I do this all the time. I see so many brainless, low-effort posts all over the internet that I don’t want to add to the pollution with anything I’m not confident is either informative or funny.

But I also want Lemmy to grow and thrive, so here I’ve been making more of an effort to try to finish and post even comments I’m not so certain about. I figure that has to be better for the site than contributing nothing at all.

Nixon died in 1994, so there’s that.

True that it won’t be a quick fix, but at least Keir Starmer seems to want to mend our relationship with the EU, while the Tories are still stuck in deep denial.

It’s a shame we can’t downvote posts lower than zero.

That was my immediate guess, but Covid blew up in March, and the Reddit graph doesn’t go crazy until a few months later. It is hard to see what else could possibly explain it though; I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s just an error in the axis labelling or something.

What the hell happened in the second half of 2020?

What makes you say the proposal was unpopular among First Nations people? The few pre-referendum polls of indigenous Australians seemed to indicate that the majority were in favour.

Because he’s still working on winning back the trust of the Jewish community.

Do you think Amazon gets its goods for free?

While it’s true that the imbeciles in our (UK) government have tried to implicitly outlaw E2EE, there are no restrictions on VPNs here.

Then buy something physical – there are literally millions upon millions of products he can spend the credit on.

They gave him regular Amazon credit, so he can spend it on physical goods if he likes.

It’s Amazon, dude. You may not like their business practices but it’s a fair bet they’re going to have something you want at a decent price.

You’re saying you can’t buy to own anything… at Amazon?

They gave the guy £10.99 in credit for a £5.99 film, so they’re probably taking some sort of loss.

forced cloud spyware which at this point is the entire OS now

I mean, apart from…

I came here to post exactly this. IIRC Matthew Smith said his playtesting rule was that, as long as he could successfully complete a room once, no matter how many attempts it took, it went in. Hardly surprising that doing the whole thing, even with infinite lives, was far beyond my eight-year-old self.

Google doesn’t track everything. The browser determines your interests locally; the only information shared with Google (and advertisers) is which broad topics you’ve recently shown an interest in.

i have parties

I read this article from top to bottom and didn’t find a clear explanation of why you should disable this feature.