Obviously it’s higher. If it was any lower, they would’ve made a huge announcement out of it to prove they’re better than the competition.

This is the first time they’ve been caught. It would be naive to think this is the only time this has happened. No doubt they’ve scrubbed data of bad actors on their side many times without anyone knowing.

I don’t believe so, I think it has to do more with seeing something novel that you don’t get to see every day. Like, not many people have the means to fill a house with elephant toothpaste, so when someone does that it makes for a pretty entertaining video.

One half-baked concession to the poor doesn’t imply their party platform is about improving the lives of poor people.

I wonder if there’s a market here. I feel like a company that cleans up AI bullshit would make bank lol

I love this idea, but the main obstacle this has to overcome is the voter’s knowledge of the issues and any given candidate stances on them. If we implemented this in the US, I feel like most people would still simply delegate all their votes to one candidate or all candidates of a particular party. It’s a lot of information for a working person to keep track of. Any idea on how to overcome this with paper ballots? Or are computerized ballots with all relevant information embedded within the way to go?

I’m a pretty conservative game purchaser. I’ve never paid over $40 for a game (including games on sale) because there are so, so many amazing indie games on Steam that charge so little for many hours of fun.

When I see a AAA game come out, I know it’s going to be profit-driven, uninspired, and rushed because it exists solely for the purpose of making money for a large corp. For that reason (among others), I avoid them altogether because I know my dollar goes way further going toward an independent developer who makes games for passion (and only sometimes for money). The passion always shines through in their work, unlike passionless AAA games.

If abject racism is Republicans’ best criticism of Mamdani’s policies, then that bodes really well for his platform.

No no no, don’t pin this on us. We didn’t choose this bullshit. I can about guarantee you no American on Lemmy voted red. We’re victims in this just as much as anyone else is. It’s exhausting seeing people blame all Americans for the actions of idiotic red voters. Half this country is on your side. Blaming us only further alienates us and sows division. So don’t “you guys” us. Allow me to reiterate: we didn’t want this.

It’s so sad what happened to Fetterman… I was a huge supporter of his even before he began his Senate campaign but then he had a stroke and became a diet Republican. Fuck him

Absolutely, I’m not sure who else could believably play him. Jesse Eisenberg is made for this role lol

Tankies on their way to hate private ownership and dictatorship of the bourgeoisie so much that they begin to love state ownership and dictatorship of the bureacracy

The lack of continuous and backlogged content. For some this is a benefit because it gives them a reason to stop scrolling, but for others who come here to look for answers, find entertainment, or anonymously voice their opinions, this can be something of a downside.

Of course this platform is as anonymous as you make it, but I’ve seen some people say they refrain from commenting more often because they don’t want to be known as a regular, instead wanting to “blend in to the crowd” as one would on more populous sites like Reddit or Twitter.

These shit-quality shitposts are like the spaz kid at lunchtime showing you his “meme collection” against your will. I get serious secondhand embarrassment from seeing them. It’s sad seeing Lemmy’s shitpost community devolve into 9gag/ifunny.

For real. They weren’t even funny the first time they came around in 2018. Shitposts used to be quality

I actually just had this problem a couple weeks back. I was using revanced spotify but I had to keep re-patching it because it kept breaking. Eventually, I became so frustrated I said fuck spotify and found ViTune which is a fork of ViMusic (which is now defunct).

It workes exactly how I would want a music app to work. No accounts, no algorithms, just search for the song you want. You might get a playback error if you’re using a VPN, but that’s literally the only complaint I have about it.

Love Rashomon, it was so good. Definitely make it your next watch. Pioneered ambiguous endings in movies. It gives the audience a reason to keep thinking about it after watching because it allows them the freedom to determine their own canon version of the story.

I love the idea, but wouldn’t it be one of those old web indices (like a site or book that was just a list of other sites) with a keyword search function? Like a centralized webring with user submissions?

it’s just hard for some people to appreciate the good things in life. that’s valid considering the state of the world right now, but we still need to celebrate victories where they appear. overt pessimism does no good for anyone

turns out a lot of people didn’t pay attention in 6th grade social studies.