I always respond to flat earthers by linking them to hollow earthers. Let them fight it out. LOL.

Sounds like the setting for a great Assassin’s Creed game…

I’m demonstrating the problem. :)

The thing is, what is or is not a “mental illness” isn’t defined by you, or by me, it’s defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, written and published by the American Psychiatric Association.

Homosexuality USED to be defined as a mental illness in the DSM III published in 1980, it was maintained in the DSM III R in 1987, and the DSM IV in 1994 and DSM IV TR in 2000.

It was wholly removed from the DSM V in 2013, and frankly we should be ashamed it took that long.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_the_DSM

Calling it a mental illness now, in 2025, is at best “quaint”, and at worst materially and factually wrong.

In the World community, I am not shy about removing comments and banning users pushing outright propaganda, such that the Ukrainians are Nazis, Gaza is not undergoing a genocide and Chinas persecution of the Uyghurs is at best just a wacky misunderstanding and at worst Western propaganda against the wise, benevolent CCP.

But when I do that, I cite my sources.

“The public should know that Mayor Rudy Giuliani never had the opportunity to defend himself on the facts in the defamation case.”

He has stated, multiple times, that he has evidence what he says is true, but like the mysterious girlfriend in Canada, nobody has ever seen it.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GirlfriendInCanada

It’s a direct response to some communities with out of control moderation. I won’t name and shame them here, but they essentially reddit style banned and removed all content contrary to the owner’s opinions.

I think it will have larger ramifications in Politics and World, but we’ll see where it goes!

For folks who have missed the Nazi Bar reference, this should be required reading:

https://bsky.app/profile/iamragesparkle.bsky.social/post/3lbidcyu5ic2b

(glad to see he left the Nazi bar X is becoming.)

My daughter in law is Burmese and she got hassled by an elderly hispanic man mistaking her for hispanic.

He caught her speaking English and went off on her about “How dare you not speak your own language!” etc. etc. and was very apologetic once he understood that, no, Burmese nationals do not speak Spanish.

There MIGHT have been if he hadn’t won re-election. I guess we’ll never know.

If you see offensive content, as always, report it, but the default position now is to respond with “No, you’re wrong, here are the supporting documents showing how wrong you are” rather than instant ban and removal.

Discussion about it started before the meta announcement, it just took time to work out the verbiage.

Please note, this is a lemmy.world change and applies to all lemmy.world communities.

Please note, this is a lemmy.world change and as such applies to ALL lemmy.world communities.

Politics is for US Politics.You want “World”.

The problem with housing costs has less to do with inflation than it does with collusion:

https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-realpage-rent

But the fact that housing costs are outpacing inflation is kind of the big clue there. Same with food costs:

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/finance/price-of-food

Removed, not Politics. Good for News though!

Chris Smither - Happier Blue:

https://youtu.be/lxTl72XVWso#t=40s

Justice is a lady
Blind, with a scale
And a big letter-opener
She’s been readin’ my mail
I don’t know why this should shame me
But it does, somehow
I don’t care what you say
She don’t look like a lady now
I don’t care what you say
She don’t look like a lady now

You have to understand, as an environment space will kill you and everyone with you.

This isn’t like mining underground or underwater where if you screw up, you die. In space you have to do EVERYTHING right or you die.

Unless we find an asteroid of pure gold/platinum/diamond the risk/reward ratio is too damn high.