Mainly because they've done better at it than the big tech forums have. Bottom line social media is in absurdly hard category for anyone to break into once someone else has a grip. Not sure if you remember google's huge flop when they tried to step in facebooks terf with google plus (Which I do have to say, from a design and functionality level, was a decade ahead of facebook, but google's attempt to shove it down everyone's throats, was horrendous).

Bottom line, if you don't care about who's running it, the best social media platform, is the one that everyone's already using. The existing company has to REALLY fsck it up big time to actually lose that advantage, and the competition has to, at least appear to be a trustworthy company. MS, Google, Facebook etc... would not have a good trust factor if they were to try to make a reddit like website, and reddit's just not done enough to scare off the common users to leave a power vaccume that will draw an audience bigger than say what we have here on lemmy.

Jesus, what's next.

You didn't give passion of the Christ 5 stars, you must not be a true American.

Top it off though, it's fricking insane that say, supporting feminism is fair to show motive and intent. Meanwhile didn't rittenhouse have like major tweets basically saying that he was hoping for a chance to shoot some protestors, before crossing state lines and shooting some protestors, and the court ruled his public statements would unfairly bias the jury or some nonsense?

I mean it's a grey area there... I think the overall propoganda created after vietnam (Rambo movies etc...), helped people learn to seperate and understand that a war can be wrong, and the soldiers can be good people serving their country.

IE maybe it's the bubbles I live in, and most these memories are pre-trump, but I heard no shortage of people that could go off for hours on how horrible the war on terror was, how stupid and monsterous bush was to send so many to kill and be killed, and still go out of their way to say "thank you for your service" to men coming back from iraq.

I mean it's worth saying that the new bots are kind of a different league to the old bots.

Keep crypto scams going! Also trump doesn't know policy anyway, he just signs what his handlers ask him to.

Why do you think some of the most advertised things are... predatory loans and gambling.

Honestly for me the worse of it is, basically on linkedin and similar, people pretending to be recruiters, opening with a fake job posting and asking for your resume, then to follow it up with "Hey you know I don't think this resume is going to get by, can I put you in contact with my resume company, they will sharpen up your resume for $300. Umm... so yeah, don't know if you guessed this, but I have no clue when my next paycheck is coming in, this isn't the time to ask me to drop a large amount of money on something that may not do anything.

Would say overall the point is... they aren't more expensive than regular food, depending on your situation etc... Key thing is crab legs and lobster tails, aren't generally a huge price point beyond other things... and the joke, is of course that someone using their 200 a month and getting something moderately paletable, while a small group of cabinet members are literally spending more than.. well more than a states worth of food stamp recipients get total.

Sure, but did you think about the fact that food stamp recepiants could legally buy frozen lobster tail if they hoose to use all of their food stamps on it?, there's at least one documented case of someone actually doing it too so, it's a serious problem and justified cutting off half the country from food stamps to keep the epstien files from releasing.

You know, I wonder if half of the reason for the rename, aside from being more on the nose.

Is so even when the stock market tanks they can say "The DOW is up 100,000!"

eventually I'm sure it will. at least within windows I think it's safe to assume if it's on the screen, it's a candidate for AI control.

Well I think Schumer may be more UNIVERSALLY hated, because he sucks for both sides. If you think tax cuts for the rich are great, that Isreal should be able to do whatever the hell it wants, that wars are a good thing, you'll love McConnel, Schumer on the other hand sometimes says words to pretend to oppose those things.

So in short, if you are pro-fascist you hate schumer a little, if you are anti-fascist you hate schumer a lot... but at the end of the day, no one likes him, except for maybe the people that support his role as the person hired to lose.

Doubly so factoring in it's right now at a time when, hardware costs are skyrocketing. Getting a PC with the same specs as the one I bought in 2023, is almost double the price today. Even steam machines and consoles are delaying themselves because they can't find a way to release at a reasonable price point.

Everyone has basically been told "3 months ago was the last time to buy a computer for a while until either the AI bubble pops, or some magical huge increase in manufacturing happens to keep up with demand". Point is this is literally the worse time in history to tell people to go buy a new PC.