“And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run - you missed the starting gun.”

To anyone who finds this line chilling and profound, I have good news for you: You’re still young! Past a certain age, you start turning around to realize this or that thing was 30, 40 or even more years back. 10? Ha! Seriously, if that seems like a lot then the good news is you must still be pretty young. Still, of course, don’t miss the point of it.

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I love how their poll is an outlier and they just assume voters have changed their minds en masse

Are you talking about Katie Johnson? The article links to legal documents detailing her complaint to the FBI.

Is there anything more you can do to falsify that report than casually mention some Jerry Springer producer?

Dude please give it a rest. We’re talking about how candidates are perceived in the general election. You know this is full of distortions, double standards, lies, and many dated associations.

Giving me shit for calling clean air radical only shows you don’t know how to have a meta conversation about political discourse itself and are on a hair-trigger to give speeches at any provocation.

And BAM, just like that, the term “Butlerian Humanist” was born.

No reasonable person is enthusiastic to go public with rape allegations against Trump, go on TV and talk about them, etc. and get MAGA death threats for the rest of their life and go down in history for it. I would not consider remaining private as credibility points either way. That’s like saying someone is guilty because they plead the 5th.

Have humans also been rinsing it clean afterward for thousands of years? If anyone is just spritzing this into their hair that’s…… gag.

Don’t worry, they have all the data on that, and I’m pretty sure they thought of it.

Fact is that most visits from search engines don’t go very deep anyway. They are allowing a brief glimpse at one page before they start prompting you to log in, and that is likely driving logins while barely shortening those SEO visits, which are not of great value in the first place.

It may come as a surprise but websites often have traffic they don’t want. I recall once my boss noticed there was a non-negligible amount of traffic from parts of the world none of our advertisers care about. He built an endless revolving door of promo offers and directed this traffic into it. It didn’t generate much money but it made the rest of our traffic look higher quality right away.

It’s a symbolic run to shift the Overton window in the right direction and to take some of the lightning off some more moderate candidate, who will look less radical next to her.

I don’t think she has a chance in the general if I’m honest. She won’t even make it to nomination. However it would help with the Overton window if she ran. We need someone in the race with no gray hairs who will speak truth plainly. It’s amazing how long it’s been since we even saw that happen.

Shhh everyone’s trying to have a two-for-one here where they hate on AI and the US as the same time. Don’t ruin it with facts!!

I just tried it from the US and it told me unequivocally that Joe Biden won.

However it didn’t automatically show the “AI mode” result when I searched. It sometimes does and other times doesn’t, depending on the search. But when I tapped “AI mode” I got a straight answer. Not even a mention of fraud allegations.

I disagree with many other things you said but this part is right on.

Those “No Kings” events are just cargo-cult civil disobedience for liberal boomers to virtue signal at. They have no demands to make, no credible threat of escalation if the demands are ignored, and no reason for the regime to take them seriously.

Only correction is that they’re not boomer events. Come on. Boomers are not leaving the house at this point.

They just don’t think it’s true. Not making excuses for them or anything here. But they are not accepting this as fact and then saying “yeah I’m okay with that.”

If you want to nail them for something it’s their head-in-the-sand approach to facts and evidence, not where they draw the line morally.

When I was in college I had a Shakespeare course that required me to get through about one play per week and I was falling behind on the reading. However I learned that the campus AV room had tapes of Royal Shakespeare Company productions which you could check out. There’s not always a Hollywood movie of every Shakespeare play and not all the movies stick to the text. But the RSC ones did 100% and they were well made. They weren’t captures from live performances with an audience, more like soap-opera level of production values.

But guess who was in all of them.

Patrick Stewart got me through college.

autoconnect

It’s hard to get an online community going. I’ve worked with many of them through my job and you’d be amazed how many of them got their start when “another similar forum went offline for several days and everyone migrated here.”

Certainly it’s not a case of “build it and people will magically show up.”

I’ll be honest with you. I prefer everything about Lenny’s technology and ownership/maintenance structure. However the only topic I know I can get consistent substantial input on here is communist revolution.

For literally everything else, Reddit has captured people who know things. They are enshittifying it to be sure but until I can post a picture of a coffee table on Lemmy and have someone tell me if it’s finished with lacquer or shellac, this will be the answer.

We don’t have to like it, and we should hope to change it. But please don’t pretend you can’t understand it. Critical mass of community investment builds up in one place, in Reddit’s case over decades, and it doesn’t quickly migrate away, even under some enshittification pressure. Perhaps in time.

What can you do, other than complain? You can start a community on some topic of substance here and build it up. Moderate. Post. Recruit key individuals away from Resditnwirh private messages. Wait.

Oh, does that sound like actual work? That’s because it is. Did you want to change things? Or just complain?

I would even go a step further than “get them to pay their own fair share.”

When we talk about taxing billionaires, as we are in California right now, they always say the same thing: we will just leave.

Well, maybe that’s a good thing. Billionaires flock to the US because they know they can do business with a free hand here and keep all the profits. And we see the results: capture of the state, exploitation of the workers, pollution of the media.

Maybe it would be good for the US if it were no longer seen as the billionaires business paradise and they fucked off somewhwre else to try their luck?