I still visit Reddit and that's definitely been my experience - my front page diversity has gone way down, many of the subreddits I am subscribed to have basically gone silent. There's still a few specialized ones left, and the big news ones I still read, but only in old reddit. When old Reddit is gone then so am I.
Indeed. Often the hardest part of an invention is the discovery that a thing is actually possible. Even if nobody knows how it was done they can now justify throwing resources into figuring it out and know what results to keep an eye out for.
Marches are one traditional approach. Those can be disruptive, but they don't deliberately cause property damage to unrelated victims so that's way better.
On the plus side, none of those mystery methods can be used to provide evidence in actual court. The defense would be able to dig into them if they did.
Nobody would ever be convicted of murder solely because their phone was off. But anything can be used by investigators as a prompt to suspect someone and conduct further investigations. And that's fine by me. If you read the article there's a ton of other clues that were adding to make Armstrong interesting, it wasn't just the phone.
Throwing soup on paintings discredits environmentalism to a lot of people. But what they should really be upset about is misleading graphs cherry-picked to look as alarming as possible.
Sea ice is a concerning indicator, sure, but if you look at other news and other graphs about it you'll not find anything like this gigantic drop. In particular in the section of that page about Antarctic ice:
At the beginning of December, ice extents were at record low levels. However, the seasonal decline in Antarctic ice extent subsequently slowed. As a result, by the beginning of the new year, extent was only sixth lowest.
It also notes that Arctic sea ice extents were typical during 2023, so whatever was happening to Antarctic ice wasn't necessarily an indication of global trends.
I am an environmentalist, I want to see continued effort being made on switching to renewable resources and ameliorating the effects of climate change. But I worry that a lot of environmentalists are crying wolf very loudly and it's going to harm the movement in the long run when people realize how overblown some of these arguments are.
My own personal style of humor is to say absurd things with a straight face, and unfortunately I have found that on the Internet there is always going to be someone who believes me without question no matter how absurd a statement I make. Because unfortunately there's always someone on the Internet who actually believes something that absurd.
We spend half our lives online nowadays and it’s obviously causing damage to our health.
Any time an argument begins with "obviously" alarm bells ring. If it's obvious it must be easy to find a reference?
Anyway, if I stopped using the Internet I would be immediately out of a job and unable to communicate with most of my friends. So even if there is some kind of health damage it probably still wouldn't be worth it.
I have no idea what point you're making here. America could be some kind of super-fantastic utopia and there'd still be wildfires in California, because that's just the sort of climate and terrain that much of California has. Conversely, there could be some utter craphole of a country that happens to be located in a place with a nice stable climate and no natural disasters to speak of.
This insurance trouble is not related to the "first worldness" of the country. It's just about people building in places that are turning out to not be economically sustainable to keep building in due to changing conditions.
I still visit Reddit and that's definitely been my experience - my front page diversity has gone way down, many of the subreddits I am subscribed to have basically gone silent. There's still a few specialized ones left, and the big news ones I still read, but only in old reddit. When old Reddit is gone then so am I.