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Interesting.

First of all apparently ublock, no script, or some combination of my add-ons kept me from seeing the message and I'm able to view the entire article.

Even more interesting is this text at the end of the article-

This story was originally published by Grist, a nonprofit media organization covering climate, justice, and solutions.

So this source basically spun an article from Grist and put it behind their paywall.

Following the link from Scientific American, the first line of the Grist article is-

This story was co-published with WIRED.

It's clowns the whole way down, yaaaaar.

Does anyone know what kind of timeline there might be before the pilots are trained to fly them? Is it something that might have an impact within days/weeks or is it going to be months before they can be used effectively?

My dyslexic ass

Next time just use your eyes, it's faster.

I completely understand but normalizing and downplaying this behavior is how we got where we are now.

the government is really really sorry

What gives you that impression? They aren't sorry, they're upset people said "fuck you" just like prohibition.

It would be nice to have the option to not just block your data from being accessible to a 3rd party but also feedback junk data into the system. Pollute the data stream until it's no longer useful to the powers that be while still retaining functionality for the user.

One can dream.

I don't care if he did a pinky swear in a treehouse, I won't get my hopes up about their entry until we see something meaningful on an F1 track.

Really? Zack has more or less been an Andretti mouthpiece since the rumors Andretti wanted to join. I'm surprised you haven't heard about it before now.

Thoughts and prayers.

If I did that I'd feel obligated to remove the user accounts I've blocked from my list before posting it and frankly that isn't worth the time or the trouble since I'd have to manually recheck all the accounts to see why I blocked them. No thanks lol.

I think it's pretty easy to replicate what I did with minimal effort though. All I really did was change the 'all' page in my Lemmy app (Boost) sorting to the newest posts. It becomes obvious pretty quickly when a couple communities have 4+ most recent posts, by the same accounts, etc. Most of the bots that exclusively repost reddit content are very obvious with just a couple clicks.

Once I had the worst offending reddit reposters blocked I noticed certain community/instance/users were either spamming content I'll never care about or were NSFW bots, or were too region specific, etc. so I blocked them too. I spent a day or two doing more blocking than browsing.

After that I changed the sorting on the 'all' page to active posts, which at that point was mostly posts by real people again. From there I've only had to block the odd account here and there like I would on any other social platform. Every so often I'll notice a bot post that's slipped through but if the community is active someone else has usually posted something similar that's getting more interaction anyways, so I don't feel like I'm missing out on much I'd be interested in or the stories that are actually newsworthy.

It took a couple weeks but I've found that blocking some bot accounts and adjusting the sorting on the app I use has plenty of fresh content with active posts. It isn't exactly the same as reddit in its prime, but I shouldn't expect it to be either.

It's causing me to branch out into other topics and conversations that I probably would've missed on a gigantic platform like reddit. I think reddit made it easy to see interesting content because of how long it had to develop into a community. Lemmy is still a bit jumbled and fragmented, but the community seems to be sticking around and forming a new identity apart from reddit.

He lived/died in Arkansas.

I don't know but I suppose it could be a possibility. My assumption is that he was probably turned away because of understaffing. The hospital he was trying to go to was almost completely staffed with travel nurses a year or two ago and many of those nurses left as working conditions deteriorated. It's all just speculation from me though. The whole thing is quite sad but also infuriating.

Sadly even that isn't true anymore. Someone I used to work with died recently of an unknown upper respiratory infection after being turned away by his local hospital 3 times. He eventually coughed until something ruptured and he died due to internal bleeding.

He had a decent paying job with health insurance and likely contracted his infection at work, yet he was denied admission to the hospital for some reasons that his widow and daughter may only find out with a lengthy court battle they can't afford.

Welcome to the dystopia, it's just getting started.

THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!!!

It's a giant rooster with a saddle on it.

"Write the article in the style of a junior high student" probably gets close enough to be believable, who needs an editor!

Wait, is it Mike Pence in glasses?

It certainly doesn't seem accidental.