“Women are specifically stating that the direct reason they’re choosing to delay pregnancy is the fall of Roe creating emergency health concerns.”

“I dunno, are you sure you can believe what women say? Did you check the “real” data?”

Oh man, let me introduce you to my absolute favorite used book seller:

https://www.ebay.com/str/secondsalecom

Also, construction leftovers on eBay are a great way to get sink faucets, light fixtures, etc. for a house.

Without this feature, I wouldn’t have known that Yeah Yeah Yeahs and PJ Harvey released new albums. So I’m torn. On the one hand, I’m happy artists I already love can still reach me; on the other hand, I hate that smaller artists I don’t know about yet still have to pay to play

Understaffing, penny-pinching, forcing medical professionals to take on more and more work with no help, to say nothing of increased pay. These working conditions hurt patients chronically.

That’s why doctors and nurses strike. Especially THESE doctors - the new ones who just graduated from medical school. They’re the single most exploited group of people working in healthcare when you account for how little they are paid in comparison to how much they’re expected to work and how much revenue they generate.

In the US we call them resident doctors. In the UK junior doctors. I absolutely support their strike

It’s definitely a double entendre. But the fact that Kojima was willing to go there is why we love him

Right? How is this even up for debate lol

You ded.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water#:~:text=Heavy%20water%20can%20be%20toxic,needed%20for%20poisoning%20to%20occur.

West Virginia. No I’m not kidding.

They will pay you $12,000 to move there. Housing costs are absurdly low. Morgantown is a thriving university town close to Pittsburgh. And the eastern panhandle has a lot of access to VA & MD.

Move there and vote please.

https://ascendwv.com/

There is no wrong way to cut a pizza. I’m willing to die on this hill

I’m deeply skeptical of any and all utopian ideas. They have this mysterious tendency to wander down paths to authoritarianism because we, as a species, are more defined by our ideas of who and what we are than by anything else in our existence.

When an idea becomes an ideal, people become willing to kill or die in attempts to bring that ideal to fruition, no matter how vain.

In fact, this is how I self-edit my own beliefs about the world and myself. “If the cards were all really on the table, would I be willing to proudly die in defense of this idea?” If the answer is yes, then I cling to that as an ideal that I strive toward.

All human lives matter equally.
It is important to lift up those who have less than I do.
Any small effort to alleviate the suffering of my fellow humans is meaningful.
There is always hope.

That is the utopia I choose to live in deliberately every day, and what I appreciate most is that it is resilient to the whims and chaos of this world that I can’t control.

Yes, but have you tried this medical diet that cures all human illness? I mean, how do you really know until you’ve tried? You see what I’m saying?

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All I remember for the Atari 2600 is Space Invaders. I loved that game lol

That means “imported” lol. Important is “importante.”

I hope Reddit isn’t going to send @rmayayo some stupid bill for the app still working

I mean, that’s exactly my point though. People seem to be knee jerk assuming that the “leftist” accusations against the .ml instances are standard issue right wing hyperbole against progressive liberals and that’s not the case. It’s just as much that progressives are complaining because we have no interest in associating with tankies.

No, no there are literally tankies. Lemmy.ml the ml means marxist-leninist and lemmygrad.ml is just straight up tankie CCP apologists

That was an interesting downfall to witness that taught me a lot about how Reddit really operates. I’m the beginning, it was actually a quality alternative to the generic front page repost subs like /damnthatsinteresting.

Then the instant it hit 1 million subscribers, the whole mod team changed, people like Turtle suddenly appeared in the name of “helping out with a sub that grew too fast for existing mods,” and within a few days it was just another trash repost sun.

The thing about TIHI, interestingasfuck, SLPT are that they regularly made r/all. Content hitting the front page means views for Reddit. So it’s less about the sub’s specific userbase, and more that those “main” subs have broad user appeal that brings people to Reddit in the first place.

And currently they’re all shuttered. Which means less content on r/all, which decreases the general audience appeal of Reddit.

Quality management 👍

This sort of comment is why my 5yr Reddit account has > 200K karma. I was very active on Reddit via Boost app, and I’m happy to nuke the whole thing and start over after the way they’ve been acting. I really don’t think they have any idea what they’ve done.

Nice to see you here!

Tiananmen Massacre anniversary is June 4, so there are multiple posts about it (which is great), and a couple of those posts get removed (usually for really obvious violations of sub-specific rules), and someone sees that and cries “Reddit is censoring! CCP shills!”

It’s a damn Reddit tradition at this point