While I’m not informed enough to comment on the wider discussion, I find it weird that the article kept listing more and more Americans in the list of opinions being ignored. The article weakened its case by not stopping after the first sentence

Not the opposition of the Chagossian people, evicted by Britain in the 1960s, the majority of whom have made it clear they do not want the islands to fall into Mauritian hands. Not America’s ambassador to the UK, Warren Stephens, who understatedly warned that surrendering the strategically important territory was not the “ideal outcome”. Not the opinion of US senators that No 10’s legal case for secession was “nonsense” fuelled by “a misguided anti-western agenda”. Nor the considered view of the former secretary of state Mike Pompeo, who told this paper that the deal’s potential to ­strengthen Chinese influence in the region meant it was “one of the dumbest geostrategic mistakes”.

Another thing you can try is force refreshing the page. On a lot of browsers, you can do that by hitting the refresh button while holding down the shift key

It won’t fix everything, but I think it would be very helpful if platforms would add

• a toggle for pagination instead of infinite scroll
• disabling autoplay

Thank you for editing the title with updated information :)

You might be able to download the game (or even play online), if it’s considered “abandonware”

For anyone unfamiliar with him

The host of the show is Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon who developed an affinity for alternative medicine.[1] Throughout its run, various episodes and segment features have been vastly criticized for a lack of scientific credibility about the medical claims on the show. A 2014 study concluded that less than half the claims made on The Dr. Oz Show were backed by “some” evidence, and that fell to a third when the threshold was raised to “believable” evidence.[2] The website Science-Based Medicine goes even further, claiming: "No other show on television can top The Dr. Oz Show for the sheer magnitude of bad health advice it consistently offers, all while giving everything a veneer of credibility

On January 4, 2010, Oz endorsed spacing out childhood vaccines, a common anti-vaccine trope based on the false premise that the immune systems of children are incapable of responding to multiple vaccines at once, and said that his children had not been vaccinated against H1N1.[4] He also expressed suggestions that MMR vaccination may be linked to autism, infamously based on a fraudulent paper by Andrew Wakefield. However, in 2019, Oz endorsed MMR vaccination and encouraged his viewers to vaccinate themselves and their children against mumps, measles, and rubella.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_claims_on_The_Dr._Oz_Show

Do you have any custom CSS / theme enabled, or a browser extension that might be blocking the icon?

I don’t see any restrictions on your account, and I’m fairly certain that it’s not possible to block downvotes like that. Nonetheless I’ll pass this along to the rest of the team to check if anyone knows anything.

We can take action if someone is abusing the downvotes (ex. Following someone around and down voting everything they post), but we do that by banning the account. Those actions will be listed in the modlog. See here: https://piefed.ca/modlog?mod_action=&suspect_user_name=Ofiuco%40piefed.ca&communities=&user_name=&submit=Search

Looking at our dashboard, I don’t see any unusual voting activity on your account that would justify admin action.

I find it odd, but a lot of newer users on Reddit go with the default suggested username and those follow the word-word-0000 template.

At the same time, it might be better for privacy to do that since it’s less likely that someone can track you across platforms if you use the generator built into each platform.

Makes sense :)

I was actually planning to promote the community around, I can include a note about you looking for more moderators?

I was impressed by the size of the Australian team during the opening ceremony 😄 From what I hear, a number of Australians visit Canada during the ski / snowboard season. I figured that’s where the popularity for those sports comes from in an otherwise warm country?

Downvotes should be enabled, what are you seeing on your client?

@Zagorath@aussie.zone, would you be able to unpin these posts and pin the opening ceremony one?

Looks great!

If you end up pinning any related communities in the sidebar, there is also !ehbuddyhoser@sh.itjust.works

While I’m not from a tornado prone region, I don’t think that’s a tornado.

It might even be an edited image that’s been compressed many times? The grey thing seems to cut into the top of the building in some areas. As if they took a photo of a closed waffle house and edited it to look scary for the joke. Or something on the window/foreground

Or it is indeed a very scary cloud and I’m glad I don’t have to deal with that regularly

I remember seeing a caption to this image like

Taking photos at the club after becoming friends with some strangers

The original article: https://guessingheadlights.com/trump-and-xi-agree-on-one-thing-canada-shouldnt-be-building-cars/

Welcome! :)

The government definitely could have been the ones to take the lead on this. Reading the article, it seems like the solution is for Canadians to get on the platform and show that we’re here

Lamrock said that most of X’s value comes from the days when it was Twitter and the fact that many governments are still on the platform from those days.

The City of Fredericton recently stopped suing X, but spokesperson Marley McLellan said the decision was made after a survey that showed residents were using X less and less to find information about city services.

“The city looks forward to continuing to share information and connect with residents on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, the website and through newsletters,” McLellan wrote in an email.

Are people really getting government updates through LinkedIn?

I had to double-check what Deflock was for:

DeFlock’s mission is simple: to shine a light on the widespread use of ALPR technology, raise awareness about the threats it poses to personal privacy and civil liberties, and empower the public to take action.

This app makes it easy to view and report AI powered surveillance cameras, automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), and other surveillance infrastructure near you.

Sharing information about where cameras are located is terrorism now?

🙄

Retailers don’t have any control over the weather, but a backlog in goods shipped to the island has left many wondering what improvements can be made to existing services.

The article doesn’t mention any, but what ideas are usually suggested? Is this a matter of building up more production on the island?

To be fair, someone else did post about it last week and they had rules about that.

I love having new people here, but I also don’t want newcomers to feel spammed. Nor give Reddit any justification for going back to auto removing any discussion of Reddit alternatives.