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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also from the US west, I've seen a bunch of hot vending machines! In several hospitals and schools in different states, a few gas stations. They will have coffee, tea or cocoa selections, a cup pops out and gets filled with fresh brewed coffee. They were usually around 1.50 to 2 dollars a cup, maybe more expensive now though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Same, they must not have rolled it out to everyone, I have firefox/ublock origin on PC and android and have yet to see an ad on youtube, and the quality and speed of loading seem to be fine.

I doubt they would ever do this, but I wonder if they have some metric about the user's likeliness of clicking ads, and prevent more 'advertisable' users from blocking the ads but let some keep blocking them because it wouldn't make as much of a difference, or they would just leave youtube. If my adblock stopped working I would stop using youtube, without a doubt. I am allergic to ads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You telling me you don't rock South Pole?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

They state they don't have a gaming computer and play it through geforce now, is that actually possible for free?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's not always so easy for everyone, I've been trying for years with effort off and on with plenty of studying and have had maybe two lucid dreams ever. I have never been able to remember many dreams, I think that is a big factor. When I did have the lucid and semi-lucid experiences it was when I had been in the habit of writing my dreams down, it increased the number of dreams I remembered massively.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

People are downvoting this thinking you are actually comparing the use of the land, but I do appreciate your comparison of motifs, and your thorough effort to make a joke on a typo

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Wouldn't that be a Rubik's Dodecahedron?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (11 children)

Well yes, I am part of the 'radical left', and proudly so, by that mean I believe in healthcare, food and a place to live for all people regardless of any qualifier and think the political/economic systems in place now will not achieve that.

I agree the average conservative is not a believer in that sort of antisemitism, but it's not uncommon. In the terms of US politics, social media platforms do have a left bias, from a more global perspective though they are center or center-right, and overall just do whatever will protect their profits. Reddit, Twitter, others will ban left-wing and anti-capitalist groups and allow their algorithms to push content they know encourages far-right violence because it generates more activity.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (19 children)

I don't think most of us here are laughing, a motivating factor to move away from places like Instagram and Reddit for me was their habit of ignoring far-right activity while punishing left activity. Some of us here are active on the internet in part because we know there are a lot of Nazis active too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Did they ever cry or say it wasn't their fault? It seems like an obvious easy way to get banned, I don't see any complaints about it. I don't think calling an asshole an asshole is an unhealthy environment, I would blame the asshole first for being the asshole.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can't be the only one that more and more sees 'growth' as a disease for a company or institution.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

What are people using Reddit for? Why does Lemmy have to continue to grow to be a viable alternative? It needs a certain critical mass but it seems to be at that point at least. The number of new users and daily users went down from the first peak after the Reddit exodus but that's to be expected, what I've heard last is the numbers aren't dropping rapidly but just the usual attrition of the wave of users. From my instance the communities I frequent are more than active enough for me, I'm able to see any news that would be relevant as quickly as any other social media, I can discuss things in communities that feel welcoming to me as a queer socialist that I could hardly find on Reddit.

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