Someone making money off this is MAYBE fourth or fifth down the line of issues with the entire situation. It's a slap in the face for humanity that our focus is more about the people filming and hosting it. What a world.

Plenty to dislike about Biden but this one existed LONG before him and is a lot more complex than "current admin bad".

Even this person leaving their position admits it's been this way for decades and is wholly unsurprising, albeit incredibly disappointing.

Whichever way instances decide to go there's a few things people should remember:

• We're lucky to have this option even if it's divisive at times.
• It's not always about what we know will happen, sometimes it's concern over possibilities we couldn't even imagine at the time.
• Growth is great but there's infrastructure, moderators and policies that can be overwhelmed.
• Defederation can be reversed at any time if things change.

The detailed breakdown is appreciated.

Easy there, Satan...

Guarantee he'll be back on the force in another town by next year.

Let's put this another way.

That ~25 billion, heavily absorbed by foreign investors, has bought influence on worldwide events/elections and allowed those that previously hated the platform to sabotage it internally, likely to a post-election failure.

Makes you wonder to what degree we have a "useful idiot billionaire" situation, with other interests (countries?) steering the out of control train to their benefit.

To be fair, the guy did actually self checkin to a mental facility this summer for two weeks and was released. Additionally, Maine is a yellow flag state where firearms can be taken away via a mental health review. (To be clear, this is NOT enough in my opinion).

One of many sources https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/northeast/ap-police-say-theres-an-active-shooter-in-lewiston-maine-and-they-are-investigating-multiple-scenes/

Handy site to check your instances thread-blocking status.

https://fedipact.veganism.social/?v=2

Today on Lemmy, which is dumber?

-Distilling an entire presidency to what happens in proxy wars (the RU one admittedly being an amazing deal for the US against a long term adversary).

-Voting third party in '20/'24

Yet, annoyingly, much of the press still uses it to disseminate news.

I understand journalism is in a rough spot these days and many are there against their will but something needs to change abruptly. This slow exodus is too slow for democracy to survive '24.

You're naive to think it's just starting now.

It was specifically in a police TV show, spare us the tried joke.

A firehose spewing ignorance has no time for facts or reading comprehension. That person has 800 posts and over 1,000 downvotes in just 40 days.

That and she often dunks on Sorbo, what a queen.

Give it a year...

While odd looking to some of us, they were actually right. That's 56,000 "millions" or 56,000 x 1,000,000 = 56 billion. A mind blowing amount of cash.

It's still there, it's just off by default since people rarely use it these days.

Go to Customize Firefox controls, buttons and toolbars. Pick the Home button or whatever else you want on the toolbar, and just drag it up there. Some items might be in the overflow menu on the right.

The Google Way.

As does decades of systematically defunding education. The decades of leaded gas/paint by prior generations probably weren't helping...