Many comments don't deserve any effort beyond a downvote. Whether you like it or not, it's how the system is designed to work.
In this case I downvoted you for being a condescending piece of shit in your edit. Otherwise I probably would have ignored you and moved on.
I think it's way worse. At least on Reddit you can find smaller niche subs that are full of serious-minded, intelligent and well-informed users who have no time for pure amateur hour bullshit. R/askhistorians would be the premiere example, but there are a lot of others.
It's only on the big lightly-moderated subreddits that your signal-to-noise ratio really goes to shit, whereas all of Lemmy seems to be awash in teenage level discourse.
Hopefully it gets better as its user sse expands and diversifies into more tightly-focused and heavily-moderated instances.
Nothing beats cannister for your truly murderous discharge.
Merlin is similar but for birds. Also feeds all of the data you give it back to Cornell's ornithology lab, which I'd normally be against, but in this case it's for a great cause.
You can also troll various bird species by playing their calls back to them. Most will at least come in for a closer look, some will straight up strafe your ass depending on the season.
The cat's for scale.
It reads a lot different if you're familiar with Gourevitch's writing, especially on the Rwandan genocide. "We Wish to Inform you that Tomorrow we Will be Killed with our Families." Read it if you haven't already.
The answer is that the 1st amendment makes any such legislation nearly impossible. It's unfortunate, but there are no easy fixes and that's probably for the best. We want it to be very difficult to regulate a free press.
That's not Shakespearean English by any stretch of the imagination. It's not even close. It's some rando's poorly-educated approximation.
And yet, things like universal background checks and red flag laws poll at something like 80 percent support nationally. Most people are perfectly OK with changing the status quo on gun ownership. The problem is that there is a very determined and highly vocal minority that immediately leaps to "they're coming for our guns!" any time any kind of widely-supoorted common sense gun control measures are even mentioned. The result is that we can't even have a conversation about what said measures should look like so everyone continues to cling to their absolutist positions in ignorance and fear. This is by design and we are suckers for allowing ourselves to be played like this. It's pure manipulation on the part of political opportunists.
Hopefully we are able to entertain several different ideas in our minds at once. You make a valid point, but I think the comment above you is spot on as well and in fact I welcome it as being a little more well thought out than the cheap and superficial sloganeering that's so typical on Lemmy.
True, but Chromebooks are a type of Linux as well.
The word has different meanings in different contexts. That said, unless you're a complete moron, it's usually very easy to figure out what sense of "liberalism" is intended based on context.
What I have no patience for at all are the insufferable idiots who insist that only one definition is correct, and oh by the way, it just happens to be their definition.