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Ok I see my app (I use Boost for Lemmy and it sent me a bunch of notifications) has had some notifications with regards to this, I don't have time to respond to all messages or individual comments, so all I'm going to say is: I'm doing fine, don't worry about me, I just don't feel comfortable posting under this given the situation, which I don't want to re-ignite. From what I've seen on my brief browse, there are accounts and users attempting to do the same thing I did in the news megathread and elevate it, so the information is still getting out there and that is what is most important. Hold them to a high standard, as you did to me. Lots of new developments. Love you all and stay safe.

If you're just going to misinterpret everything I say in bad faith, why even reply?

Seriously, if you have no plans to address the arguments presented why even reply.

You know what, I'm done with this bullshit. Last time I got death threats, this time no one even bothers to read the comments in good faith. Bye bye.

Now before someone misinterprets my comment, I'm not saying that women and non-binary people cannot be sexist or racist

I literally said this in the comment. You could've actually read the comment instead of misinterpreting it. This is not the first time this has happened. In the previous effort to combat misogyny, a bunch of women and non-binary people were misgendered and stated to exhibit cishet men behaviour because they posted in a certain community. Now in an effort to combat misogyny again, a bunch of women and non binary people were banned for upvoting a single comment. Not even a pattern of behaviour, a single vote. This didn't even happen during the transphobe banning spree, there it was established that it would have to be at least a couple of comment.

If you're just going to misinterpret everything I say in bad faith, why even reply?

to our efforts to reduce racism and misogyny on the site

Of the hexbear users that were banned for an upvote on the reactionary comment, four had she/her pronouns, three had they/them pronouns, three had he/him pronouns, and two had any/no pronouns. Now before someone misinterprets my comment, I'm not saying that women and non-binary people cannot be sexist or racist, I'm just saying that our renewed efforts to combat this undesirable behaviour appear to be hurting those we aim to protect. Maybe we need to re-evaluate our strategies given this reality, and the events of the past week(s). Using the same methods we used in the past to combat undesirable behaviour (in regards to voting bans) are not working and just causing more tension between the userbase and moderators/administrators.

The illegal mining syndicates (whom are heavily armed) that control the illegal mining activities already do what you have described, though their fees are much higher. So are you asking why the government doesn't just take the place of the syndicates if people are going to mine illegally anyway?

Israel levelled multiple multi storey apartment buildings in Beirut, Lebanon last night/early this morning, and the scenes are apocalyptic. No evacuation order was given for this bombing, many were sleeping in the early hours of the morning when the buildings that they were sleeping in were destroyed. Hundreds of probable casualties.

Daytime footage twitter and xcancel mirror

Night search footage twitter and xcancel mirror

Ground view of night search footage, to put the scale of destruction into perspective twitter and xcancel mirror

Just saw that, could be a massacre if a lot of people were sleeping in the levelled building... I just hope that they passed in their sleep and without pain. And that all survivors are found quickly and heal quickly from any injuries of course.

Appreciate your posts comrade, just wanted to add that this:

The hypersonic Oreshnik flying toward its target, yesterday: https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/hypersonic-Oreshnik.mp4?_=3

Is likely the Soyuz launch towards the International Space Station that took place on the same day, but in the evening and not the morning, and not the IRBM launch. I did a comment on it, and the time of day doesn't match up with the IRBM launch and impact.

Don't feel too bad about confusing the Soyuz launch for an IRBM launch, the Ukrainian air defence operators did the same, and issued an air raid warning for the entire country when the Soyuz was launched. Still cool footage though, a nice clip of a stage 2 seperation at the end.

This Milei guy is the gift that keeps on giving, every day we hear about something foolish or unintentionally humourous that this clown did. Poor workers of Argentina, having to deal with this guy's terrible economy.

So true

That introduction is too much, I can't watch the rest.

The mining stories are the stuff of nightmares. Part two, the second article linked at the bottom of the first one, describing an unofficial rescue operation, is horrifying.