Thankfully, I no longer live in London, but I always quite liked the DLR. At least you get a view when it’s doing the slow-squeaky-slow thing, which is more than you get on most central tube lines.
So frustrating! Reminds me of a set of keys that went missing in our apartment many years ago. Searched everywhere! Days later, DH leaned back in in the recliner and pulled the lever to extend the footrest. When we heard that metal on metal drop, we both jumped to see the keys on the ground. Yes, we’d searched the gaps in the cushion. I’m convinced aliens took them and pranked us by returning them at the moment we found them.
Keepa is great for Amazon. I think the price jacking before promo is not allowed by Amazon you may be able to report it. But it will likely not do anything.
It’s a browser plug-in that displays a graph of the price history for a given product right on the Amazon page. Great to know if it’s the right time to buy or if you should wait for the price to change. Amazon prices change daily, sometimes hourly.
Also, a high forehead was considered beautiful in the Renaissance so women used to pluck their eyebrows and hairline to make their foreheads appear higher. Eyelashes were also unfashionable and were often trimmed/plucked. Here’s an extreme example of this:
Apple products are too expensive (iphone is 8 months of minimum wage), universities are pushing Linux, some government facilities are using it(Turkey has its own distro for government see Pardus etc
So far, Lemmy has been an oasis in a desert of outrage bait, ‘ackshually’ jerks, and the shitty gamesmanship of other platforms. I really hope it lasts.
Yes! It seemed like there was always someone trying to prove how wrong you are or how much more right they are no matter the topic. I’m trying to break myself out of the lurking habit and engage more here.
One of my controversial opinions is beloved TV presenter Stephen Fry has done more harm in last 20years than any other celebrity (including Trump).
QI approach of 'but akshly' klackson and in game punishing people for having interest in topic but not knowing fully lead to confrontational approach to knowledge that led to smug 'but aksuly' on one side and pushed those that like to get bits of trivia to share but may not have full knowledge towards the anti-intelectual, fuck experts approach.
Instead if people did the xckd 10000 people approach https://xkcd.com/1053/ and rather than making fun, build up others knowledge and excite them to learn, then maybe they wouldn't turn their backs on knowing
I agree with your statement totally. But I’m now curious of the nature of your controversial opinion! I know who Stephen Fry is and have a general idea of his work. I’ve seen him in many movies and listened to a few of his shows on the BBC that’s it. But I can’t say I’ve followed him closely at all. How has he done harm? (genuine question promise, I’m definitely interested in knowing another side of him that I hadn’t considered or seen)
What did happen to reddit though? Everything seems to continue as it always has. I was using Joey for Reddit to browse it, ant that still works as far as I know
No and they started computing it differently at some point so it got a sudden jump from max 6 to 8k upvotes on the most popular posts to having 13ks in the front page frequently
But I took that into account, my account is 13 years old on there, when stuff barely ever went in the thousands it already made me switch from 9gag to reddit
The impacts on Reddit are going to be more long term than anything. The technically literate base that attracted people to Reddit is gone. Right now, attaching Reddit to the end of a search is a good idea to get the answers you want. All the open source people are gone now, Google results are already hurting. The most attractive part of Reddit is already starting to disappear. It’ll be a slow decline as users can’t find the content they want.
Objectively, Reddit will do well as it’s just a generational change. TikTok and Instagram got all and about zilch to offer if one is looking for factual statements or level-headed discussion of topics and they are doing phenomenally. Instant gratification is way more marketable and exploitable, so it’s best for Reddit to take the small loss in engagement from the technical crowd and be just another meme spewing zombie consumer pleaser.
The people who really suffer are the ones that were relying on the niche knowledge some subreddits provided or who were using them as a learning/studying aid. AKA the folks that left and the lurkers that relied upon them.
In a way it’s a return to form. The technical comminuty side of reddit was just a modern message board. Lemmy will return the power to the communities instead of relying on one company.
Some third party apps still work because the official app isn’t ADA compatible. That being said, most third party apps left are working on monetization to pay for the API, either by ads or subscription. Regardless, all third party apps have been cut off from sexually explicit material.
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