The depressing bit about it is that people watch the absolute hell out of these movies. The last one made almost 900 million dollars. (Hefty profit for a flick estimated to cost under 250 million.)
We’re getting dumber and demanding our entertainment gets dumber with us.
This one is unfortunate but you can see why in the fine print:
GD-OTS-Canada’s Valleyfield plant is the sole source of this type of propellant for the US Army
It’s part of a shared distribution from the US to both Israel and Ukraine, one of which we desperately want to help. I cannot imagine a universe in which the US lets Canada demand none of it go to Israel and it all goes to Ukraine.
Great example. The thing is that technically, reddit’s not difficult. The mind bogglingly difficult is getting that user growth.
Good point. I doubt many instances could handle suddenly having 100x the users.
Is there anything porn can’t do?!?
I think equating everything to fascism is partially how we got into the current mess but to each their own!
Like, the first Voat exodus kids also decried fascism because they couldn’t be horrifically racist anymore. By your theory, everyone should have left and built a new community in Voat which would have been terrible.
Okay, I just mean when you say:
when even switching sites is too hard.
It came off like you were saying a user simply had to log onto lemmy instead of reddit which they are too lazy to do.
it just points to the abuse people will tolerate for comfort
For most people, minor inconveniences like “oh no, my sopranos doesn’t have politics any more!” Or “oh no, I have to use a new app!” are trivial compared to the hassle of growing an entirely new social media ecosystem.
Apologies, I should’ve outlined the bit I disagree with.
because switching to the threadiverse is just too much for them.
Like, no, for majority of users, switching to the fediverse isn’t too much effort, it’s just for what they want, switching to the fediverse sucks pretty hard.
“Oooh, I can’t wait to see what fun memes the fediverse has about the Toronto Blue Jays going into a game 7! Oh. Almost nothing? Cool. This is uhhhh. Yeah. Why am I here again?”
Yeah, reddit has all sorts of nonsense but to a casual user, it’s also got the content.
That feels a little inaccurate.
For any individual user who switches, there is a stunning lack of content, a loss of the niche communities etc. Even things that should be fairly mainstream have pretty small communities.
Yes, if all the users switched, great. But getting any group of thousands to do one thing is difficult, let alone the users of one of the most popular websites of all time.
I dunno, I think acknowledging and understanding the very real issues encountered by anyone trying the fediverse is key to actually solving those issues and helping it grow.
Are you sure things were worse? I studied history by listening to part of a podcast while cooking and browsing memes and it only sounded great!
Off topic but is your name a catch 22 reference?
I jumped to piefed a couple of weeks ago. Copying my feeds from lemmy was fine (also grabbed pugJesus’ to round out the collection.) I liked the topic browsing etc so subscribed to a bunch of other communities but often just find myself on all sorted by scaled.
I don’t think there’s any real consequences to switching, I rather like the UI and a couple of handy features but admittedly am still just using the front end website rather than an app.
This is a really easy opinion when it costs you nothing.
Stylistically, I’d give the 2010s to hipsters. Damn I do not miss skinny jeans.
Item and sociologically? The smartphone is now ubiquitous.
Sadly, I think the late 10s + a bit will be known as the trump/covid era. (Or, if things get much worse, the beginning of the end.)
Hell, Canada did even ignored the selling of lands in the occupied west bank in Synagogues. Canada claim to oppose settlements while allowing that.
I have no idea what you are trying to say, I’m guessing you’re fairly drunk.
Goodnight.
Wanting the government to do more does not make its actions illegal.
Read the article for an explanation on the arms sales.
We’ve already been over this:
Lying about stopping selling arms to Israel, not imposing a single sanction on Israel for genocide and settler colonialism, not condemning Israeli abuses of the Canadian activists of the flotilla show the selective care of human rights abuses.
We seem to be talking about different things. I am pointing out that Canada is meeting its legal obligations. You are angry Canada isn’t doing more.
These are fundamentally different conversations.
Canada like many other countries lied about it.
It’s much more complicated than you make it out to be, in part because unlike sanctioned countries like North Korea etc Israel is in other senses a regular trade partner.
Canadian serving under the IDF
Under a hundred, presumably mostly all dual citizens in another sovereign nation hardly constitutes Canadian government policy.
Yes, I’d like the government to do more.
But, that is different from the government not following international law.
Yes. So to some, the worsening situation was back whenever the Voat exodus was.
To you, it’s now.
To others, there’s a barely perceptible difference. “Oh, I had to get a new app?”
Fascism is VERY different. There are clear signs, clear dangers and serious threats. Fascism requires people to act to save others. A social media website getting less good is vastly different. (Also, stopping it in the US was way easier than creating a new social media ecosystem, people just had to vote for the non sketchy party.)