If I know nothing else in this world I know this: Reddit will never get a penny from me.

Remember when sites would make bad decisions and then just, you know… fucking die? Reddit’s entire existence is owed to Digg imploding like the Titan submarine.

Notice how that doesn’t happen anymore? No matter how egregious their infractions, no movements away from Twitter or Facebook - no matter how deeply they are infiltrated/compromised by runaway fascism/capitalism - nothing has an impact. No backlash, no matter how huge - is strong enough to shutter these sites and make them stop being money-printing operations.

It’s almost like there is an infinite money glitch going on and no matter what, if you’re in the “in” crowd, your shit gets to stay around no matter how much everybody thinks it smells like shit.

Hm.

Try not caring. The more Reddit users come here the more it’s going to suck.

This is just bot-driven FUD anyway, Lemmy is nothing like old Reddit and it wouldn’t be disqualifying if it was.

Ounce for ounce, this shit is wildly expensive. You could eat far cheaper and not be you know… eating fucking cat food.

If judges’ orders can be ignored with no consequence, we’re done as a country.

Judges have zero recourse to enforce judgements against the executive branch. All previous executives who have obeyed an order given by a judge have obeyed it voluntarily. The only recourse would be for congress to impeach and convict the president, which of course will not happen. It’s tempting to call this an oversight by the Founders, but it seems to me that this is by design. As long as there is not a congress that will convict the president, the courts cannot truly tell the president what to do.

It’s not like Reddit stopped existing. Lemmy will (hopefully) never be Reddit. That means that some itches Reddit will still have to scratch.

I was there when it happened. At the time we recognized it as the force that was going to (and did) ruin USENET (and IRC). We did not recognize it as the force that would also ruin the entire world.

I’m rocking an SE2 and probably next year I’ll reluctantly upgrade to an SE3, which I will keep for at least two more years. After that, I’m fairly certain I’m cooked, as all available phones will be faceid phablets. FML.

Frankly, whatever secret sauce it is that makes social media popular is also what drives them to be such shit and be so shit for society. I like Lemmy way more than I like Reddit, and even though I have to go back to Reddit from time to time to fill the needs of my niche interests (which can get no traction where there are not mobs of participants in the greater whole) I never ever look at my interactions there and go “I wish Lemmy was more like this.”

It’s a conundrum.

Dave Ramsey is a Jesus freak but he did have some fun truisms, one of which is if you want to know where value comes from, try taking dollar bills and bottled water into an area devastated by a hurricane and see which one has more value.

I didn’t downvote you but the reason this is unpopular here and elsewhere is because it started life as one of many red scares taken up by the KKK and various religious groups with the consensus of opinion (worldwide) being that your view as stated here is just incorrect. Furthermore, your incorrect view is consistently veiled in conspiratorial language using loaded words - “toxic” (dihydrogen monoxide is also toxic in the right amounts), “truth” (which “you” have “discovered” - always a popular meme with this crowd). Aluminum has a similar history and it’s always the disenfranchised religious zealots and their armies of nutjobs (one of whom was pictured in the OP) who are doing the cherrypicking of the science.

Great insight, I said something similar about how Trump responds to Musk as to whether or not Musk is operating under Putin’s orders or not - if Trump’s ego doesn’t get the best of him with everyone referring to “President Musk,” then you know god damn well that’s not right.

But there’s also another dynamic: I think there is a not-insignificant chance that both of these guys will grow so powerful that Putin may start getting nervous about being the one thrown out a window, and rightly so if he’s constantly threatening them.

I’ve been asking all along why the hell Putin is so confident all this shit isn’t going to blow up in his fucking face and the only answer I got (and it was from Russians) was “it’s a Russian thing” lol.

One of the few conspiracies I actually subscribe to is that there is no legitimate stock market anymore, it is 100% under price control. Wins and losses - such as they are - are being determined by huge banks and hedge funds using AI algorithms, dark pools and phantom shares to maintain an iron grip. I got started down this path when I read Michael Lewis’ book Flash Boys, which, like this video was made over 10 years ago.

It’s OK, you’re wrong.

In 2023, Huttle was sentenced to six months in federal prison and a year of supervised release for taking part in the riot at the U.S. Capitol.

back to being a riot again is it

The iPhone came out in 2007. That was the year the worm turned, imo.

Personally I never even considered installing it because of its stupid name.

Not sure if serious, but there’s a million ways to do this, some that require importing thousands of lines of code and none of which are guaranteed to work in all possible circumstances. But here’s a simple one.