Beginning to think we need to compile a list of these nazbol freaks so people don't get confused and post accidentally.
And we were all just complaining that the weeks where decades happen went back to being decades where weeks happen!
Reminds me of that Key and Peele sketch about airline boarding groups.
"Any old, religious people with military babies."
"What's a military baby-? Oh."
The Utopian legends of Omelas inspire the whole world.
Hexbear is the Only Free Speech website.
Paid Speech is banned.
We've been working on a vetting system for moderators for a bit now, should be ready to go in January or February. Absolutely in agreement that proper vetting would have entirely prevented this situation, and we'd all be in a different thread smoking the Jimmy Carter pack right now.
How about that fatphobia thread, though? To be clear, that thread wasn't at all indicative of a universal opinion. An official "take" on how fatphobia is actually going to be handled moving forward is forthcoming, with a focus both on kindness and proven science. I think both of these things were sorely lacking in that thread, and that shouldn't have been the case. I'll cover how moderation should occur, what sorts of things are and aren't appropriate to say (and why), and reiterate that use of CW's is mandatory on the site for plenty of things including ED and weight.
The plan to politically develop the site is to encourage political education (book clubs and agitprop are great starts) and have politically consistent, non-sectarian rules across the site.
And yeah, everybody has to quit blowing up everything into struggle sessions every two weeks, what the hell‽ Really frustrating.
It's genuinely this simple.
There's a huge gulf of space between being wrong about something (not going to get you banned) and deciding to die on a hill and turning into a corncob.(can get you banned)
Pm_me_your_Foucaults spent like 2-3 hours doubling and tripling down in the mod chat after the other person left the chat room. A ton of other people tried to de-escalate or smooth things over, Foucaults absolutely was not having any of it. They never do, and they regularly seek out arguments.
If they do some self-crit (the bar is on the floor) and want to come back, they're more than welcome to do so.
Looks like Autism Spoke.
This is why trains would never work in America. These Iron Horses are simply too hungry to do the job!
Satellites, airplanes, and balloons can have flashing lights on them to indicate position, but they can also reflect light from way beyond the horizon, resulting in seemingly impossibly bright flashes. The Iridium satellites used to do this reliably and often before they were deorbited, but now OneWeb and Starlink have taken up that mantle with far greater prevalence and annoyancem
Space debris can do this too, like failed Iridium satellites, ALOS, or rocket bodies tumble throughspace and their flares are basically unpredictable.
"Last night, I was watching Star Trek: Deep Space 9—great show, by the way, tremendous show, everybody loves it. And there’s this little guy, the Ferengi, very smart, very funny, fantastic character. He’s got these ‘Rules of Acquisition’—and let me tell you, these rules? Some of them, they’re brilliant. Rule number 35: ‘Peace is good for business.’ Now, let me tell you, he’s absolutely right. Absolutely right. I told them, I said, ‘Peace is good for business, folks. It’s true, it works. Big deal.’ You know it, I know it—peace is good for business!"