Doug Holland @ DougHolland @lemmy.world

Obese gray male, introverted, cranky, woke but needs a nap. Enjoys solitude

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It's way, way too late to be the first stages of civilization's collapse.

Don't kink-shame.

She'd win.

Even in our backassward time and place, anyone who gives her a serious listen can sense that she's smart and right and righteous.

North Korea seems an odd place to escape to, especially after this poor schmo delivered "a profanity-laced tirade against Koreans." But what the heck, I'm not offended by his defection, treason, wanderlust, whatever you call it.

I sincerely wish him a happy life in his new home.

I'm not interested in anything from Fox News, same as I ignore most of what my drunken uncle says and does.

R U McSerious? 14? Jeez, I said & did stupider things than that at that age, and never made up for it by doing anything smart later on.

Next time I see the internet canard that fooled me, I will not be fooled again. Grazi.

I wasn't referring to r/jailbait, nor was I implying he was a pedophile. I was clumsily alluding to comments purportedly written by Swartz, supporting peoples' right to publish, read, and share kiddie porn.

But you know what? I haven't read Swatrtz's comments myself, so I'm not sure exactly what he said, and in a few minutes googling I can't even find what I'd read about whatever Swartz may or may not have written.

So the line about kiddie porn was me talking out of my ass. Never a good idea. Knowing nothing, nothing is what I should've said.

I think he'd say, "Please spell my name right."

I think he'd want more kiddie porn — he had a definite urge in that direction.

I think Aaron Swartz was a complicated guy who did some good but had some enormous issues to say the least, and the ongoing worship of him as a hero is not a good idea.

Huh. I'd thought of Vox as being a reasonably reliable site, but handing a page over to a shill and not even telling readers he's a shill... Jeez, even Fox News identifies the shills with a chyron.

    "The evidence continues to mount by the day," Steube said without providing details about the evidence he was citing.

Wow and a half — everywhere I've worked in the health biz, even before HIPAA, patient confidentiality was the prime directive.

The article doesn't even say there was a search warrant, only a request for records from Tennessee's horrific Attorney General. If there was a legal demand for the records, it should've been fought, but instead the records were turned over pronto, with no redactions of personal information, and the patients weren't notified until months later.

In a sane world, that would cost Vanderbilt a lot of millions of dollars, but I've looked at a map of the galaxy and you can't get to a sane world from here.

In what sense is half "fully"?

Yeah, THAT'S what CNN should've said in the headline. Investigations into Trump are so ordinary now they're barely news, but Twitter ignoring the law and the search warrant — that ought to be big news.

There are still serious news sites and government agencies using Twitter, something that's been feeling more and more problematic to me. It would be nice if today's news started a groundswell, or at least a conversation about that. Twitter has made itself into a forum for nutters, and now this? To anyone who's still on Twitter, I would ask — Why?

I'm genetically allergic to ads, and have five adblockers running, but you got me curious so I went to the posted story on a different browser, without the blockers, and

MY EYES, MY EYES!!!

There's an oversided banner ad, a floating and moving video, soon a popup ad that blocks the whole page, and more animated ads in the sidebar as you scroll down.

Sigh. I don't object to ads that sit there waiting to be read, but I can't stand the ads that block what you're there to see, ads that follow your mouse, ads that wave and shout and jump around for attention, and my favorite at many TV news sites, the last ad that pops up when you scroll your mouse toward closing the tab.

I don't even believe in hell, but if it exists it's jammed full of people who worked in advertising. :)

Depends on the instance. Here on Lemmy.World, it's allowed and encouraged, but on some instances they don't want the traffic and storage.

Terrible news, of course, but I'd like to thank OP for including a little of the article. It means, in my blog, I can link to this page on Lemmy, instead of linking to the article and all the ads no doubt awaiting readers there...

"Give them a shot first" is easy to say, but it's hours or days of moderators and admins' lives.

Your desire to "connect with pretty much everyone unless they were particularly problematic" is admirable,. Just remember, please, that the wider the gates are opened, the more idiots wander in and the more work for mods and admins.

After dealing with the first thousand or so idiots, you can smell 'em coming. I'm with the admins on this.

I'll say the obligatory "Trump's a criminal and needs to be in prison," and I mean it, but mostly I just think it's cool that our page is big enough here to have a megathread.

Sen Dianne Feinstein appears confused at meeting

Well, that could be any meeting in the past 20+ years.