For users running a fully #freesoftware distribution such as #debian , #trisquel or #pureos , would you still use your CURRENT distribution if it lacked certain #accessibility features?
Boosts appreciated! #poll
The top trending tag on this instance is now #foss
At some point Zuckerberg has to be held responsible for his role in allowing his platform to be weaponized https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/mark-zuckerberg-joel-kaplan-facebook-alex-jones
a grassroots watchdog network connecting the dots between business and government
https://littlesis.org/
Looks like mapping has long been yet another case of male-centric data bias. What gets mapped or tagged?
"Sports arenas? Lots of those. Strip clubs? Cities contain multitudes. Bars? More than one could possibly comprehend.
Meanwhile, childcare centers, health clinics, abortion clinics, and specialty clinics that deal with women’s health are vastly underrepresented. In 2011, the OSM community rejected an appeal to add the “childcare” tag at all." (it was added in 2013)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-14/why-equitable-maps-are-more-accurate-and-humane
US capitalist hellscape, Vietnam
chad Vietnam vs. virgin US #1308343 -
Vietnam: "Let's use our collective labor and resources to take care of all of us."
US: WhAt'S StOpPiNg YoU FrOm BuIldiNg YoUr OwN PoWeR GrId AnD wAtEr PiPeS, LoSeR!?!?!?
(birbsite) https://twitter.com/LunaOi_VN/status/1362959465872465925?s=20
Over 100 Bills aimed at restricting voting are silently moving their way through state legislatures
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/02/politics/voting-rights-state-legislation/index.html
US capitalist hellscape, Vietnam
TFW no police to stop food being given away or shoot people or pour bleach on the food cause you don't live in a Western shithell.
Covid, Climatepocalypse, Capitalism--
Covid hospital-stay bill: $70,000. Rent in an NY apodment shoe box next to meth lab: $2000. College costs: $3200 / mo. Electricity costs: $16,752 during accelerating climatepocalyptic weather. Living the American Dream: *priceless.
(*priceless = infinity dollars)
US capitalist hellscape
$5000 energy bill in the middle of catastrophic continent-freeze. Capitalism workin' out great.
To help support open/decentralized web, we've started a sub-lemmy for TILvids! If you're interested in getting daily updates, feel free to follow along
(page is mirrored for us by @person which is greatly-appreciated!)
Chemists developed two sustainable plastic alternatives to polyethylene, derived from plants, that can be recycled with a recovery rate of more than 96%, as low-waste, environmentally friendly replacements to conventional fossil fuel-based plastics. https://academictimes.com/new-plant-based-plastics-can-be-chemically-recycled-with-near-perfect-efficiency/
Heute vor einem Jahr wurden 9 Menschen Opfer eines rassistischen Anschlags.
In einem Staat der wegschaut mit einer Polizei die nicht hilft.
#HanauWarKeinEinzelfall und rechter Terror ist kein Gerücht.
Kein Vergeben kein Vergessen!
#lemmy development update: https://lemmy.ml/post/54237
Links that debunk almost all Westen #propaganda about #china, curated by the amazing @dessalines: https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/763d8e72e0309a4ce787a47ab7edfc03b0687392/socialism_faq.md#on-mao-maoism-and-marxism-leninism-maoism-and-the-prc
He/him. Chinese born, Canadian citizen. University student studying environmental science, hobbyist programmer. Leftist (exact ideology undecided).