Eh, if it’s not environmental disaster due to climate change, I have a hunch it might be microplastics or forever chemicals. That’s what I expect will do me in before old age does.
And to think that I was seriously considering moving up north to the Great Lakes to get away from Climate Change and to move to a place that actually has fresh water. Joke’s on me, that fresh water has microplastics to kill me. Total Catch-22.
It’s true. It’s why I feel that Mastodon will never replace Twitter. It’s too much of a left wing circlejerk / bubble, and they’re actively hostile to even moderate viewpoints. much less actually conservative ones.
I’m probably in the minority in this, but I believe that even people I don’t agree with should have a platform and be tolerated as long as they’re reasonable and willing to compromise and show respect, as long as they’re not racist nazi nutjobs.
The world isn’t exclusively made up of one set of ideas, and you shouldn’t shut out 75% of all viewpoints just because they don’t agree with yours, imo.
I don’t see how this works in the long run, if they have to put paid corporate drones in charge of moderation. Wasn’t the entire point of Reddit that they don’t have to pay moderators?
This kind of strategy is lose / lose. If spez want an IPO, well this kind of crap is tanking that IPO.
Given how much of a douche he’s being (and only because he has organizational power, and not because he has people skills) in the event of a disaster, he’d probably be one of the ones to bite it first, or to be sent on an mission for expendables, to be honest.
When you can’t just wave around money or org chart power to solve your problems, then people will start showing how they really feel about you. The way he’s running Reddit into the ground shows that he’s not a good leader, and the way he’s pissing everyone off right now by following in the footsteps of a huge failure (Musk) who’s also a jerk is just proving that he’s an idiot AND a douche that wouldn’t do well if society went awry.
If you’re joining the Fediverse to take Reddit down and migrate people over… then it makes sense to talk about it. Have to strategize to identify your enemy’s weaknesses it order to take 'em down. And while you’re doing it, negative things about Reddit will come out. Even if it does end up being complaining, it’s part of the process and it’ll make people feel better while also doubling as important brainstorming.
I used to think this was true too, but then I realized that the fundamental problem with capitalism is that it’s incompatible with democracy and regulation. That’s why literally every capitalist country on earth (including the wealthy ones) has a problem with regulatory capture, corruption, and buyout and supplanting of the actual government.
Capitalism encourages the greediest, trickiest, and most selfish people to rise to the top and stay there through a mixture of brute force and media manipulation. In essence, it’s not much different than totalitarian authoritarian governments, it’s just more subtle.
Look at Fox news and right wing media bubbles for instance, or the Democratic party which opposes ranked choice voting whenever it can and constantly says one thing and does another. Humans are too greedy, selfish, and short-sighted to live and exist for long under a system like capitalism. How do we know this? Look around, climate change and pollution’s already serious and it’s not changing anytime soon.
We’re probably already fucked, and we just don’t know how much we are just yet.
I upvoted you, but I think some people just downvote and move on not because they 100% disagree with you, but because they don’t quite have the time to post a detailed reply, and they’re probably hoping someone else does on their behalf, which they will upvote if it’s close to what they’re trying to say.
Not enough hours in a day to type out a detailed response to a downvote (or even upvotes) when you have so many other things on your plate. I’m guessing they were trying to say something like, “I didn’t choose to leave decentrazlied platforms, I’m still on them. Everyone else did, I had to follow them if I wanted to keep in touch with my family and friends.”
But that’s just a stab in the dark, honestly.
Equal distribution of wealth and power, along with trying to create universal standards of communication (I.E. speaking reading and writing) would help probably.
Plus universal access to education and birth control. And ENFORCING equality by making sure there is no such thing as inherited wealth. Each new generation would have to start form the same point. I know it might seem a little extreme, but I think it’s the only way to prevent oligarchies, monarchies, and huge concentrations of power that distort society from forming.
Plus, guaranteed clean food, water, housing, and basic healthcare for all. Get rid of the reasons for conflict, and make sure those who want to start conflicts can’t ever mass enough power to start wars and we won’t have them. A lot harder to justify fighting when you personally have to do it all yourself because you can’t order others to just do it for you.
Underrated reply. Twitter is definitely a place where a bunch of people follow a small group of famous people and content creators almost like lemmings. (The irony that lemmy isn’t like despite users being called lemmings isn’t lost on me)
Mastodon is a bit better, but also strangely seems to be focused on big names and groups as well, just different ones and to a lesser extent. It’s one of the reasons I spend less time on there and more on Kbin / Lemmy.
On the positive side, it’s from Mastodon that I learned about Kbin and Lemmy to begin with.
That’s what they’re hoping, but what they’re probably going to find is that “eat the rich” might become more than a metaphor, and that once people with the guns and muscles realize that they don’t have to listen to the rich anymore…
They warned us even back in the 70’s that it was bad, then it’d suddenly get worse all of a sudden with little to no warning as things snowballed, but of course the oil execs just tried to shut up their own scientists and block them from influencing congress instead of listening. Even though they were warned that the threat was “Existential”.
Very true and underrated. If the conservationists and scientists had the means to control the government, we could find a way to coexist in balance with nature (while keeping many technological creature comforts) basically forever.
There are many ways, it’s just that almost none of them are profitable, and even if some of the mare, they’re not profitable enough to be worth it to crony capitalists.
Depending on which version of Superman the answer could be all over the place, but generally Superman wins unless there’s kryptonite or red sun radiation involved.
Recent versions of Superman are basically overpowered twinks. So much so that the comics have to really grasp to make him vulnerable and are really inconsistent with his power levels (which to be fair, have always been wildly inconsistent) to get him to lose or even draw a fight.
Nothing outside of reality warping godlike beings or top tier magicians have a chance of facing him, as he can just destroy most purely physical threats with a combination of strength, speed, senses, durability, and regeneration. Plus psychic resistance on top of that.
The only reason he loses as much as he does is because bad writing / “so the plot can happen”.
It’s cloning. Canadian cloning. Like Ryan George and all his clone who run the entertainment industry in Canada. Producer, director, writer, sound guy, intern, etc.
In fact… you’re all probably clones of Ryan George. Check to see if you’re a Canadian named Ryan. Tons of you guys out there.
Because lemmings are cute. Lemons are just something you squeeze the juice out of to make lemonade or just lemon water to clean your liver.
It’s slow, but I’d argue that the quality is better. So that kind of makes up for it a bit, imo. And being slow means more people can just browse everything Federated on the front page (of K-bin at least) and get into new stuff they wouldn’t have considered before.
Ryan… uh any last name. All the Ryans!
Reynolds, Gosling, George… and all the others, too many to count.
The guy I’m responding to: probably a Ryan. The next Canadian who replies to this? Probably a Ryan. Me? I’m not Canadian, so no. It’s illegal to name your child Ryan if you’re not Canadian is what I heard.
Depending on the dishwasher, that may not be a good idea as the label can clog the dishwasher filter though.
Yeah, I know the feeling. I had to wait for about 30 minutes for a haircut and didn’t have much on my phone to look at. I was in the middle of this Blue Archive video when I got called up. Just finished it now:
Kind of, but more “slightly amusing” than funny.