I also want to receive stuff for free.

Who doesn’t want to join a co-op and receive shares of the company for free. Almost no one wants to start a co-op, financing it, taking risks and responsibilities only to give shares away for free and gain nothing in exchange.

Yes, statistically.

Realistically, I suspect a lot of those statistics is organized crime. Criminals killing criminals, so not something most people need to be afraid of when walking on the street. But I have no evidence for that.

Although statistically, it should be males being afraid to walk home at night.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1388777/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-gender/

A U.S. official, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, estimated the cost to operate a C-17 military transport aircraft is $28,500 per hour.

Or instead of making up fake officials, you could google “Fixed Wings and Helicopter Reimbursement Rates 2025”, look up C-17A and see that the hourly rate is $19,862.

That actually doesn’t work. Most large email providers will put you into the spam folder unless you are a well known server. Microsoft doesn’t even bother with that and outright throws the emails away entirely. Plus, most ISPs block sending emails from residential IPs and cloud providers block sending them from cloud.

nullification as a right

Neither does US recognize it as a right. No matter whether you believe jury nullification is a perversion of justice or irreplaceable bulwark against tyranny, it’s origin can’t be disputed. Jury nullification is not a right that was ever recognized explicitly, but an unintended side-effect of other rights (right to jury trial and jury verdicts being final).

What the fuck. How did journalism get this utterly fucked?

Experts point to a phenomenon called jury nullification, which occurs when a jury votes to acquit a defendant even though they may believe they committed a crime.

No, there is no “may”! It is jury nullification only when the jury believes the defendant committed a crime. There is no “may” about it.

Fucking so afraid to actually write something they will insert this uncertain language everywhere to the point it doesn’t even make sense.

What is the point in reading your article, when even you don’t seem to believe what you are writing is correct?!

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Considering iflscience also got reading the order completely wrong, I feel the issue is with your education system in general.

By suggesting there’s no value in trying to get people off of platforms pushing government propaganda, you’re essentially saying that there’s no point convincing people not to voluntarily be lied to.

You are right that there is value to get people off of social media completely. But I am not convincing enough to make people do that.

As for Lemmy, while it is perhaps better, it is still full of misinformation and propaganda. I guess at least it is not just Government approved propaganda. I just don’t feel motivated to try and help for that level of difference. I have little experience with other fediverse platforms.

I prefer to spend my energy on making people care about their privacy and pushing people to Signal, etc.

First of all, I made that comment because I find it distasteful and minimizing towards racism to suggest that I should react the same way or with same intensity to racism and someone using Facebook. My apologies if that is not what you meant, but it is what it sounds like to me.

Second of all, what is the value proposition here? I spend the time and effort, teach them how federation works, how to use it so that at best their propaganda can be more varied?

Gifting a subscription to Groud news or some such would be fraction of the effort with better effect.

Again making weird assumptions.

You cannot find information properly on those websites, American or Chinese, and if you were a critical thinker, you wouldn’t use them.

I don’t use any social media besides Lemmy when I get bored. Getting important information from any social media including fediverse is dumb, that is why I call it entertainment.

Also, if someone says “racism should not be tolerated,” do you tell them that you’re not going to dictate what other people’s beliefs are too?

And here goes the patented, “you disagree with me so you must be racist” argument.

Or maybe both are unreasonable and neither should be tolerated

Yeah, I am not going to go dictate what other peoples entertainment choices are tolerated. Excuse me from that.

you should be working (like I do all the time) to get them over to the Fediverse.

Putting aside your incorrect assumption I don’t bring people I know over when it is appropriate. Why exactly should I do that? Are you under the impression there isn’t any propaganda on Lemmy and the wider feddiverse?

My time would be better spent getting people educated on how to think critically and find information properly.

It’s still obviously better to use privacy preserving and/or federated services, but that’s not something most people know about or understand.

It is perfectly reasonable for people to not know about niche options and understand complex technologies like federated networks. Different people have different interests. I am sure the two of us are making decisions that seem stupid to other people daily, whether choosing bad toothpaste, unrepaiarable washing machines, agreeing to predatory TOS or whatever else. Everyone can’t be expert on everything.

So the choice most people see is use another Chinese app or use the other large social media, which are basically all US based. And between those two options, the Chinese apps are not that unreasonable.

What are you even talking about?

I am not saying it is ok. I am saying it is not a factor when choosing between Chinese and US based social media.

As if the other socials did not feed you propaganda.

For most people, the personal consequences of China being able to spy on them are nonexistent. The government that can actually abuse such power against them, e.g. prosecute them for out of state abortions, is the US.

So protesting the US banning an app and trying to force people to use their own spyware social media makes some level of sense.

It’s still obviously better to use privacy preserving and/or federated services, but that’s not something most people know about or understand.

I have to tell you what calories are, because it sounds so incredibly unhinged.

Calorie is a physical unit of energy. For food, calories are measured by removing all water from the food, turning it into powder, enclosing it in a metal container, submerging said container in water, measuring the temperature of the water, then setting the food on fire, which causes it to explode, and measuring the temperature of the water again.

The explosion warms up the water a bit. By measuring how much it warmed up, you can calculate how much energy the food released when it exploded and that is the foods calories.

So calories basically tell you how explosive a food is.

What does that have to do with anything? Who knows.

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