Yeah it’s wild. And you know, as an encyclopedia, I can see tossing it in for completeness. Then when you read the article and see “wow basically the only ones of any authority denying this are the israeli state themselves” it is still immediately obvious which is actually the truth.
it wouldn’t be legible at emoji size I suspect
I’m not sure if he has the ability to do that these days or not. His benevolent dictator period was long but seems to be mostly over
honestly that article is shocking to me (in a good way). It goes to show how universal the understanding of this genocide is becoming if even wiki editors are this uncompromising
Admittedly, it wouldn’t be offensive to put an acknowledgement of the israeli denials in the 2nd or 3rd paragraph somewhere, as they do on other genocide pages, it is part of the picture even if it is clearly lies, but clearly that would not be near enough to satisfy jimmy nor the zionist journalists in his ear, so why even offer to adopt the thin end of that wedge.
Pop science is also full of bullshit though. If you don’t have at least some solid grounding in the scientific method and science basics, you won’t be able to tell if the pop science you read is bullshit or real.
Similarly, and even worse because of the sheer quantity of intentional misdirection in the political realm, if you don’t have some baseline grounding in theory, a working understanding of historical materialism perhaps, then you will not have the mental tools to evaluate the pop politics and decide if they are right or full of shit. It isn’t something that’s common sense or easily reasoned from first principles
As communists, we should aspire to go beyond just trusting prominent figures, whether they’re influencers, politicians, publications, whatever, and improve our faculties and awareness and understanding of the world
fair enough. I wonder if/how modern screen readers still have such problems
Was there an accessibility angle to their argument beyond “makes it harder for some users to read”? (not that that’s an invalid argument but I don’t think it’s self evident)
I’m not a double space user and don’t necessarily think this behavior needs to change, but if you, like OP, subjectively find something easier to read and are accustomed to it, I don’t think “no, its a historical relic and doesn’t make a difference in readability” will be very convincing in that situation…
Ultimately, hexbear is not using a wysiwyg editor, but it is frustrating when there’s no good way to make your post look how you want it to, whether that’s for an effort post, a dumb meme with emotes or ascii art type drawings or whatever, and space collapsing is much more disruptive than newline collapsing in that way
if you don’t do it right it can be hard to solidly screw into masonry.
If your new place has solid wood to screw into I wouldn’t worry about it much.