Lowbird

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Feral in c/humor@beehaw.org
[–] Lowbird@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago

Raccoons have hands. Close enough!

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Students Face Criminal Charges for Pro-Palestine College Newspaper Parody (theintercept.com)
 

Title says it all, really.

Following the investigation, local prosecutors brought charges against two students for theft of advertising services. The little-known statute appears to only exist in Illinois and California, where it was originally passed to prevent the Ku Klux Klan from distributing recruitment materials in newspapers. The statute makes it illegal to insert an “unauthorized advertisement in a newspaper or periodical.” The students, both of whom are Black, now face up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine.

“I have never seen anyone charged with theft of advertising,” said Elaine Odeh, a lawyer who formerly supervised public defenders in Cook County, Illinois, which includes Evanston, where Northwestern is based.

I ask anyone who stands against the ongoing crackdown on the free speech of anti-genocide protestors, or against the disproportionate criminalization of Black people and their speech, or for the freedom of the press and the freedom to parody, to consider signing this student-led change.org petition.

'Quite evident': Young Americans support genocide charges against Israel in c/politics@beehaw.org
[–] Lowbird@beehaw.org 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for your continued efforts

'This could be the holy grail to replace palm oil' - research team in c/environment@beehaw.org
[–] Lowbird@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

We'll see if their claims pan out, but the taste of palm oil vs other oils was never the point, anyways. It may not matter if it tastes different.

Whole Foods argues it can ban BLM masks because the Supreme Court let a Christian business owner refuse same-sex couples in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[–] Lowbird@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

This feels very similar to me to businesses freaking out and trying to prevent their employees from wearing rainbow flag or pronoun pins. Or rainbow masks, for that matter.

I think employee uniform requirements should be just enough to make employees identifiable so they can do their jobs (e.g. answer customer questions about where the lettuce is or whatever). Just a mandatory hat or shirt is enough to do that. Beyond that, they're humans. Let them be fucking humans.

Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off in c/technology@lemmy.ml
[–] Lowbird@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

It's like they looked at Wizards of the Coast's fuck-up with the D&D license and decided to copy it. What the hell?

Reddit Activity Plummeted After The Protests - by Adam Bumas in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
[–] Lowbird@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder how many people, like me, ended up drastically reducing their social media use altogether, at long last. I still pop in here now and again, but I'm not spending anything like the amount of time I spent on reddit.

'Eco-friendly' straws contain potentially toxic chemicals – posing a threat to people and wildlife. in c/environment@beehaw.org
[–] Lowbird@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"No straws at all are better" makes sense until you remember they are vitally important for a lot of disabled or elderly people with mobility/coordination issues. Some people need straws, or they can't drink independently, or can't drink without spilling, and the current normalization and availability of straws means that they can use what is for them an accessibility device without anyone questioning it.

And straws are hardly an issue compared to most other things.

Anyway yeah, agreed that "this supposedly eco friendly thing is actually eco hostile, therefore we shouldn't try for eco friendly" is a nonsense take.

ANNOUNCEMENT: defederating effective immediately from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works in c/support@beehaw.org
[–] Lowbird@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I wish we could federate our own user accounts on unrelated instances with each other, separate from the instance federation? So beehaw and lemmy.world can be unfederated, but if I have an account on beehaw and another account on lemmy.world, then I can connect those two accounts so that I can see the posts from both accounts in each one? Is something like this possible?

That way individual users wouldn't be so inconvenienced, but beehaw would still be isolated from lemmy.world's unrestricted signups/different culture in the same way.