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   Randahl Fink (randahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 22:00:21 JST Randahl Fink

   I sometimes hear people say, they do not believe Russia is losing up to 1000 soldiers per day. I believe it, for I have seen hundreds of videos about how to uneducated soldiers of Russia fight.

   In a recent video from the Ukrainian 47th Mechanized Brigade, a squad of Russian soldiers have been ordered to advance. But because of the dangers of mines, in all their wisdom they ride on top of their their armored vehicle over completely flat terrain, allowing Ukraine to see them from a mile away.
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   Yohan Yukiya Seseㆍ사요한・謝雪矢 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2024 12:00:35 JST Yohan Yukiya Seseㆍ사요한・謝雪矢

   @BlueBee

   For us admins & moderators, we occasionally see the comments reported. It's actually hard to decide because:
   1. You have to understand the context. To do that, you have to read the entire thread and follow the flow of conversation.

   2. The cited reasons the comment was reported was often not accurate, and was only out of an emotional response, or just because they disagree with the person.

   3. You have to check each post. Often, people goes into a rampage and finds every single post and comment from other threads (even unrelated ones), in an attempt to permanently ban the person they disagree with.

   4. Both parties are doing the exact same thing they are accusing each other of.

   5. You need to be as balanced as possible. Otherwise, one camp will accuse you of this and that because you only took action on them but not the other.

   6. We are also humans, with our own opinions. It's a challenge to separate our personal stand on things.

   7. If we want to make a post and clarify things, we just can't. Or, rather, we avoid it, because it will just be misunderstood, and we'll more likely bring both camps down on us. 😅 Imagine a pacifier or reasonable person intervening in a fight, the people they're trying to stop punches the neutral party together, and forget their own fight.

   In gaming, we call it #ChatWar. They intentionally push a person to say nasty things so they can report them. Once the target falls for the trap, they mass report that person. Of course, the other camp is doing the same, and you have mass reports from both camps.

   It's a #PITA.

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   Paris Marx (parismarx@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 00:54:37 JST Paris Marx

   Silicon Valley billionaires are drawing a line: you’re either a techno-optimist who won’t question them or an enemy they’re ready to fight.

   In his new manifesto, Marc Andreessen embraces faith and fascism to distract from the harms the tech industry has caused and justify the power and wealth of the tech elite. It shows why a renewed Luddite movement is absolutely necessary.

   https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-religion-of-techno-optimism

   #tech #fascism #future #politics