as a pre-schooler non-social media parent, this is fucking hilarious.

Whenever I have to brave the Google abyss, I usually use Startpage. Obviously uBlock Origin but if I can avoid being bombarded by devious and distracting ads altogether, I’d rather that.

True but I see this more as a critical thinking problem - which is pervasive in our society and worsened by the tech bubbles. People should want to seek out information that both argues for and against a topic.

The way our education systems work now, at least in the US, that method of thinking only begins around college and varies widely by academic pedigree.

The few people on ours are local real estate agents and severe weather alerts lol

Yup. I quit everything but Reddit several years back without a second thought in all that time because I lived in a big metropolitan city.

Now I live in a small suburb where all the towns and businesses post to FB, neighbors have tradeposts and active interest groups on there, the schools and Police post info there too. My wife has connected to “friends” we otherwise wouldn’t exchange info with.

All that has had me wanting to create a new account - just to connect. I was completely ignorant to the role it plays outside of big cities beforehand. Nextdoor is a really crappy alternative.

I ruined so many games that way. Once or twice was me bumping the Ps2. Other than that it was just being a petty fuck.

My child needs this. We haven’t found a space yet that they can’t outzoom.

Excuse me! What about the psychological trauma? Do you know what it’s like to be vulnerably taking care of natures business and have one of these demons scurry across your feet?

Y’know! I’ve liked their articles but I’m put off by their membership model and pricing.

Ars ropes me in pretty often. It has more good content than not. The Atlantic has snuck its way into my reading lists - though it’s pretty heavily opinionated more often than not.

It really is getting harder to find quality fact-based reporting. I rely on sources like Allsides and Straight Arrow News but even then it’s still just rehashing (course correcting) the flavor of the day reporting.

NY Times reported it as 8. The video of the USSS sniper shows he reacted after the gunshots.

*8 shots actually. 3 deliberate shots, pause, followed by 5 peppering the area.

I had to block keywords. Have to keep Lemmy my safe space.

Seen it. Covered it.

🎶 we are Farmers!

Thought it was one of those cheeky art projects. Surprised it’s a legit site with relatively deep arguments and citations for reference (not as deep).

To be clear, it’s not exactly original. It’s “adapted from “So You Wanna Be a Cop?”, a pamphlet published by the War Resisters League.”

Speaking of young…THPS3 introduced me to Fat Lip by Sum41 and thus began my love affair with rock/metal.

To think they’re doing their farewell tour now.

Damn. I agree with the message but everyone dislikes the meme.

please let this be the dawn of a new meme era! I want to say I was here to witness it.

I’m not saying you’re wrong but this feels like a super-Russian national subversion ploy.

Happily married but from what I’ve encountered in the wild, I wouldn’t/couldn’t do anything under 28 or so. It’s a completely different worldview.