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Supreme Court to hear major case that could upend tax code and doom "wealth tax" proposals
  • Replace "teller" with "bank" because we are talking about legal ownership, not physical control.

    They don’t have anything but a responsibility to care for it

    While they absolutely "have a responsibility" to you, they also benefit from holding it, so your "anything but" rhetoric is incorrect. Brokers and banks alike earn money by lending the assets the have, despite their corresponding liabilities.

    Do you think there isn’t a “clear record” without direct registration (from your other comment)

    Correct. Legally, you have a "security entitlement". Per UCC 8-503, the property interest you have a result of this entitlement is merely "a pro rata property interest in all interests in that financial asset held by the securities intermediary", i.e. what your broker actually has, which is (a) opaque to you as a customer, and (b) is fundamentally difficult even for them to pin down - as it is composed primarily of their DTC account balance, ideally but they undoubtedly have many derivatives, transactions to settle (which can extend beyond 2 days because FTDs are common), shares lent out that are due to them, etc. So while the number of security entitlements in your account has a clear record, your property interest in the issuer does not have a clear record.

  • Canvas -- Lemmy's r/Place -- Happening this weekend!
  • Would users authenticate through lemmy? Any chance you could stand up a sandbox/staging canvas ahead of time to test that out? Or is it just a totally separate authentication?

  • RFK Jr.'s campaign filings show payments to a litany of Republicans and controversial activists, including some anti-vaxxers | CNN Politics
  • And doesn’t challenge the person in the room

    You keep repeating this as if that will make it true. But you literally linked to a video where he leads by clarifying that the crisis is real in response to Peterson's rhetoric.

    And yet RFK doesn’t think the most important one is actually the most important.

    You're just making this up to try to put words in his mouth. This is harmful for actually finding solutions. Again, he has described it as an "existential" problem. RFK Jr is trying to address concerns, because that's necessary when people have concerns, but you'd rather pretend other concerns don't exist as if that were a way to achieve anything.

  • New user interfaces available on lemmy.ca!
  • heh, thanks for your confidence in my abilities! We'll see....

  • RFK Jr.'s campaign filings show payments to a litany of Republicans and controversial activists, including some anti-vaxxers | CNN Politics
  • The real crisis is the possible end of humanity due to climate change, caused by humanity.

    Obviously. But you are aware that there can be multiple crises at once, and that some people may be more aware of / concerned about one than the other?

  • RFK Jr.'s campaign filings show payments to a litany of Republicans and controversial activists, including some anti-vaxxers | CNN Politics
  • No pushback? The video you linked shows him leading with the fact that global warming is real and significant. And in other videos he has expanded more on that, clearly stating that it is an existential risk.

    But in this video, he said that this (real) crisis could/would be used to further totalitarian controls. That's not denial, that's "yes and".

    As I mentioned, it's rational to defend personal individual rights while still directing the power of government to clean up the environment.

  • New user interfaces available on lemmy.ca!
  • Hey! I run a lemmy instance as well and some of our users are asking for the old interface.

    Did you deploy mlmym onto the same server as your main lemmy instance, and if so any chance you could share how you adapted your docker and nginx configs? (Assuming you initially had a setup like the one provided by the official lemmy ansible script?)

  • RFK Jr.'s campaign filings show payments to a litany of Republicans and controversial activists, including some anti-vaxxers | CNN Politics
  • If you actually listen to him talk rather than just fishing for gotchas, you'd see he points out that the government currently operates in the name of corporations - subsidies, liability protection, use of force. This is a big part of the problem in the ongoing proliferation of fossil fuel extraction and consumption. It's not as irrational as you make it out to be, to defend personal individual rights while still directing the power of government to clean up the environment.

  • RFK Jr.'s campaign filings show payments to a litany of Republicans and controversial activists, including some anti-vaxxers | CNN Politics
  • RFK Jr 2024 🙌️ 🙌️

    End the corrupt merger of state and corporate power. End the forever wars. Clean up the environment. Fund science to identify the causes of problems, not just to develop new ways to monetize treatment.

    PS. An article making a big deal over the fact that he paid vendors? Thanks CNN.

  • Ⓜ️ Instance Meta Discussion @lemmy.whynotdrs.org apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    The Apes' Guide to Lemmy

    What is Lemmy?

    Lemmy is open source software used for running individually hosted social media networks in the style of Reddit. It is built on the ActivityPub protocol, and is part of the Fediverse.

    We wrote this introduction with Apes in mind, but you may also want to check out the introduction and tutorials at join-lemmy.org located at https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/01-getting-started.html

    How is Lemmy structured and moderated compared to Reddit?

    Lemmy has Instance administrations and Community moderators

    The analog is Reddit administrators and Subreddit moderators

    Instance admins can perform all mod actions on all communities, just like Reddit admins can perform all mod actions on all subreddits

    Meanwhile, Community/Subreddit mods only moderate their community or subreddit

    What is the Fediverse?

    The Fediverse refers to a collection of social media software which all are open source, independently hosted, and can choose to interact with each other. These software are all built on the same protocol and can interact with each other and share users. When instances opt in to the broader system, they are ‘federated’.

    Tips for signing up

    When you make an account on a federated Lemmy instance like this one, you can interact with all other instances and communities which are federated. The differences between instances are up to individual instance admins, who decide who can sign up and what content is allowed on their instance along with moderation rules.

    https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/signup

    When signing up, Lemmy can freeze up if the username you are trying to register already exists or if you are using a password longer than 63 characters long. As detailed in the instance policies, limiting data collection means that no email account recovery is supported. Please ensure that you save your login information somewhere securely such as a KeePass data file. After signing up, there is a verification process which is manual. Our DRS instance admins do their best to check and approve applicants quickly.

    Have you reviewed our Instance Policies?

    See here: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/1209

    TLDR: Treat everything you submit to this instance as public. Instance admins (we) will attempt to reduce data collection as much as practicable, and will maintain open access for anyone to view posts and comments on this instance.

    Different clients you can use, and how to set them up

    Once you have your account created and approved, you can choose to browse Lemmy through an app or other client. You can find some apps here: https://join-lemmy.org/apps/

    Web

    https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org

    Android

    • Connect - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect&gl=us
    • Jerboa - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jerboa&gl=us

    iPhone

    • Voyager app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voyager-for-lemmy/id6451429762
    • Alternatively, how to install Voyager (f.k.a WefWef) as a progressive web app on iOS: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/10616
    • ...and how to add Lemmy to the iOS home screen: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/4489

    👀 Following Superstonk via Lemmy

    The lemmit.online instance replicates a number of Reddit subs to Lemmy communities through an automated bot which crossposts content. You can follow those communities through your Lemmy account no matter which instance you signed up on.

    For Superstonk specifically, just follow !Superstonk@lemmit.online

    For other subs, find the community you are interested in following, and then paste the community’s tag (listed in the community’s sidebar) into the search function on our instance. For example:

    !

    How to start a new community on this instance

    Click the Create Community option along the top. You’ll need to select the community name, the URL, and optionally can include sidebar content.

    On Lemmy, Communities are automatically moderated by the person who creates them. That user can appoint other moderators, pin stickies, and moderate content on that community. It’s very similar to how Subreddits are made and operated.

    On the lemmy.whynotdrs.org instance, we welcome all communities who wish to discuss the financial markets and surrounding topics including specific stocks, investing styles, rules and regulations, crypto and web3, and the culture around money itself.

    List of non-local communities you may want to subscribe to

    You may want to start your Lemmy journey by browsing some of the largest instances and subscribing to some of their communities. These are some of the largest general instances which cover a wide array of topics.

    • https://lemmy.ml/
    • https://lemmy.world/
    • https://beehaw.org/

    Each instance has its own user base. Your login credentials on your home instance won’t work anywhere else. If you are using the DRS instance as your home instance, how do you find and subscribe to new communities through your own instance?

    How to find new Communities to follow

    If you're coming over from Reddit, these three resources can help you find migrations for communities you may have followed on Reddit:

    • https://sub.rehab/
    • https://redditmigration.com/
    • https://www.quippd.com/writing/2023/06/15/unofficial-subreddit-migration-list-lemmy-kbin-etc.html

    For finding new communities, perhaps the easiest way to find instances and communities is to search for them on https://lemmyverse.net/ - at the top of the screen, you can filter for either instances or for communities. This will parse ALL federated instances and their associated communities, and is very robust - it will search titles, domains, and sidebars in order to help you find things you are interested in.

    Set your home instance first. At the top right of the screen, hit the house icon and search for your home instance. Here’s how you can select this DRS instance:

    !

    Once your home instance is set, you can easily navigate to communities on any instance by clicking the community name, which will be a generated link.

    !

    After that, just hit subscribe on the sidebar and you are good to go!

    !

    If necessary, you can create and share URLs which will navigate to any community on any instance from any instance following this formula.

    https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/c/games@lemmy.world

    [home instance url] [/c/] [community name] @ [hosting instance name]

    Views (New vs Active, and Subscribed vs Local) and setting your default preferences

    Okay! You have found some communities to follow - these could be on your home instance, on one of the largest and universal instances, or niche communities found through the network search at lemmyverse.

    Just like with Reddit, you have some choices to make about how you want to interact with the communities you joined. Your main choices are the types of posts to display and the communities to display them from.

    Lemmy’s own core developers explain it well here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

    Blocking Users, Communities, or Instances which you want to avoid

    Each user has the ability to block or hide content from specific users or specific communities.

    !

    In the case of users, you can block them in order to avoid seeing comments or posts which they make. Click on a user’s name on a comment or post and you’ll see the option at the top of the screen.

    !

    For communities, you can avoid ever seeing their posts on your various feeds. While navigating a community, the option to block it will appear on the right sidebar.

    Public Moderation Logs: How they work and how to search them

    Lemmy’s moderation logs for all instance administrator actions and community moderator actions are available for public review at all times - and do not require sign up to access.

    https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/modlog

    Moderation logs are collected together for all federated instances, and so can be difficult to parse in real time without searching for a specific mod. Once you type the name of an individual mod, select them from the dropdown and you can review all mod or admin actions they have taken. Posts which were removed can also be viewed and scrutinized here. There is complete transparency into moderation actions.

    • https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/modlog?page=1&modId=2 - admin account admin history
    • https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/modlog?page=1&modId=4 - Chives account admin history
    • https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/modlog?page=1&modId=487 - Bibic account admin history
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    Weekly Observations 17th July - 23rd July: What signs of collapse do you see in your region?
  • Location: suburbs of Chicago, IL

    While I usually live in NC, I am visiting family. In this particular brand of suburbia, every single day the streets are alive with the sound of gas powered lawn mowers and leaf blowers. While I watch the news drone on about petty celebrity drama, the graph breaking upward trend of ocean temperatures elicits barely a word from any news source, and people carry on paying to burn gasoline to make already short grass shorter and move the cuttings around.

  • Anti-censorship @lemmy.whynotdrs.org apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    Federal government censorship on the internet via tech companies - an update on a landmark federal lawsuit

    Hey apes! The censorship I spend most of my time bringing to light on this co is from (presumably) personally driven censorship decisions on Reddit. Today, I'm going to cover an ongoing story on censorship from the federal government itself.

    https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/07/11/historic-first-judge-blocks-biden-admins-orwellian-collusion-big-tech-suppress-free-speech/

    In case you missed the original injunction that came out two weeks ago, a Federal judge issued a temporary injunction on the Biden administration prohibiting them, in no uncertain terms, from urging/pressuring/inducing social media companies to remove/suppress content containing protected free speech.

    !

    What is particularly interesting to me is the sheer detail of this injunction - 155 pages citing examples of past actions, examples of targeted individuals, and naming dozens of specific individuals and departments in the government who are specifically being put on notice.

    While I'm not any sort of legal analyst, I think the amount of detail in this injunction sets a clear tone for the remainder of case. Basically, I take this as presumptive evidence that the government has been caught with its hands in the cookie jar and is guilty here. (Not that this is a criminal action. I'm using guilty in the vernacular sense)

    Freedom of speech is essential. Be suspicious of apparently "private" censorship on the internet. Demand accountability from your government. Demand transparency in finance. BUY, HOLD, DRS, BOOK, SHOP, COMMENT, SPREAD THE WORD.

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    Anti-censorship @lemmy.whynotdrs.org apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    Wut doin SEC? (We are an equal opportunity anti-censorship community)

    As a reminder, please limit content in this community to factual record. Please do not include commentary on presumed motivations, intentions, shillery, name-calling, etc. Thanks for keeping tensions to a minimum! (Especially with our always fair and steady-handed friend, the federal government 😬️)

    Auto-crosspost: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/22100

    Original: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/153zf5r/sec_currently_deleting_comments_on_proposal/

    A short sample of the removed comments still visible in the index:

    !

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    Anti-censorship @lemmy.whynotdrs.org apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    Arbitration of truth re: SEC bulletin

    As a reminder, please limit content in this community to factual record. Please do not include commentary on presumed motivations, intentions, shillery, name-calling, etc. Thanks for keeping tensions to a minimum!

    !

    !

    !

    Auto-crossposts:

    • https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/20551
    • https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/20434

    On-reddit discussion:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/GME/comments/1536yx9/my_post_on_booking_your_shares_got_removed_on_ss/

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    Tired of men lying about commitment
  • Another one. Don't forget "No more drilling on federal lands, period. Period, period, period.”

  • Anti-censorship @lemmy.whynotdrs.org apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    Seeking review of book/plan related bannings - > Removed (edit: then banned)

    As a reminder, due to the unfortunate risk of escalating tensions, please limit content in this community to factual record. Please do not include commentary on presumed motivations, intentions, shillery, name-calling, etc.

    Original post: https://old.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/152a2r1/the_mod_team_seriously_needs_to_look_into_all_the/

    Auto-crosspost: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/20348

    On-reddit commentary: https://www.reddit.com/r/drsgme/comments/152d1bm/a_story_in_3_pictures_sad_to_see_history_repeat/

    For context, I believe the "no meta content" mandate by RAdmins only covered content which was cross-sub or person-oriented, and not content on intra-sub moderation policy/practice, a belief which was not resolved in attempted discussion | with | mods. Nevertheless, the more expansively no-meta content rule adopted by mods is frequently used to shut down discussion of our own community's moderation policies and practices.

    Update: Banned - https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/22099

    > Due to the unfortunate risk of escalating tensions, please limit content in this community to factual record. Please do not include commentary on presumed motivations, intentions, shillery, name-calling, etc.

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    Do you ever feel melancholy..
  • I generally feel that way a lot of the time... though not as much at the supermarket, moreso when I am enjoying nature, believing so many of these species I enjoy observing will suffer a miserable and fearful extinction

  • Anti-censorship @lemmy.whynotdrs.org apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    Is a Lemmy link a subreddit? Is sharing an alternative channel brigading? Do rules mean anything? (No)

    As a reminder, please do not include commentary on presumed motivations, intentions, shillery, name-calling, etc. Thanks for keeping tensions to a minumum.

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    Anti-censorship @lemmy.whynotdrs.org apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    SS: Migrate a post you own? Believe it or not, removed. Right away. (Also ban warning)
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    Anti-censorship @lemmy.whynotdrs.org apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    SS Discord: Rule against sharing alternative communication channels
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    Anti-censorship @lemmy.whynotdrs.org apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    Pattern of Twitter bans
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    The REAL Reason Games Aren't Fun Anymore. According To NEUROSCIENCE. (And how to fix it)
  • I think games are coming out that are still just as fun. The only reason I may have less fun with gaming is because outside stress in the world makes it harder to engage as fully with the games today

  • Biden vetoes bill to overturn heavy-duty truck pollution cuts
  • Triple-negative on the headline here was pretty confusing, but having read the article:

    This veto from Biden veto supports making the emissions standards stricter/cleaner

  • Ⓜ️ Instance Meta Discussion @lemmy.whynotdrs.org apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    Support Lemmy development!

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