This happening in Portland screams that it was a performance by a dipshit conservative, like the trump sycophant that spray painted his own garage door worth something like "ANTEEFAH RULZZ" and eventually got caught.
Just so you're aware, friend... Lemmy is auto-translating all your posts for all other users - This is what we see wherever you post:
"I was kicked in the head by a horse 4 years ago"
Hoping you get the help you need, bud. Sure, you shouldn't have been playing with that horse's bunghole, but you didn't deserve all this.
"Who on earth" doesn't only speak of quantity, it also speaks of quality.
The amount of decent, quality people with something to say and contribute to the Twitter is down to almost nothing, relative to what it was prior to elon.
You can lose "just" 20% of the cereal in your bowl of lucky charms... Yes, most of the mass is still technically in the bowl, but you can lose all the marshmallows in that equation, meaning you've lost all the color, texture and flavor that made the whole thing interesting in the first place - you're then only left with the mostly flavorless, empty, gray, soggy kibble pieces. You're mistaking a pulse, for a meaningful quality of life.
So, that's modern Twitter, it's the plain gray kibble* disintegrating in warming milk. And for "fun" they've actually added dog shit, rat poison and rusted razor blades to the kibble.
They increasingly can't view those posts though.
And I'd argue that the general public actually does care, you can see this reflected in places like all EV sales rising EXCEPT for tesla, Twitter losing half of its advertising revenue (a reflection of elon/Twitter being toxic to their sales goals and the platform rapidly losing eyeballs) and of course basic meme culture. The public care enough to laugh at and reject him.
So actually a lot of reality in clear opposition of your unsupported opinion there...
Reality is much less people than previous. Careful of the metrics you're looking at when they originate with elon - he's notorious for creative accounting with the equivalent of counting a Twitter "impression" as anyone who typed a "t" into their search bar.
She's a parasite on a cancer.
Man, that convicted felon don trump sure says some goofy, dangerous bullshit from his brain-eating syphilis hole.
The United Foot Shooters of Alaska would like to enthusiastically cast their vote IN FAVOR of shooting ourselves in our own feet! Join us?
Made your daddy proud... Proud...
I hope some of the "artists" that make those photos of "trump" with shirt off and a fake chiseled, glistening physique get unintentionally caught up in this grant cancellation - you know these images, the ones they stare at for hours while locked in the bathroom thinking about how straight they are.
I understand your apprehension, sometimes the stubborn folks need to actually feel the pain before they realize they actually will give a little... Hopefully your community can move the person to shift
Is that the evil ventriloquist dummy from Goosebumps?
Who the fuck still uses Twitter?
This is like a press release about a random gopher farting in the woods in Prague - this "news" is mildly relevant to a total of 7 people in the entire universe.
A video game where you and a rotating groups of strangers each pretend you're cars that are playing soccer.
Correction, musk isn't helping anything
"...because we've probably already hired 90% of them in the history of our company"
I heard a person call into a show the other day, voice only, and talk about some poor working conditions at a factory. Made me think about how it would probably be so easy for nefarious bosses to be able to identify that person through voice recognition SW with all of the data that comes from us looking directly into cameras and speaking clearly in modern workplace meetings.
Do "anonymous" callers need to start using voice modulation software for these kinds of calls in the modern world?
As a little background, I didn't actively use Reddit for months following the blackout. I still barely stop in over there and if I do I'm never logged in our contributing to the communities there (where I was previously a daily poster/commenter).
Just bringing up a point that I'm not sure I'd seen anyone discussing directly over here; the general sentiment and quality of posted information on Reddit has become tangibly worse in multiple ways (I think coinciding with this group, us, leaving).
Now don't get me wrong, Reddit sucked in many ways and for long before the migrations to Lemmy, but there is a noticeable difference in a few key areas:
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Less skepticism in replies
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Less sourcing of information in posts and replies
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Less counter positions expressed generally
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If there is a decent reply, you have to scroll much further down to find it
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Less plain labeling of obvious bullshit
Many of us used to introduce counter viewpoints or clarifying information into posts, with sources. That functionally worked as a roadblock to stall the quickly building momentum of disinformation/misinformation. Those roadblocks often feel absent over there now, IMO.
Not saying we hold a responsibility to go back there or that we were saving lives before, but the difference is very apparent to me - Have you seen it? Any examples?
Assuming to artificially secure people with new memberships through their first 4-6 weeks to establish a habit through the first billing cycle. Is this a known thing?
Through the great depression...
When 9/11 happened...
The 2008 housing crash...
COVID...
On a smaller scale, when the Titanic sank, I'm assuming someone inevitably got rich from the aftermath somehow?
Who are the people/groups that make up history's must successful parasites? Who "came out on top" in each instance of historical human suffering?
So obviously we're all on Lemmy for a complicated combination of reasons, but we all likely share some common ground, namely...
- need for privacy
- need to own/control/access the data we produce
- healthy skepticism about the trustworthiness of for-profit corporations, in general
So if we don't want meta to know even innocuous things; like how many times/when we message our grandma, and we don't google to know when we're searching for remedies to a rash, and we don't want reddit to... Well we just don't want reddit - we don't want them to profit from or weaponize that data against us in a myriad ways.
We also don't want them artificially removing features and creating tiered layers of service/value hidden behind a paywall (I understand this is very present in the some of the commercially available DNA services).
So that brings me to DNA testing services. Since they started to emerge in the mainstream they were immediately an interesting, exciting novelty and I also knew it was data I wouldn't feel safe trusting with a for-profit org - with broken systems like law enforcement and health insurers on speed dial and just salivating for the goodies they collect.
So all that considered, any groups that provide this type of service that you do trust/use, and why?
Hey all, I used to use a to do app and can't remember name, it was very distinct though, please help!
- visual aesthetic was of an IRL open paper journal (distinct touch: out had a coffee stain on upper corner of the paper)
- extremely simple, text input on lines and a checkbox to complete (animation of pen crossing by hand would play IIRC)
- only option besides complete/delete was to move to "tomorrow". Then when you flipped the page (animation) you'd see the next day's tasks.
- only looked at today and tomorrow in favor of simplicity
- For some reason, I want to think it was just called "today" or "tomorrow".
Any ideas?