Americans are now asking themselves how it got to this point.
It all began when Americans were so overcome with racism that they gave absolute power and six-figure salaries to the worst people among them. Who would’ve thought things could go so badly wrong?
It’s the same pattern as social media followed over a decade ago. Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey were always claiming their services were going to change the world for the better.
Both of their services (Facebook and Twitter, respectively) have been used for organizing fascism and hate because hate is extremely profitable and they would rather have money than make the world a better place.
They have ultimately, actively changed the world for the worse.
This might be an unpopular opinion but climbing buildings has never been interesting. No one ever cares except the media for five seconds.
People have been climbing buildings for decades, for free. Then they went to jail.
I think this is the first time a silly daredevil has done it for money, which actually makes it even less interesting.
Just because he’s a climber and thinks it’s a sport doesn’t make it interesting. It’s just as stupid as Evel Knievel and his increasingly embarrassing stunts.
I honestly kind of pity anyone who thinks this is impressive, because they bought into the hype. How’s your AI project going?
To me, it kind of does! Lemmy (with copious blocking) comes as close as I’ve ever felt to what Reddit felt like in 2010.
“All” still requires a lot of filtering, but I see interesting stuff every day.
And I came back to read the other person’s comment, and you had replied! The person I replied to, I remembered the username. And it’s a really thoughtful reply! This happens a lot on smaller communities on Reddit as well, but the whole thing used to feel like that.
I see that on the fediverse pretty much every day! It’s always all about the (preferably kind) communities you build around specific things.
faced years of blowback from residents who raised concerns about damage to the visual landscape along with concerns about potential harm to human and animal health and effects on property values
It’s property values and “they look ugly” to the generationally wealthy people who live there. Everything else is a lie.
people want a classical social media experience, and you will just not get that with lemmy.
Yep, to me the article indicates a fundamental misunderstanding.
They seem to want the same exact Reddit, just somewhere else. The commenters constantly mention “there isn’t a huge userbase” on the fediverse with no consideration of what a mainstream userbase is getting them.
They believe because Reddit (or Facebook, or Twitter, etc.) reached a certain mass, literally all social media has to do the same to be worth considering.
I’m realizing that this kind of willful ignorance in journalism is a major part of the problem.
As long as the plausible deniability exists that “we didn’t know,” everyone can pretend it isn’t a pattern and refuse to even learn.
Meanwhile, these same people were violently cracking down on protesters nearly ten years ago, vocally supporting white supremacy. Many of these ICE agents were in prison before being pardoned by this administration in 2025.
Trayvon Martin was shot nearly thirteen years ago. He also literally went to get snacks. February 26, 2012.
Ahmaud Arbery was shot nearly six years ago. He was jogging. February 23, 2020.
Their only crimes were being black and someone else didn’t like that.
In December of 2012, 16-year-old Corey Stingely was strangled to death by multiple goons in a Milwaukee in a convenience store because he attempted to steal $12 worth of drinks.
Yes! Man created.
The Illinois & Michigan canal was in use until 1933 with the completion of the Illinois Waterway. The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is what reversed the flow of the Chicago River as, as another notable change that reduced traffic on the I&M canal.
Now the I&M canal is a series of walking paths (locally called the “tow path” because that’s how they towed the barges on the river).