I’m really looking forward coming back to this community tomorrow, with the knowledge that many deeply unpleasant people have been banned and will not be around anymore.

The moderators of this community do an exquisite job. Rules are enforced, but with kindness. All rule breaking is treated as an honest mistake, unless proven otherwise.

Even though this thread is filled with vitriol, there is no censorship. No comments were removed by moderators. Bans are not applied retroactively.

Thanks so much for the work you do for this community! Keep it up! ❤️❤️❤️

A better way of taxing would be without a proxy. Road wear is proportional to vehicle weight and miles driven. That’s why I’m advocating for that.

Taxes are an incentive. Under my proposal being better saves money. Not buying gas lowers your tax. Driving less lowers your tax. Driving a lighter vehicle lowers your tax.

Being bad and driving a heavy, gas powered, car excessive distances becomes unaffordable. As it should.

People change a lot in their late twenties to early thirties. You may change your mind. Its better to retain your options. But you are an adult do what you want.

If you have the means, consider freezing sperm before the vasectomy. That is the best option, as it gets you the benefits of a vasectomy with none of the costs, except the monetary ones.

Big rigs are commercial vehicles. Driving is the work, not the commute. So they are wearing down the roads 8 hours a day, instead of the hour or so of a passenger car.

Long haul trucking only exists because of massive subsidies. Truck registration, tolls, and all other fees should be thousands of times higher than small cars, to be fair and equitable.

If they’re not buying gas they should not be paying gas taxes. That’s the point. Reducing gas consumption is a good thing.

I don’t sympathize anymore.

I would guess the link was to a post on the lemmyshitpost community on lemmyworld. There was a meme that mentioned this community and is now gone.

It was a meme about writing a “banger” comment and then deleting it to respect the women’s only rule. Discussion did what you would expect.

This community here at womensstuff is a women’s only place that is quite nice.

oh is it my turn now?

ahem…

please read the rules. Women’s only community.

Sorry about how you’re feeling, I do sympathize, but please share it elsewhere.

Another state actively disincentivising electric vehicle adoption by charging extra. It is an incredibly stupid policy. All else being equal, electric cars are less bad than gas cars.

Motor vehicles should be taxed based on mileage and weight. If drivers can save money on their taxes by driving a car that is less bad for the environment, that a good thing, and a sign of effective policy.

#FFFFFF @ (15,16)

no, should it?

the lowercase i makes it

Its impossible to outearn irresponsible spending

Any advise on how to get started?

…

that’s what I said but with many more words.

Both keys can be used to encrypt files that only the other key can read. When sending encrypted messages you generally encrypt with both the sender’s private key, and the recipients public key, so that the recipient can decrypt the document, but they can also know it was sent from who they expect.

You verify the public key by decrypting something encrypted by the private key.

For that, the government needs to be in the middle of the communication channel. That would take a lot more than just replacing the key on the keyserver.

I’ve not actually done this in practice. There is software that does that. The thing that will get you caught leaking sensitive information is when you have revealed something somewhere. If this newspaper publishes sensitive information you have access to, someone will see that your lemmy account was specifically asking about sending to that specific publisher.

Most journalists know how to protect sources. Some don’t. Make sure you vet whoever you are communicating with.

I would imagine they had more to go on than just the username. Its a small community, whenever someone joins for the first time the mods check their post history. I imagine they found something.

It is what the community wants. Its a comfy little space for girls to talk about girl stuff! The mods do an effective job maintaining that atmosphere.

That is not a viable attack. You can verify keys. Modern encryption is robust. A modified key would not be able to decrypt anything encrypted by the publisher. The key would be obviously fake to anyone who tried to verify it. And if the publisher found out about this, they have the means to get the word out they’re literally a news organization.

Governments are probably tracking the downloads of keys. That’s the much more reasonable threat from keyservers. If they can prove you had access to sensitive information, and downloaded the public key of the journal that published it, they’ve got you. Printing the key mitigates that risk.

I find it interesting that their objections are about the evidence used for bans, rather than claiming they were banned in error.

It’s certainly not how I would respond if I were falsely accused of bring a man.