It happened sometimes, but it was easier to filter those people out. Now those people have become the norm. Tinder absolutely is to blame for this.
It happened sometimes, but it was easier to filter those people out. Now those people have become the norm. Tinder absolutely is to blame for this.
Tinder ruined dating. It’s made interactions very transactional.
Several (attempted) murderers have owned copies of The Catcher in the Rye.
A lot of places in the US have (had?) small, weekly, free newspapers that are actually pretty good. They get by by being full of ads, often the kinds of ads more family-friendly outlets wouldn’t publish.
The Chicago Boys’ role in Chile’s Pinochet dictatorship really puts the lie to the whole “freedom” angle of neoliberalism. Allying with a guy who rounded up thousands of dissidents and summarily executed them shows their freedom is only for the select few.
Right-wing libertarians (this is another term with two very different meanings) are neoliberal absolutists. Center-right and center-left politicians usually have to compromise with other sets of ideals. Marijuana decriminalization and legalization is one area where right-wing politicians typically preference the social conservative side over the neoliberal/libertarian side. For a center-left example look at the Affordable Care Act. From the beginning Obama was never going to favor a true nationalized health care plan. He offered compromises within the existing framework like state exchanges.
From what I’ve seen they’re not so much trending as new.
I tried to look up Tumblr’s present and past Alexa rankings, but it turns out that Alexa was closed last year.
My hope is that federation will be a good solution to these issues. Users can choose a home instance based on the types of content they do or don’t want to see. Instances with conflicting focuses or policies can defederate from one another.
My hope is that this is a shift back to a more decentralized internet.
They’ve officially branched out to Lemmy: !debatereligion@lemmy.world
Looks pretty crisp on dark mode at these dimensions. I wonder if it’s enough contrast at a much smaller size.
I can’t remember anything wildly wrong. Closest I came to that was from a private tutor my parents had to hire to make up for too many days I missed due to health problems one semester. One day when we were covering evolutionary biology she goes, “Well, I don’t believe in this, but I’m obligated to teach it to you.” Doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence, but I appreciate the candor. Also I remember a girl in my class in middle school saying her grandmother believed dinosaur bones were put there by the devil and the teacher had to give an awkward response to that.
There is one common misconception among English teachers that I think everyone has heard at some point, the difference between “effect” and “affect” being different parts of speech.
Sounds like that teacher was a “sovereign citizen”.
The subreddits I moderate are all quite small (about 2-5k subscribers) and on relatively obscure topics. For now the Lemmy communities I’ve started are on pretty broad, general topics. I’ll consider official moves for them if the Lemmy userbase gets big enough or if Reddit really does die.
I am ſo pleaſed they ſtopped uſing theſe.
I tried Mastodon a few years ago, but I just have no interest in the microblog format. Glad to see there’s a threaded forum version now.
/c/newusers would be glad to partner up