Is that not the instance everyone hates because of their toxic politics, or something? Does that also reflect the Lemmy creators?

I don’t follow the discourse myself, I just keep seeing people make derogatory references to it here and there.

Hello from Manchester :-)

AccuWeather posted this meme?

How dare you besmirch the famous Nestlé name! They didn’t murder all those babies and steal all that water and support all that slavery to have their chocolate insulted! How DARE

The funny thing is, THIS seems to be the part the media is rolling with, but if you read the full details about what it can do and how poorly it’s made, tracking your location is only one thing to worry about (though it’s a big one to be fair).

E.g The potential for running arbitrary malicious code if one random dude on the internet (who is unrelated to the US government) has his GitHub account compromised? Daaaaaaawg

One day people will look back on your comment and be impressed at how you predicted the future four great nations of the world.

This is gonna be fuckin hilarious

It seems as if there’s a large chunk of multiple generations that were never taught by their guardians and teachers how to use a microwave properly.

You wouldn’t use an oven the same way as a frying pan and expect the same results. Microwaves are great for some things and not for others, and can easily heat things through evenly.

It’s not the fault of people who don’t know though, it’s a fault of their educators.

Judging just from the image and title, I’m guessing they’re demonstrating this as evidence that there’s insider trading going on, as just prior to the US President making a huge announcement that rocked the economy, a sudden unusual spike in activity was recorded.

This does not seem likely to be unrelated, given what this graph shows as normal activity.

The author suggests humourously that this is evidence of precognition - of being able to predict future events using magic.

It is a gift, I say, a gift to the foes of Mordor! It is mad not to use it!

The US seems to want us to be extremely focused on one small part of their war - the Strait of Hormuz. It’s all they ever harp on about.

What’s the situation across the rest of the theatre? How close is the US to accomplishing it’s primary war goals?

Why do they suspiciously want us to ignore everything else and focus on this one international shipping transit lane?

What allies?

This guy acts like any of this is new, or that it’s some right wing conspiracy to make us mistrust the government.

They’re in the pocket of capitalist interests and have been for hundreds of years. More and more it’s becoming clear that the leading factor behind most of our major societal issues is unfettered capitalism, destroying everything and squeezing everything.

Our governments answer only to the rich these days, moreso than ever before in recent Western history. Any response from the people can be moderated and restricted, and at worst results in a pathetic protest that - while it may be large - is a brief, unsustained blip that doesn’t even rattle the stock market, let alone worry the rich ruling class at all.

Society has been cleverly trained to think they can’t affect change, and that writing a comment online (like this one) is a good way to affect change or make a difference.

All it does is make you feel like you’ve done something useful, when you haven’t, and identified yourself and your political opinions to your government, who will put you on various lists and come for you when the time comes.

This guy is on the right track, but needs to think bigger. Much, much bigger.

We must continue to build our defences against US aggression.

They’ve already threatened to invade our allies on multiple occasions recently, and that’s on top of the deeply evil things they’re already doing, both to their own people and to others around the world.

We must take them seriously and protect ourselves.

They will come for us once they’re done crushing their own citizens, and once they’re finished securing their control over the global strategic and industrial resources needed for their future peer wars of domination against enemies and former allies.

It’s sad, I know, but it’s the reality we live in now. We mustn’t live in denial just because the future is scary. They will continue to do evil things like this, and eventually come for us.

What I hate most about the Independent these days is that they’re a UK news agency for UK news reporting, but seem to want to heavily report on local USA news now.

Not just big international news worthy stuff, but lots of small local area USA news.

I’ll see some headline that sounds serious, only to open it and find it’s not referring to events in the UK at all, but in the USA, which is entirely irrelevant to me.

Not sure why they pivoted to being a US news company, but I’m sick of it, so they’re on my blacklist now.

Why don’t France want to go to war with a random country for lols? Are they COWARDS?!

The American military is a den of animals and monsters. disgusting subhuman cowards; Bloodthirsty beasts.

Dehumanising people, calling them animals, subhuman, beasts, etc - using their own horrid, evil tactics basically - is not how you win me, or anybody decent, over.

They can be bad people doing bad things, but the moment you try to persuade us that they’re not human, but are less than human (and it thus follows that doing bad things to them is more acceptable than doing bad things to actual human people), you immediately lose my support.

No thank you.

Is Russian propaganda truly “the strongest”, or just the most obvious, especially to someone like myself who is an outsider to their system?

I suspect propaganda across the west is just as pervasive, it’s just more insidious, and much harder for us to spot from within.

I wanted to keep using Boost, and they banned third party applications from Reddit.

Especially annoying given that their own application was awful and at times unusable with whole features completely missing.

I was barely aware they ‘funded’ mental healthcare at all, it’s been on life support for years.

I’m on various years and years long mental health waiting lists, I’m sure they’ll get even longer if they reduce the £5 a week they bother to throw at mental healthcare.