Not_mikey @ Not_mikey @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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The person was talking about how certain people annoy them, he may have implied it was you but if you don't think description matches say so and move on.

But if we're talking about being a good digital neighbor, you should try and see how your implication is annoying or offensive. There are issues with credentialism but it is not just some arbitrary aristocracy, people put in a lot of work to get there credentials and take pride in them. If you start saying all these experts don't know what they're talking about and I found out something they couldn't is dismissive of all the work those experts put into learning about there field. Like don't you think doctors get annoyed by all the homeopaths or anti vaxers who dismiss all there work because theyve done there own research?

I guess she's leaving with some integrity. Hard disagree with most of her beliefs but at least she stuck to them and didn't just kowtow to the pedophile president.

Guess I have some of the same sort of respect for her that the right shows to Bernie, sort of a don Quixote lunatic with honor.

This and trump has been blowing off media that gives him "hostile" questions so he instinctively does it for his guests too. See his latest press conference with Mohammad bone saw.

The truth is Trump's greatest enemy is not socialists or woke, it's the media and he'll do anything to own them

It is a meaningless resolution, but the context / why they did is probably:

1. A socialist just won the election for mayor of New York and they're mad about that
2. They're gearing up for war with Venezuela and if people aren't buying that Maduro is the head of a drug cartel, then they can try the good old fashioned "we need to invade to free these poor people from the horrors of socialism" schtick that worked so well in the Cold war. The resolution puts Hugo Chávez and Nicolas Maduro on the same level as Stalin and Polpot.

I think it's more how your donors play to this performative bs, Jeffries is in Brooklyn and most of his district just elected a socialist for mayor.

What great crimes of history has Hugo Chavez committed?, feeding the poor. I'm no fan of Maduro either but putting him up there with stalin and polpot is farcicle.

guess they gotta start manufacturing consent now if they want to go to war with Venezuela before the midterms.

Assuming this is setting a price ceiling on tickets to there performer set price, then whoever refreshes the resale site most often and is able to get the tickets as soon as they go up will get them.

If anything this will hurt Ticketmaster as with any price control it will lead to a black market, so scalpers will just go there to sell there marked up tickets instead of Ticketmaster because Ticketmaster has to operate above board.

Initially yes, and they were probably grinning ear to ear when they first bought it, just like we were all grinning ear to ear when we first drove by ourselves, but once the novelty and excitement wear off it goes back to the meh face.

It's like skiing/snowboarding, the first couple times you go down a run your having a great time, but once it doesn't become a challenge then it loses its excitement and fun. With skiing though theres a lot more elements of variation (trees, bumps, jumps, narrow trails, grade variations, snow conditions ...) to keep things interesting whereas driving roads can only vary with curves and grades, both of which are in a much narrower band of variation for safety reasons.

There's a reason tons of people spend tons of money every year going skiing but not too many people are renting super cars to go and drive around the hills.

You almost never see anyone happy in a Ferrari either. Look inside one and you'll see someone with the same blank expression that you see on everyone driving and anyone on the bus. Despite what car commercials drill into your head no car will change that meh feeling.

wildly inaccurate "natural history"

If you consider the fact it was written in 1850 it is surprisingly accurate, like it was talking about whales eating giant squids a century before the scientific community accepted that.

Also the whale descriptions are the point, the book is about the enlightenment drive to understand and therefore master nature with Moby dick standing in as a refutation of that idea, being unconquerable no matter how much knowledge you have. Without the descriptions you could write off Ishmael and the crew as a bunch of idiots who just didn't have the know how to take down Moby dick.

It's not expensive if you make them work to pay for their room and board.

Sure that may be a bit like slavery, but true freedom requires a bit of slavery...

Are diabetics (which you'd probably become if you ate cheesecake daily) addicted to insulin then? Cause they definitely can't stop using there drug.

Addiction and dependence are two different things. Dependence means you have to take a drug otherwise you'll suffer negative consequences, addiction means you keep taking a drug despite the negative consequences it's causing. Dependence isn't a problem in and of itself, it becomes a problem when it's intertwined with addiction.

That's how you get more apathy and less people voting. Yes democrats have a problem with playing nice and not getting anything passed but they also have a larger identity problem of what they stand for and why people should vote for them, this is way more the reason Kamala lost then soft democrats as shown by the lack of turnout. If democrats don't stand for democracy, what are they standing for?

Also the more prevalent this becomes the more they will use it against there left flank as well. The less there is a threat of a third party emerging due to gerrymandering, the more centrist the democrats can go and the more they can ignore the left.

Maybe not the most trusted ource but where I got it from https://www.giant-sequoia.com/faqs/giant-sequoia-questions/:

The sequoias have a matting, shallow, and wide spreading root system. There is no taproot. They only root to 12 to 14 feet deep even at maturity.

I feel like an instant pot would be a better replacement for a cauldron. IDK how well you're going to be able to make a potion in an air fryer.

OP might but a majority of people won't, thus contributing to the landfill issue compared to if the controller just came with a rechargeable battery.

Yeah but most people don't buy them. If you release a product that uses aa batteries most people are going to buy disposable ones and most of them will not dispose of them properly and just throw them in the trash. Some people using rechargeable AA batteries is nice but it's better to just remove the option for disposable batteries and make it with a builtin rechargeable battery.

How do you go on 5 day ecstasy binge?, your tolerance increases very quickly. Unless he just keeps upping his dose and can afford to be taking hundreds of dollars of molly every couple hours, he was probably just on meth

It seems a lot of your critiques are more of the media in general and not social media.

if I got my news and my understanding of the world from Lemmy, it would be easy to believe a whole bunch of people in the United States have given up on civil society and committed themselvesto political violence.

Yeah and if I got my news from Fox News or the New York post it would be easy to believe the cities are full of gangs of maurading immigrants. At least lemmy doesn't pretend to be a "fair and balanced" representative of the US. Everyone here knows lemmy is far left relative to the US just like they know everyone's not using or interested in Linux .

As for the favoring of longer form more in depth content vs short form out of context content, that's just what people like and are drawn to regardless of the media type. More people will watch TV news with shorter segments and less content then a newspaper, and more people will watch late night with even shorter form and less context then TV news. And then there are people who don't watch or engage with the news at all because they have other things to do.

If anything lemmy is better then a lot of the other social media because it doesn't disincentivize links. Most other platforms the algorithm is optimizing for watch time / keeping you on the platform, so links to long form news articles get down rated because if you click on that link and go to that site for 5 mins, that's 5 mins your not spending on the platform. For that sample you took half of the top posts were links to articles, see how long it would take you to find one article link scrolling through tik tok.

Of course, the most passionate, angry, dramatic, and emotion-provoking memes get the most upvotes and go to the top of the algorithm.

Again this is a problem with all media, if it bleeds it leads has been an adage for centuries.

In general lemmy is showing people what they want to see, which media in general has always tried to do. Yes there are a lot of valid critiques of the behavior that this prerogative incentivizes, but that's different than the critiques of algorithmic social media that prioritizes engagement and staying on the platform, which brings in a whole new set of problematic incentives in addition to the standard problems of media.