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Feel like we should be able to keep on building high rises till its the most affordable type of housing and do it mix with shops on at street level while we are at it with a few floors of office.

"Mega City One. 800 million people living in the ruin of the old world and the mega structures of the new one."

"You know what Mega City One is, Dredd? It's a fucking meat grinder. People go in one end. And meat comes out the other..."

"We appreciate China's support for Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty, and we had a very substantive and pragmatic conversation."

How has China supported Ukraine's territorial integrity? They've been supplying Russia with war material since the invasion started.

In an official Chinese summary of their meeting, Wang said China was "willing to provide new humanitarian assistance to Ukraine" but made no mention of any invitation to visit Kyiv.

China is interested in establishing a foothold in Ukraine, with its own equipment and security personnel.

"We are willing to maintain communication with Ukraine and work with the international community to play a constructive role in achieving an early political solution to the crisis," Wang added.

How very gracious and noncommittal.

China has close economic and security ties to Russia and has refused to join international sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.

No kidding.

I actually get the feeling that the US stock market is being turned into a pump-and-dump scheme, not piecemeal but entire.

So... there's a practical difference between rendering markup, which is handled by the browser engine and generally benign, and running executable script, which is frequently malicious.

Allowing your website to load JavaScript means that I'm allowing you to execute arbitrary code on my hardware. Hopefully the potential blast radius of any malicious code is limited by safety precautions in my web browser, but a web browser is not a security barrier and should not be relied on to protect the local system from malicious code downloaded from the Internet. The most pernicious and seemingly unavoidable behavior of JavaScript on most websites is device fingerprinting, and to get a better understanding of how much of a problem that is check out https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

The simplest step to prevent a lot of this malicious behavior is to block executable script. This is not really a new thing on the Internet, as extensions like NoScript have been around for 2 decades and have millions of users. This should be anticipated by the web developer as a completely normal use case.

Competent web developers understand that they have privacy-conscious users who block external executable script as a matter of course. Your website(s) should be designed to account for this, and should at least render and display information in a readable way without needing to execute your un-vetted code on the user's system. Maybe some dynamic functions of the website don't work, but that's OK as long as the majority of the site is accessible. A JavaScript-dependent website is no better than a Flash-dependent website, in terms of security, privacy, and professionalism.

NoScript frames this as a consent issue, and that's probably valid:

NoScript enables consensual browsing: your browser, your choice!

Oh I understand the word, it just seems like a lot of syllables.

estadounidenses

people actually use this in conversation?

I vote we put them all on the island and leave them there by themselves, no one else in or out.

You are the product of 4 billion years of ancestors who fucked.

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C-C-C-Combo Breaker!

I think I saw a 2...

Enforced toxic positivity is unhealthy, yes.

It's not the cause, it's a symptom of a larger problem.

What would I need an "out" for?

A good forum design will only get you so far, the rest is up to the moderators. If you let bad actors in, it doesn’t matter how you designed your forum, they will poison the well and drive other people out.

Yes, well, the problem with hexbear was that it started with bad actors. As they made their true colors apparent to the lemmy community at large, they were increasingly defederated.

The best communities I’ve been in are in independent old-style forums. One of them is Tildes. Most of these don’t feature downvotes (or upvotes for that matter) and are honestly the better places to have discussions IMO.

Oh yes, my past experience is in old web forums as well. Those communities were more isolated though, they essentially existed inside their own bubbles. Unregistered users could read them, but not participate in any functional way, and typically the people that found them were looking for a community like that on purpose.

I've also experienced such communities becoming toxic due to the actions of individual moderators or admins, post voting not required.

Ultimately I think I agree this far - if you're going to disable voting you should do all of it. Removing only the downvoting is the YouTube path, the authoritarian path, the toxic positivity path.

I wouldn’t imply that the unhealthyness of hexbear is due to the disabled downvoting though, and I’m sure you aren’t either, but just to be clear.

No, I'm implying the reverse: disabling downvoting is a symptom of the unhealthy mentality of the people running that server. Disabling downvoting appeals to authoritarians - that is, the type of people who are interested in silencing dissent (QED).