This also only works if both the violent and non-violent groups have matching demands. In a case where the violent group has demands that pertain specifically or mostly to their own group, then they can be separately appeased by those in power which leaves the non-violent group without any leverage and they can thus be cracked down on.

This is what happened to a lot of Native American tribes in the past 200 years. Given two different tribes in the same geographical region, one violent and the other non-violent, the violent tribe got some concessions like official reservation land in a better area in exchange for peace, while the non-violent tribe often got nothing except brutal genocide. This is more true in the American Midwest and West coast—the Eastern tribes often got nothing at all for either approach.

I think this is the closest to my experience. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I’ve been writing and expressing my opinions online for so long that I can “stream of consciousness” whatever I’m currently thinking into text

I wish there was more sarcasm, too much of the serious posting isn’t actually a joke!

True. I’ve noticed this especially when it comes to any feminist content or just vaguely women-centric opinions. In particular, this is probably due to the comparatively and relatively small number of women on Lemmy

I failed an internal phishing test one time, the first time I’ve been on the receiving end of the tests instead of the one making it up and sending it out

Anyway, I was still new at the company so I wasn’t sure of all the usual domains and processes they have. During an all-hands meeting, the CEO mentioned that we will be receiving our bonuses soon and to make sure to adjust your settings if you want to avoid it all going into your 401k or something. A week later, I get an email saying that I need to adjust my payroll settings for the upcoming bonus. Turns out, it was a phishing test. Jokes on me, the real email to adjust those settings came 4 months later.

I second Common Side Effects, great series

Why shoot her?

To kill her

You forgot to include someone calling OP a tankie

The Shinkansen network in Japan was infamously extremely expensive and during its construction, many Japanese hated it and doubted it would ever amount to much. Today, it is held up as the best public transit system ever created.

Here in Seattle, the Link Light Rail system is also extremely expensive, though this is due to many factors, notably the fact that between the time the project got started and initially set its funding goals, the Covid pandemic happened and massive inflation, both in currency and in raw materials. However, the lines that are finished are extremely nice. The Link system is shaping up to be some of the best in the entire US, and the biggest and most important section hasn’t even opened yet: the world’s first rail line to travel across a floating bridge. Once the bridge section is complete, it will connect the two separate systems on the west and east sides of Lake Washington into one system and allow fast, efficient transit from the east side into downtown Seattle.

Anyway, my point is that just because a system is expensive, doesn’t mean it’s bad. I think you’re just furthering car-centric propaganda and reinforcing the belief that public transit is expensive and therefore bad

Of course I do. Mostly because I avoid communities that I know will be toxic as hell and full of chuds

This seems to be the opposite experience for many who have expressed that they don’t check—they feel entitled to be present and post in every space regardless of any context

Yeah! If women want their own space they should sequester themselves into a backroom with no advertising and an onerous sign-up process requiring an ID check that no one ever sees or hears about but somehow all women will know it exists because they have a psychic sense for those kinds of things

I’m sure Google literally doesn’t care, as long as a more effective compression algorithm is used. That’s why they made it an open standard, use whatever you want but don’t demonize .webp unnecessarily

They made it because better image compression means less storage is required for images. Even if it’s a small upgrade, over trillions of images or exabytes of data saved translates into millions of dollars saved. This is the same thing for the delta format as another example

By making .webp an open standard, more people will use it, thus more space savings will be had by default