Y'all, this has nothing to do with the curvature of the Earth. There are mountains and multiple no-fly zones that would be crossed if they flew in a straight line.

There are mountains and multiple no-fly zones along the direct path. They're avoiding those.

r/interestingasfuck has been abandoned for a week after the mods were given the boot. I think r/TIHI is also left closed without mods. If the admins were going to act as interim mods, they would have already started with those two. I don't think they've even removed the porn from the former yet.

Same. I originally came here after they killed off 3rd party apps, then I figured out how to patch RiF again and didn't spend as much time here.

The propaganda and misinformation have gotten to be too much. Advice subs are all fake AI stories. Admins are making a fuss about people breaking the rules, but refuse to disclose what the rules actually are.

I really enjoy Lemmy. The downside is that it's not as easy to organize (and find) niche spaces like on reddit. I'm hoping the small communities have grown more since the first mass migration.

1. Windows is a privacy nightmare. The OS is constantly sending data to Microsoft while being used.

2. Windows hogs resources. If you don't shovel money out for new hardware every few years, your computer will run like shit.

3. Windows is full of ads.

4. The majority of malware is written for Windows. Not really a selling point for me, but it's a bonus.

5. Linux is free.

6. Linux doesn't force updates. You update when you want to, and it takes less than a minute to do.

Buy directly from the band to support them because streaming services pay pennies. That's my excuse to buy merch from artists I love. Concert ticket sales don't have very high margins, either.

Using horse dewormer topically is a popular home treatment for rosacea because it has the same active ingredient as a prescription cream (Soolantra), but the cream is ~$700/mo.

There are so many frugal "life-hacks" that involve a trip to your local feed store.

Traffic to the page for people to buy ads is down. This has been the trend for the past week or so. People are still using reddit, but companies aren't looking to advertise on it.

You're more than welcome to try coordinating that. That's our first hurdle. Second is arming ourselves better than the military and DHS. If we fail, we get martial law and no midterm election.

Talk is easy. This defeatist rhetoric only discourages Americans. We should be empowering protestors. Protests are bringing people together and building an army.

I joined reddit ~15 years ago and there was already a very large, active userbase. It's not a young platform, and there have been multiple protests against them by their users, yet reddit is still very much alive. I don't think the confidence from investors is unfounded. Pissing off their users has kind of proven that there isn't a real competitor out there.

We're in the minority of users who have actually gotten fed up with them to the point of finding an alternative. Most people will complain but still stick around and stay active on reddit. They get new users daily who don't know reddit as anything other than what it is now. People generally don't care.

As is, I don't see them going out of business anytime soon. If they continue to make ridiculously idiotic business decisions they might, but that's on-brand for them at this point.

I can see it going either way.

Martial law doesn't affect veterans any differently than regular citizens, so I don't think their status would impact the execution of it. Republicans have been fighting against the VA for a long time. I'm not sure that there is a line to cross for the vets who still support the party, especially MAGA.

The success of martial law depends on active duty members. I honestly don't think enough of them would push back hard enough to stop it. The US military preys on vulnerable teenagers. They're probably the least likely to rebel because of their age and their lack of personal independence.

Who knows, though. I'm not connected to anyone in the military, so maybe it's different on the inside.

I did this. Luckily, nothing was lost because I was only using it to learn at the time. It oddly boosted my confidence because if I could break the OS, I could learn how to use it.

I'm not familiar with Twitter, but putting a cap on how much content you can view on a social media website doesn't seem like a smart move. If people are seriously doom-scrollers and hit the wall, they won't be happy. "Free speech absolutists" will be pissed when they see that there's a limit to their access to "free speech." Involving paid teirs also looks greedy.

All of that aside, there are better ways to fight bots rather than limiting their daily access. Bots will still be able to scrape a large amount of data daily. Why put a cap on how many posts you can view in a day instead of detecting accounts who are viewing posts at a much higher speed? I doubt most human users will interact at the speed of a bot, and the accounts who do can be verified as real.

Writing a code to detect bots is harder than putting a usage cap, though. That would require employees and Musk actually asking for someone to do something he can't.

The spikes in gas prices and health insurance premiums are doing more than any presidential debates have done in the past decade. Consequences are needed to get the attention of conservatives and moderates. Unfortunately, most MAGA supports are far too brainwashed.

We need safeguards to prevent this. Threatening to commit war crimes should be a punishable offence. Can someone come kidnap our president like we so easily did to Venezuela?

Look up the history of Christmas and Saturnalia. There is no mention of when Jesus was born in biblical text. December 25th is completely random. What's not random: December 25th is the winter solstice according to the Roman calendar.

There are more examples of traditions that overlap with Pagan celebrations and don't really have a connection to Christianity.

Yes, that too. It'd be much more convenient if we could drive in a straight line to our destination, but roads were built for a reason! Air traffic is no different.

Even paying users have a rate limit. It's a ridiculous idea, especially financially.

I still can't get over the fact that the CEO said that reddit is not profitable right before he plans to make the company public. Who is going to invest in a company that isn't turning a profit after almost 2 decades??

I agree with what everyone else said. I wanted to add that socialization is very important for dogs. You can have a happy dog without socializing, but they can become dog aggressive or generally scared of other dogs. That can be a huge inconvenience if you ever need to board them, do group training, or have them around dogs belonging to friends or family. The vet can be even more stressful, and you're more likely to have issues while walking if your dog is reactive to other dogs.