At this point, it feels more likely than not the Middle East is going to explode.

Good. The whispers are so loud they barely even count as whispers.

Lemmy doesn't really have the traffic to support ultra-niche communities in general yet, sadly.

I'd recommend one, but I'd probably just get it wrong.

There, the obvious joke has been made.

If they can do it, they will. It's ad dollars to them, as good as any others.

Don't let them do it. Buy dumb electronics, or at least smart electronics you can use airgapped.

I'm guessing both terms are vague enough, that companies can legally just lie.

It's only a "liable untruth" if someone can prove it's not true in court.

It gets the same jokes as Mexican food usually here. Really, some people's guts just can't handle any amount of spice, and poo jokes are always a hit.

I guarantee they were fed at least in part by conspiracy theories off of Facebook, spread by pro-oil groups. The article mentions something about older, more toxic battery systems which these were confused for.

Because it's new and green, and green is for sissies!

Yep, and Trudeau has said something similar. He sees his role as protecting Canadian society for the effects of it, because he really can't do anything about what happens over there.

Please drop the hammer on us. This shit will never end otherwise.

Poilievre watches Fox News confirmed. I wish I could say I'm shocked.

Yeah, it's not a fair comparison. You can say it's a dumb ideology but at the end of the day it's close cousins with big-L Liberalism, and often has been first to the social ideas we hold dear today.

They got banned because lemmy.ml is also a communist-run instance. The mods could have taken the high road and just replied, I guess, but that would have been extraordinary patience. So, they banned the person calling them a Nazi, and I don't think that was an unreasonable choice on their part.