This.

When I learned Reddit was effectively shutting down third-party apps, I thought it sucks but it’s their prerogative. I didn’t delete the Reddit app yet, or create a Lemmy account.

It’s Huffman’s increasingly entitled behavior after it that shocked me and pushed me here. His tactical decisions have been really destructive, I think it’s realistic that he might get shown the door. 🤞

For that reason, I used to think that if they fire him, I don’t need them to change anything else, I’d go back to Reddit; but the community on Lemmy has been far better than I was expecting, and it wasn’t as hard to get over its UX quirks as I was first fearing, so now I’m not sure I’d ever want to go back. It’s kinda nicer around here in the end…

Same.

Oh my, fine, have my upvote!

100% agreed with everything there, except for the last paragraph, because it’s a question I've asked lawyers before (about representing a clearly losing case). What I was told is that a lawyer’s job (unless they’re paid on commission like personal injury lawyers) is not to win the case, but to accurately represent the case so the whole system works as fairly as it can. Basically, it’s to make sure that people don’t get a punishment because “the king decided so” without the actual situation being looked at, as used to be the case. So, when you represent a pure scum bag who clearly eats babies, it’s fine, because when they get locked up, you did your part in making sure they get there because they did what they did and for no other subjective reason.

Obviously “representing accurately and fairly” doesn’t work when Trump intentionally misleads his lawyers and puts them in legal hot water, which is the point you make higher and which I wholly agree with. Why would a lawyer want that kind of risk for themselves?

Hah, yeah, that’s a good point. Right now (at least in Beehaw), it’s “Local” though, which feels like the worst of the three.

It’s going to be a challenge to figure out who gets what half of the burrito.

I could be wrong, but my understanding is that this is not the actual problem that is keeping lawyers away.

Many freelancers are ok to get paid and do their best work for customers who will then destroy that work and shoot themselves in the foot. It’s frustrating, but as long as you get paid, after all it’s the customer’s problem. Lawyers are the same, you can find a number of them who won’t mind.

But here my understanding of what happened was that Trump made his lawyer sign a document where he personally committed to have checked everywhere and there were no documents left, all the while Trump was lying to him and there absolutely were hidden documents. So if that lawyer had kept defending Trump, it could have come across as him being in on the lie to the feds, and being liable to the same crimes.

A lot of lawyers will be glad to take hard-earned money from frustrating clients, but won’t be keen to get themselves in actual legal trouble.

Apparently, here: https://lemmy.world/c/3dprinting

I also struggle to see the issue here. People will subscribe to the various communities across instances, and they’ll quit the ones they don’t like, thereby making the best ones rise to the top, just like it works across subreddits of the same topic.

I guess the concern is discoverability? On mobile web, Beehaw’s homepage show “Local” (not sure if just Beehaw or all instance). It’s true that it’d be good if the default was “All”, so discoverability isn’t fragmented.

I think this is all very sensible thinking. Thanks a lot for sharing.

I think this is the main thing for me. I’m less shocked by Reddit’s decisions (it does make some sense that they need third-party apps to die, even though they could have done it a bit more sensibly), than by this one guy’s deeply disingenuous handling of it all. I can’t stand dishonest obnoxiousness at that level. I think if they admit wrongdoing and fire the guy, I might go back even if they don’t change their other plans. Provided all the interesting subreddits are not dead, obviously.

Although I’ll be honest, for now I’m in the Lemmy honeymoon period, so right now I wouldn’t, I’m enjoying it too much here (and I don’t have time for 2 of those!). But if the honeymoon wears off and they fire the guy, I might.

Yeah, it’s all a game of chance. My feel is that the combination of legislative risk + risk that those funds would not match at all their plans is low-ish enough, lower than it was or I thought it was a few years ago, that it threw me over the fence now. I was firmly against getting 529s until recently (mostly because of my annoyance with scammy colleges, which is most colleges).

Ultimately I fully agree with everything you said. They will build their own projects and ambitions, and our role as parents is to build around to support those ambitions, whatever they are, that is what makes kids successful. In fact, my sudden interest in the 529 is exactly to that end, to be sure they get opportunity if their ambitions happen to be aligned with what 529s are helpful for, while being sure that it is not too harmful if they’re not aligned.

So what if they’re not aligned and they can’t use those funds in meaningful ways for their goals? Well, right now they can transfer it to a Roth; or transfer it to any family member. Those rules can change, but they’re more likely to be that way a while than they were a couple of years ago when those rules weren’t yet a thing; and even if they do change, I feel it is reasonably to expect that there will be similar-ish ways out, hopefully. Otherwise, they can use some of the funds to buy various roughly educational things, like computers and similar expenses. And otherwise, if it’s really terribly unaligned and the law changed so much that those funds are locked as heck, there’s always the possibility to cut our losses, and take them out paying the 10% penalty; but hopefully that won’t be needed, who knows.

Oh, yeah, I’m glad you’re bringing that up, thanks; my state (Illinois) allows to deduct from state taxes up to $17k per year per account in donations, which ain’t bad, and is in fact more than I’d be willing to put in, I think. Which is useful, because it goes to show that even though I’m confused and feel like I have no idea what a good amount is, I do actually have some idea of an upper bound I probably wouldn’t go over.

Yeah, that is a very good reminder. I’m definitely worried about being dependent on them someday, I really do not want that to happen. Thanks for highlighting how front-and-center that is.

This is a good suggestion, and I am definitely worried about college degrees being overvalued. I’m totally gearing up to having to talk with them about the various choices and how financially reasonable each is, in quite a bunch of years. But ultimately, I also know that the outcome may be a compromise between financial reason, and their desires and ambitions. Their choice might not be ideal, and while I would probably disagree to help fun a frivolous degree, I want to have prepared for them to have various opportunities, not just the optimally least risky ones.

Damn, being a parent is hard.

Yeah, I’ve been delaying putting money into a 529 exactly because of college degrees being overvalued. But now I’m regretting that choice, considering they indeed can be used for other stuff like you said, and also because of the new ability to transfer to a Roth IRA without penalties. Also, I’ve learned that in my state (Illinois), only ~5% of the money placed on those 529 count towards getting grants and loans; so basically the more you put money in there as opposed to just giving it to your kid from a regular bank account, the more money you get from elsewhere. Pretty compelling.

But yeah, at the end of the day, unless the landscape changes dramatically, I fully intend to have the “colleges are mostly scams” talk with my kids as we get closer.

Oh, I like that line of thinking! Thanks a lot for that.

You can think of it as having an email [email protected] and another email [email protected]. You can email the same friends from either, and receive the same newsletters to both, but ultimately they are 2 separate email accounts.

Not a lawyer, but this is happening in federal court in Florida.

If it happened in state court in Florida, then supposedly the executive branch (which the governor leads) is not allowed to interfere, but it’s the same government of people who might know each other, so it’s possibly murkier.

But since it’s federal court, I believe if the state government started doing anything, it would be trivial for that federal circuit to consider it problematic and just move it to another state. So with that, I believe no, DeSantis couldn’t do anything even if he wanted to.

That, and they are now political rivals competing for the Republican nomination, so I doubt DeSantis minds much of what’s going on with this anyway.

Yeah, people have been using the words treason / sedition / insurrection interchangeably. January 6th is obviously not treason, but it’s understandable that people meant something else and got confused.