I think this just means that the honeymoon is over.

In all seriousness, this is a common feature of any social media or human experience (hobby, relationship, etc) in general. When something is new and we are in the exciting discovery period, it seems great. After a while, the warts start to show. Some things begin to seem repetitive.

Lemmy does not have as much content as larger and older social media. It has limitations. the way people vote content is different from other sites because the structure and culture of the platform is different.

This is not to deny anyone’s experience. If you are no longer enjoying it or getting something out of it, take a break. That’s good advice for any social media.

You seem to be confusing religion with a bible, which is probably a reflection of the dominant religion near you, but not every religion has a book, and not every religion with a book understands it in the same way.

This presumes some type of “pure” original religion — which indeed some people believe — as opposed to an evolving understanding that is relevant in each generation.

I’m an ADULT

9 million people are currently displced in Sudan, making this the worst displacement crisis of our time.

There is still time to keep it from becoming the deadliest.

Also true. It’s not easy to support local news but it’s very important. I haven’t really seen a good model of how to do that.

They provide a public good, so maybe they should be publicly funded? It works okay for the national broadcast news systems that exist in a lot of cases (PBS, NPR, BBC).

I’m not sure how extremists were using Airbnb, but it’s probably a good thing that they can’t.

I think that we will just have to disagree on this one.

I deal with local news quite a bit (and occasionally national news) in my real life. It is one of the last places made up of actual people going out, doing interviews, asking questions, reporting on the facts that they find, and held accountable to the people of the community. I’ve had the same experience with TV and print news.

When national reporters show up, they generally already know the story they are going to tell and are looking for pics and quotes to confirm their version of a story.

There are national journalists and even (a few) independent journalists who are also doing honest, important investigative work, but I personally have not dealt with them.

Me IRL

(in Ralph Lauren)

Probably go seduce my wife as a stranger.

Can’t they just sell one of those sound-weapon equipped tanks from the NYPD to cover the entire library budget?

https://github.com/niedev/RTranslator/releases

Just came out. I’ve updated the post.

Of course they did. That’s their whole deal.

Apparently, LRH was bitter about his books being snubbed by actual psychologists, so he made it a tenet of his religion to hate psychology.

I have never rewatched Voyager and I think I have to soon.

Misread that as Nobel prize and …lol wtf

Coffee with vanilla and soy milk is a three bean soup.

No, this is Patrick.

Local news is often the highest quality. The incentives are too different and the stakes are lower. Of course this means local news reporting on local stories. National stories are, as you mentioned, likely written based on a press release authored by who knows.

Heliboard has the option to add swipe, and FUTO has it built in.

I knew I left that somewhere.