14 years, here. From the Digg exodus.
The reason is simple. Misinformation sticks with conservatives more than liberals. With liberals, someone posts evidence that the story isn’t true and the whole thing fizzles out. If someone tries posting counter evidence in a conservative forum, they get banned.
There’s no money in trying to push misinformation to liberals.
I should have known I wouldn’t be the first to think of this
We walk around with a little rectangle in our pocket that gives us access to the sum total of human knowledge, but we mostly use it for looking at funny captioned pictures, the same pictures over and over just with different captions.
It’s called a phone but no one ever uses it as one.
I was on Digg before switching to Reddit 14 years ago and once people were told Reddit existed there was a landslide of people switching because Digg admins were being such jackasses.
I’m sure there are people grabbing constant captures so they can put out an unedited version.
How many of them don’t know about Lemmy yet and would switch in a second if they found out?
Fascists don’t like to admit that they’re fascists. Or at least they don’t like it to be publicly known.
It’s never going to be gone, specifically because of people like this.
Just like the flu never went away after the 1918 pandemic, again, because of people like to this.
That’s such a lazy meme. The original image had everything you needed to change the text and keep it the original font.
Watch the Pangburn videos of Jordan Peterson debating Sam Harris. It’s easy to see what a word-salad regurgitating sophist blowhard Peterson is.
I use “guys” even when address a group of women. I feel it’s basically become a gender neutral term.
Yeah, I’m not doing anything wrong. Thing is, I’m not the one who would be deciding if the things I’m doing are wrong. The people who would be deciding are determined to find fault with everyone.
The LGBT community is far less likely to force a lifestyle onto their children than the religious community is.
There is a way to get genuine help from a Linux forum.
Say “Fuck this, I’m going back to Windows”.
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”
– Steven Weinberg
Actually, they moved to Hollywood so they wouldn’t be under Edison’s camera patents.
I’m pretty sure it didn’t even occur to them that the games in those images should be the genre that the image is for. I saw Control in rogue-likes.
There needs to be a toggle for the reverse of that, if you don’t want your friends to see that you play NSFW stuff.
Religion and education are two things that violate the law of supply and demand. The less of either that you have, the less you want.