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The partnership, announced in October 2025, integrates Ring’s Community Requests feature directly into Flock’s law-enforcement platforms, FlockOS and Flock Nova, allowing police departments to request Ring camera footage through Ring’s Neighbors app.

Ring Community Requests feature

Community Requests

What is Community Requests?

Community Requests is a privacy-protected service that enables public safety agencies to put out public requests for help and efficiently and securely collect and manage digital evidence. Public safety agencies can post a request in the Neighbors feed asking community members within a specific area to share Ring video footage or information that may help their investigation. Videos customers choose to share in response to Community Requests go directly to Axon Evidence, a secure evidence management system where they can be verified for authenticity and integrity. This also creates a complete audit trail of how and when public safety agencies collect information.

Participation is always voluntary, and public safety agencies can only see what you choose to share.

The owner chooses what to share in response to a request. Just like IRL when the police knock on an owner’s door to request information.

https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/ring-cameras-join-flock-and-amazon?r=1t17zr

Did OP know the form to create/edit posts has a field named URL?

Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday

I totally misread that & thought what a beast.

Usernames removed to prevent brigading

What is this gatekeeping nonsense? We live in the free world. I don’t want that reddit “anti-brigading” crap here.

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problem?

seems like you’re drawing on a guilt by association fallacy

Is there anyone out there who hates Ben Shapiro and the temperamental cranks who act like their subjective appeals to emotion & outrage have anywhere as much merit as valid, objective arguments that take actual effort? The latter is tiresome, and they absolutely deserve Ben’s catchphrase: everyone should be appropriating it to nobler causes than Ben’s to annoy him & criticize those irrational twerps.

Science is knowledge discovered through the scientific process. Knowledge isn’t belief.

Viral infections are cured by eradicating them entirely or to undetectable levels. “Humanity is a virus” is not a condemnation of overpopulation but of humanity. Genocide would be inadequate to “cure” the planet of a “human infection”: only speciescide would suffice.

Lemmy has an odd fixation on ecofascism when that’s not implied. No form of government is suggested with the eradication of all humanity, only the absence of any. Any anti-anthropocentrism such as ecocentrism or a morality generalized beyond human welfare is capable of accounting for such thought.

People here tend to fixate on their pet theories that scapegoat capitalism for everything including that humanity’s drain on ecological resources exceeds Earth’s rate of regeneration without acknowledging that their alternatives don’t address the problem, either.

Although governments are far more able than individuals and firms acting singly to take action to protect the environment, they often fail to do so. The centrally planned economies of Eastern Europe, where governments controlled production, had a particularly poor record on pollution control. Per capita mortality from air pollution in Eastern Europe (outside the EU) and China remains high relative to the EU and North America.

In particular, the Soviet economy—with constitutional guarantees to continuously improve living standards & steadily grow productive forces—caused disproportionately worse ecological damage than the US’s. All economic systems have the same capacity to degrade the environment & deplete stocks of natural resources. Without adequate policies to protect the environment, improving & maintaining living standards with the continuous economic growth necessary to do that threatens the environment.

Moreover, human activity before capitalism has led to extinctions of megafauna, plants, & animals dependent on those plants. The quaternary megafauna extinction was likely driven by overhunting by humans. Those extinctions & increased fires coinciding with the arrival of humanity to Australia transformed the ecosystem from mixed rainforest to drier landscapes. Aboriginal landscape burning

may have caused the extinction of some fire-sensitive species of plants and animals dependent upon infrequently burnt habitats

More recently, they killed off the elephant bird likely due to major environmental alterations & overconsumption of their eggs.

As long as people prioritize anthropocentric concerns without considering the environment, I find it an expedient starting point to remind them that exterminating all of humanity will end humanity’s concerns, too, while saving the planet from them. It’s a rhetorical move to stimulate more practical discussion. Around here, though, they never seem to get past that starting point, but instead protract in their useless debates over economic/political systems.

Haters like to hate. Not much sense to rustle one’s jimmies over it.

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Isn’t this a case for hormone replacement therapy? I thought physicians recommend it nowadays.

That’s a whole lot of inaccessible text stuffed in an image where a link would have made sense for everybody.

It’s social media, so of course they’re wanking/rubbing. Don’t kink-shame. 😄

Cool strawman. Liberalism was the original leftism (see the French revolutionary National Assembly), and modern liberalism is leftist.

The many varieties of liberalism share a core liberal philosophy of morally absolute concepts:

• universal individual rights & liberties
• consent of the governed (governments exist for the people who have a right to change & replace them, & authority is legitimate only when it protects those liberties)
• political & legal equality.

To reject general liberalism, you’d have to reject that morally all individuals are categorically equal with the same universal individual rights & liberties, or that they should have political & legal equality, or that authority ought to protect those universal individual liberties & that people ought to be able to change & replace their government. It’s difficult to imagine any sensible person disagreeing with these humble ideas. If you do, then please call out your specific objection.

So, what does it mean you set “leftists apart from liberals”? You’re claiming leftists are illiberal. An illiberal leftist by definition must reject general liberalism: they think people are fundamentally unequal, or they aren’t entitled to political & legal equality, or authority ought to be able to abuse universal individual liberties, or people shouldn’t be able to change & replace their government. This is flat out immoral & contradictory: instead of eliminating social hierarchies, it asserts a hierarchy of uncontrolled government power/authority to abuse individual liberties ought to be permitted. Such uncontrolled authority is necessary for left-wing authoritarianism.

So, no, by claiming authority should have limits to prohibit the abuse of universal rights & liberties that individuals inherently have, liberalism sets a firm moral boundary that illiberals willingly violate. Only adherents to a deluded philosophy would convince themselves that authorizing government abuses is somehow morally superior. Leftists don’t claim morality by rejecting it, only by building on it, and that means accepting general liberalism: leftists can & should be liberal.

Having values to stand for despite inconvenience requires at least knowing them. If they’re not consistent & coherent, then you haven’t figured them out. By rejecting the entire philosophy of liberalism & the humanism & Enlightenment ideals that underpin it yet still claiming morality, I doubt you’ve figured anything out.

Western powers declared war shortly after the invasion of Poland.

Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, with a secret protocol establishing Soviet and German spheres of influence across Eastern Europe

Under the Secret Additional Protocol of 23 August 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to partition Poland; Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Bessarabia were allotted to the Soviet sphere, while Lithuania – apart from the Vilnius region, whose “interests” were recognized – lay in the German sphere (Lithuania – including the Vilnius region, but excluding a strip of land – was only transferred to the Soviet sphere by the 28 September 1939 Boundary and Friendship Treaty)

A week after signing the pact, on 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. On 17 September, one day after a Soviet–Japanese ceasefire came into effect after the Battles of Khalkhin Gol, and one day after the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union approved the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Stalin, stating concern for ethnic Ukrainians and Belarusians in Poland, ordered the Soviet invasion of Poland.

Germany unilaterally terminated the pact at 03:15 on 22 June 1941 by launching a massive attack on the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.

They were fine with the Germans until the Germans turned against them.

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The state is making a list

Like Santa Claus? Maybe the Texas Department of Public Safety is in a festive, gift-giving mood.

All I get is

Mildly infuriating

• misplacement of $ when screenshot shows correct placement
• fax of a fax

Infuriating

• image of pure text lacking accessibility