Meh, I’m not so sure. We need to get used to the fact that reddit’s fuckery is unlikely to ever re-produce the massive influx of new users that the API nonsense did in 2023. That was a one-off thing that drove out all the OG users. The people left on reddit are the types that refer to it as an “app” and probably don’t even know old.reddit exists. Those kinds of people will grumble but they aren’t going anywhere. And frankly, that’s fine by me.

Edit: lmao okay, okay, Lemmy got 6 new users today. I get it. My point that we’re never going to see another user influx on the scale of the summer 2023 API changes has been proven wrong. Congrats everyone. Let’s hope half of them actually stick around.

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Agreed, it’s one thing to believe nonsense, but it’s entirely different when you start taking advantage of sick and desperate people. And that’s without even addressing the fact that this isn’t even the first time this dude has caused the death of a diabetic person. The other one was a 6-year-old boy.

Off-topic but I had a feeling you’d be the first commenter, lol. I remember running into you all the time in r/skeptic.

Sure, Marge, let’s do it. Now show us how many rubles you’ve got.

Hack the planet

Farva : Give me a double bacon cheeseburger.

Burger Guy : [into mic] Double baco cheeseburger. It’s for a cop.

Farva : What the hell’s that all about? You gonna spit in it now?

Burger Guy : No, I just told him that so he makes it good.

[into mic] Burger Guy : Don’t spit in that cop’s burger.

Farva : Yeah, thanks.

Second Burger Guy : Roger, hold the spit.

Farva : Gimme a pie… apple.

Burger Guy : Want me to hold the spit? Hah, just kidding officer Farva.

Burger Guy : Want me to dimpa-size your meal for 25 cents?

Farva : Want me to punch-a-size your face, for free?

Burger Guy : It’s only 25 cents, and look how much more you get.

Thorny : Look, kid, he doesn’t want it.

Farva : I can handle this, Thorn. I don’t want it!

Burger Guy : Uhh, right. Beverage?

Farva : Gimme a litre o’ cola.

Burger Guy : What?

Farva : A litre o’ cola!

Burger Guy : [into mic] Litrecola? Do we sell litrecola?

Thorny : Will you just order a large, Farva?

Farva : I don’t want a large farva. I want a goddamn litre o’ cola!

Burger Guy : I don’t know what that is!

Farva : Litre is French for… give me my fuckin’ cola before I break VOUS FUCKIN’ LIP!

“The other night I was watching this movie — I was watching this movie called Fright Night, Freak Night or some type of night but it was about vampires. I don’t know if you know but vampires are some cool people are they not? But let me tell you something that I found out: a werewolf can kill a vampire did you know that? I never knew that. So I don’t want to be a vampire anymore I wanna be a werewolf.” - Herschel Walker, November 16th 2022

NC has a legitimate chance of going blue this cycle, and if that happens, it will be in no small part because of Mark Robinson. This guy is one of the worst candidates I’ve ever seen. Which is really saying a lot because the GOP have been running some absolute shitheads in the MAGA era.

These people love their magic words. Of course, they never actually work, but it’s not going to stop them from continuing to try.

Yeah, I used to run into you in r/skeptic a lot, fighting the good fight lol. And we both know the mods of that sub let it be overrun with all types of deniers and insane conspiracy theorists… But at least those trolls put a little more effort into it than just scoffing at experts.

Apparently those brainiacs with their fancy book learnin’ and expertise are useless. We must all sift through hundreds of thousands of pages of raw data before reaching any conclusions. The entire concept of career specialization is wrong! Throw it out!

“I’m not a climate change denier but why does anyone care what experts think?!” 🙄

Yeah, it takes a whole lot of misogyny for a man to look at this dude’s actions and statements over decades in the public eye and still arrive at the opinion that Donald fucking Trump respects women.

Here’s the first sentence to clear things up:

This month, The New York Times/Siena College poll asked voters how much they think former President Trump respects women.

Greg Gutfeld’s the kind dude that stopped reading books when he got to be too old for the Book-It program and couldn’t score any more free personal pizzas at Pizza Hut.

Mr Stanley said farms were facing “an existential moment” because of the changing climate, which could put many out of business, reducing UK food security.

“The problem that we’re facing is that weather is becoming so extreme that it is overwhelming our ability as farmers to continue to grow crops at all in some places,” he said.

Yes, but let’s not lose sight of what’s really important, by sacrificing the planet we’ve successfully prevented a few billionaires from having to sell their yachts.

Communism is when you… Wait okay let me start over. If someone else is doing something and… Hold on. So you know how theres capitalism and then there’s… Please don’t do a communism.

…I got better

A witch turned me into a newt.