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Just three American behemoths — Amazon, Microsoft, and Google…

Do it! What are you waiting for? Do it!

What’s funny, I think he signed it to boost those pilots, with a hint of “noticed by the president himself”. To show, how much he cares about them. Yet he didn’t care enough to take a second to read it.

Man, this is a high-quality joke… why am I crying?

I honestly belive that donations are like savings. For people who do then this is the first expense out of their income. People who try to do it out of what’s left after all important stuff is covered really do it, becouse we all spant “all” every month. What’s different, is the definition of “all” if you manage to hide important stuff there buy “paying yourself first” it’s much easier to cover thing you truly care about.

That’s one prime example of the “strongly worded email”.

I’m not trying to invalidate your point. I’m adding to it. It’s one more reason why this TIL don’t tell US anything useful. It nither ralible or unexpected data.

It’s not a cry for help. It’s esthetics. Man chose more violent methods, and women chose things that seems more gentle. Or medicine is much more sucesful in treating overdose than point-blank headshots.

it’s about “success” rate. Man, mostly choose more lethal form like guns, while women often choose pills. Women acctualt make most attempts than man, but are more often rescued.

I suspect in China there are cultural reason that unify the “preferred method off atempt”

“… for task that can be completed sucesfully with copy-pasting output with little to no changes”: the same not peer-reviewed MIT study published hasetly “to protect the children”.

We are better than this.

That’s exactlyn the risk with violent ones. They make it easier to paint you as extremist or unreasonable radical. The big part of the effecivness of the non-violent one is that they are more sucesful at making people deflect to the right side.

YouTube’s algorithm for some reason decided that what I want to watch the most in the world are videos of mostly white dudes citing US constitution to popice officers asking them to roll down a window during car stop. Sure, it’s fun and the checks and balanced are important. It’s not you don’t have problem with police abusing power… But where are all those people where masked guys throw people in the unmarked ICE van. Isn’t this the fight you prepared for your all live?

I’m honestly not sure about this 3.5% number anymore - there are a lot somewhat subjective qualifiers there. But the point is that the study was conducted based on protest in both democratic and authoritarian regimes. And - all over the board - the non-violent movements were noticeably more sucesful sucesful than violent one. Yes, idea that 3.5% means guaranteed success is wrong. But solution to protest being squashed ramians the same - more protests.

You baned ASBESTOS in 2024???!!! It’s not the right century.

I belive word “democracy” modyfies word “movement” here. Not the country where moment happen.

I would ask what’s wrong with BBC, but I don’t want to get into that. This study is the source study: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240678278_Why_Civil_Resistance_Works_The_Strategic_Logic_of_Nonviolent_Conflict

I think it was based on over 320 cases from 1900-2006.

Belarus is a hard case, since the meeting the goal depending on the estimates, and this varies a lot. But you could be right. The Bahraini uprising is more clear-cut exception to that rule. So fair enough.

But still the opinion that large sustained protest are ineffective is less evidence based that stance that they are effective.

No democracy movement has ever failed when it was able to mobilize at least 3.5 percent of the population to protest over a sustained period.

The answers to protest failing seems to be more protests.

I think that the point is that instances can choose thier own rules. Article is about an instance. Not about the entire platform.

I’m glad you understood me know, thank you. I adapted your approach to learning languages - speaking slow and laudly. It worked like a charm.

I like to think I would less judgmental about people attepting to communicate with me in the only language I know. Maybe approach like that is the reason work is the only place where people spent time with you ;)

You’re traversing dengerus path here. Spinning the need for “War On (I)nternal Terrorism” will be how they will finally get you all.