As a counter point, the window has shifted with some fashion. Sneakers used to be informal only, whereas they can now be a part of formal outfits too

Nice sneakers + a dress for example

I think we're always going to see an association between expensive clothing (clothing that is hard to acquire and care for) and formal events. The same way we might save a good food item for a special meal, etc

Be careful with old phone batteries if you're going to leave it somewhere plugged in for months

I don't think you need to keep the naming structure the same as Reddit, especially if you don't need to keep any official connection to the subreddit moderators and you disagree with how they ran things

If you're looking for names, perhaps "sexual assault support"? Or just "sexual assault", and ignore whatever went wrong with the subreddit

You can also link to related communities once you find ones that align with what you're trying to do. For example, !mensliberation@lemmy.ca sounds related to what you have described

They sure do use charged up language though

This is true, the title makes it sound like the assault was because the man was distributing poppies, but that is not confirmed. This other line in the article makes it sound like the poppies were not the inciting factor:

Police found him and the other boy later that day after reports of "a new, unrelated disturbance."

However, this is still a very awful thing to do, regardless of whom they assaulted.

Without actually providing much details and facts.

It's normal to not release that much information for recent incidents, especially when it involves children.

For reference, this is what the commenter is referring to. To me, it sounds like some stupid prank/tiktok thing that escalated. Since they have video of the attack, we should have more details later on:

The man, 59, is a commanding officer for the Royal Canadian Air Cadets and was supervising the distribution of Remembrance Day poppies on Sunday when two boys approached them and "blew a loud air horn directly into [the young cadets'] ears," police said in a release on Monday.

They were outside a restaurant at The Centre on Barton, near Barton and Ottawa streets, at about 1:45 p.m. on Sunday. The man followed the boys into the restaurant "to confront them about their actions," police said on Monday.

According to police, "a struggle ensued" and a woman who was not initially involved started assisting the boys and assaulted the victim, causing him to fall.

One of the boys hit the victim "several times," police said, before leaving the scene. The woman also left before police arrived.

The 12-year-old boy was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and assault level one. Police found him and the other boy later that day after reports of "a new, unrelated disturbance."

The second boy was not arrested, police say "as officers were able to see footage of the incident and determined his role/actions."

So apparently this is in reference to some twitter-specific bubble, where MAGA people were trying to make Anakin a symbol of... something

I didn't understand it myself

No problem, and looks good from my end as well!

Then this post should be taken down under this community's rule 7

I don't think he understands or cares. He is not going to be affected by made up stories about him in any significant way, but it makes it that much harder to bring truth back into politics. If you actually manage to fool one of his supporters and they find out about it, it will only make Trump's propaganda stronger. Meanwhile if you fool someone against him and they try to cite it, they'll lose credibility.

Trump deserves a lot of things but this one actively hurts people's ability to push back against him.

Just add a /s or satire tag to things. Have your fun without confusing people and muddying the waters

@kevinsbacon@lemmy.today, can you change the title to something like "TIL about the 300 member signal groups that ..."

Chatham House is an unrelated think tank with a completely separate history, and your post makes it sound like they're behind this. If I understand it correctly, the tech bros named their signal group "Chatham House" because that's what they wanted it to resemble.

This particular group chat is only notable because the author accidentally got added to it.

And it was just another day in Chatham House, a giant and raucous Signal group that forms part of the sprawling network of influential private chats that began during the fervid early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and which have fueled a new alliance of tech and the US right.

But their influence flows through X, Substack, and podcasts, and constitutes a kind of dark matter of American politics and media. The group chats aren’t always primarily a political space, but they are the single most important place in which a stunning realignment toward Donald Trump was shaped and negotiated, and an alliance between Silicon Valley and the new right formed. The group chats are “the memetic upstream of mainstream opinion,” wrote one of their key organizers, Sriram Krishnan, a former partner in the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (typically styled a16z) who is now the White House senior policy adviser for AI.

Of course, these are hardly the only power group chats. Anti-Trump liberals are now coordinating their responses on Signal. There are group chats for Black political elites and morning show producers. A vast and influential parallel set of tech conversations take place on WhatsApp. There’s a big China-friendly group over on WeChat. Elite podcasters have one.

The article is interesting and worth reading, thanks for sharing it

No, I think that was the name of one chat that the author touched on, likely named that way in reference to the rule

Hi @FiniteBanjo@feddit.online, would you mind editing this comment to point out that you are referring to African Americans? I think a chain of midunderstandings in this thread are causing people to think your comment was meant to be racist. Looking through your posting history, I don't think that was your intent.

For anyone else that is coming across this thread, here is my interpretation of what happened:

• Some users are seeing this post as it was originally intended, which is that current laws are not necessarily a good reflection of a fair/just/ethical society. Others are speaking to the idealized side, where an ideal system can slowly align the legal system to what the community sees as ethical. I think those two different views led to the argument in this thread, where multiple people were arguing against a position that the other person was not actually putting forward.
• I think BillyClark came at this post arguing for the first position, and misunderstood your comment to suggest that the current system is just (which you didn't intend). Meanwhile, I see that FiniteBanjo was engaged with users that argued against voting in this weeks midterm election (or voting third party), and I think FiniteBanjo misunderstood BillyClark's position thinking it was against voting, and thus grouped them in with "tankies"
• With these two comments in particular, BillyClark was referring to how the enslaved population in the US couldn't participate in the democratic process (and thus couldn't influence the legal system), but they used present tense ("don’t get to vote" vs "didn’t get to vote") while discussing slavery.
• When FiniteBanjo then quoted that part of the comment and linked to the Obama's, it looked like they were calling the Obama's as "Africans" (rather than the intended rebuttal of "African Americans can indeed vote"). I don't think FiniteBanjo meant it that way based on the posting history (source 1 source 2)

Hmm, I think this is an issue with the default Lemmy UI only. The API has all three post, it displays correctly on the other apps I tried, and it's federating out correctly: https://piefed.ca/c/wwater@lemmy.ca

I suspect this is because the default Lemmy UI does not render "duplicate" posts when they appear on the same page, and instead places them as "crosspost" links on the oldest post. If you go to !wwater@lemmy.ca and look the entry for your Oct 28th post, there is a "cross-posted to: wwater" note on it with a link to the missing post.

I will need to look into if this is intended behaviour or a bug. In the meantime, you can likely fix this by making each post unique. I see that wwater.ca/example redirects back to wwater.ca nicely. So you could edit the Nov 4 posts to wwater.ca/2026-11-04 and the Lemmy UI should treat it as a unique post.