I know we pretty much all hated spez for all the shit he pulled, but a few weeks ago the tone towards reddit itself around here was more neutral. People liked it here on Lemmy a lot better, but people weren’t hating on the old place so much....
Reddit used to be a lawless land that didn’t care about comedy accounts or multiple accounts or shit posts. No one ever got banned. No one ever got censored. It was fun. People didn’t take it that seriously.
The last few years however it’s been turning into basically any other social media site. Politics everywhere, censorship galore and bans handed out willy nilly based on nothing more than ideologies and opinions, mods and admins tightly controlling narratives of threads and entire subs, and just slowly eroding what made it a fun site to visit. Certain political ideologies have taken over and anything outside of those opinions is insta-banned. Going to Reveddit or uneddit (i think thats the name of the second one) and looking at any “hot topic” thread was eye opening - mods and admins removing dozens/hundreds of completely harmless comments because they didn’t like the opinion that was shared, leaving no trace that the comments even existed, giving the perception that there wasn’t any censoring going on.
I don’t hate reddit. I deleted my 12+ year old account and left because it isn’t the site I liked, and an alternative now exists in Lemmy. I think Reddit is a shitty site now that is basically a highly censored astroturfed political site, but I don’t care that I’m no longer using it.
People on here are hating reddit more now because more and more people are coming here from reddit because of the shitty things reddit has been doing.
It's hard knowing that your favourite small subs are a ticking time bomb; once they get too large they tend to be too strictly controlled and the content quality drops.
The difference is that Oppenheimer was ostensibly in a race against a fascist regime to get the bomb, with the fate of the free world hanging in the balance.
Zuck and Musk and Jeff just want to make more money.
They lured people into spending money on getting awards. Now they are not only removing the award system, but going back and retroactively removing awards that have already been given out, effectively taking peoples money and not providing the service that the money paid for.
I know we’ve been over this before, but “unskilled” jobs are necessary, Mike. The people who do them deserve to live too, my guy. The poverty wages aren’t the only thing motivating people to avoid those jobs, and that should be firsthand knowledge for you, pal.
And it’s not like it takes a lot of skill to look down your nose at people for 10 seasons of television. With all due respect, kindly fuck off.
In Nigeria, fuel costs have tripled over the last month and are expected to rise even further, a major hit to millions of people who are struggling to get by already.
Biden has done absolutely nothing to improve my QOL. Still terrified of a medical issue. Friends still can’t afford homes. All of the major societal problems from the last 40 years are still here and there’s no one that will do anything about it.
Getting people off the street is a priority for Gov. Gavin Newsom. But even with massive funding and new data on who is homeless and why, the state is struggling to see change.
It’s really not all that complicated: it’s the homes, stupid.
I live in the central valley, which dominates California’s y-axis; it’s home to a lot of the California cities you may have heard of but have no idea where the fuck they go in the map, like Modesto or Fresno. Here’s the point, the central valley kinda sucks, nobody should be excited about living in Modesto for any reason, ever. We don’t have skyscrapers and beaches here; we have shitty air quality, cows, and perpetually angry farmers. That hasn’t stopped rents from absolutely exploding in the 11 years I’ve been here. Rent in podunk ass Los Banos (Pop ~40,000 rounding up, bedroom community for bay area commuters) has cleared $3000 a month for a pretty standard suburban home, and clears $2000 for a small two bedroom. Only it’s not just Los Banos, it’s everywhere.
This isn’t rocket science, folks; it’s econ 101. You have more demand than supply, your prices go up. Well, not only has California not been adding to it’s housing supply over the years, but we’ve had cities actively fighting any efforts to build anything that isn’t single family homes. I spoke to someone at CA YIMBY (Yes In My Back Yard) who told me that San Jose shot down some 98% of proposed high-density housing because they wanted to “preserve the small town feel of San Jose”. Ah, yes, the small town of San Jose. More than that, though, every step Newsom has taken to try and get more housing built has been viciously opposed by (mostly bay area) municipalities. Imo, it’s because with property values utterly divorced from reality, it’s stupid easy tax revenue; plus their landowner buddies are taking in rent hand over fist, so they have all the incentive in the world to preserve the status quo.
You want to fix homelessness in California? Start plunking down commie blocks. I’m dead ass serious, pick a city block and just put 400 housing units on it with room for a couple of commercial units on the bottom. Now do it again, and again, and again, and don’t fucking stop until landlords are forced to compete and stop, I shit you not, demanding essays from prospective tenants in their lease application.
“but conditional soup, you can’t make me live in an affordable communist box.” First of all, shut your mouth when you talk to me. Secondly, I never said I would make you live in a commie block. People who value paying an affordable rate to be able to stay of the street will rent the commie blocks; people who don’t mind paying extra to get extra will still rent single family, but they’ll still be better off because those rents should come down, too.
“But people don’t want to live like sardines!” <- Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged. Nobody wants to be homeless, either. I think between an affordable sardine can and being homeless because single family housing costs too damn much, I’d take the sardine can. Most people would.
Of course, like anything that would fuck up the money printer to make people’s lives just slightly less miserable, it’s a really controversial take in practice. People act like building more housing is literally the ghost of communism. Instead we should be doing infinite studies on the causes of homelessness, funding enormously expensive programs that frankly only help a few people, and go on generally trying to make life so miserable that maybe the homeless will just vanish some day. Will affordable housing fix all homelessness? No, of course not, but it is enormously helpful in addressing the problem, and it won’t even start to get better until we do something about the housing shortage
I know you don’t like learning things but not all gender-affirming care is surgery/hormone therapy. Though one surgery that is gender affirming care is literally boob jobs for cis women (I’m guessing you aren’t hoping to ban that too) For pretty much all kids it’s literally just talking to a therapist about their issues; something you should consider doing!
Conservatives don't actually care about kids at all. Which is why they're fine with forced child marriage, fine with forced "corrective" surgery on intersex kids that they always put an exception in for their anti-trans bills, and fine with girls getting breast enlargement surgeries.
Because it's not about protecting kids or "consent", it's about having a new boogeyman to fight against, now that it's at least slightly more morally objectionable to go after gay people, though that's not stopping them from trying there either.
“But I’m rich, dammit, and want to showy friends how much cooler I am than them! I’ve been training for w weeks now, dammit, just let me get up there! I’ve hired three Sherpas to carry my stuff’s so I’m helping their little economy. They should be THANKING ME. Wait until my husband hears about this!”
According to critics of the overhaul, cancelling the reasonableness standard will seriously damage the judicial system’s ability to reverse extreme acts by the government such as corrupt appointments and dismissals in key posts. It will also limit the court’s ability to protect the election process from corruption, and ordinary citizens from arbitrary, illogical administrative decrees.
Netanyahu and Co. are trying to take away the ability of the judiciary to block “unreasonable” governmental actions. A hard step toward authoritarianism.
I can't turn on the radio TV without them talking about AI every 5 minutes. It's bitcoin bullshit allover again. Or Big Data, or 'new media' or etc etc.
This is why competition in the online space is essential and we need strong regulation to kill the network effects that keep Twitter and reddit afloat.
A platform should not be able to unilaterally censor anyone.
Boston, called a "bicycling paradise" in the 1800s, should encourage more residents to commute on two wheels. The city’s proposal to add a protected bike lane on Boylston Street is a step in that direction.
People are selfish and stupid no matter the age. My city is full of people driving gas guzzlers, traveling all the time, and ordering UberEats for every meal. They are all under 45. Then gen Z are particular bad and refuse to use public transit.
It's not about age. It's about class/wealthy. The poor use far fewer resources than the wealthy do. Rich young people are living in 5000sq ft homes by themselves and burning through natural gas and oil. They aren't living in 500sq ft apartment like ordinary folks.
Newbury Street is a mile-long, eight block stretch of shops, salons, galleries and restaurants. This famous Boston street becomes a pedestrian-only walkway on Sundays in the summer. The street is closed to vehicles to allow pedestrians the opportunity to use the full width of the street, from Berkeley Street to Massachusetts...
Where did all this reddit hatred come from?
I know we pretty much all hated spez for all the shit he pulled, but a few weeks ago the tone towards reddit itself around here was more neutral. People liked it here on Lemmy a lot better, but people weren’t hating on the old place so much....
A 10-day UPS strike could cost the US economy $7.1 billion. That could make it the costliest work stoppage ever in US history, according to an estimate from a Michigan economic research firm that s... (edition.cnn.com)
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Christopher Nolan wants Oppenheimer to be a warning for Silicon Valley (lemmy.world)
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Reddit is committing LITERAL FRAUD (www.reddit.com)
"I worry that the path to a skilled trade can be compromised when you offer an artificially high wage for, I hate the expression, but an unskilled job." ~ Mike Rowe (www.foxbusiness.com)
The host of Dirty Jobs said that when asked about the debate of the raising the minimum wage in April 2021.
Fuel prices have tripled in Nigeria, squeezing millions who are already struggling (www.npr.org)
In Nigeria, fuel costs have tripled over the last month and are expected to rise even further, a major hit to millions of people who are struggling to get by already.
Two brothers, aged 3 and 6, are among 4 people wounded by a shooter on a scooter at a crowded New York park, police say by (www.cnn.com)
Biden confronts a 'pissed-off generation' of young voters who may be decisive in 2024 (www.nbcnews.com)
California has spent billions to fight homelessness. The problem has gotten worse (www.cnn.com)
Getting people off the street is a priority for Gov. Gavin Newsom. But even with massive funding and new data on who is homeless and why, the state is struggling to see change.
Senators call for Supreme Court to follow ethics code like other branches of government (apnews.com)
Why Are Conservatives So Obsessed With Trans Kids? (youtu.be)
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At Least 5 Dead After Helicopter Carrying Tourists Crashes Near Mount Everest (time.com)
Live Updates: Israeli 'day of resistance' erupts after key judicial overhaul bill vote (www.haaretz.com)
Jump on the bandwagon (lemmy.world)
Twitter account suspended for tracking Elon Musk’s jet joins Meta’s Threads (www.theguardian.com)
Make way for bicycles on Boylston - The Boston Globe (www.bostonglobe.com)
Boston, called a "bicycling paradise" in the 1800s, should encourage more residents to commute on two wheels. The city’s proposal to add a protected bike lane on Boylston Street is a step in that direction.
Southern US Reaches Dangerous "Wet Bulb Temperature". Here's What That Means (www.iflscience.com)
Multiple southern states and a few midwestern states are at "extreme threat" levels of "wet bulb temperature".
Open Newbury Street - Sundays through October 15th (www.boston.gov)
Newbury Street is a mile-long, eight block stretch of shops, salons, galleries and restaurants. This famous Boston street becomes a pedestrian-only walkway on Sundays in the summer. The street is closed to vehicles to allow pedestrians the opportunity to use the full width of the street, from Berkeley Street to Massachusetts...