woe is me, a news source that wants to remain independent of outside interests is taking steps to avoid having to get funded by big businesses or the government who'll want to set an agenda...
I'd be more concerned about reading something free and not ad-supported (and like it or not, untargeted ads are next to worthless), as the money has to be coming from somewhere
Sponsored by DPD?
For real though unless it's both a simple and already recognisable symbol, or doesn't belong on a state or national flag...
There's of course allowances for local culture and history, eg. standards vs flags in Britain & Ireland - Wales is the only one to use their standard rather than flag though, first nations flags being more complex, traditional chinese flags + bhutan having more complex symbols, but taking a complex symbol and reducing it down to something oversimplified breaks both the rules of the symbols being recognisable and of the symbols being conceptually simple - it'd be better to just put a detailed rose, otherwise it just looks like a corporate logo: all you'd be missing is some royalty free corporate nothing music as the national anthem
This is a press release and not a news article though, it's absolutely not their job or place to say what people in other states or countries should do, they don't have any jurisdiction or official knowledge of processes or proceedings outside of their state
Of all the theories to pick, that one seems a bit lacking as the reason the US is so religious is that all the religious fanatics moved there when Europe were moving away from that sort of stuff
Yes, but for human related reasons. Humans moved them around a lot in Africa and Asia - moving them from Southeast Asia to India and Madagascar is bound to have an impact on the currents they get caught up in.
It's only whataboutism if you avoid answering. I gave examples of other times where self-imposed rules were blatantly broken while those who broke the rules claimed no wrongdoing.
You're actually the one using whataboutisms as you're calling out similar communities as problematic without actually addressing the near-identical issues with Hexbear (additionally many of those communities have rules against direct links, unlike those on Hexbear).
Additionally, the reason there's no proof Hexbear users are behind brigading is because they're defederated at the moment - Hexbear users can't vote on other instances, hence me saying it'll be an issue when they re-enable federation. Going back a few months, I have seen a large number of posts with sensible debate being downvoted and a disproportionate number of comments from Hexbear users, checked "The Dunk Tank" (slop's predecessor) and sure enough there's a post linking directly to it.
And the US doesn't torture prisoners. And Russia didn't invade Ukraine. And nothing happened in China on 4th June 1989...
The rules are completely unenforced, and also generally don't apply for actions against people on other instances. Take a look at slop as the biggest example where they link to other instances and swathes of Hexbear users go brigade that post without even taking the time to factcheck, and look around at their other communities and you'll find plenty of similar ones.
Hexbear is a tankie instance that celebrates & encourages doxing, trolling & personal attacks and has large communities dedicated to brigading.
They disabled federation due to technical issues regarding domain registration but are planning on re-enabling it once it's fixed
I think the different instances help with that, as it encourages at least some interaction outside of your direct bubble...
That said when Hexbear re-enable federation I very much doubt "open discourse" or "actual conversation" will be the results
No, 1-12 are influenced by the old base 12 Germanic/Norse system, which is why -teen starts at thirteen, same as in German (11: elf, 12: zwölf, 13: dreizehn, 14: vierzehn & so on)... The -teen for 1x in english is also a carryover from this, being threeten, fourten, fiveten etc. with only numbers over 20 having their orders reversed - German has something similar with "und" only appearing in numbers over 20. English did historically too, eg. "four and twenty blackbirds".
Base 20 was historically used for large numbers though, eg "four score and seven years" by Abraham Lincoln, which was a poetic way of saying 87 inspired from Psalms 90:10, which says "The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away." in the King James Version, which reflects that using base 20 for large numbers (and not just 80) was not uncommon in the 17th century.
Of course there wasn't really much to do outside of the farming season though, so I bet those 150 work days were something like 20h long during lambing, ploughing, sewing and harvest seasons
On the /s, I somewhat unironically agree with that more than the case of just obtaining citizenship