Reminds me of a Noah’s ark tv special where they claimed to have found the ark and that there was a bunch of gold jewelry in it, including crucifixes. But…why would Noah have crucifixes?
I often walk close to roads for a while in shorts. You wouldn't believe the disgusting grease that washes down my legs when I shower after that. Big roads are vile to be around.
Edit: okay, he downvoted me and the diverted the conversation. I just wanted a source, which he seems unable to provide. Just want this to serve as a reminder to people that you shouldn’t trust everything you read online, even in Lemmy comments
Interestingly, I did find links to the Singapore govt, through GIC
Looks like that is no longer the case and the Blackstone group is the majority owner now. If you look into Ancestry’s history it was started by LDS members as a project for the cult. There was investment at one point but they no longer own it.
I’m not seeing any evidence that this was church-run at any point in time. Again, do you have a source for that claim?
Just because a business was founded by a member of a certain religion, that doesn’t mean the business is owned by the church. For example, many Catholics own businesses. Does that mean the pope or their local archdiocese controls those businesses?
I’m not trying to make this into a big argument, I’m just asking for your source that explains the church’s involvement. I do see that the owner made a deal with the church for discounted memberships, but any corporation could’ve struck a contract out in a similar fashion. Yes, the LDS church seems to have a weird interest in ancestry (thus the contract and the fact that one of their members made a business out of ancestry stuff)
It wasn’t that it was church-run, it was that the mormons sold their genealogical database to ancestry for a damn good, multimillion dollar deal in which (now this part is speculation, the previous part wasn’t) I assume they scraped ancestry’s technological knowhow to try to set up their own database better. I got to sit in on the meeting where Gordon Hinkley dropped his kindly old dude facade and scream at all the old volunteers running the genealogical department for the multibillion dollar church he personally owned to “delete the duplicates” I think was his exact wording he kept repeating. This was right before they were selling the database to ancestry. He was yelling at us to clean up the database he was selling, do it for free, because he needed more millions. One of my ancestors was in there 12 times (no fault of ours and we’d fought in vain with Salt Lake to get the duplicate entries removed, but since we’re from out of state they wouldn’t do shit). After that meeting, she had fifty duplicate entries.
The wall of fucking spez is finmy, but I find it FAR funnier to see how something that was one of reddit’s most popular things ever just a few months ago is NOTICABLY less popular. All of the biggest communities that were represented on the drawing earlier this year are nowhere to be seen. All that’s left this time around is just random disconnected drawings and massive flags. The soul is gone.
So yeah, stop fucking spamming the canvas and just let it be empty and soulless. It sends a bigger message.
They were stupid to bring it back anyways, it only succeeded the second time because enough time had passed for the people that remembered it and there were plenty of new people to participate. This time neither is true
It seems like they brought it back to drive up traffic. They know people will put those things on it, but they can edit all they want and going over there to “protest participate” still drive traffic to their site. In 6 months when they tell investors how successful the last place event wad, no one is going to want to see the final picture, they’re just going to look at the numbers.
Place was stupid when we were on reddit, its sure as he’ll not worth going back for
There was a lot of talk about the admins erasing stuff. My guess is they’ll ensure it doesn’t look too empty.
I’m ignoring it, though. I don’t want to give them traffic on a platform they can control. The real question is why can’t we set up something similar here?
This isn’t even originally from Reddit… It used to be called “drawball”.
If you only care about browsing twitter passively, I recommend Nitter. It’s an alternative front end which displays the twitter content (almost all of it, not spaces) without JavaScript, ads, trackers etc. You can find instances here:
There is also an extension for Firefox and chromium called privacy redirect which you can setup to redirect twitter and other websites to alternative front-ends.
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