cyanocobalamin

joined 1 year ago
[–] cyanocobalamin@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I think safe spaces should be very visually different from discussion forums.

[–] cyanocobalamin@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I agree with the title.

My problem with safe spaces on Reddit and to a less extent other web forums is a clear separation between them and discussion forums.

Reddit ( and other forums ) didn't have a way to visually and otherwise separate them from other discussion forums.

They looked just like every other sub where everyone was free to give their polite opinion.

That or you are enjoying a sub, a new crowd shows up, new mods show up, and you begin getting attacked along with everyone else who wasn't there for a safe space.

[–] cyanocobalamin@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think produce would go down in price, just that their price would seems so much more appealing over non-subsidized meat.

Yah, it will never happen.

Kind of frustrating since you can see it fitting in with the "Tax me less, don't use my tax money to subsidize someone else!" mentality.

[–] cyanocobalamin@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

At least in the U.S. taxation wouldn't be needed for animal product prices to reflect their true costs.

Just remove the large government subsidies the animal product industry enjoys and let the free market raise the prices.

I doubt it would happen.

Those subsidies exist because the Nixon administration created them after Americans complained about high food prices. It would be political suicide to remove those subsidies, especially with inflation and price gouging disguised as inflation driving up food prices.

[–] cyanocobalamin@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What is "maker space"? What is the CPP besides a C++ file? A Chinese agency?

[–] cyanocobalamin@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I never heard of Naomi Wu before.

All of the sudden, articles like this one are all over the place showing a woman with red hair in provocative outfits claiming to be a tech activist being silenced.

Would anyone care to give me a two line summary of who she is and what her deal is?

[–] cyanocobalamin@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Jack Smith seems like he knows what he is doing, but I hope that is enough time to get Trump convicted by Super Tuesday.

[–] cyanocobalamin@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

I joined Squabbles in June and liked it until the "free speech site" announcement.

I loved the lack of content ranking and downvoting so someone suggested Beehaw.

It seemed to me that the developer/admin jayclees was your basic tunnel visioned coder ignorant of news/current events. I got the feeling that he isn't politically invested. He just wanted to be left alone to code, so he changed his rules taking away the justification for messaging him. Posting on the site really slowed down. It looks like he lost many of his active users and kept his lurkers. I guess he figures it is worth the price of being left alone and that he will eventually get regular active posters again.