I don’t personally feel bad that he is dead. The world is probably a better place without him in it. However, I’m disturbed by how gleeful some people are about his death. It shows how callous and radicalized people have become. I know a lot of people will jump in and say it’s rhe right’s fault things have gotten so radicalized, but that’s missing the point. Taking a life should never be easy.

I mean, sure, it’s mostly edgy people talking tough online. Give them Charlie Kirk in a dark alleyway and hand them a gun and 99% of them wouldn’t pull the trigger. But that social media environment does produce killers, and the kind of people it pushes over the edge tend to not be very stable and their actions tend to be pretty horrific. Probably the most famous Lemmy user to date is the man who bombed the fertility clinic. Let’s hope it stays that way.

I’ll be honest I haven’t delved too deep into his music but his cover of Bulls on Parade goes hard

Denzel Curry maybe?

So your claim that they are still funded and influenced by the British government is completely unsubstantiated got it.

They are my primary news source. I think they are extremely trustworthy and overall pretty unbiased. I sense a sort of contempt towards Donald Trump that bleeds through even in their very dry reporting style. I appreciate how non-sensationalized their stories are.

Do you have any evidence they continue to be funded and directed by the British government? They were literally partnered with TASS until 2022…

I’d say the speed limits on ebikes are primarily there for the safety of the operator, not others. Pretty much all cars nowadays have similar electronic limits.

True, I didn’t think of that.

Honestly I dont think this is going to be too effective without a corresponding crackdown on fake license plates. Shoplifting from home improvement stores is a big problem but the people I’ve seen walking out with thousands of dollars of tools in broad daylight just had an obviously fake paper tag.

Yeah it leans very hard leftist. I hope as the platform grows it will get a little more diversity of opinion but I love the concept of open-source social media (if you can even call it that). For now I just block all the news and political communities; occasionally something gets through but that’s fine.

I find these threads entertaining because it pits Lemmys hatred of cars against its hatred of police departments

You can reduce the number of speeders AND issue more tickets, which I’d say is the most likely outcome.

There’s no way there’s an entire spoon of plastic in my brain. I know that one study came to that conclusion but that study was wrong. Cmon people that’s insane.

Nah it was a real e-ink kindle. It just wasn’t for me i guess.

I would say reading books. It’s a long form activity that is a strong counter to the brain rot of scrolling and being mindlessly entertained by 100 different things for 10 seconds each. I find that when I read I have more vivid dreams which I think is definitely a sign that my brain has been fired up.

Same! I’ve read 1 (one) book in my life on a kindle and hated it. Physical books are just really cool, or maybe it’s just preference because that’s what I grew up with.

All I’m doing is pointing out that the above evidence is flawed. I can do that without a full-throated defense of the American police apparatus.

Those are cherrypicked numbers. You are comparing COVID America to pre-covid other countries. France dropped from 80% to 50% in 2020

People just split for irreconcilable differences all the time, they don’t owe the public an explanation.

I mean you’re ALREADY giving them your name, photo, address, age, and a bunch of private romantic chats. If you trust Tinder enough for that I don’t see what difference a video of your face makes.