Stovetop @ Stovetop @lemmy.world

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Reddit wasn't big enough back then either, it was only since Spez took over after Ellen Pao that you started to see more corporatization/astroturfing of the platform.

A website full of young 20-something gamers and tech bros just tends to skew a certain way politically.

I'm not in the UK, but I recall Iran being in the media a lot in China and the US. Back when Trump assassinated one of their generals during his first term, the recurring abductions and rapes of women and young girls by the morality police that sparked nationwide protests, the arms they are providing for Russia in their invasion of Ukraine, and now Israel's unprovoked attack on Iranian infrastructure and citizens.

The worst is when you are looking up a problem, find a thread like that, and the only reply is the same person saying "Nevermind, I figured it out!"

WHAT DID YOU FIGURE OUT???

Not sure how you got any of that from what I was saying. Feel free to take your black and white worldview somewhere else.

The problem is that it's hard to negotiate that against the reason a lot of people left Reddit: losing control over their own content. People want to have the ability to delete their stuff.

The only thing that I think should be different is that deleting a post or comment shouldn't delete everything under it. Comments from other users should remain accessible when the parent is deleted. I've had a lot of good discussions on Lemmy that I can't access anymore because someone chose to delete their content above it, which also deleted mine. It's still losing control over my own content, but in the opposite way from Reddit.

Hey, men experience disproportionate things, too. Like privilege.

Less alt right stuff here on Lemmy than there was back in 2010, though. Early Reddit was full of libertarian ideals and free speech absolutists, before the consequences of those positions became apparent in the later half of that decade.

It was around Trump's first presidency that half of Reddit realized the other half of Reddit wasn't just memeing, the alt right went to their safe spaces, and Reddit began purging itself of all that was not marketable (good and bad).

When was Iran tolerable? They're still as much of a fucked up theocracy with a terrible record on human rights as they've been since the revolution.

Just for some extra context, the character having a bad day was promised "a crown" (make me king) by this group of warlords he enlisted to support him. He proceeds to be such an unlikable shit for such a long time, they give him "a crown" by pouring molten gold on his head.

Bystanders*

Yep! And the Outback is in Australia.

Have you been living under a rock this past month or something?

They're thick in the "ads bring us more money than making improvements" phase of corporate bullshit now.

Reddit still can't make a better app than the ones made by solo developers who just did it as a passion project, but they've got enough money to throw around for a Superbowl ad spot and an entire ad campaign on YouTube.

Usonian evokes that weird Frank Lloyd Wright concept of kitschy suburbia that the US could do with substantially less of.

All of the packaging needed for a lot of food at home as well, I feel like restaurants probably throw away less packaging comparatively with how much they get in bulk.

All of the plastic bottles for sauces, plastic containers for spices, meat and certain produce items that come packaged in plastic and styrofoam, plastic bags for bread and rice and pasta and junk food. Frozen items packaged in plastic in boxes that took energy to keep frozen before we spend energy to heat them within a minute or two, just because we're too lazy to cook today.

Not to say that restaurants waste no packaging, but they'd use less given the volume of supplies they source, and likely prepare more in-house rather than buying pre-prepared.

I'd say restaurants are probably way more efficient in terms of waste and energy consumption than the average household. Cooking in bulk for a lot of people is better than a lot of people individually cooking for themselves.

I don't think the Xbox One was a disappointment due to a boycott, I think it was just a product people didn't feel the need to buy.

Sure, there was early controversy about the always-online DRM approach they planned to take, but it didn't launch with that in the end. What killed its hype was just being US$100 more expensive than the PS4 and having no killer exclusives lined up.

One factor might be just that Mass Effect came out first and was also Bioware's last game before EA bought them.

The rest is just my opinion, but I do believe that Mass Effect simply told a better story (multicolored endings aside) and had a better cast of characters. Not to mention the fact that it was a single narrative across the three installments helped keep engagement up. And shooters were incredibly popular at that time.

Sorry, should've clarified that this isn't directed towards you, OP! Just at a lot of the other comments in here who are acting like someone else's decision to buy an expensive gadget is a personal insult to them.

Console wars stopped being cool years ago. Everyone has their preferences and favorites, no need to shit on someone's fun because you think yours is better.