I will respect an opinion that is thought out, measured and based in reality.

Those are, unfortunately, few and far between at the moment. All other opinions are granted as much respect as the idea the opinion is based off of deserves.

And frequently that is ‘none’.

Maybe if they followed the dmca process

Honestly, there needs to be a fixed penalty fine for bad takedowns…

Absolutely not, fixed fines become expected costs, and immensely favor monied actors. Make it percentage based so it hurts equally, and rich people actually have to pay a measurable amount.

My mother was a meth addict who ruined the relationship we had, and I ended up moving out not long after after finding a shake and bake lab in the basement, which led to her becoming homeless. I loved my mother, but I did not like her really at all the last decade or so and was glad I lived out of state so I didn’t have to directly deal with her after about a year, and she died within 5 or 6 years after that. We talked a bit after I moved out/out of state, but I kept that to a minimum because fuck dealing with the guilt and anxiety she gave me.

As for how I felt, it was mainly relief mixed with grief, but the worst of the grief passed fairly quickly since I’d already grieved for the mother I lost, and only had to ‘grieve’ the passing of her mortal coil. I went into the wake/funeral process prepared to defend my choice in case anyone gave me shit about it, but I was very happy that the majority of her friends and my family told me I did the right thing.

Now-a-days I’m mostly over it, and the grief I still have is mainly just from reliving childhood trauma as I force myself to be a better parent than I ever had. I don’t believe in an afterlife, but I am glad she’s no longer suffering/making those around her miserable.

Where is the nuance in who a billionaire exploits for their wealth?

It’s not about nuance, it’s just running defense.

This quote from his wife is so selfawarewolf:

“Brian was an incredibly loving, generous, talented man who truly lived life to the fullest and touched so many lives.”

Yeah, that’s kinda the problem lol

Things are changing due to deteriorating socio economic conditions

Agreed. When you fear the actions of the system as much as the consequences of inaction, the needle definitely shifts.

Don’t count on the fact they want the system to be worse. In reality, the Democrats’ message of ‘nothing will fundamentally change’ is likely a much bigger driver, as were the lies they chose to believe from the pedo/rapist in the face of reality. Especially given the bipartisan approval of this event.

Much like the other user, the instance link works for me and keeps me local, but the lemmy verse link takes me to that instance.

If you don’t think food is political, you’re not paying attention. ‘Every society is three meals from chaos’

Less political != Non political

Again, everything is politics.

The poor have been afraid of the system for decades…

The guy might have been a huge POS, he was not personally responsible for a broken and violent system that Americans have created for themselves.

No one snowflake feels responsible for the avalanche.

That CEO guy was just one of millions who WANT the system to be unfair. What is this shooter gonna do, kill every capitalist in the US?

Of course not, a single person could never do that. But the millions (probably closer to tens or hundreds of thousands) of people who want the system to be like this are outnumbered by the people who have to suffer in it, so they’ll just encourage more acts like this by pushing people to extremes.

That’s just going to pour gas on the fire. The less people have to lose, the more likely they’re going to take matters into their own hands.

One of r/InterestingAsFuck’s rules is “No politics,” which a moderator for the subreddit told us is the reason it was removed.

That is such a stupid rule, because everything is politics.

News papers are a physical item, not bits hidden behind a boolean set to true. Plus, I can go read a newspaper at the store if I want to.

Yeah, it definitely helps to plan things out ahead of time, but I’ve had decent luck with refactoring a code block into a function to reuse code or cleanup sections. But I definitely try to make it into a function first when I can since it’s less work than going back and fixing stuff, but sometimes a simple code block blows up or you need to reuse it later.

You’re welcome! Coding has been my passion since I was in high school, and I understand how hard it can be to wrap your head around the concepts, even with formal schooling on the topic. To the point that I’ve learned so much more on my own than I did in school just because my passion allowed me to internalize the knowledge instead of just learning it.

Best of luck on your adventure!

Why would the government spend resources on spying on feminist groups and/or black people social clubs? They pose literally zero danger to the interests of the ruling class?

Respectfully, that take is naive as fuck. Considering the political climate then (and even now), it’s not hard to see how groups of citizens banding together for collective actions can easily disrupt the gravy train of the money class. Look at how quickly shit gets done in places like France when they have a general strike.

A mass of citizens banding together will ALWAYS be a threat to the ruling class. Because the ruling class only rules as long as the population is willing to let them rule, because their rule requires the citizenry to enforce and uphold the system.