It's still crazy to think just how quickly lemmy grew and how recently still. Software development takes a lot of time but it's nice to know that the devs are chipping away at some of these major issues.
People always forget he was literally sued into buying twitter. He never wanted to buy it, he was just playing stupid games like he always does.
If a lock is broken, then you might call a locksmith to fix or replace it. This is something that happens frequently and isn't as absurd as you make it out to be.
You don't see why unbalanced power dynamics lead to abusive situations?
It can definitely be a good tool for studying or for organizing your thoughts but it's also easily abused. School is there to teach you how to take in and analyze information and chat AIs can basically do that for you (whether or not their analysis is correct is another story). I've heard a lot of people compare it to the advent of the calculator but I think that's wrong. A calculator spits out an objective truth and will always say the same thing. Chat GPT can take your input and add analysis and context in a way that circumvents the point of the assignment which is to figure out what you personally learned.
I guess you could say that but brains are orders of magnitude more complex than any computer. Saying that they're "simply" organic computers is a huge understatement.
Ah yes just "have more disposable income". Simple advice, thanks.
It is but it also isn't. I paid $5 for sync pro for reddit and have gotten literally thousands of hours out of it. $20 isn't that significant in the grand scheme of things if you like the app.
Idk reddit has always been pretty liberal for the most part. Of course there are right wing subs but overall the site is pretty left leaning.
I remember the dev of connect was in this community praising sync a little while back so I'm not surprised.
I'm sure that the pageant organizers specifically wanted trans men to join /s
Wikipedia has a more specific definition in the first paragraph:
I think it's pretty hard to argue that labor unions can be astroturfing. It's not like they have a lot of wealthy donors who are secretly trying to push narratives to encourage workers organizing.