They wouldn't let me onto Beehaw with the answer I gave to their question, so I joined the first instance I could find that looked interesting. Now I kind of feel awkward making any new communities that aren't Star Trek related lol.

That's great and all, but presupposes that whoever’s on the other end of that panic button will actually respond and do so effectively or in time. Uvalde and Parkland both had cops make it on site in a reasonable amount of time, but they were basically useless in both cases.

It's funny, I used to be on BestofRedditorUpdates where almost any "good" story that got reposted was subject to arguments about whether it actually happened or if the OP made it up. Now with ChatGPT it can all be made up. /s

I can see the ads on Fox or OANN now.

"MAGA Mush! Quality gruel for quality patriots! Available at your local Cabela's now!"

At least I'm assuming they haven't canceled Cabela's like Bass Pro yet.

I work in a library. It's part of our collection policy that we don't discriminate as to what viewpoints not to buy books for. Plenty of times I've had to grit my teeth and smile while helping some senior citizen put themselves on the waiting list for the latest Fox News anchor book or random ragebait. If we have to swallow that, then it better go the other way as well.

I'm no fonder of his smug, libertarian prepper ass than you are, but personally the best way to make him feel the consequences of his actions is to leave that baggage where it is to rot and just concentrate on making Lemmy and any other alternatives you may be on the kind of community that Reddit used to be and people valued.

If they actually do wind up forcibly reopening the dark subs and replacing the mods, good luck having to police "Lemmy" or "Tildes" spam on top of all the usual bot nonsense and trolling that goes on. Metal and Motorhead subs are about to get nuked as collateral damage.

I have some helpful information posts saved for future use, which I'll try to archive if the subs they were on are up, but given some are now talking about extending the blackout and other users are deleting their posts, if the stuff isn't there I'm just going to stop using Reddit altogether. No sense prolonging the inevitable.

Yes, and bus/train ads. I pass one every day on the commuter train near Angel Stadium in Anaheim.

Seems like it's just a human thing to be tempted to do when you're far from home and don't think there will be consequences to your actions. There's graffiti from ancient Greeks and Romans in Egypt and Viking runes carved into the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

It's the same with those (Insert Theme Here): Pass it On billboards by the Foundation for a Better Life. They're funded by Phil Anschutz, a billionaire who owns the AEG entertainment group and has funded groups like the Parents Television Council, the Federalist Society (which helped get all those GOP justices on the Supreme Court and federal courts), and other conservative groups. I gag having to pass those things on the freeway.

I doubt it. It's not a blanket "buy everything" policy; we do have some standards we abide by like significance and value to the collection, the level of interest the community would have in something, how much it's been covered beforehand by reviewers or the media in general, etc.

Even if by some chance we actually did bring something like that into the collection, the policy allows for materials to be challenged by patrons. One probably wouldn't be enough to get something removed, but I imagine something like that kind of manifesto wouldn't stop at just one challenge.

Just some ink on a page. Would she rather be Charles and have eggs thrown at her in public?

There did seem to be a distinct air of smugness/"I told you so" in quite a few of the blackout or future-related comment sections I was in. Whether they're shills or just being cynical/butthurt for losing out on two days worth of Internet points and argument time, I have no idea.

The loss of users is already beginning to show, depending on the community. I had some LifeProTips and other useful threads saved and was trying to archive them for myself yesterday, and several had either the original post or the highest-upvoted parent comment outright deleted.

I remember there was some talk when the news first came out that the mutual lawsuits were getting to the discovery stage and both sides likely had documents they didn't want seeing the light of day. Could have been another factor in just deciding to bin the lawsuit and band together.

Never played it, but a few people in the CCG crowd at my high school did for a bit. I remember it being a little too complicated for me at the time and just stuck to MTG or Netrunner.

When I was in middle school a kid who went to the same Buddhist temple as my family died in a plane crash on Guam. Pilot error, apparently.

We weren't BFFs but he was a nice kid and we had been on a few camping trips together just the year before. My younger sister was pretty close to him and got the news from his parents the day after the crash. He was popular so they ended up having something like a memorial for him at the Sunday school. People were pretty broken up about it. His parents ended up separating a few years afterward, though they stayed in touch with each other at least.

It was the first time anyone other than a grandparent or older relative I knew had died, so it kind of messed with my head for a while. I know I definitely haven't really enjoyed flying ever since, at least.

US consumers are about to get REAL familiar with the phrase "force majeure".