Communities in Wales affected by the miners’ strike in the 1980s received much-needed support from the former Soviet Union

No, from the Soviet Union, it wouldn’t be “former” until 7 more years

…fake disorders?

I’m from France. Getting a rifle is pretty easy, you “just” have to get a psych evaluation and a shooting club registration / hunting license. But that gets you long, manual weapons with small magazines. You can keep the gun if your license expires.

Then you can get a stronger license if your shooting club vets for you. This allows you to get handguns and semi auto rifles.

Any auto gun or explosive is basically only authorized for use for the military.

Oh and anything that can be used as a weapon is prohibited from being carried around in public spaces (yes, it is that vague), and protective equipment is subject to authorization as well (gas masks, bulletproof vests etc)

You can read more on Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_France

Edit: Wikipedia does not seem to explain it, but A class weapons are basically military only. B class is what you get through shooting club vetting. C class is for anyone registered by a club / hunting license. D is adults only, with exceptions for criminals etc

My existence is not a political statement.

They’ve not fallen in perception to those whose medical opinion matters

Medias are only hosted by the instance from which the poster is, specifically for this reason. So if someone spreads CSAM on another instance into yours, the only mirrored content is textual but not the offending material

Magnitude of force of a 40yo vs. a teen makes the self defense acceptable imo

Why ask 💀

Yes and it is being thoroughly investigated, as it should be. But so far nothing has been found, so sensationalism is only detrimental as:

• it takes away focus from materials that have actually been found to be harmful
• puts public pressure on researchers, and if they don’t find something quick it might be the end of the whole field, and then they might have difficulties funding research on future polymers
• builds up anxiety about something we can’t do anything about (the plastics are there and they’re here to stay for a while)

Stop the fear mongering

You’re confusing professor X with Magneto

Acshually the social contract isn’t a thing because I didn’t get to review and sign it

Bruh

Oh no doubt about that. And I really hope other apps do catch up, having one “best app” isn’t super healthy

That’s exactly it

This is the nerdiest comment I’ve ever read, I love it

Not open source, payment if you don’t want ads. Valid criticisms, but it’s still the best app UX wise, by far, so the blame is not on the users, it’s on open source projects to do better

troll bots

Lemmy really is becoming reddit lmao, are these bots in the room with us right now?

You’re not paying for the API, you’re paying for the dev time.

Beyond comedy lmao

That’s true but then it’s a story about companies being deceitful and not Le Evil China creating a confusing mark to trick people