TheSaneWriter @ TheSaneWriter @lemmy.thesanewriter.com

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The current community policy seems to be we're responsible for vetting our own sources. I understand that philosophy, though I think a mod comment with materials on reliability.

Indeed. The main thing I miss is the wealth of storytelling content, it felt like Reddit had millions of stories for me to read and Lemmy doesn't have the same breadth of content.

There can absolutely be victims in civil suits. A company isn't a person so it's not like they can go out and mug someone, often the only way to get justice against a company is in civil court.

This smear campaign is clear and obvious defamation. Someone should get in trouble for this, but unfortunately no one will.

It's alright. It could definitely use some more growth, and it's been a bumpy road with it being Beta software and with the federation issues, but I've enjoyed my experience overall.

They were confused why we didn't love their amazing decision. Don't we care about the shareholders?

Yeah, our elections suck. They should be more open and should be ranked choice. Likewise, the Electoral College is complete bullshit. Even still, Xi is a dictator and China is not a democracy. Multiple things can be true.

Most dictators haven't gone by that term, preferring instead some other executive role like chairman, supreme leader, or president. If Xi doesn't want to be called a dictator, maybe China should start holding open elections, see how popular the CCP really is.

That genuinely reads like satire. What an awful corporate model, extracting every penny out of the workers and consumers to force that line to keep going up.

I think the idea behind this is to spend your entire life alternating between periods of work and retirement. It's definitely an idea I could get behind, though society now is not built for it.

For me it's because I don't use it very often, mostly just archiving stuff every few months or so.

Thanks for answering your own question, this is useful information.

I like the dashes, they make the options look like options to me.

I understand and sympathize with Rob on a spiritual level.

I'm glad to see lab-grown meat clear another hurdle. The better and more common this technology is, the closer we'll be to finally getting rid of the meat industry and factory farming.

The answer is in the tens of millions but no one really knows beyond that. The Chinese population wasn't well known at the time and the records from that era are poor at best. However, the Chinese government acknowledges that there were serious consequences to the economy and population during the great leap forward (here's their English writings on it) and as Wikipedia states, a 3.5% death toll would have caused tens of millions of deaths and be considered a modest famine. Some of the Western estimates are vast exaggerations, but the majority of them (especially modern day) are reasonable.

It feels like it, but surprisingly enough this is reality. They say truth is often stranger than fiction, and I think the past decade has demonstrated that to everyone.

For those wondering, the petition is to keep the resorts open by changing certain elements of how they work. I really like this bot, but sometimes it cuts too much out of its summaries.

Sort of. From what I've heard DDG can set up a tracking blocker that will block tracking attempts across your entire phone, but I don't know exactly how it works.

I'm completely with you, on my computer I'm very productive but on my phone I can't do anything work-related.