Olives @olives@qoto.org

I don't know what is going on but it feels the server is under heavy load?

https://reason.com/2023/07/03/brickbat-inmate-injury/

"Warren, Michigan, police officer Matthew James Rodriguez has been charged with assault/assault and battery and public officer-willful neglect of duty, both misdemeanors. Rodriguez punched a man being booked into the jail, slammed the man's head against the floor, and shoved him into a cell. The assault was captured on video. Rodriguez was placed on leave and the department has begun the process to fire him."

"Dwyer said a 19-year-old Detroit man was being booked on suspected felony carjacking and weapons charges when the incident occurred."

Experts Exchange had a funny URL.

It was easy to read expertsexchange as "expert sex change" until they added a hyphen to better demarcate the word boundaries.

For an idea of what happens to a site which restricts access like Twitter, you only need to look at Experts Exchange (closed) which lost to StackOverflow (open).

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/02/orkney-could-leave-uk-for-norway-as-it-explores-alternative-governance Orkney islands looking to leave United Kingdom and to join Norway.

https://www.theregister.com/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/ "Facebook founder called trusting users dumb f*cks"

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/1/23781271/instagram-threads-twitter-leak-android-google-play Oh no.

For the next U.S. election, Biden would be better than Trump / DeSantis, although the Democrats really need more up and rising political figures...

For the mid-terms, the Democrats holding the Senate particularly, would be good to keep the courts in order.

For starters, abolishing first past the post would be a good idea...

I don't think this other idea of selecting random people from the population is workable for a number of reasons.

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/06/28/the-idea-to-overhaul-the-house-of-lords-that-politicians-arent-talking-about/
"The UK’s second parliamentary chamber is currently packed with life peers appointed by prime ministers, as well as more than 90 hereditary peers and dozens of bishops."
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https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/dan-kaszeta-end-blacklisting/ Ominous.

#anime

Apparently, the moderators of the blind community's subreddit are themselves blind (wow) and Reddit broke their ability to moderate.

They're leaving Reddit for Lemmy.

Thank you, Elon.