“are you sick of ads? Heres an ad!” Doesn’t have the same impact you think it does.
Also, food for thought: you really want to invite the kind of people who can’t use adblockers here? Barriers to entry aren’t necessarily a bad thing. You want quality, not quantity. More people isn’t necessarily better. And the people who stuck by reddit and spez through all of that?
And you think that the people who already saw entire subreddits shutdown in protest, with Lemmy plastered all over the place as an alternative, who decided to stay after all the content creators left, THOSE PEOPLE, are the ones you want to now court over?
Again, quality vs quantity.
We already gained the quality contributors from reddit. Advertising now is just drawing from the bottom of the barrel.
Not a fan of Melroy(mbin founder). They claim to have been a dev for Lemmy and kbin. Then when they didn’t get the control they wanted, started their own instance. When that didn’t take off, he ranted very publically once again about how the current team he was “working with” sucked and how he was the only true savior of the fediverse. Then he started mbin, which he named after himself(Melroy Bin).
His entire attitude has been “fuck you, I’m taking my ball and going home if you don’t listen to me” from the start.
It still implies you’re the only person aware of it and not like that very article on global temps was on the front page today. So yeah, it actually does make you seem a bit crazy.
Be aware that some people aren’t sexual? How about we just let that be someone’s personal business? Why is it not weird to go around telling everyone you don’t have sex? It’s pretty weird if someone goes around constantly telling me they do have sex. Your identity should be WAY MORE than your sexual preferences. If that’s what you decide to be known for, I just think you lack anything interesting in your life.
In the disabled community, there is the concept of “person before condition”. Such as “This is Anon, who happens to have X”. It’s considered insensitive to say “this is the person with X, Anon”. A person is more than just one trait. Make this part of who you are, not the whole thing.
Um, no it’s not. There are legit weather manipulating programs. Not the conspiracy chem trails bs, but legit “weather manipulation isn’t illegal, so private companies have started getting into it for creating snow on mountains or clearing the sky before a concert” things. It made the news awhile back when a, I believe, California company, started doing it.
Beijing did it before the Olympics. It wasn’t a secret by any means.
As it stands now, there is very little regulation in that area if the things you are spraying aren’t already considered toxic substances. But should just anyone be able to manipulate the weather? Won’t that cause more widespread issues? Maybe, maybe not. But should we leave that decision in the hands of corporations?
ETA: If you want to know more, start by looking up “cloud seeding”. You’ll see we’ve been openly testing it for decades. Source: Google
You say it’s based in ignorance. It’s not. Weather manipulation is real. This isn’t just “let’s not spray pollutants”. It’s very specifically targeting weather manipulation. You’re seeming to say “well they’re doing it because of a conspiracy, but at least it helps the environment anyways”. No, we’re doing it because of real tech that has been used since the 60’s and is completely unregulated. This is intentionally a good thing, specifically targeting an issue.
Um, cloud seeding is solar geo-enginerring. What do you think clouds are doing? You realize they change the abeido, right? You’re trying to be pedantic, but it’s just wrong.
I get your point, but we also need to change this behaviour of treating all conspiracy theories as being full of crazy people. Is every plane spreading chem trails? Absolutely not. But some absolutely are and the people who try to bring attention to it get lumped in with the Flat Earthers. It’s very hard to talk about the legit programs going on without being dismissed as crazy or “ignorant”. It’s long been a tactic to paint the other side as dumb or crazy and thus stifle actual discussion. We as a society need to rise above this.
The Vermont Legislature is advancing legislation requiring big fossil fuel companies pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after the state suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other extreme weather....
Seriously. We already have the legal concept of “acts of God” in every form of insurance. Great idea, but you’d have to uproot centuries of legal standards, and I just don’t see the opposition allowing that. It would open the door to so many more lawsuits.
Great idea, but I’ll wait to hear if it passes and what actual teeth it has.
The only person laughing is usually the person who made the joke and it’s generally just irritating to everyone else who just wants to get on with their day. I might feel differently if we like, got the day off work for April Fools Day I guess
Lol try saying that on someone’s April 1st post. You’ll get a lot of angry people because you think it’s annoying and you’re just “ruining their fun”. It’s been a fun morning lmfao
I don’t believe you. Not at all. Is this true? Maybe. But I’m not clicking anymore of your links after the other bs April 1st post. Thanks for living up to your name I guess.
Oh look, bullshit filling my feed. You know this just means I can’t trust anything you post today and will proceed to ignore any actual announcements, right? And anything cool that does actually happen today will be ignored?
Pranks need to be actual pranks. Not “I’m gonna lie to you because it’s April 1st”. That’s just lying during the one day everyone expects you to lie. It’s the most basic and lowest effort “prank”.
At issue is a once widely used test that overestimated how well Black people’s kidneys were functioning, making them look healthier than they really were — all because of an automated formula that calculated results for Black and non-Black patients differently. That race-based equation could delay diagnosis of organ failure...
Sickle cell anemia would like a word. Some diseases are absolutely more prevalent in certain races. The problem is we as a society fail to distinguish between “being racist” and “acknowledging differences”. You point out differences and suddenly you’re racist, even if it is relevant. In this case, it seems not to be relevant and is good it is being removed. But let’s not pretend there aren’t factual reasons for it to exist in some crcumstances.
Another example is pulse oxygen monitors being worse on melonated skin. It’s a result of the physical properties of the skin. Is it racist to acknowledge this and have different method for people with different skin types? Absolutely not.
Not everything is an identity issue. And it’s not “your platform” you egotistical prick. Fuck off yourself.
I’m sure you think this is cute and all, but it’s really annoying. Every tech site thinks it’s cute and quirky publishing some fake press release on April 1st. All it amounts to is a bunch of spam. You didn’t “gotcha” anyone, you just added to the noise we have to ignore for 2 days(it’s 6pm on March 31st here, so not even April Fools yet).
Can we just stop already? Or come up with something better than “we’re gonna do something terrible… Psych!”
Nah, I’m just gonna block this instance/you from my feed now. If this is the kind of content you’re sending to my front page, I don’t need any more. Thanks for the heads up 👍
You mean there’s not still a team of developers working full time to make sure your 8 year old hardware is still getting software/security parity? Color me shocked. Shocked I say! They should support your hardware for free forever! How dare they advance in such a way that it’s not possible for my 8 year old hardware to run the exact same as modern hardware that’s been updated and iterated hundreds of times since then.
“Hey, you know that belief system that attempts to answer the great unanswerable questions and gives you some shred of comfort? Nah, you live in an unfeeling, uncaring world. There is nothing, no great answer. Just living until you die.
Why are you crying?”
If you call yourself an atheist vs agnostic, I immediately just see an edgy teenager who wants to be confrontational. Not someone seeking actual answers or discussion. Most of the greatest scientific thinkers acknowledge that science is the answer to “how?”, but not “why?”. We simply don’t have that answer. Anyone claiming to is arrogant at best.
Found this interesting. I never saw the updated version, but I am guessing I probably wouldn’t have noticed the change. Just a random article I came across thinking you might enjoy. Or not. If I die, tell my wife hello.
I’ve found the free editors, including Firefoxs, will often treat an Adobe/AutoCad made PDF as a flat single image. Everything has been merged together. Adobe was the only thing that would let me still treat every line and box and text as individual.
Should Lemmy buy ads on Reddit? (fedidb.org)
User count has plateaued at about 420K...
Steve From “Blue's Clues” Touches Hearts of Millennials by Beating Dan Schneider to Death With His Bare Hands (thehardtimes.net)
fucking beautiful. almost a year into the 'verse and its starting to become more functional than that R place... better than i imagined. (cdn.catsweat.com)
Mother who pushed kids from moving car, killed partner was astrology influencer disturbed by eclipse (www.latimes.com)
Danielle Johnson was worried about the eclipse....
April 6th is International Asexual Awareness Day. (lemmy.ca)
Be aware!
Tennessee passes 'chemtrail' bill banning airborne chemicals (www.bbc.com)
me_irl (lemmy.world)
Vermont advances bill requiring fossil fuel companies pay for damage caused by climate change (apnews.com)
The Vermont Legislature is advancing legislation requiring big fossil fuel companies pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after the state suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other extreme weather....
Virtual Boy Pro for Nintendo Switch - Announcement Trailer (2024) (youtu.be)
April Fools Day is the dumbest holiday in existence
The only person laughing is usually the person who made the joke and it’s generally just irritating to everyone else who just wants to get on with their day. I might feel differently if we like, got the day off work for April Fools Day I guess
Preview ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 5 Premiere With New “Red Directive” & “Under The Twin Moons” Images (trekmovie.com)
BREAKING — Paramount Pictures “Moving On” from STAR TREK 4, Announces Development of New STAR TREK 5 Film (blog.trekcore.com)
A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing (apnews.com)
At issue is a once widely used test that overestimated how well Black people’s kidneys were functioning, making them look healthier than they really were — all because of an automated formula that calculated results for Black and non-Black patients differently. That race-based equation could delay diagnosis of organ failure...
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This laptop released in 2016 no longer receive OS updates. Which means I can't update Chrome Browser (lemmy.world)
Victory? [elder cactus] (lemmy.world)
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‘Futurama’ Fans Discover How A Tragedy Changed A Classic Joke — For the Better (www.cracked.com)
Found this interesting. I never saw the updated version, but I am guessing I probably wouldn’t have noticed the change. Just a random article I came across thinking you might enjoy. Or not. If I die, tell my wife hello.
Gimme like $300+ per year, chump. (lemmy.world)