I'm one of those people. I joined reddit in 2006, and was a very active poster/commenter for nearly two decades.
I deleted all of my alt accounts and logged out of my main for good, well over a year ago. The communities I was involved in were still mostly human and organic, but I saw far too many people getting blocked for disagreeing with the organization. (In addition to all of the other bullshit they were pulling, of course.)
I left, and came here. Lemmy was a wasteland of so few posts that I could read/skim ALL OF THE POSTS on Lemmy, across the fediverse! It was sparse, but I resolved to be the community I sought.
And now we're...getting there. Reddit still has more real content, but it's not worth digging through the trash for, and they're not a company I want to prop up anyway.
I see this sort of response from Americans over and over, and it makes me crazy.
"there’s going to be incredible pushback."
Great! Fantastic! WHEN??!?!
He was bankrolled FORTY YEARS AGO by the Kremlin.
He orchestrated an attempted military coup four years ago.
He was convicted of 34 felonies and ordered to pay a third of a billion in a civil trial.
He has been found guilty repeatedly of sexual assault.
He has seized illegal authority over all aspects of the government.
He put his neo-nazi puppetmaster in charge (unsupervised) of destroying whole (non-partisan) divisions of the government
He cut life-saving international aid.
He threw Ukraine to the wolves, and backed Vladimir Putin's invasion.
He destroyed almost a century of goodwill between the USA and the rest of the world.
He continually threatens (seriously) to invade Canada, Panama, and Greenland.
He has unilaterally renamed an international body of water.
He is currently destroying education, research and healthcare in the USA.
He is deporting thousands of US residents - many of them legal - in violation of the Geneva Convention.
He is erasing attacking the right to exist for LGBTQ2+ citizens, and actively encouraging violence towards them.
In short, he has proven over and over and OVER AGAIN that he is the single biggest enemy of the USA, and the single biggest threat to their continued existence. He is copying Hitler's playbook from 1933-36 almost to the letter.
And STILL I hear, "oh just you wait - things are gonna happen if he doesn't stop soon!"
What does it take to get you to realize that the USA is being destroyed by a traitor working for Putin? What will it take for your country to FUCKING ACT RIGHT NOW instead of saying "oh, just wait" again?
Why are Trump and Musk and their entire entourage not in chains, awaiting the death penalty on the far end of high treason charges?
Jesus, if you’re still using a browser that like 10 major versions old, you’ve got bigger problems than worrying about a privacy plugin no longer being supported!
Versions are meaningless. It's just numbering.
128 came out in July of last year, which means that Firefox will deliberately block use of products after eight months.
That's fucking garbage. Software development and release lifecycles have turned into a "release-ignore-discontinue" cycle of barely long enough for consumers to constantly upgrade to.
Nope. @JohnnyCanck has a good explanation of what just happened, but some other info to add.
We're heading into a federal election soon, and the Conservative Party (right of the Democrats, and infused with a handful of Trump-level nutbars) held a solid lead for several months. When Trudeau announced he was stepping down, followed by Trump's tarriffs, the lead shrunk to roughly the margin of error.
Carney is fairly conservative for the Liberal party - he was appointed to lead the Bank of Canada by a (very!) Conservative PM, and then went on to head the Bank of England. He's a money manager for the rich, which is concerning, but also might draw some of the centrists back from the extreme right.
There's a fair chance that our next government will - again - be a minority, which will require the collaboration of parties, and often is when the most good gets done. Or we might get a CPC/Poilievre majority, in which case we'll be sucking up to Trump like a vacuum for four years.
True enough, but we can get stopgap gen 4.5 fighters at about half the price of the F-35, and with a vastly lower operational cost.
Get a fleet of Gripen Es, and run them in parallel with our existing Hornets, replacing the Hornets as they age out over the next decade or so. By then the new GCAP fighter should be in full production.
A lot of people - including me - instinctively say "good, let's make it the four eyes and exclude the US."
But really, we need to do away with the x-eyes program entirely, in its current form.
Shared intelligence is great, but the biggest advantage to 5Eyes has always been that it indirectly allows countries to spy on their own citizens. It's invasive, illegal bullshit that needs to stop.
Screw this "waiting another 10-15 years." We need to join the GCAP program, and get seriously active.
Lead time is necessarily immense, but we could both shorten it and improve the end product.
"Waiting for someone else to develop" has been a symptom of Canada's Aerospace industry since the Arrow was shitcanned, and has crept into our national subconscious stream. We need to attack that attitude.
I think Canada needs to accept a stopgap measure - the Gripen, Typhoon, Rafale, or Super Hornet - and dive headfirst into GCAP. FCAS is tempting as well, but GCAP is farther along and the countries are probably closer in goals to Canada.
Gen-X guy with possibly too much interest in the subject.
Shaving it bald for women started to become normal about 15 years ago. Trimming it was more common then, and going back to end of the 1980s, shaving was a rare and weird fetish in the western world.
As for why, I'd say it's because porn normalized it - and porn did it because as mainstream content became more explicit, shaved pubes were both easier to keep clean for the actresses, and (more importantly) showed more.
I find it funny that now that it's become mainstream, hair is becoming a growing fetish.
As an aside, since pubic hair is a sign of sexual maturity, some of the generations that grew up with hair down there have a subconscious connection between bald and sexually immature, i.e. children.
I'm one of those people. I joined reddit in 2006, and was a very active poster/commenter for nearly two decades.
I deleted all of my alt accounts and logged out of my main for good, well over a year ago. The communities I was involved in were still mostly human and organic, but I saw far too many people getting blocked for disagreeing with the organization. (In addition to all of the other bullshit they were pulling, of course.)
I left, and came here. Lemmy was a wasteland of so few posts that I could read/skim ALL OF THE POSTS on Lemmy, across the fediverse! It was sparse, but I resolved to be the community I sought.
And now we're...getting there. Reddit still has more real content, but it's not worth digging through the trash for, and they're not a company I want to prop up anyway.