I guarantee you that guy complains to his friends about how girls dont want to date him.
Individual selfishness is responsible for... People having children, raising them, and bringing them places?
Am I insane or does that just on its face not make any sense?
Your first paragraph is the actual reason here. It's too expensive for a lot of parents to get a babysitter, so they need to bring their kids with them if they want to go do something. And for many people like me who work from home (I don't have kids yet but the point stands) that one night every week or so that we go out to dinner is basically the only time I go to do anything fun outside the house that isn't working out. When I worked in an office (which I ever want to do again) I'd go out to lunch with coworkers and occasionally do a happy hour after work, but that isn't an option anymore.
If I had kids we'd be bringing them with us when we go out because it would be significantly cheaper than hiring a sitter for a few hours.
The thing is that liberals feel the need to obsess over "fairness."
If you really ban hate speech from a place, then it will appear to mostly be inhabited by more left leaning people. The vast majority of hate speech comes from the right.
But at forms WANT those right WI gers to drive engagement, so they don't enforce their TOS on open racism so long as it's a conservative doing it. But if you're on the left and repost it to criticize it you get dinged.
It's bullshit that shows how many companies are run by fascists who don't bother hiding it anymore. But the liberals eat it up because it wouldn't be "fair" to ban conservatives "for their conservative views."
That's what I've been saying. Let the admin remove some mods from a subreddit like r/pics with millions of users. I guarantee anyone the appoint will be very done with modding within a week. It's rich that reddit is threatening to remove any porn posted to r/pics right now, since that will literally become the norm if moderators get removed.
It's like they expect mods to just appear out of thin air and act the same way as the current mods do
I second Joplin. I love it, and I use it all the time.
LMAO literally in the first 30 seconds this guy is clearly, openly a right winger. He's one of those "Christians are so oppressed and now they're coming for our kids" types.
This is such a garbage video, why did you post this? Literally half of it is him saying "I keep hearing about all these parents taking their kids out of school because of the gay stuff they're being indoctrinated with" but he isn't supporting any of it.
He is picking apart these statistics as if they matter but they don't. Yeah, time moves on. It's interesting that he doesn't use Gallup polls on race as a comparison because I guarantee you'd see similar jumps in acceptability around whether black people can be teachers. This guy just needs to accept that the world has moved past his homophobic worldviews.
It's hilarious that you told us to "watch the video and not be reactionary" when literally the first 5 minutes is entirely, explicitly reactionary content that presents nothing new or interesting.
I'm not watching more of this garbage video. It's just more right wing anti-LGBT "they're coming for your kids" propaganda.
I fundamentally disagree with the idea we will see a continuous trickle of users here as reddit makes more bad decisions. It will be waves, not a constant trickle. And each decision after the API changes will be incrementally smaller, driving fewer users away.
Right now we will also have a retention problem. People came here as an alternative to reddit, a d if the site is too slow, too hard to use because it is slow, then they won't stay. Theyll fall back into old habits and go back to reddit, because it's easier and familiar.
Edit: case and point: I'm using Jerboa. I just posted this comment, but when I did it took about 30 seconds, then I got a network error, and it didn't seem to post but it had, in fact, posted. This is pretty normal on this app right now. I understand stuff like this will get ironed out, but for new users who aren't fully committed it's a BIG turnoff.
Or buy the next size up, that's what we did.
We have a queen sized bed, so we bought a king sized comforter. More than big enough for both of us and the 3 pets we allow to sleep with us (we will be getting a king size bed before the puppy is allowed in at night)
Reddit always had this too though. In every app I used there was an "up voted" and "down voted" tab when I would look at someone's profile
Maybe it was an api thing?
I can confirm this is true in Jerboa; learned the other day the hard way.
I disagree.
Twitter was one of the largest social media platforms on the planet, and was especially huge in the US. Before Musk bought it it didn't show any signs of failure. It lasted over a decade, and had enough reach that I think it made a lot of sense for things like emergency alerts, government officials, etc. to use it as one means, even a main means, of disseminating information. It was really effective at that until what, a year ago?
I don't think anyone really predicted Elon Musk buying Twitter and running it into the ground within a year. Yes, it was hypothetically possible in our capitalist system, but there was no indication that it would until Elon made a joking tweet.
Because of how the modern internet has organized itself, it was inevitable that critical systems would utilize Twitter for it's reach.
I think you're applying hindsight and expecting people to have made decisions based on events that hadn't happened yet. Before musk bought Twitter it wasn't at all unreasonable for people to rely on it for information from government officials because it was the format millions of people were accustomed to receiving that information in every day.
Yeah I thought something was maybe wrong until I saw this post. Massive improvement.