix tries to touch it in some very early episode, and Tuvok intimates that doing so might kill him in some terrible way. it's not unusual to see technicians fiddling with it while in the background of scenes.

yeah, but progressives and liberals and all other "crazies and normal people" aren’t the ones committing mass shootings all the time.

Jesus was a Jew.

say this to some christians and watch their brains melt.