Wikipedia is more accurate “convicted serial child molester”. Why does the media downplay his crimes?

I know that the international ultra conservative movement wants to erase LBGTQ rights, but this is one I hadn’t considered. Chiseling away the rights of gay parents in order to jealously guard the “traditional” family is mean and stupid.

I guess we need to know what people consider long. The full document is longer than the Declaration of Independence , which I know a lot better. I can’t remember having to read the Constitution in school, just the preamble and a couple of amendments. This doesn’t excuse my ignorance though. Thanks for providing the whole document.

Although I'd love to see the buildings of the Acropolis I would never go anywhere that has 20,000 visitors a day. Nope.

This is exactly their process, if their constituents swallow this as acceptable then feed them the next, slightly worse thing. Slavery was horrible and we haven’t recovered from it as a nation.

I am so relieved that the special prosecutor is defending the rule of law with these indictments. If the Republicans (and not just Trump) got away with trying to overturn the election we could lose our democracy. We still can, but at least they are going to trial against this would-be tyrant and some of the people who helped him.

I like the way you phrased that. Maybe the rebranding will help people realize the thing they knew as Twitter is gone.

This point will be lost in the reaction to this new approach. These people have been paying back their debt for a long time. Errors have been made. Relief is on the way.

There was a crazy idea a year or so ago that they would impeach Biden and somehow skip Harris and have the speaker of the House become president. Maybe that is their master plan.

I am wrestling about this as a resident of Florida. Both my kids are leaving. My trans son is leaving next week and can't use a public bathroom on the way out of the state without causing confusion or chancing arrest. The state doesn't deserve him, Maryland does. As for my husband and I, I just don't know.

I don’t understand how the police decided this guy hadn’t planned to attack a church for racist reasons. Sounds like they didn’t find evidence at his house about his intention to attack a black church, but that doesn’t preclude racism as a reason.

I listened to the 2nd and 3rd books of the Murderbot series on a car ride recently. I had read them before, but it was the first time that he did. I really enjoyed laughing with him.

Not an expert, but here is where I set up a recurring donation. Apparently Mastadon.world and Lemmy.world are run by the same admins. Took me a while to understand this, please correct me if I'm wrong.

First time I've heard of the Center for Countering Digital Hate. Thanks Elon. I wish I believed that he wanted to support free speech on XTwitter. But I don't. I think he just silenced CCDH for saying mean things against his thingie.

I think I heard that Poppinkream is a woman. I'm so happy to see them on Lemmy.

Beautiful!

Why do I want to put my hand in there? It just draws me in.

Are they going to blame Ukrainian drones?

I'm watching Foundation. Watched one episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and I might continue watching that until our subscription to Paramount Plus runs out.

I joined Reddit in 2008 just to see what is was. I was fascinated by the combination of amateurs and experts in very specific areas. The best example was/is askhistorians. The answers by verified experts show up in many a Google search. I loved the animal id communities where experts would identify birds, bugs, spiders, snakes, etc. from blurry phone pictures. I learned so much. What made it successful (to me) was the volunteers who moderated those subreddits and the experts who shared their knowledge and love for their area. There are many other outstanding subreddits than the ones I mentioned. It takes a while to build community, but it can be demolished very quickly.