How does Startpage compare to DDG?

Just because some things are ambiguous doesn’t mean all things are ambiguous

They also provide a protective layer that helps prevent the cereal from getting crushed. Potato chips do the same thing by adding a lot of air to the bag

I think the word ‘unironically’ has started to fill the void left behind after the word ‘literally’ was changed to mean ‘figuratively’

Where I’m from we have a major river flowing through the heart of our city and we turn it into a frozen ice rink every Winter. Works great until the windchill hits the minus forties or fifties, then it’s time to stay inside with a nice cup of hot tea

Jesus Christ man this is schizo shit. Calm down. This post has 265 comments. I was inundated with stuff in my inbox. I wasn’t able to keep track of every link anyone ever sent me, and I couldn’t read every response immediately either

How cold does it get there?

Do you think the people on lemmy repeating these claims are largely just falling victim for it, or are a lot of these accounts run by disinfo influncers?

How’s life in New Zealand?

Meshtastic does seem very cool

In context it doesn’t seem like much of a warning. “Shots fired” is an idiom, freedictionary.com defines it as follows:

a humorous phrase used to acknowledge that someone has said or done something insulting or argumentative.

When you look at the quote in context that seems to be how she is using the term

What can I, as a regular guy, do to help make this happen?

Although, if it was real, then the Secret Service really fell down on the job.

I heard they caught the guy at the first security checkpoint, or is that not true

The lemmy administrators did recently get into a spat with someone who seems…motivated and unique.

What happened here?

Was it a bad idea for there to be mass defederation of the MAGA instance? Not asking because I support that viewpoint (like most Canadians I am very anti-MAGA) but I wonder if it would have reduced the echo-chamber effects you’re describing

Do you suspect that there’s an organized disinformation campaign responsible for amplifying these ideas?

Yeah, this seems to be the right explanation. I thought that since so many people seemed to be buying into this that there might be some evidence of something suspicious going on, but so far I’ve read through most of these comments and I’ve they are all pretty underwhelming. There doesn’t seem to be any strong evidence of foul play here.

For example a lot of people are going on about how his press secretary said there would be “shots fired” beforehand. But when you actually look at it in context it’s clear that she was just saying that as a figure of speech, saying that Trump was gonna land some zingers. But most people leave this context out of it.

Then only thing I’ve seen that is mildly suspicious is that some reporter on Fox News said she was told to “be safe” or something then her phone connection was lost. But even that is pretty underwhelming. Like, I tell people to be safe even if they are just going out after dark or something. It’s not that weird of a thing to say. And phone lines do get disconnected while people are on the air, you hear it happen all the time on the radio for example.

I think this is more likely than it being full on staged

Ah I see. Yes, I agree, they don’t make sense, but not necessarily in a way that implies conspiracy

The idea is to shut down discussion

I’m the one who made this post. As of right now it has 159 upvotes and 166 comments. Does that sound like shutting down discussion to you?

by shifting the burden to the other side asking for “sources”

Shouldn’t the burden be on the people who are proposing a conspiracy? Regardless, it doesn’t even make sense to talk about a “burden” here (as if asking for a link is that much of a burden). Not everyone is trying to prove a point when asking for a source. Sometimes people just want to look into things further.

I’m on your side man

Thanks. I know you’re not accusing me of anything but I still felt the need to respond