Couldn’t you wait until Mitch Mconnell died until you released this? I’d rather not him be in the senate forever.

This is what I like about Lemmy and the fediverse; Its not like some rich company or person could really take over Lemmy and then pull a twitter or a reddit. The only way I could see things going south is if corporations start buying popular instances and then creating terrible policies and/or mine all of the data collected in the Lemmy instance, but with Lemmy you could just move to another instance.

Right now I feel like were in the same position when Linux started out - really cool in concept but with no clear way to monetize which causes doubts for its future. It wasn't until RedHat really popularized the support for enterprises model that Linux really solidified its future; they found a way to monetize open source projects. Lemmy itself is very young and will need to have its RedHat moment, otherwise its doomed to fail -- donations are nice but are never enough.

As a side note to this - I find it funny that companies are super eager to replace people at the bottom with AI when in my mind it would be easier to replace a CEO with AI to ingest company data and make cost-cutting decisions, or to be able to look at the market and determine what a company should be doing in order to compete. CEO positions are the most expensive for a company so eliminating it with a machine would save investors TONS of money. It would never need meetings, just take in input of whats going on in the company and externally in its competing market.

And somehow it’ll be the “woke mind virus’s” fault. There will be no self reflection at all.

That is what Animal Farm was talking about - that authoritarianism can take over any political ideology. It isn't a anti-communism book, but anti-authoritarianism.

If you read hard right tweets, you'll see they use DEI in place of slurs for any minority. Just like critical race theory, they've twisted the meaning to whip up a frenzy and have something for the masses to hate.

I'm excited. I'm one of those users, but I haven't used it much because I can't find followers. To be fair, I never used Instagram. I like the fediverse, I usually see the same articles get sent through other centralized communities other than reddit (tildes, hacker news, etc), but I enjoy the community discussion the best around here.

That's because the only thing American society are the treats. We don't have healthcare, we don't have a third space ( a place besides home and work where we can just enjoy life without spending money), we don't have a house we could ever afford, but damnit, we can buy $5 jalapeño poppers at Chili's and buy streaming services! American society has placed importance around net worth and what material things you have.

Prices will never ever go down because it's honestly the only thing we have.

I can’t wait for other social media platforms to do the same thing. Social media companies are so stagnant they just copy what other companies do without thinking if it’s a good idea or not.

That's the thing, you'll have to de Google your entire life, which is really involved and tedious , especially if you want free alternatives. Not saying it's impossible, but you're talking about ditching a lot of services. Realistically, there aren't good alternatives to YouTube and some other services. I know people will try to pitch fediverse alternatives. While promising, the problem is that the historical content that is really useful just isn't there. Additionally, it fails in comparison in terms the amount of content offered. It sucks to see Google bend the knee so easily.

It will never happen in my opinion. America’s is completely controlled by oil, and Texas is the heart of the American oil industry. Having a bullet train would undermine their profit margins.

Then there are NIMBYs who would tie up projects on a city level.

It seems like the current Texas government is more concerned about identity politics than actual progress.

I think its a little rough around the edges, but thats to be expected given that its less than a year old. The big hit for me is the mobile app which just isn’t that good. This will come with time. I’d rather have an half-baked implementation thats showing promise over what Reddit is doing. I like decentralized social media because you can pick and choose what communities you interact with. If lemmy.world decides to go full enshitification (although I can’t figure out how they would monetize), you can just pack up and going to another community.

This honestly reminds me of when I was growing up in the early 00s, I was part of several different community forums that I loved dearly. There were other groups I looked into, but some were just toxic and unappealing, so I left after a while. I feel like Lemmy gives us the same freedom. I really hope to meet some awesome people here. Right now it’s just big enough to still allow meaningful dialogue and create cool relations. I felt like Reddit was too big for its own good even with niche subreddits; it didn’t feel like posting was worth it as it would get buried or just get a low effort response.

There's an asteroid that MIGHT hit earth in 2032, so we can look forward to that ( it's only at a 2.2% right now).

Tribalism, to own the libs.

It's been that way for over 40 years lol.

I have NES - version of this keyboard and I love it. Very tactile response that makes it pleasing to type on. I will say though that I don't like the look of this keyboard. The keys look too translucent to actually server a purpose if there is backlighting. I wish they had done a little more to actually differentiate this from the obvious NES/Famicom versions. Like, it made sense to have Big A and B buttons because those were the only buttons on the controller. The xbox had so many button though that just having A and B buttons seems meaningless. I will say if you can wait, I'm sure this keyboard will go down in price. I got my NES version for like $60 or something like that.

Because at least in America, we're all just temporarily embarrassed billionaires. We've had a lifetime of brainwashing and conditioning to act against our own self interest.

Hello, Veteran Steam User (made my account the day steam released, I was big into the half life/cs/tfc scene back in the day), steam was HORRIBLE when it released. I had a cable modem way back then and it was incredibly slow. Only the ugly green theme, and crashed all the time. It was only used as DRM, not as a way to catalogue games. I clung to those WAN servers up until Valve no longer supported them, it was a sad day at the time.

I'd like to know as well. I'd love to join a good community or older techies.

I find it hard to leave reddit all together just because of the historical knowledge and the actual presence of niche communities. I wish people wouldnt flip out about choosing a server when signing up for lemmy. They act like you have to have a computer science degree to make the switch.

Hello there,! The questions you’ve asked are super generic that would honestly depend on the brand (holding up with kids, control button layouts, etc). Just like ICE cars, what you pay is what you get. The higher you pay the better the materials and build quality (except maybe tesla). I’m sure you could find some bloggers that have a family and use their EV. Maybe I can help add my short experience to help you decide.

A little background:

• I just bought my EV, a 2023 Chevy Bolt, three weeks ago, so I’m brand new to the EV scene
• I live in Texas where its currently 101 degrees Fahrenheit, so my range is limited due to the heat drawing the battery a lot.
• I have a family of 4 (7 and 3 years old kids), with both kids needing car seats for their age group. Car seat installation was super easy even though my car is TINY.
• Our car was meant to be a second car just for going around town. We have a 2019 Toyota Sienna for long trips or for trips that need space for whatever reason.
• My mother bought a Tesla model Y about 1.5 years ago, so I had some exposure, but I live around 12 hours away so it was just getting to see it during the holiday visits. I did get get to take it on a road trip with my dad and brother as a get together which was fun.

I’ve found that the bolt is an amazing second car for driving around town. It really saves us from taking out the van just for short runs. My kids are on the shorter side (I’m 5’8” and my wife is 4’11” so they ddon’t have a chance), but they seem to have enough room for travel. I will say that the base model bolt doesn’t have decent cup holders, they’re built into the doors, but they really suck. They don’t have any chargers in the back either so for tablets they would need to use their battery.

The climate controls are okay, but they did take a page from tesla’s book and made them controlled from the screen. It isn’t as bad though because there are physical buttons for the speed of the fans and the temperature.

I find that the smaller size helped save a ton of room in our already small garage, which was really needed. I had a 05 honda accord and it would barely fit in the garage with the shelves we had in there and with the van. This isn’t the case with the bolt.

I also like that my car qualifies for the US tax credit. I checked with my liabilities and it looks like I’ll probably be able to utilize all 7500 which I’ll use to pay down the car. You can do similar things with other EV’s that don’t qualify if you use the leasing loophole (if you look at the EV subreddit you’ll find it).

Additionally, GM payed for a new outlet to be installed in my garage for me to have a level 2 charger. I just ordered my actually charger unit so it’ll be nice to use that instead of the trickle charger.

All in all, I think that maybe as a primary vehicle it might prove to be difficult if you drive a lot of miles in a day, or if you want to road trip in it. I hope this helps.