If Brazilian fediverse is anything like English fediverse, its community was probably tied up in discussions who to deferderate from next and vegan cat food instead of promoting Mastodon.

Threads uses opt-out ActivityPub.

That’s not true. I can neither opt my test account in nor out of ActivityPub. It’s simply not available to Mastodon.

Slavery is cheaper than automation.

China was communist

Neither China nor any other country was ever communist according to what the actual definition of communism is (=self-rule of workers and farmers, overthrowing the ruling class). A dictatorship with a state-controlled economy isn’t communism. What China changed is to move from a centralized state-controlled economy to capitalism with privately owned enterprises with a right to veto for the government.

Given how long it took to fix the federation issues back in december (0.19 update), I’d be hesitant about updating, too.

But you’re on a 0.19.5 instance. Do you experience issues? There’s some incompatibility with Mastodon, apparently, but given that 0.19.5 addresses serious privacy issues and has been out for a while without big problems, the privacy fixes are more important than keeping 100% Mastodon compatibility. Surely 0.19.6 will be out soon enough to address them.

is shared with a few other active services.

Why would you do that, given that Lemmy is 0.x software?

“I never thought you could trademark a name,” she added.

I hope my son Marvel’s The Amazing Spider-Man is not going to get in trouble.

What is supposed to be funny about this headline?

Jesus votes for you. You have his confidence vote.

Gotta call this one inaccurate. The Bible says some shit about false gods and whatnot.

Jesus repealed several older provisions.

I don’t care about the “cause” but I’m game for free beer.

The tech whizz, sometimes called ‘God’s influencer,’ died of leukemia in 2006 at age 15.

So finding a cure for cancer is not one of his miracles.

He can rest easy: I don’t know who that is and how he looks.

I’m just going to stop talking to you.

Good, then I won’t have to deal with notifications that some forms of religious indoctrination are just secular ceremony.

That would also be false: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceremonial_deism

Nah, that’s a bullshit excuse for religious indoctrination.

Now, will you admit you were incorrect about the pledge of allegiance being mandatory in schools?

No. If the pledge must be taught in school and some individual students can opt out of repeating that indoctrination, doesn’t mean that the pledge itself is not mandatory subject in school. I did not write that all students must recite it.

All your “ceremonial deism” reference proves is that there is a giant loophole for the federal government to indoctrinate on religion and not just state and lower levels.

There are so many cases of promoting Christianity by the US government, a few cherrypicked cases of “trouble” doesn’t disprove any of this.

• “As a matter of historical tradition, the words ‘under God’ can no more be expunged from the national consciousness than the words ‘In God We Trust’ from every coin in the land, than the words ‘so help me God’ from every presidential oath since 1789, or than the prayer that has opened every congressional session of legislative business since 1787.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance#Legal_challenges

Also, the US print religious indoctrination on their currency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust

I’m not sure what you think those quotes prove.

That it’s perfectly fine to for the government to promote Christian religion, i.e. what the submitted story is about.

Those are literally not mandatory.

Except when they are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance#Legal_challenges

• “the Pledge of Allegiance does not violate the rights of those who don’t believe in God and does not have to be removed from the patriotic message”

• “As a matter of historical tradition, the words ‘under God’ can no more be expunged from the national consciousness than the words ‘In God We Trust’ from every coin in the land, than the words ‘so help me God’ from every presidential oath since 1789, or than the prayer that has opened every congressional session of legislative business since 1787.”

That is an extremely narrow view of the First Amendment that goes against over two centuries of judicial precedent.

Mandatory “one nation under god” pledge in school classes proves that establishing religion in the US is fine.

Mandatory “one nation under god” pledge in school classes disagrees that religion cannot be established.