johndroid

Maybe he should cut more checks to right-wing grifters. That should help.

His "candidacy" is to have his living expenses covered for another year while squirreling away enough cash so he doesn't ever have to be an AM radio talk show host again.

think most people can tell that majority of African and Asian countries have anti-LGBT law without needing "international attention"

Until I read this very article, I had no idea that being gay in Malaysia was punished by 20 years in prison.

Allies.

This isn't the 90s anymore. Today, unmoderated/poorly moderated online spaces are breeding grounds for the usual toxic assholes who ruin everything.

It's still my launcher of choice and I'm going to ride it until the wheels fall off.

I popped into one of the few subreddits I participate in and the consensus was mostly, "Who cares about the API/third-party apps, I just want my Reddit back." Whatever, they can have it.

I've been working to curate my RSS feed in the last couple of days so I never need to visit Reddit at all (outside of being directed there by a Google search result).

So just like that a bunch of communities I'm subscribed to are gone? I guess I could make another account on beehaw but this is quickly becoming more trouble than it's worth. I've broken my Reddit addiction. Maybe it's time to leave lemmy before I get attached.

Since I left Reddit, I've had a few searches yield very helpful Reddit results. I read them and move on. I'm running an adblocker and I'm not providing value by commenting. I see no problem with this.

When I used to work in the office I probably worked about 5 hours a day at most. The rest was spent on personal projects, fucking around, whatever

Now that I work from home it varies between two and four.

My production is exactly the same.

Reddit is going to be fine. It will lose a few thousand conscientious, tech-oriented users. But with a lowing herd of millions who don't care about anything more than internet points and scrolling, they'll hardly be missed.

Today was the first day in a decade I didn't check the front page. So I'll also be fine.

Blackadder, Red Dwarf, Fawlty Towers, the IT Crowd, and (oddly) The Good Place.

“deprived members who choose to exercise their religious beliefs by referring to the biblical texts of an opportunity to do so.”

I have chills imagining a legislator consulting the Bible when debating a law. There's more morality in a random Spider-Man comic book.

The Universe is a big place, so it almost certain.

But so far we don't have compelling enough evidence to verify this.

Nicotine.

I stopped counting when my last nicotine hit was, which I think might be the key here. A couple of years at least.

No urges, never even think about it.

True.

Also, not only are people nicer on Lemmy, I find that I'm nicer on Lemmy.

"Putang ina." ("Son of a whore")

They said this charming Filipino phrase whenever I did something stupid. So, often enough to count as a catchphrase.

I’m spending a lot less time online than I did

Removing Sync from my phone was huge in terms of changing my habits. Without ready access to the dopamine drip, I am using my phone so much less than I did even a week ago. And as you said, I'm reading more and scrolling less.

I'll admit it's very much like getting over an addiction.

Seems like a nice enough guy, but I'm not a fan. Which is fine, since I'm not his intended audience.

Mostly Harmless.

I still subscribe to a couple of niche subreddits because their lemmy equivalents haven't taken off yet. But aside from the occasional check-in, I don't really visit any more. Amazed at how much time I wasted each day on nothing.

If they gave in on day one or two, I may have stuck around.

But as it stands, a week without Reddit has effectively broken my addiction. I've already uninstalled Sync from my phone, deleted my comments, and I only see Reddit pages when they show up as relevant search results.

So they could reverse direction tomorrow and I would be indifferent at best.