Zeppo @ Zeppo @sh.itjust.works

Also zeppo@lemmy.world. Not a lot of Zeppos out here.

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Okay, cool. You filtered it. People post and participate in those discussions because they want to for some reason. I you have something you'd prefer to discuss, go ahead and start a conversation.

It’s still good for niches. I am in a couple subs about health conditions, and there are no comparable communities on Lemmy. I haven’t observed the composition or activity level of the groups change at all over the past couple of years.

Welcome. If you mean reddit as in the company, yes. They've been trying to make the site more attractive to advertisers in the past couple of years.

With Republicans in charge of both chambers of even one, there’s zero chance.

Huh, why would Elron do that? Go figure.

I was commenting on pro sports and somewhat college athletics. Kids sports are cool imo except for how overly engaged and competitive the parents get about it.

Sure, not everyone can play sports themselves. If they tried it more though, they'd be more likely to be able to. I'd bet the majority of sports fans are not unable to engage in athletic activity. I do realize that watching sports is also different than playing sports. That's what I'm being critical of though.

I have long thought that there’s way too much emphasis placed on pro sports in society, but there are a few aspects to this. First, I agree that it inflames division and tribalism. I’ve had people act angry and want to start fights with me because they saw my license plate and grumbled something about football, or I was wearing a hat for some sports team I wasn’t even aware of and people were upset about it. The amount of attention and money spent on basically watching adult adults play little kid games is absurd. Incredible amounts of money are spent on stadiums and salaries.

Still there are positive aspects. The competitive and high profile nature does propel people to exceptional feats of athleticism. The same goes for Olympic sports. Olympic stadiums are a bit of an excess, but there are benefits to international relations that come from the Olympic games. A question I have is as far as the Olympic it goes, what sports are not competitive? Even solo sports are done as a competition.

But generally, my perspective is that if people are interested in sports, they should play them themselves. I don’t know why it would be so exciting to go watch someone else play basketball or something. You should just play basketball if you like it so much.

Make onerous rules and restrictions. Hold posts for moderation and make them answer questions. Don’t accept the answers. Shadowban regular contributors.

Sure. When republicans are in power they increase the military budget and give billions to wealthy people in tax cuts and generally run up the deficit and national debt. Then when democrats are in power, republicans are all of a sudden very concerned about spending.

I get why the Republicans would be giving away money to wealthy people, since that's basically their entire job, but I don't get the rationale for why there would be a 'dividend' at all. Obviously, Elron's cuts are intended to cripple the government, replace employees with loyalists, and prepare to replace government agencies with private companies, not anything about savings or efficiency, but why would the goal not be to balance the budget? Giving money back to taxpayers makes no sense as long as there is a budget deficit.

I wonder what they’ll do with the horrific video screen refrigerator doors.

They tend to have convenience store prices. The liquor is cheap I guess…

Can’t wait for Walgreens to get even worse!

No, I did not get what I voted for.

Within the last week they were found to be taking credit for cancelling contracts that ended years ago.

Republicans regularly crash the economy. Then they get to bailouts (and select the winners or losers for that), and buy up assets cheap. The way the population has been convinced, against all evidence, that republicans are better economically and fiscally is a triumph of their propaganda.

Good idea. That's true now, but personally most of my experience needing programming info was several years ago.

I agree. If you’re starting something new and just want to get the gist of it, a video could definitely be helpful. Where I get frustrated is if I only want a reference for one or two specific things, and I have to skip through this 40 minute video to find the 2 sentences and code example I’m looking for.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. Back 10-15 years ago I was learning JavaScript, Python, CSS etc and I saw people say "I learned programming from videos!" and was wtf, how? Maybe a video explanation could be okay, but trying to extract certain kinds of technical information from a video is maddening and takes 10x as long as getting it from text.

Sounds like bullshit. I’d say he was totally serious and then is now, after it mostly fizzles, is giving the suitty excuse because he’s a childish and weasely coward.