Strongly agree that we sound eliminate electronic voting machines unless the software is publicly available and audited.

My wife is a LOTE teacher (language other than English) at one if the introductory grade levels where it is mandatory and one of the biggest problems is that the kids don't want to learn. And this is in a community where the language she teaches is spoken by a significant minority of residents. She also teaches special classes to kids who speak the language at home but need instruction in literacy.

Teachers in the district have had parents tell them that they are wasting money because everyone in 'murica should speak English.

Lol, what? I've always used both Firefox and Chrome due to doing web Dev. It's a perfectly good browser. It's been my primary browser on mobile for years since Google started the creep of removing choice in how you interact with Chrome.

Haven't noticed any issues, aside from the occasional down time on world.

What about spam? Stuff completely unrelated to the community? Porn?

Certain heavily moderated subs made sense, like ask historians, where the purpose of the sub was to have actually knowledgeable responses instead of internet ass-pulling.

Final nail in the coffin of don't be evil. Next they'll require this for accessing gmail

I was thinking Janus who oversaw the beginning and end of conflict, but really they are a better god of Source Control because they preside over change.

Maybe Zeus because they constantly tested others and achieved their position through trials?

Pushed it right to my block list.

This summer is the coolest summer you'll experience in the rest of your life.

Agree that they have every right to handle their instance however they want. I also have the right to not interact with them while they are blocking the instance I call home.

True, but unsubbed from them when it happened because I don't want to see communities I can't interact with.

Why add to the problem and have frustration with wanting to discuss something you are blocked from?

Connect is working really well for me, but I prefer jerboa. Unfortunately that isn't working right now with lemmy. World being on an older version. Once they go to 18.1, I should be able to use it again.