Digg lost its popularity for the same reason Reddit is. It started taking investment money and began to please only the share holders. Yeah it's private owned again, but they will just repeat the cycle because the temptation is there.
I've only been using Lemmy for a few months, but it seems to me that taking any instance public will not be a feasible business model. i don't recommend anyone go back to digg unless you just like watching enshitification happen. Should they reboot Ebaulmsworld while they're at it? I know that last statement struck a nerve!
I got warned on Reddit for saying someone deserved a dick punch for making his friend choke on a ping pong ball. Is it time for Reddit to go the way of Digg yet? What's Digg you say? Exactly.
Sort what you know is predictable bs. For example, you know the bad actors are going to always say or do outrageous things for distraction. I use the uBlock Origin browser plugin with filters for “Trump” “Elon” “Maga” and most news sites have about 2 or 3 articles worth reading. Entries even get blanked on Lemmy. Instead of seeing “TRUMP, ELON, MAGA DO THIS!!!” You now see “Secretary of Defense halts Cybersecurity from offensive attacks on Russia” from a decent source. This narrows most news to either things that may affect you directly or helps you build a better informed opinion. Also, if you are in the US, take every opinion from the house of reps and the senate and throw it in the trash. Until they quit acting like children and begin negotiating like adults, they have absolutely nothing good to say. That’s a good chunk of the “news” right there. So when you see stuff like “REP INTRODUCES BILL TO …” just stop reading. If you care to look further look for the bill number and actually read it. Most of the time it’s really stupid crap tactics just to rile up the public. They have been doing that for well over a century. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Democrats should be doing a lot of things instead of waiting around for those "good" billionaires to show up. Both parties need to split and take huge chunks of resources with them to form a party that actually does represent the majority. This has happened before in American history but, at this point, it's just wishful thinking I guess.
"For the reasons set forth above, the Undersigned, in his discretion, hereby
RECOMMENDS that Mr. Ramirez be personally SANCTIONED in the amount of $15,000
pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 for submitting to the Court and opposing counsel,
on three separate occasions, briefs that contained citations to non-existent cases. In addition, the
Undersigned REFERS the matter of Mr. Ramirez's misconduct in this case to the Chief Judge
pursuant to Local Rule of Disciplinary Enforcement 2(a) for consideration of any further
discipline that may be appropriate"
Mr. Ramirez is the dumbass lawyer that didn't check his dumbass AI. If you read above the paragraph I copied from, he gets laid into by the judge in writing to justify recommendation for sanctions and discipline. Good catch by the judge and the processes they have for this kind of thing.
The type steel they used isn't easily bendable. In fact, it's a very expensive process just to get the panels in the shape they are. You also have to replace a whole panel if it gets damaged. Instead of snapping / drilling things into place, I'm guessing this is why they just slap Elmer's glue on with " the highest quality allowed by law" (Tesla's words) 3M blue tape. It's $100k for a reason, but a reason that creates maximum turd polishing for people that bought it.
In some agencies, you are trained to disobey an unethical or unlawful order. I guess people just rapidly clicked through the power point slides on mandatory training days.
"He made an awkward statement / expression" Would be the statement posted to win the platinum medal in mental gymnastics. Just exceeding gold medals at this point.
I can see this going absolutely side ways when your mind tries to cope with where 1000+ hours of your life went. Also you'd probably get 1000+ hours of ads beamed into your brain to make up for that gap of time, unless you pay for the "Memory+" or "Memory Max" tier, with just slightly less ads. Would be cool to experience a game for the first time again, but I would just read a book or share gaming "war stories" with my imaginary buddies.
Ever notice that every cash grab that's funneled from the US government into corporations is always 80 billion dollars? Where is the line for this because it happens a lot.
Let's not forget Something Awful and YTMND now. Should reboot those too. Maybe assemble them all together like Vultron or something.