Buelldozer

Because too many mods are power tripping assholes and I say that as someone whose been a mod in various corners of the Internet since at least 2000.

The best mods, and admins, are nearly invisible and as close to drama free as possible.

Renewables, not including nuclear, overtook coal in 2022.

They are!

That is fake news spread by right-wingers.

Guess I’ll have to start fact checking on Mastadon.

No, they didn’t.

They threatened UK-based Twitter users

“We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you,” Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told Sky News.

That’s the direct quote and it is what I am reacting to.

Welcome to the globalized economy, if you want to trade in the UK, you are subject to the UK’s laws.

You sure you want to play this game? You, as the symbolic UK, aren’t exactly coming with the best of hands.

Oh Man, what an embarrassing place for a spelling mistake! Oh well, I’m going to own it and move on. :)

If you’re claiming the head UK police officer said he’d kidnap people off the street of a foreign country like the fuckong CIA you’ve made a mistake.

“We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you,” Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told Sky News.

Probably from reading too much crap on twitter

Fuck Xitter, I been on it maybe 4 times in the past decade.

I wish I could upvote your comment more than once. It’s just not possible to regulate a Social Media platform such that it complies with the cultural norms and speech laws of every country in the world while allowing the free flow of ideas and comments.

Over the weekend…

Oh, you mean after the official UK Xitter account was banned because the Police Commissioner displayed zero understanding of their laws boundaries and managed to completely embarrass themselves and their national government by threatening extra-judicial extradition?

I don’t like Elon but fuck that noise. We fought a whole fucking war to not be subject to the UKs laws and I have yet to find an expiration date on the Deceleration of Independence.

I think these MP’s are dining on a fresh bowl of sour grapes.

Yes and no. Here’s the version that’s on Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippine-military-condemns-china-air-force-dangerous-acts-south-china-sea-2024-08-10/

Put them up side by side and note the differences, starting with the headline and continuing through the body of the article.

Reuters may have written it for the Bangkok Post but there are clearly differences in the tone and word choices that change the slant.

This is the kind of thing that MBFC and things like Ground News are meant to call out.

Sure. My comment wasn’t meant to display any kind of superiority just to inform.

MBFC is very clear that they are evaluating from an American Centrist perspective. If it bothers you that much just ignore the “bias” part, the factual part is still very useful…unless you inhabit a world of alternate facts.

You Americans are so warped.

Like a piece of old pine.

Click through and read the full report on those fact check fails. I get that you like The Guardian but ignoring their factual fails just means your are blinding yourself.

MBFC is clear that they are evaluating from an American Centrist perspective. Ignore the “bias” rating and just look at the factual rating.

I’ve already read several comments just like that over on .ml.

It would help if they’d stop failing fact checks by using unreliable sources. If you click the MBFC link and then scroll down to the “failed fact checks” section you’ll find several references (including sourcing) to this.

There’s no way that works.

!remindme 1 week

MBFC is pretty clear with how they rank “Bias” and I’d say they’re bang on with NBC news. They’re also pretty clear with how they rank factuality and again I’d say they have it correct with NBC News.

It’s also pretty clear that many Lemmings struggle with the concept that bias and factuality are different things. NBC has a slight left bias but is still factual. They rank Fox News as having an “extreme” Right Bias and they rank them “mixed” factuality.

You just never see that because no one on Lemmy uses Fox as a source and if they try their post goes nowhere.

Literally every news site is left center according to them

Lemmy has a real, by U.S. standards, left tilt so the majority of the articles posted are going to use sources that fit that. Additionally anything posted from the few right wingers that Lemmy does have aren’t going to get much traction and you will likely never see them.

You’re asking if the site is “useless” but failing to ask the more important question of “Why is all of my information coming from places that have the same perspective?”

MBFC is discreetly showing how much of an echo chamber Lemmy can be.

I’ve been around a minute and the police radios have undergone steady technological shifts just like everything else. What started as straight analogue radio with some special channels started moving to digital by the mid-90s, by the mid '00s digital had frequency hopping and by the mid '10s the latest versions of police radios got encryption by default as it became so easy to do and the radio manufacturers added it to serve multiple markets.

Every step in the evolution broke the previous gen radio scanners but that wasn’t the point, the point was to get better audio quality, more channels, reduce radio interference, add the bandwidth that the MDTs needed, and finally to secure the comms of the MDTs.

Without encryption anything going through the MDT can be “read” and you’d expose the full details of personal data to everyone in signal range for every single traffic stop. Name, Address, DL #…all of it. On top of that the way that many of these systems work is that the radio the officer is talking to when they get out and walk around is actually being relayed through their car so the same system that allows the MDT to work is also being used for voice.

DO the police try and hide their comms? Absolutely they do but that isn’t why their radios have encryption. In fact the first sentence of the article contradicts the headline when it talks about both Aurora and Denver getting encryption before 2020, which is when the article claims this started.