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I did assume you were a News mod by mistake, so sorry about that.

My overall point though is just that News seems to be inconsistently applying a rule which isn’t even really specified anywhere, and it would be nice if it was either clarified as a rule that any substack is banned, or not having substack alone as a grounds for removal, so that in the future anyone who posts an article from a reliable source that happens to use substack can’t just have it and any conversations arbitrarily removed.

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The anarchist library is pretty good if you’re interested in anarchist theory.

The FAQ is a great starting point, I’d recommend jumping around though, it’s easier to get specific answers than reading straight through imo.

The librarian picks would also probably be a good place to look, one of the recommendations there is Emma Goldman who is great.

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https://www.crowdsupply.com/protocentral/healthypi-move

This is a project I’ve been interested in for a bit. It looks like it will have a pretty good feature set out of the box, and with everything about it being open source I’m sure there will be an API for it at some point too. The price is a bit on the expensive side but is honestly pretty comparable to most current gen smartwatches tbh.

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I think the backpain part is true, according to people who know him it was a surfing accident. His reddit account also talks about chronic pain and complications from that, like brainfog.

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Yeah, I used past tense in my comment but the US is still doing a ton of unethical shit (both in Cuba and elsewhere), a lot of which I’m sure we don’t hear about.

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I actually kinda feel that someone like Bernie may have had enough youth appeal to have a somewhat organic version of that happen. During the 2016 primaries, a decent amount of memes and online talk were spawned by him/his campaign.

Definitely agree that delivery is extremely important though, campaigning on helping workers while appearing elite and out of touch just makes people consider you a liar or to be looking down at people.

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I think it’s also the fact that there tends to be a ton of specific labels for different leftist subgroups too, stuff like anarcho-mutualism is similar but not the same as syndicalism, or blanket libertarian socialism, etc. That and the fact that most people will self identify as one of the moderate labels like conservative or centrist or liberal, and do so in spite of their beliefs, not because of them. People who reflect enough on their ideas and desired policies will tend to be a bit more consistent about them and the labels they use to describe them.

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I’ve been using the PineBud Pros for a while now and have liked them a lot. They’ve lasted longer than the airpod pros I had beforehand and the noise cancellation isn’t perfectly silent or anything but it’s definitely good enough for what I want noise cancellation for. They don’t have wireless charging out of the box but there is technically a community project that adds it if you have the skill set to take them apart and modify the case/PCB, but that’s obviously a lot of work lol. They also sell individual replacement earbuds and the case if one breaks which is a plus. Pine64 is a pretty cool company too, all of their stuff is pretty community driven and sold with very little markup, and since it all runs open source firmware they’ll keep getting updates for a long time most likely (not really applicable to the earbuds unless you manually update them, but still).

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That’s not the community I posted it to, I posted it to News, since I know it’s US specific and I don’t want to flood world news with USA stuff since that’s already way too common online.

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I get that, but I’m saying on lemmy.world/c/news there is a post by a moderator of another news community on your instance which is from a substack blog (another independent journalist, so I actually like the article being posted, I’m just mentioning it as an example). Obviously the rules differ between communities, but if a very similar community is fine with something, and so is the mod, and so are your mod team since you left it up for almost a day by now, then it seems odd to have that rule at all. And like I mentioned earlier, there is also a post from Ken Klippenstein’s substack that was posted a day ago now, and that one was also fine. I get that moderators can miss things, but this wasn’t a small post, and given it was on a subject you guys have been extremely aggressive (to put it lightly) in moderating, it seems likely that you guys saw it and made a decision that it was fine.

Like I said, I get why random blogs are banned, the point of a news community should be posting factual information from reliable sources. But you need to check each source anyway, at least the first time you see a specific URL, and since this substack page is only by Klippenstein, and has a very recognizable url, it shouldn’t be any more effort to moderate than any other news website. If all substack pages followed the url scheme of blogname.substack.com or something I’d get it more, since then it’s less of an independent page, but that’s not how it works.

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