“This event is tragic in more ways than you people in the audience could ever fathom from a law enforcement perspective,” McNeil said.

Every time I think my opinion of cops is at rock bottom, they find a new way to piss me off. This shooting is special and bad because one of our people might get in trouble for it!!

100% anecdotal, but I’d say the spam callers aren’t even waiting. I’ve had more in the last 2 months than the previous year.

In all sincerity, please, the doomerism is unproductive. Especially in direct response to someone trying to help fund a public institution that’s losing funding. If you’re feeling despair from the horrors (which, understandable) it’s important to do what you can to get support from your friends and community. Trying to convince other people to not resist by saying it’s worthless is the worst thing to do right now.

Scientists also used to not think plastics crossed the blood-brain barrier until they started finding it in cadaver brains, you know? The list of things we understand about how plastics react to the body and its chemical processes is probably a much shorter list than the one of things we don’t understand about plastics.

It’s plastics in general, but yeah. It’s already in your brain, and you’re accumulating more every year.

The reason IP exists isn’t a whatabout, it kinda sounds like you just don’t want to hear about anyone other than giant corporations benefitting from it.

In what sense is a ladder getting pulled up if IP is respected? Anyone can make a new IP, there’s not a limited supply of imagination. You can’t make everyone like what you come up with or buy it, but why should that entitle you to being able to profit off someone else’s work?

The imbalance against giant corporations isn’t anything to sneeze at, but there are just as many (probably more) small time companies breaking copyright law and hoping nobody notices. For example, stealing artwork to print on cheap crap that you sell below what the creator is selling them for. If they’re in an area that recognizes that copyright then they’re going to lose every time, and they’re not going to have enough money to drag it out. After that happens artists can recover all the earnings that were made with their work. Without that the artist is just fucked.

So… an equal amount specifically requested the opposite of this? If you can’t say they didn’t vote for it, then by the same measure you can’t say they didn’t vote against it.

If you want to slap a clown nose on your face and honk it in the comment section of a story about 6 people (3 of which were children) dying terribly I’m not going to and haven’t tried to stop you, I just think it’s in bad taste and gives the place a reddit stink when it doesn’t have to. This doesn’t have to be reddit 2.0. We can do better.

Time marches on and people can continue upvoting after I left my comment. At the time I commented it had the same number of upvotes as the next highest comment (5) and was at the top when comments were sorted by top. Blahaj doesn’t federate downvotes, so if any were on either comment I didn’t see it.

All of which is sort of beside the point, even if joke comments like that aren’t the top comment it makes for an unpleasant and callous comment section. It’s okay to just have news that’s sad and not make it amateur standup comedy hour.

It would be great if lemmy could not be Reddit 2.0 with everyone racing to make the most upvoted joke comment in a news story about three dead kids, but here we are.

This isn’t aimed at you in particular, I’m just sick of seeing it because it’s indistinguishable from actual callousness, even if you’re “coping” through humor.

I saw a guy doing this recently (not to a barista, but someone that worked with the public) and the only thing that kept me from losing my mind on him was knowing there was no way the worker wanted to deal with him AND me blowing up at him. He eventually just left, but it was maddening to witness.

Also, IME upper middle and upper class people are about 1000% more likely to do this than anyone else. This douche sounded like the frattiest frat bro to ever frat.

If those customers lived at and had families at the store, yeah. If they still want citizenship at this point they should get it.

All of them should be immediately eligible for US citizenship, assuming any of them want it at this point. Along with getting a shit ton of money to try to heal from this. How the fuck can this possibly be made right, even if every single victim of this is removed from the prison?

I’m sorry you’re dealing with this.

It confirms that she was born in Germany, lived there for the first years of her life before fleeing Nazi persecution, and had German citizenship until it was revoked by the Nazis. “She was a German who had her citizenship revoked by the Nazis at the time of her death” and “she wasn’t German” aren’t compatible without accepting the Nazi definition of who was and wasn’t a German citizen. The Holocaust was carried out on Germany’s citizens (in addition to those of other nations), even if they denied that these people were citizens.

In the current political climate I feel this is a very important distinction to make.

Which is worse when you consider how many microplastic particles are entering the water through clothes washing alone…

I hope he lives and makes fucking bank and has the best therapy, because that’s some traumatic shit to go through. Same for everyone this is happening to.

Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1929. In 1934, when she was four-and-a-half, Frank and her family moved to Amsterdam in the Netherlands after Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party gained control over Germany. By May 1940, the family was trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. Frank lost her German citizenship in 1941 and became stateless.

Did we read the same article? How do Nazis revoke citizenship from someone who wasn’t a citizen? She was still German born and would have had the right to legal recognition of her status as a German citizen had she survived. The only sense in which she wasn’t German is that the Nazi government in power at the time of her death didn’t consider her a citizen (or human being), but that’s a pretty poor basis to say she wasn’t German.