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Tech workers now doubting decision to move from California to Texas::Unsatisfied with the talent pool, traffic, and heat in Texas, some California tech workers are weighing another move.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't raise a family in Texas. Too many millennials are just now at 35+ in a fiscal position to have kids and there's elevated chances of complications at that age. Texas just passed a law that says they'd rather you die than receive the care you might need.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

The reasons stated actually included the new laws passed as well as lack of public transit and number of tech jobs offered.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is there a way to get lemmy to remove reposts?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Block the accounts that are reposting

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It'd be better to have clients that can aggregate links posted across communities (so you only see 1 aggregate post per link on a given day), as well as block or mark as read based on the link.

Blocking individual users is a manual, endless game of whackamole.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know about endless. !technology only has about a dozen different users represented on the first page of posts. I don't think Lemmy has the critical mass of users to flood the "block a few manually" response.

I do like the idea of combining reposts between communities, though. Get just one discussion going! Someone posted something interesting about books the other day. I replied, but there was no other activity.

Turned out that all the discussion was happening in the OTHER community, the one I hadn't seen :(

Although...different communities have different moderation standards. A combined discussion like this would be a headache for the mods.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

this one is a bot, and I think a bot could at least make a search before posting a link. but I suppose cleaning these up could be done by another bot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could also ignore reposts. For some of us, it's the first time we are seeing it.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

yeah why clean it up? i love garbage whore spam websites i go there constantly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Who are all these rich people who can just suddenly up and move the minute they don't like their state's policies?