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  • Perdendosi@lemmy.worldtoWatches@lemmy.mlMoonphase
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    1 year ago

    Is anyone having a problem posting here? I tried posting both a WRUW thread with a pic (both in the title and in the body), and then just a regular thread, but the “create” button just spins and spins. No timeout, but no posting either. I’m able to comment (or so it seems) but not able to post threads. I’m on the lemmy.world instance. Help?

    EDIT: When I chose the langauge as “undetermined,” it posted right away. When I selected “English,” it froze.














  • I don’t disagree, but that doesn’t mean that people don’t do it.

    There are tons of “journalists” on sites like Yahoo that simply troll Reddit’s popular subs for content and repost controversial statements/opinions for clicks. That’s an easy way that hoaxes spread.

    Of course, the police aren’t going to go arrest someone based on an anonymous post, but it might raise suspicion and/or cause an unwarranted investigation.

    And yes, I do believe that if someone publishes something online, they have some level of responsibility for what they post, subject to the protections of the First Amendment (and similar doctrines in other countries). “I get to say what I want and don’t have any responsibility for the consequences” leads to (a) potentially dangerous situations, and (b) really shitty content.









  • There’s a joke about attracting people who like working pipes and experiencing organs that I’m sure you’ve told a thousand times… Though I don’t know a ton about pipe organ-only music outside of the common Bach stuff, my favorite classical piece is Saint-Saens’ Third Symphony, and I really like Percy Grainger’s “The Power of Rome and the Christian Heart” (though the more I learn about him, the more I’m not sure I can like Percy Grainger…). I’ll subscribe! Good luck with your community!




  • than any other citizen

    Hmmm. That’d be a really fun point to argue.

    George W. and Cheney for lying about WMD to get us into a war that cost billions (was it a trillion?) of dollars and tens of thousands of American lives?

    Clinton for welfare “reform” and NAFTA, which made working class and poor people considerably less well off (though maybe that was inevitable)?

    Nixon for lying and turning the presidency from an institution of relative trust to an institution of relative contempt?

    LBJ for Vietnam?

    Robert E. Lee and Jeff Davis for, you know, actually being traitors?

    Trump’s thirst for power is awful, and our country is much worse off. The question is whether he did the damage, or whether he just allowed the damage to escape from the shadows, or whether that makes a difference.