There was a large propaganda effort by the British and French to pin the blame for the war on one of the Central Powers and Germany was the only major Central Powers that didn’t fall apart due to the war.

The 90’s seemed a lot more optimistic than now. People back then also seemed pissed off about that optimism in various ways.

Bots may be producing content, but they aren’t consuming it to that volume. If they are, it just means that ad per view revenue drops.

But are we ready for a big-titty Yoshi whose struggle sounds have been changed so sound like a woman moaning?

Just because it wasn’t accredited as a private school doesn’t mean that isn’t what it functionally was.

I’m also not surprised that this program was functionally better than public school since there public education system in the South became garbage when segregation became illegal.

I’d look up any project that NYCDEP or NYC Parks is doing that advertises using local plants. Then, get those plants.

Valerie

It sounds like you went to private school.

There’s enough data from COVID that shows pulling students out of school creates students with less social ability than those physically in school.

Yeah. When you look at how the war even got started, you start to see that Germany didn’t expect Austria-Hungary to be that incompetent diplomatically and that Russia was the one who threw away a potential peace plan before the war started.

And as for D, I think it is more that Lemmy isn’t filled with the kind of people who would love her as an artist. You’ve got a lot of people who may not have music tastes which would align with Taylor, but because she is so popular you hear about her all the time and why don’t people shut up about her!

Yeah, but those tools should be built into Lemmy and they aren’t. Even something as basic as mod seniority based on something other than how long someone has been a mod should have been corrected.

Good mods and admins are able to do good work despite the tools provided, not with the tools provided.

I’m not surprised. Lemmy has been sold as a Reddit where people can be in more control than they could be on Reddit. It turns out you only get that control if you’re an admin.

But the decision to defederate or allow a mod to use AI is at the admin level, not the user level.

The user threat to leave isn’t worth that much.

Monaco has ridiculously low taxes for its residents, which gets very wealthy people to move there.

Taylor Swift is a woman from a wealthy family that spent a significant amount of money getting Taylor’s career to take off. Yet, she’s a reasonably talented singer-songwriter who has been very active at defining the taste of her music and keeping herself in the limelight for almost two decades.

I feel like if Wikipedia shuts down, it will be because the Wikimedia Foundation collapsed. It is a non-zero likelihood, especially as the organization tries to outgrow its original purpose of maintaining Wikipedia. If it goes, I expect clone sites to immediately pop up. If not, it probably says something more about the health of the Internet than the usefulness of Wikipedia.

YouTube will likely remain tied to Alphabet/Google. Outside of Alphabet or the Internet dying, another risk could be that Alphabet’s media arm gets forcefully removed from the rest of the company and the new company can’t afford to host the media due to making less money on ads and having to spend more on hosting costs.

ChatGPT could easily not be around in 20 years. No one knows what AI is going to look like and an open to ask AI may not be viable by then.

AskJeeves’s bloated corpse just shut down this week.

I’m not surprised. It was very apparent after interest rates rose that tech companies had to immediately start worrying about making money and not making long term bets which might make money. When you aren’t making as much software as you used to, why have that many programmers in payroll?

The use of AI for moderation isn’t the choice of users, but moderators and admins.