Actually, yeah, I have asked my friends how the girlfriend who dumped me is doing. Caring isn't something you can click on and off like a light switch.

The facts are the facts and it's all true, but Rob McCallum is cited nine times in the article, with no explanation of who he is unless you watch the video. For the record, he's this guy: https://www.eyos-expeditions.com/...

BBC is usually top-notch, but that's a hell of a journalistic booboo.

I made it as far as "It's not just Republicans," in the 4th paragraph. Yeah, it's an other "discourse has gotten so bad" and "both sides do it" un-think piece.

@kuontom

This seems like a roadblock to people discovering any community here. It removes the Reddit effect, where adding 'Reddit' to a search led to non-ad posts with first-person relevance, and eliminates the easiest way for someone who's not part of the federated universe to find the federated universe.

Counterproductive, seems to me.

@raphael

@wakasm

"Both sides do it, both sides to it," is the mantra of the willfully stupid mainstream press, pretending against all evidence that our problem is 'the rift between left and right' instead of the growth of American fascism. To say plainly that Republicans are lying about everything and advocating policies of hate wouldn't be 'impartial journalism', so they contort the facts into knots to look fair and balanced, instead of reporting the facts.

This article is a fine example, from America's finest practitioner of mainstream and impartial journalism, the New York Times.

One family moved from Oregon to Missouri because they were sick of seeing poor and homeless people. Another family moved from Iowa to Minnesota because Iowa had banned medical care for their son.

These two families are not a matched and balanced set, fodder for a thoughtless think piece. Moving to avoid seeing unpleasant people is not the equivalent of escaping to save your child's life.

@flta

Time to kill OldReddit. Let's get everyone onto the gloriously redesigned Reddit.

Anyone else old enough to remember when there was at least a pretense of common decency in politics?

@Col3814444

"Boost" comes across as a bug, not a feature. People should have one vote, not two.

Kbin does log me out once or twice weekly for no known reason, but I have no difficulties logging in again. You say you've cleared site data — cache and cookie? If you've tried it twice and it hasn't worked, time to open a ticket with the help desk (admins).

@Bipta

r/DataIsBeautiful, RIP. It was one of several -- actually, MANY -- subreddits that astounded me at first but quickly became a bore, as the quality of the posts collapsed like me without my walker. Something about the upvote/downvote system seems to encourage crap, or maybe (my increasing suspicion) the people on Reddit are now outnumbered by the bots.

I suppose kids who want to, and work at it, can overcome almost any adversity, but it's breathtaking to intentionally teach children to be stupid.

@Girlparts

It's long been a cornerstone of my political daydreams that federal charges should be filed, as a matter of course, against any lawmakers who vote for legislation later ruled unConstitutional.

@Jaysyn

@Col3814444 @e_t_

Can the sane states defederate from Florida?

@stopthatgirl7

It's the Republic of Gilead.

So fucking infuriating. Everything that ever made an American flag not worth burning seems to be over and done with.

@0x815

There, see? Under 110° — climate change has been beaten!

@DarkGamer

Report a spammer once, for the good of the community, and then block the 'user'. Problem solved. :)

@osarusan

@ernest @Pons_Aelius

The drawbacks outweigh any advantages. 'Karma' becomes the status symbol, leading to wisecracks, puns, and irrelevancies instead of intelligent dialogue.

All karma is bad karma. I'll take none, please.

Brilliant. Send Spez your résumé!

It's also fucked up that this has been going on for THREE YEARS and is only now trickling into the media.

@Drusas

Destruction such as this will never again be uncommon.

This as a sneak preview not many years into the future, when there'll be no workable supply chains at all, as climate change wreaks hellish havoc everywhere, consistently.

@DarkGamer