> They go quiet or form a tiny invite only groups to hide after an attempt to do something good that backfired because their skin is the wrong colour or they aren’t trans.
It really sounds like they accidentally offended someone, the person who was offended was so much so that they couldn't communicate why they were offended, and then your friends misinterpreted the issue.
That's an odd reading of what they described. It sounds more like there friends did something good in the world but were told to sit-down and shut-up because they were the wrong race/gender/x.
That seems like a pretty ignorant thing to say, that in the sum of all human interactions online, the event OP described has never happened (or is even supposedly that rare). I would like to know why you think that would be true.
It certainly exists and I truly envy the fact it hasn’t affected your life yet. n=1 but it’s affected mine as a recent college graduate and person who works in FAANG.
There's a good example of just this thing happening right here[0]. A group of young climate activists disbanded because despite the good work they were doing they decided their group was too top-loaded with white people and should be led by POC.
I thought one of the really important rules of using format strings was that you never let user input itself enter the format string, e.g. you'd never (shellscript examples) go printf "$input" versus printf "%s" "$input". But security experts are shrugging this off? This is a basic bug that went into production on an OS that millions of people use - any lack of care should be a reputation hit.
4chan might've cracked down on the racism, like, a decade ago, in the moot era. Have you been there lately? /pol/ took over and basically homogenized every board.
If 4chan cracked down on racism they did the worst job I could possibly imagine. You can’t even go to the fit or tv boards without running into literal, unapologetic, white supremacist views.
8chan if I recall formed because 4chan did away with /pol/ way way back for being too toxic to the rest of the site (it's meant to contain the scum, not breed it). 4chan eventually re-added /pol/, and 8chan, well, you know the rest there.
I was genuinely surprised to learn this in high school (for me, 2017-2021 or so) - not because it's not a notable event in US history but because I was surprised my history teacher was allowed to teach it.
High school teachers are not given free reign to teach whatever they want. Even college professors are currently being threatened. See all of the rules being written about "CRT" being disallowed in curricula (not that the authors of these rules even understand what CRT is) or the mandatory ideological surveys of college professors in Florida.
We (the US) are currently in a debate about banning the teaching of “critical race theory” in schools.
Many history text textbooks downplay slavery to such an extent that most high-school graduates think the Civil War was about “states rights” when it was really about several states committing treason in defense of slavery.
The genocide and ongoing mistreatment of Native Peoples is barely covered.
In some states, teachers are required to sign documents saying they don’t support the BDS (boycott, divest, sanction) movement against Israel.
Telling teachers what they are allowed to teach doesn't really go against free speech. I can talk about how I think the earth is flat for as long as I want, but if I start teaching that to students I'm going to get fired (hopefully).
Provide evidence. In Washington State the genocide of Native Americans and Black slavery was the topic from elementary through high school. I can't remember a single year either subject wasn't explored, critiqued and analyzed.
1: Only 8% of students understand that slavery was the cause of the Civil War.
2: Here is a book that destroys the myth of the Alamo, and points out that the white people in Texas went to war twice to keep the institution of slavery.
3: There are lots results for problems with the way native history is taught in the US. I grabbed an interesting read as an example. As further evidence, until a few years ago, the Washington NFL team used a racist slur as its name
Interesting. I've lost a lot of weight (at my lightest in years) since 2020-01-01, when my New Years' Resolution was to do 16:8 IF. Eventually left the subreddit for it because it seemed like it was goading people into forming eating disorders (which are often competetive, which is why you won't get numbers in this comment) though I kept on it until school re-started in September when I started cheating a little.
IF was probably not what caused me to lose weight. What caused me to lose weight was the mindfulness of my food intake that I developed while intermittently fasting. I significantly cut my caloric intake while remaining moderately physically active and am in much better shape for it (athletic I am not but I am fortunate to be able to walk 3-4hrs a day to and from work and additionally whenever I need groceries etc).
I wouldn't recommend IF to anyone because it can develop into an eating disorder and you are never in as much control as you think. After browsing that subreddit I doubt the odds of dieting successfully (as in, losing weight while maintaining health) are very good.
Obligatory: I am not a nutritionist, dietician, or professionally anywhere close to the health field.
According to the associated Wikipedia article, the officer pictured is UC Davis police officer Lt. John Pike, and according to the Reddit comments the picture may have been taken down because UC Davis police officer Lt. John Pike's name was in the post title.
Yes, it is the UC Davis student protest incident [2011].
According to Google's cache and Reddit's stale search cache, the submitted title was "Officer John Pike pepper spraying peaceful protesters at the University of California Davis", which linked to the URI "https://i.redd.it/nz021m4fex571.jpg" (the same photo you've linked).
"Hey everyone! We've restored this image and post. The removal was done in error. Neither the image, nor the name of the officer involved are against our content policies.
We're sorry for any confusion caused for users or moderators, but we greatly appreciate the moderators handling of this while we looked into what was happening."
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ffmpeg as a service seems neat... ffmpeg itself isn't super intuitive and beefier files heat my laptop up pretty bad. The only issues would be the usual ones regarding figuring out load distribution between servers, figuring out how to process DMCAs so as to make Disney and others' leeches happy, figuring out how to process requests to snipe illegal content, etc. (issues are plenty, but surmountable).
Bonus points for a FOSS self-hostable site. The thing that keeps me from using other sites is the awful and proprietary JS/etc there. If I have a laptop that can't run ffmpeg very well why am I expected to be able to run Chrome with more than 4GB RAM?
Many of those are hotlinked to WayBack Machine backups of this page. 88x31s are still in use on the better parts of the web, particularly hobbyist neocities pages. I made two myself on the root of my site. There's a certain creativity necessary to work within <3000px that's mostly gone from the corporatized web today.
They're both distributed. The fact that anyone _can_ archive anything forever reasonably excludes the assumption that it's not, accessibility/curation notwithstanding.
It really sounds like they accidentally offended someone, the person who was offended was so much so that they couldn't communicate why they were offended, and then your friends misinterpreted the issue.