Exactly this.

Based on my 2020 experience, seeing people whining about not being able to go to Olive Garden, I am pretty sure that the keyboard warriors are not prepared for the inconvenience of living in a war zone.

Pakistani guy who loves his spicy food. I keep a bottle of crushed red peppers in the break room at work for when the boss orders pizza for the office.

20 year old me would see that as an opportunity for an epic Harold & Kumar inspired road trip.

Not a Christian, but nothing beats working out to “Light of Christmas” by Owl Cities.

They just recreated NYC dollar slice pizzeria.

Not sure why Nissan needs my sexual activity data but I can maliciously comply and make them regret asking for it.

I don’t rrally care when or if we have labor day as an official holiday. Seems like a pointless token gesture, considering the lack of labor rights and protections in the US.

Babe, the latest AI torture test just dropped.

Sounds kinda Satanic

I’m in

Exactly. With the IPO coming up, they can claim high engagement which is why I personally think that the best move is to not engage at all.

Every attempt to fix this is met with boomers screaming about ruining the unique character of the neighborhood.

Best description of NPR that I have ever heard came from Conan O’Brien at a Whitehouse correspondents dinner:

“News that’s delivered as if there was a baby asleep in the next room.”

Joking aside though, they do a great job of calmly and rationally talking about controversial topics. The weekend shows can get surprisingly spicy though.

Bold statement considering that the prosecutors have boxes of evidence piled all the way up to to the chandeliers.

I too want some long overdue schadenfreude but I am just going to hold my breath for the next 24 hours. At this point, it mostly the most rabid followers who still back him - The type who are most likely to start something.

I will make this my first ever Lemmy post:

Overall, this definitely feels like a promising alternative with some growing pains. The bigger communities are decently active but the decentralized nature of Lemmy carries the risk of some communities becoming too fragmented where communities are duplicated in different instances. As some other users have suggested, This could be remedied by creating “Super communities” spanning the Fediverse which could help with growing to a scale large enough to rival Reddit and incentivise even more Redditors to make the switch.