Until governments ban private jet travel, we just won't see serious public support. People struggling economically will fight back against taking on the brunt of the cuts.

Nobody actually wants to cut their carbon footprint, including well-meaning wealthy who advocate for change.

We're collectively in a heartbreaking devastating mess.

Exactly. How are exactly actors support to "share in failure" as their nonsense quote suggests?

I know this is a piracy community, but honestly I don't mind paying for newspapers.com. I use it a lot just to read up on old articles and stuff and they seem to be doing a pretty good job adding new newspapers to the archive all the time.

For me piracy is great when the product is just outright overpriced because some corporate tools in New York or Los Gatos are trying to make their VC people happy.

TIL you can cross between the border of Oklahoma and Colorado, technically...

No kidding.

I'm feeling eerily nostalgic for the (objectively terrible) Bush-era doctrine: "You're either with us, or we'll declare your nation a state-sponsor of terrorism"

It's the difference between a mom and pop restaurant and McDonald's.

We don't need everybody to go to the mom and pop restaurant. Just enough of us to keep it afloat.

Reddit is the new Quora or Yahoo! Answers

NYT don't do "paid" stories.

However, the journalism is superficial (lazy) and seems to skim across the surface. This was written by someone who doesn't understand the tech -- so they interviewed someone pro (Spez) and someone con (the super mod) -- did some ping pong with quotes and TADA! An article!

"He tells it like it is"

Our lead-poisoned parents may have bought into that crap. But we know all that is is stubborn arrogance. And solving problems requires open-minded thinking and chasing the problem, not the messenger/customer/employee.

But the good news is, tech is a highly disruptable industry. Barrier to entry is accessible for regular people.

And that's why we're here.

Reddit doesn't die because we left. They die in a few years when the Fediverse just works better than Reddit. And we fund that.

Speaking of, how do I kick in a few bucks to help out various Lemmy servers? Anyone know?

But not for me. I'm forever gone.

And if there are enough power users (lots of comments, posts) like me who feel the same, it will have an impact.

There's a HUGE middle ground between "nothing changes" and "reddit goes out of business." As we see with Twitter, you can have a zombie platform that persists but slowly loses inertia month after month.

It's not that Reddit dies abruptly. It's that the platform is wounded now and, without attention, will bleed out slowly over many years.

And I'm enjoying lemmy.world