It's not necessarily about competition, it's about visibility. If I create something and I want to share it with people, that means I want people to see it. It doesn't necessarily mean "I want people to see this more than other posts", just "I'd rather not be posting into the void".
For instance, I make YouTube Shorts for a game I play. I don't post them on Lemmy anymore, because the Lemmy community for the game only has 60 subscribers, most of whom aren't even active accounts anymore. The highest-upvoted thread in the community has 47 votes, the second-highest only has 9. This translates to effectively nobody on Lemmy seeing the videos I made, because this small, slow-paced community's posts get drowned out by everything else.
It's a signal-to-noise issue. There are some smaller communities I'd like to keep an eye on, but the posts from those communities get drowned out by the more active ones. I miss a lot of posts that I would have liked to have seen because of this.
Then Brian Thompson gets shot. Literally the next day United Health Care announced they would not follow through on their previously announced ceasure of anestesia coverage. They would remain covering it. Why? Because the board of suits asked "Am I next?"
This is not an accurate description at all. It was delayed in only select states, but they still followed through with that change for a vast majority of states. The only policy change brought by Thompson's death was that UHC execs hired better security details.
Whatever you do, you shouldn't accidentally spill saltwater on it. That could destroy a very expensive piece of spying equipment, and would be a terrible, tragic accident that could interfere with the advance of nazism.
You should check out Embark Studios' (ARC Raiders dev) other game, The Finals. Literally the most innovative FPS I've ever played, it completely reinvents the competitive shooter genre.
It feels pretty accurate to my own experiences. No matter what time I start work, I have to make sure I wake up no more than 90 minutes before it's time to leave. For instance, my current shift starts at 5:30 P, so I wake up at 4:00 P. Otherwise, the longer I'm awake, the more time I have to convince myself of reasons to call out for the day.
I keep seeing this (or one of the dozens of variations of this same build) in my Amazon suggestions, and keep wanting to pick one up as a joke. Thank you for doing that dirty work for me.
But it's so stupid that I may still have to buy one, anyway.
First, why the fuck are ICE doing home searches now? Based on an ANONYMOUS TIP? With information that was over 2 years out of date? Where's the fucking warrant?
Second, around my place, our pets are our family members. If you come into my home and shoot any of my family, you'd better damn well shoot me next, and quickly, because otherwise I'm going to fucking murder you where you stand.
It's not necessarily about competition, it's about visibility. If I create something and I want to share it with people, that means I want people to see it. It doesn't necessarily mean "I want people to see this more than other posts", just "I'd rather not be posting into the void".
For instance, I make YouTube Shorts for a game I play. I don't post them on Lemmy anymore, because the Lemmy community for the game only has 60 subscribers, most of whom aren't even active accounts anymore. The highest-upvoted thread in the community has 47 votes, the second-highest only has 9. This translates to effectively nobody on Lemmy seeing the videos I made, because this small, slow-paced community's posts get drowned out by everything else.