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Colforge
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Colforge@lemm.eeto
Technology@beehaw.org•The Senate Passed The TAKE IT DOWN Act, Threatening Free Expression and Due ProcessEnglish
1·1 year agoAgreed. However, it also appears to apply too broadly:
The letter explains that the bill’s “takedown” provision applies to a much broader category of content—potentially any images involving intimate or sexual content at all—than the narrower NCII definitions found elsewhere in the bill. The bill contains no protections against frivolous or bad-faith takedown requests. Lawful content—including satire, journalism, and political speech—could be wrongly censored.
Colforge@lemm.eeto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Does "ackshually" not mean "I know I'm being picky/pedantic/needy/wooooshed here, but technically it's..."?English
7·1 year agoYeah I can’t imagine how anyone would say this in an entirely straightforward, non-sardonic manner. Pronouncing it that way is dripping with self awareness.
Colforge@lemm.eeto
Memes@lemmy.ml•only one message for reposters: If you didn't make it, don't post your lazy regurgitated trash.English
6·1 year agoI use All all the time unless I’m looking for content on a specific topic. And yeah I block the regurgitators for sure.
I guess my previous comment was unclear. There is PLENTY of anti-trump content on my feed that is definitely not getting suppressed. I just searched “pro choice”, “vice president musk”, “antifa”, “black lives matter”, “trans rights”, “felon musk”, “trump sucks”, “trump felonies”, and “vote blue” and found plenty of results for all of them.
I’ve certainly had no dearth of anti-Trump content rolling through my feed. Sounds to me like people who don’t use TikTok are just making stuff up that fits their worldview.
Uhhh I’m using TikTok with no VPN in the US and still get plenty of anti-Trump, pro-LGBT, left-leaning content. 🤷
TikTok definitely used the news hype to signal to Donald Trump that they will work with him — by giving him “credit” for making the app available again (even though he wasn’t president yet and didn’t do anything). It’s all propaganda from both the US and China.
Colforge@lemm.eeto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Maybe we should have this conversation in person so it can be a fist fight.English
8·1 year agoThe urge is very strong but I like to do what I can to foster good relationships with my coworkers (especially my leadership) so I usually just go with “We spoke about the summary of the previous call. Frank would like to add/clarify that _______” to be generous.
Colforge@lemm.eeto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Maybe we should have this conversation in person so it can be a fist fight.English
13·1 year agoVery shady. Because they want the plausible deniability.
I just tell them I need notes to keep track of my conversations and refer back to them frequently because my autism and ADHD causes me to question myself or forget what was discussed.
Then if they wanna push it further I can take my records to HR and ask if they feel like allowing this ADA violation to continue. Doesn’t work for everyone, I know, but it works for me!
Colforge@lemm.eeto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Maybe we should have this conversation in person so it can be a fist fight.English
32·1 year agoThis is why I send a “summary” of every call as a message when we’re done. I’ve had some people call me right back and tell me to delete it. I tell them if we can’t agree on what happened on the call then it didn’t and I’ll just ignore the contents of the call.
They’re just butthurt that they’re not being allowed to spew their hot takes all over this community as a captive audience that isn’t interested.
Colforge@lemm.eeto
Memes@lemmy.ml•"Get fu-diddly-ucked" has stuck with me for 16 years nowEnglish
18·3 years agoBet.
Triple my salary would be my minimum requirement to offset the additional freedom and lack of commute that I’d have to give up. I’d be spending less time with my family and I won’t give that up for anything less than triple my current pay.
Colforge@lemm.eeto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some notable scams in history that went unnoticed for so long?English
132·3 years agoThere’s a church across the street from my home in a small rural town in Oklahoma. It sits completely empty except for about 90 minutes from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM when about 6 cars pull up into the parking lot and maybe 15 people saunter in for Sunday service after ringing a loud bell announcing to the whole neighborhood. None of these attendees live in the neighborhood I might add.
There are literally dozens of other churches just like it throughout the town. It blows my mind that a religion that claims to be about spreading the love of their savior and saving as many people as possible from literal damnation would let a resource like that go unused. They could have volunteers there every day of the week helping to improve the community and help people in need but they couldn’t care less.
Colforge@lemm.eeto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Lemmy users who struggle with depression, what need is unfulfilled in your life? What could be done practically to change your situation?English
2·3 years agoIt really is. So many times I have mentioned how great therapy has been for me and how glad I am that I found the right one for me, only to have people tell me they never would’ve taken me for someone who needed one. I always reply that it’s my firm belief that even the healthiest of mentalities can benefit from good therapy.
Colforge@lemm.eeto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Lemmy users who struggle with depression, what need is unfulfilled in your life? What could be done practically to change your situation?English
2·3 years agoSometimes I have a hard time coming to terms with the fact that if I never had depression I would be a fundamentally different person, and there are good qualities of mine that I don’t believe I would have acquired without that exact factor in my life. Like yes I would prefer an existence free of the pain depression has put me through but that person would not be me. Living with depression is a fact of my life. There’s a lot of help out there and I have benefited greatly from it but it will to some extent always be an ongoing process.
Colforge@lemm.eeto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Lemmy users who struggle with depression, what need is unfulfilled in your life? What could be done practically to change your situation?
4·3 years agoIt’s so hard to find friends after a big move. I moved to another state in 2021 and still haven’t made any friends other than people my wife was already friends with. Although I still struggled with depression even when I had a big friend group. Affordable mental health support has done the most for me. Having the opportunity to talk to an amazing therapist every week for more than a year has done absolute wonders for my outlook.
That said, I still live with depression. I’m on a medication that helps me have fewer of my worse days and more of my better ones but that doesn’t always work and it’s only a supplement to regular effective therapy itself.
Can confirm our roads suck. Source: Live in Choctaw County.
Colforge@lemm.eeto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What is the difference between 'Instance' and 'Community'?
9·3 years agoBrowsing All shows posts from all communities that have previously been interacted with by a user from your own instance. So if someone from Lemmy.fmhy.ml subscribes to an obscure community on some other instance, that community is added to your All view, but it wouldn’t show up before then.


It also says this same letter has been going out to users days after their contracts expired, regardless of whether any updates had been installed and even if the user had migrated to another service.