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[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

They do vote on thousands of these per year and often rely heavily on the advice of their team (as in their own policy advisor and staff, not the Democrats) so it may have just been a bad call.

Im not from the US but I wouldn't throw out AOC over one bad vote. If I was her constituent I'd definitely call/email her to let her know how I felt about this issue and that it was an enormous letdown though. Gotta advocate.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Ah my bad, I was going from memory. Thanks for the correction.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Evidence: trust me bro

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

Call me a pessimist but while there's oil in the gulf and the US relies on it for their 'national security', I'm pretty sure "prosecuted" is the one thing that Israel won't be.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

Its a solid meme, captain - but the Le Forge template was right there.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"He's hurting the wrong people 😫"

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How my brain distinguishes them:

apt-get when you want full verbose output

apt when you want to feel fancy with progress bars and colours

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Ehh.. Bit early to be forgiving ourselves when most people haven't even admitted there's a problem.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (6 children)
[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Your own source goes on to say Labradors are over-represented because they're the most popular breed in the UK and the report count is a flat count of incidents, not a breakdown per 10,000 dogs for instance. They also are rarely serious bites so I'm not sure what point you're making. The issue with dogs bred as fighting breeds is that they're much more likely to cause catastrophic injury - that's the whole problem. Nobody cares much if a Dachshund nips someone that stole its bone, they care if a dog mauls their toddler to death - which happens with far too much regularity, and is usually one of just a handful of uncommon dog breeds. Not Labradors, Dachshunds, or Chihuahuas. Pit Bulls and Doberman.

https://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-multi-year-fatality-report-2005-2017.php

 

Hi all.

First, thanks for reading. I'm not exactly sure if this is the correct location to raise a concern about a ban/deletion, but I guess it's as good as any.

So:

  1. I dont know which mod it was. Log is redacted?
  2. post deleted & banned from the News@Lemmy.world community
  3. screenshot of modlog attached
  4. screenshot of comment attached.
  5. It was an appreciated post with 106 upvotes 26 downvotes at deletion and several positive responses yesterday. When I came back today (I'm in Australia so timezones..) the comment was deleted and I was banned - and several negative comments have appeared which I would have liked to respond to.

Original post: a news article about Proton Mail.

My post: Essentially I took the time to read the article and included the quotes of what was written by the CEO that was being discussed in the article - as many in the comments had surprised me by jumping straight to him being a literal Nazi. As not a single other commenter had included the quotes to discuss the source, I thought that would be a valuable contribution. I also gave my opinions which you can see in the comment on the modlog, the formatting is messed up so I included a screenshot of the (recreated) comment. https://lemmy.world/modlog/1347

What I didn't notice was that the article writer had omitted the first part of the Twitter post from the CEO in her quotation of him - so I quoted her, and in doing so missed the context that the CEO had actually started "Great pick by @realDonaldTrump" at the start - which does of course change the context of his Twitter post to praise. This was clarified for me in the angry responses. I would have edited my comment and owned my mistake, however stood by the rest of the comment regarding Proton's official follow-up.

So, is that deletion and ban fair?

Update 10 hours later: contacted a mod directly to see if i can find out more about the ban or perhaps get it remedied.

Update 48 hours later: contacted the entire mod team, and got back feedback from several of them - all helpful. My post has now been undeleted, and my account unbanned from the News community 👍

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