Note that when people say “pour money into a company” they mean “invest wisely in the parts of the company that work” not “buy a thing with a big price tag” those are two completely separate things

Point 1 was him buying the company though. He has not poured any money into it, as you say he has done quite the reverse

No, the cruelty is the point. The kind of people who made this happen have common sense just like the rest of us, that 7-year-old squirrel didn’t have rabies. They refuse to make exceptions or use common sense because they specifically want to hurt others.

Peanut had been living with owner Mark Longo for seven years

Man. What a feel-bad story. There’s a certain kind of person who takes glee in destroying others’ joy and they will use any technicality to get the excuse to do so all while blathering “the law is the law, the law is the law.”

Seven years. What a shameful travesty.

When is he going to do points #2 and #3 for Twitter

It’s better to be pissed off than pissed on

We’re thiiiiis close to the death of the “free world.” Fascism is a blink away.

Internal thought process: “psh, it’s not just over-35’s who remember the dawn of GPS, I’m only… thirty… six…” 😩

I don’t have deeply shocking memories about using GPS for the first time, it was just this gadget my dad got for road trips so we didn’t have to deal with an atlas. However, I still remember being a passenger in a moving car using my first smartphone, watching our progress on Google Maps and feeling like I had gained the ability to see around corners. Technological progress seemed unambiguously positive and my phone just kept getting more useful.

typically a racist dog whistle

I’m preeetty sure that’s just the name of the breed but there are some serious racial undertones and associations going on:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0305959

https://notoleranceforantisemitism.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/pit-bull

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pitbull

Go to the doctor

I haven’t seen that episode of south park but I wouldn’t trust the south park take on gender issues. Contrapoints on Youtube is a great explainer for uninitiated straight folks who want to learn about trans perspectives.

I missed when reddit had more porn so here I am

Dude I don’t care whose name is on the building, it’s the same effective ownership

Advance Publications https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications

Advance Publications, Inc. is a privately held American media company owned by the families of Donald Newhouse and Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., the sons of company founder Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr. It owns publishing-relating companies including American City Business Journals, MLive Media Group, and Condé Nast, and is a major shareholder in Charter Communications (13% ownership), Reddit (42 million shares), and Warner Bros. Discovery (8% ownership.)

Potato, potato

Reddit is owned and controlled by a corporation (Condé Nast.) They disabled 3rd party Reddit apps to force people onto the official Reddit app which also broke many third party moderation tools. This disproportionately impacted power users, frequent posters, and mods-- in other words, the people who made Reddit the important community it was.

They showed an unwillingness to listen to their community or work with the unpaid volunteer moderators, instead banning the moderators who took part in the Reddit Blackout and replacing them with mods willing to cooperate with the enshittification of the site.

They’ve been mangling the web interface to be uglier and less usable (old.reddit.com is still up, but the mobile version of old.reddit.com is gone). They’ve been experimenting with ways to show more ads and subtler ads.

Lemmy is open source and federated so it can’t get bought up by a company and cored out for shareholder value. You can use different instances, or a variety of apps. You can use (or create your own) third party tools for accessibility and moderation.

Lemmy is currently a smaller universe than Reddit was, but it has a high ratio of good posters and moderators who care personally about their own communities, so hopefully it continues to grow.

https://www.tiktok.com/@mrsmisanthrope2/video/7393882849096518943

I saw a video the other day explaining why he always brings up Hannibal Lecter seemingly out of the blue when discussing immigration, and this confirms the hypothesis: Trump does not understand that political asylum means something different than insane asylum

Imagine dying for Trump only for him to claim you never died

This is breathtakingly dumb

both sides

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