At first it was all about presenting data in an original looking way. In the end it was about pushing political ideas in your throat using a plain bar graph. It was not about sharing something interesting you found but about taking advantage of a captive audience.
There was a point where Ama was big enough to attract some interesting people but Reddit was still small enough that it wasn't just media circuit. Then it just became another polished, one sided, commercial, media trained nonsense
WYSK: There funded by dark money PACS, but some good reporting has brought out these names: David Koch, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, Harlan Crow, and Michael Bloomberg. Some of there members are most famous for stopping big bills. Joe Leiberman, for example, single handedly stopped the single payer portion of the ACA....
In the current fptp system it has to be. Until ranked choice for president and proportional representation for the house then usually the left will shatter. The republic strongest point is they all vote under one big group even if they disagree internally. All splitting the vote will do is empower that "team"
Not even majority....just plurality trump lost the popular vote and the more you split it the less majority is needed (until ranked choice or runoffs is brought in). In the UK the current government holds absolute power on just 38% of the popular vote thanks to first past the post and constituency based representation.
I'm UK but we are similar with local elections, my mates seat in district council was conservative (our center right) for ever, so much so the candidate in last 2 election (8years) was uncontested and so just as a protest he decided to run as a labour (center left) in the last election. His local party paid him lip service but really only access to a printer and a few materials and a tiny spot on a blogwebpage. He never thought he would get in. He just wanted to be a protest so people didn't have to either tick con or not vote
But as he talked to people on doorstop he found more and more unsatisfied with conservatives.byhen come election day he got 60% of the vote, support for the con has collapsed. He now has found himself going ot district council meetings and in a coalition of power as the council swung to lib-lab-green as many other seats had similar results.
That's what I'm saying there was a lot of party loyalty here, until con fucked up COVID and then had a leader that lasted shorter than a supermarket lettuce and even still doubled the cost of a mortguage with atrocious budget.
Similar in the us didn't a few states turn blue in the last election that you never would have thought of, like Arizona or Georgia and even texas on the move left.
A prominent U.S. lawsuit to ban the abortion pill mifepristone has focused on the drug's safety and approval process. But the outcome may ultimately rest on a different issue: whether Ingrid Skop, an anti-abortion doctor in Texas, and other physicians behind the lawsuit can justify suing in the first place.
comes between that and William Bligh of the bounty. following mutiny his small crew was cast adrift 35 miles to the south of Tofua near the Kingdom of Tonga in a 23ft open keel-less boat. They were able to safely navigate across 4000 miles of open ocean to Kupang, Timor
I think this is also the cause of the squabbles.io Vs kbin/Lemmy split. Squabbles is like new Reddit, kbin is like old Reddit. And people like what they know
She has some criticisms for her past as an attorney, but I’m not sure why she’s so disliked now. What has she done to engender such distaste from the public?
I've actually come back round to cinema recently after spending near 15years avoiding it.
I like the fact I turn my phone off, cant nip to the kitchen, cant see that pile of dirty washing or have the machine beeping to hang it out. Cinema is the one bit of true focus I have left without distractions. Now I could with a bit of self control enforce that on myself at home, but my mind niggles in there.
Mystery In Moscow As Russian Bank Vice-President ‘Falls Out Of A Window’ (euroweeklynews.com)
What was the subreddit that represented to you the best example of downspiral of quality? To me it was /r/dataisbeautiful
At first it was all about presenting data in an original looking way. In the end it was about pushing political ideas in your throat using a plain bar graph. It was not about sharing something interesting you found but about taking advantage of a captive audience.
YSK: No Labels is a political party trying to run a spoiler candidate for President in 2024 that should not be taken seriously.
WYSK: There funded by dark money PACS, but some good reporting has brought out these names: David Koch, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, Harlan Crow, and Michael Bloomberg. Some of there members are most famous for stopping big bills. Joe Leiberman, for example, single handedly stopped the single payer portion of the ACA....
“Reddit cannot survive without its moderators. It cannot.” That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/29/23778407/reddit-cannot-survive-without-its-moderators-it-cannot
US Supreme Court reverses affirmative action, ending race-conscious college admissions (www.npr.org)
US abortion pill access could hinge on whether doctors had right to sue (www.reuters.com)
A prominent U.S. lawsuit to ban the abortion pill mifepristone has focused on the drug's safety and approval process. But the outcome may ultimately rest on a different issue: whether Ingrid Skop, an anti-abortion doctor in Texas, and other physicians behind the lawsuit can justify suing in the first place.
remaster when? (lemmy.world)
Guilty
Reddit protest plunges user engagement, site activity and ad portal visits (techcrunch.com)
Reddit protest by its community moderators has impacted user engagements, traffic and visits to its ad portal since its beginning on June 12.
What are some events in recorded history that are extremely hard to believe, but without a doubt actually happened?
I've watched the Oversimplified Video and there was a bit about Wilmer McClean....
I don’t understand people who say they can’t figure out Lemmy or KBin
Does federation have a bit of a learning curve? No doubt....
Slide to the left
This single sentence is the best summary I have seen yet of the way Reddit admins/corporate is treating moderators and supporters: "The beatings will continue until morale improves"
Sometimes it gets spicy and the rectangle cable goes in the rectangle hole (lemmy.ca)
UK and Ireland - Paramount+ Officially Share Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Series 2 Episode 1 full episode for Free on Youtube (www.youtube.com)
Watch the first episode of series 2 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, right here, for free. You can stream the entire series on Paramount+.
Fuck yeah, r/android is still on lockdown
Props to the mods over there!...
Pneumatic tubes were used to deliver mail! (slrpnk.net)
You can read more about the fascinating history here: about.usps.com/who-we-are/…/pneumatic-tubes.pdf...
Why is Kamala Harris disliked so much as VP? (www.axios.com)
She has some criticisms for her past as an attorney, but I’m not sure why she’s so disliked now. What has she done to engender such distaste from the public?
What is your boomer opinion
What opinion just makes you look like you aged 30 years