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Good on you for being principled. I experience the same sort of feeling, and I’ve tried to just redirect that need for content into other media.

Don’t be too complacent, of course. I’ve seen people on the Fediverse turn feral and Reddit-esque during discussions of particular culture war issues. It’s not completely peachy here all the time; there are some subjects about which some people can’t help losing their composure.

I’m done with that place.

I am not sure how this relates at all to the “justice system”, however. Are private organizations only allowed to part ways with an employee because they committed crimes? This is not really about “guilt” that can be proven or disproven in a court case, and there are already mechanisms in place for people to be compensated if they can show that they were unfairly treated or if contracts were violated.

It wasn’t a fully formed proposal, honestly. You make a very good point.

Freakin’ scabs.

Alternative take: Piracy is, at worst, morally neutral, and does not have a significant adverse effect on the profits of the people who produce media.

Calm down.

I wish companies would stop with subscription models.

It’s so cute!

If Reddit had been any indication, the debate around Roiland’s culpability seems to polarize around the idea that since the charges were dropped he evidently must not have been guilty, and the idea that even though the charges were dropped, we have, through sheer coincidence, just now decided that his various past behaviors warrant immediate cancellation anyway (and that he’s totally guilty no matter what, either way).

I feel like the justice system needs to evolve in a way that protects people against social ostracism of this sort, should they turn out innocent. Even if Roiland himself is truly guilty, the fact that we live in a system where someone else who is innocent could feasibly end up in similar circumstances is unacceptable in a society as connected as ours.

This is your world on late-stage capitalism.

I think they make a good point, regardless.

I missed it! What did it say?!

I missed it! What did it say?!

If Reddit moderators only removed content for the sake of keeping things on topic, people wouldn’t hate the place so much. There’s a reason the mods over there are so universally maligned, and it’s not because they’re beacons of rationality and objective reasoning.

My God, even with an adblocker, this website it cancerous. Here’s the full text:

The satire of 1964’s “Dr. Strangelove” may become a terrifying global reality by 2024, a coalition of scientists desperately warn.

Over 100 medical journals are simultaneously sounding the alarm that the potential for world-ending nuclear conflict is “great and growing” amidst states like Russia dangerously stockpiling their doomsday payloads.

“A large-scale nuclear war between the US and Russia could kill 200 million people or more in the near term and potentially cause a global ‘nuclear winter’ that could kill 5–6 billion people, threatening the survival of humanity,” they wrote in unison.

“Any use of nuclear weapons would be catastrophic for humanity. Even a ‘limited’ nuclear war involving only 250 of the 13,000 nuclear weapons in the world could kill 120 million people outright and cause global climate disruption leading to a nuclear famine, putting 2 billion people at risk.”

The red alert follows January’s frightening moving up of the Doomsday Clock — now 90 seconds to midnight — in what the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists called “the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been.”

This time last year, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres also said we are in “a time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War.”

Now, the medical journals have opted to intervene in the geopolitical crisis because the threat is now considered to be “an urgent public health priority and fundamental steps must also be taken to address the root cause of the problem — by abolishing nuclear weapons.”

The journals also stressed that the intervention of medical science during the 1980s — under the leadership of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War — “helped to end the cold war arms race by educating policymakers and the public on both sides of the Iron Curtain about the medical consequences of nuclear war.”

“The danger is great and growing. The nuclear-armed states must eliminate their nuclear arsenals before they eliminate us.”

The current crisis at hand most stems from Russia’s ongoing invasion and subsequent war with Ukraine, according to the Bulletin.

“Worst of all, Russia’s thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons remind the world that escalation of the conflict — by accident, intention, or miscalculation — is a terrible risk,” the organization warned in January.

But recently, these threats are becoming much more concrete.

Former Russian President and Vladimir Putin placeholder Dmitry Medvedev, now the deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, recently said “the apocalypse isn’t just possible but quite likely,” according to the Associated Press.

The pointed comments come as Russia has moved short-range nuclear weapons into Ukraine’s neighboring nation Belarus. NATO has yet to confirm the validity of the maneuver.

“We must take up this challenge again as an urgent priority, working with renewed energy to reduce the risks of nuclear war and to eliminate nuclear weapons,” the medical journals wrote.

My notification links look like this. I’m not sure what to say about reproducing it, other than just getting a reply to your comment.

That’s not great, but I don’t think it would be utterly terrible.

Rare Texas W.