Nothing stopping meta from adjusting or hiding the vote count later. Hundreds of ways to fiddle with that thing, some really subtle and would not generate drama.
I’m pretty sure the current reason to remove the fact checking is so the company is not put on a collision course with government, a government that will lie so much daily it will break all records.
So, just because they can alter the community notes does not mean they will
Each technology makes humankind more enslaved to the mistakes of its ancestors.
Honestly this is very unimportant. It has no lasting impact, and will be forgotten by most later
Been divorced since forever, and with age comes wisdom. I think it would be fantastic if I had a high earning wife. Really..
25 years ago I noticed the trend in the movies in the theater, and realized the USA was becoming fascist. I was sad, but surprised later at how long it took. I rather thought it would be faster and more dramatic, and not this creeping sorry mediocrity seen later in politics
2 years until retirement
Not only are there different character sets that seem like it’s Unicode, but the set in MySQL can change based on the session, the client, the server, the db , the table and the column. All six of them can have different encodings.
Just make sure all are using the same 4 byte Unicode. Different collation is ok when backing up because only important when comparing strings.
He did steal money liberally, so there is that.
The poor are in purgatory, when a rich nice person makes a house in heaven, a family moves
There were rumors in the 1990s that she had her own stuff going on; not sure if that had any truth to it; but they were remarkably alike in their aggression and viewpoints
There is a long list of things those payment services will not do, and reliance on any of them makes a federated service a polite fiction, forcing each set of server admins to enforce and ban many things on the possibility it could shut them down .
It can only work with untraceable crypto, and even then we are back to the illegal market strategy, and why those markets are in the dark web, with most of them doing exit scams
There has been a large exit the last few months too