Someone brough up a theory that it’s a “symbolic punishment” for a journalist:

remove the eyes so you cannot see
remove the brain so you cannot think
remove the larynx so you cannot speak (the larynx contains the vocal cords)

What is mutually exclusive, though, is reality and China’s “imminent collapse” which has been looming just around the corner for the past 20 years

the trick is of course to look for the most disliked comments. Here’s a couple

All humans are basically pure evil.

You are probably cruel and violent to vulnerable individuals more than three times a day.

Older men having sex with sexually mature teen girls is fine

DUI laws are too strict. It shouldn’t be all or nothing at .08 BAC but more severe punishments for more severe inebriation. .08 is pretty low and people who drink regularly can function fine at that level.

The Lemmy users who call themselves “Leftists” are garbage human beings

And most of them aren’t really that left. Trying to talk about abolition of police and prisons is something they would never agree to

wait, is this a roundabout way of calling yourself a garbage human being?

64 gigs of ram costs less than $200 these days

powershell has that too

stoning is a particular method of public execution, so most rock-related deaths don’t count

fact checked by real enlightened atheists: ❌FALSE❌

the US constitution specifically has a carve-out that allows using prisoners as slaves

disagreeing with a bunch of delusional tankies is not the same thing as trolling, and I think somewhere deep down you know that.

That you’ve successfully driven away 99% of people who disagree with you does not make you any more correct.

Your unwillingness to understand does not a non sequitur make.

I long wondered how he manages to identify as a libertarian despite what he spends all his time talking about, now it’s starting to make more sense lol

what is relevant is the difference exists, and is a trend that can easily be extrapolated into “blossoming democracy”, especially in the minds of the russian people.

real democracy is when all power is concentrated in one person who rules for 20+ years at a time and criticizing him is highly correlated with falling out of a window. There is absolutely no possible nuance.

the entirety of stackoverflow is not enough data to make the AI work properly. They need terabytes of text, stackoverflow has about 50-100GB of useful data at most

the point is not LGBT, the point is that it’s used as a wedge issue vs palestine

Bacon is a superfood

Raw potatoes are a superfood

Poppy seeds are a superfood

Vodka is a superfood

*because superfood is a meaningless marketing term

Time for a joke about zero Megagrams

There is an implicit threat of government censorship there, even if it is ultimately toothless. And since valve is clearly not the one interested in increasing moderation, your point about the 1st amendment “not applying to private forums” is irrelevant

if it’s the government that is doing the censoring, against the will of both the users and the private company, how does it not apply here then?