Marriage wasn’t important to me, either - I was with my now husband for many years before we tied the knot. I’d never been one for the traditional big wedding, wasn’t sure what difference it would make, etc.

What changed? My Mum died - and in all the times at hospital and then dealing with the funeral etc - I realised just how important being “next of kin” actually is. In so many ways. And while you can cover most of your bases with various legal documents - honestly there’s already a super easy way, that is very well understood all over the world, that achieves this.

And while I wasn’t expecting it to feel any different afterwards, it really did - for both of us. More certainty and just really solid.

“Don’t be evil” they said …

I’ve really enjoyed my time on Lemmy - I left Reddit after the third party API fiasco. Having said that, Lemmy’s still super quiet sometimes, but I feel my voice is more heard by the people who are here.

Yeah this was the main take-away for me, too. You’d expect they’d have ironclad QA when doing shit like this.

Makes you wonder how often stuff like this happens … it seems that they were only caught because they accidentally shot one of the victims.

I remember seeing a film years ago called Mississippi Burning (set in the 1960s) about how entire communities and institutions condone behaviour just like this - and thinking “thank god such stuff doesn’t happen any more”. That now feels like a remarkably naive attitude.

Pretty grim reading.

Yeah, this bit stood out for me also!

Dear God!

Terrifying that we’re in this state tbh. Those in power really do just get away with it …

Fair point!

I’ve been pretty much shocked by a lot of the things that have happened in the last decade or so … kind of like “nobody would ever ever have predicted that, before ….”

So a question from a non-American …. How likely is any of this to lead to actual conviction/incarceration?

What’s the feeling in the country? Is this all just likely to be brushed off?

Man oh man … a trip down memory lane!

When the Internet was a more naive and a fr nicer place to hang out …

The U.K. really does seem to be going down the drain.

We moved back to the U.K. last year, after 5 years living abroad and it was shocking just how much worse things are than before we left, in many many ways.

Always fully open! More airflow, less stuffiness. Having said that, we don’t share a home with anyone else.