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

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

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.

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

The detailed breakdown is appreciated.

Easy there, Satan...

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.

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.

Librarians are the best.

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/

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.