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According to a New York Times report, on Thursday, the U.S. government's General Services Administration (GSA) removed the spoon emoji as an option that

According to a New York Times report, on Thursday, the U.S. government’s General Services Administration (GSA) removed the spoon emoji as an option that users of its videoconferencing platform can select to express themselves.

The move comes a day after workers embraced the digital cutlery to protest the Trump administration’s “Fork in the Road” resignation offer.

  • sudo@programming.dev
    6·
    3 hours ago

    Comparing one authoritarian country to another and having an answer other than “both are bad”

    Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Israel are all “authoritarian” but wildly different societies. Merely labeling them as “authoritarian” and leaving it at that is short circuiting your reasoning skills.

    • Doorbook@lemmy.world
      21·
      3 hours ago

      One is a kingdom where everyone knows who is the king and who they are listening to.

      The rest fake democracy, where you vote for a party and then find out it is run by some rich dude.

      • sudo@programming.dev
        2·
        3 hours ago

        where you vote for a party and then find out it is run by some rich dude.

        That’s how neither of the last three work. To keep it short the last three are:

        • settler colonial state where genocide has popular support.
        • mafia-state where reality doesn’t matter
        • Indirect democracy dominated by a party particing Democratic-Centralism.

        What your described is something like France and Bernard Arnault. There’s many like this but that’s your normal freedom loving democracy™.

        edit: who is the secret rich dude running Russia and China if its not Putin and Xi? 🤣