I think them and Moderna turned the money down because they’d have to share the patent with the government. Trump offered them money, they didn’t take it.

I could see cryptobros and the “investing” subs spending a lot on this. They were already buying tons of awards to hype themselves up.

Any unironic circlejerk cult will by buying these and pinning them on each other’s chest, same as the dumbass awards.

I think reddit knows their target audience pretty well; Rubes. That’s why they let all the toxic “stock”, crypto-scam and political extremist subs stay open until the media starts writing stories about them. Gullible idiots spend a lot of money trying to make their opinions look smart and popular.

This will make Reddit a lot of money in the short-term, but probably push more legitimate/casual users away as these “premium upvotes” will surely effect the algorithm and push more nonsense into people’s feeds.

Now that i think about it, this will probably help advertisers and political groups astroturf all of reddit.

Having proper diagnoses for people help them get care and treatment. It’s better than calling them all “stupid” and ignoring their struggles, which has been the case for decades.

Most of these “fancy new labels” you’re hearing lately are just recognizing people, so they can be included in society and treated with dignity.

Same. I finally got into reading which I’ve been regretting not doing for years. I’ve read 5 scifi novels in the last few months and just dipped my toes into the Discworld series with Mort. I’ve gotten a lot of use out of my kid’s library card lately.

Whenever i find myself doom scrolling lemmy like i would reddit, I’ve gotten in the habit of putting my phone down and reading a chapter of whatever is nearby.

He lost at the height of his popularity. Now he has loser stink, nevermind all the embarrassing criminal charges and him convincing his base their votes don’t matter. On top, they blew through their campaign funds too early in the last election, and reports are his campaign’s already going broke from him dipping in to fight court cases.

The public doesn’t want him and the money doesn’t want him. If he’s the Republican nominee, I’d actually be fairly confident in a Dem win.

Trying to bump those subscription numbers with teenage girls.

It was intentional. They didn’t 100% like either site so they made a community on both. They are seeing which they prefer after some use and development.

Everyone here is acting like they’re idiots who don’t understand the internet. They were high level mods.

There’s a quote from them further up someone posted. They just weren’t 100% sold on any site because they said neither quite fit what they wanted. So they started up two to see how they develop and which they prefer down the line.

From what i understand it’s not a very involved process. Not like you have to go to court and all that. File a complaint, give your side, they investigate.

If the labor board finds wrongdoing, the worker could be rewarded 2-3x what the lost wages were, and the company gets put on shitlist somewhere.

I am far from an expert, but i do frequent workers rights spaces for what it’s worth (nearly nothing).

In my head i call it the “Rule of least want to do”. If i have 2-3 tasks that need doing (ususlly work related), i think of which thing i least want to do. That’s the thing i get done, then move down the line.

The protests have just become the new reddit fad. Anyone still there that’s not part of a self-help, resource/info sub, and claiming to be part of the ‘protest’ is just circlejerking.

Same, joined last week after my app of choice was killed. Already spending more time here than i was at the end of my time on reddit.

Was getting so sick of the rage-bait, low quality comments and general snarky behavior, i might have quit anyway. So much better here.

I tried to explain Lemmy to my gf since she was on reddit a lot, but quit for other reasons. Her eyes glazed over, and she gave me a “wow that sounds cool” , like i was our toddler, excitedly telling her about a leaf i saw.

Finding heavy armor almost makes you the Terminator. That’s where i lost interest in the combat. Haven’t played in a few years though.

Just asking a question, huh? Second one of these threads I’ve seen in my feed today.

Neocons testing the waters, to see how far their hatespeech will get them.