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Trans pilot falsely blamed in Potomac plane crash sues conservative influencer in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

(heh, roots)

Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Everyone gains from progress.

It's only true in the long-term. In the short-term (at least some) people do lose jobs, money, and stability unfortunately

At this point I think I would in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That article you linked about 26 loans is from 2011. Do you know if they still do that or they decided to roll it back or something? I couldn't find anything about it other then more articles from 2011

Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But isn't Lemmy already a forum-like (i guess) platform? Like there are boards (or whatever they are called here, i don't remember, "subreddits") about discussing some topic and you can make threads discussing said topic. Bam, a forum, right?

Or do forums have something that Lemmy (or at this point Reddit) don't?

Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It's best when they don't have an option to install and use this stuff to begin with, if it's a problem. Mostly because I'm sure kids will find a way to bypass restrictions (because most these apps aren't that good)

What safeguards does Lemmy have that allow it to maintain integrity if it sees a sudden rise in popularity? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Hell yeah, now we got ~~business~~ lemmy