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47% to 51%.

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Why not one trillion? I mean shit, we're gonna need 4.5 trillion to offset the giveaway to the billionaires. 100 billion is rookie numbers.

Remember when sites would make bad decisions and then just, you know... fucking die? Reddit's entire existence is owed to Digg imploding like the Titan submarine.

Notice how that doesn't happen anymore? No matter how egregious their infractions, no movements away from Twitter or Facebook - no matter how deeply they are infiltrated/compromised by runaway fascism/capitalism - nothing has an impact. No backlash, no matter how huge - is strong enough to shutter these sites and make them stop being money-printing operations.

It's almost like there is an infinite money glitch going on and no matter what, if you're in the "in" crowd, your shit gets to stay around no matter how much everybody thinks it smells like shit.

Hm.

Try not caring. The more Reddit users come here the more it's going to suck.

This is just bot-driven FUD anyway, Lemmy is nothing like old Reddit and it wouldn't be disqualifying if it was.

Ounce for ounce, this shit is wildly expensive. You could eat far cheaper and not be you know... eating fucking cat food.

If judges' orders can be ignored with no consequence, we're done as a country.

Judges have zero recourse to enforce judgements against the executive branch. All previous executives who have obeyed an order given by a judge have obeyed it voluntarily. The only recourse would be for congress to impeach and convict the president, which of course will not happen. It's tempting to call this an oversight by the Founders, but it seems to me that this is by design. As long as there is not a congress that will convict the president, the courts cannot truly tell the president what to do.

It's not like Reddit stopped existing. Lemmy will (hopefully) never be Reddit. That means that some itches Reddit will still have to scratch.

I was there when it happened. At the time we recognized it as the force that was going to (and did) ruin USENET (and IRC). We did not recognize it as the force that would also ruin the entire world.

I'm rocking an SE2 and probably next year I'll reluctantly upgrade to an SE3, which I will keep for at least two more years. After that, I'm fairly certain I'm cooked, as all available phones will be faceid phablets. FML.

Frankly, whatever secret sauce it is that makes social media popular is also what drives them to be such shit and be so shit for society. I like Lemmy way more than I like Reddit, and even though I have to go back to Reddit from time to time to fill the needs of my niche interests (which can get no traction where there are not mobs of participants in the greater whole) I never ever look at my interactions there and go "I wish Lemmy was more like this."

It's a conundrum.

Dave Ramsey is a Jesus freak but he did have some fun truisms, one of which is if you want to know where value comes from, try taking dollar bills and bottled water into an area devastated by a hurricane and see which one has more value.