In my own circles, I tend to counter this by employing radical honesty, being extremely data driven, and calling out bullshit extremely aggressively whenever I possibly can. It for sure alienates people sometimes, but the people who are alienated tend to be the people who are also psychopaths, so I genuinely do not care about that “drawback”.

They’re trying to waste your time. It’s a very common trolling tactic.

It damages my calm on a daily basis. Our society rewards sociopathy. It’s that simple. And I fucking hate it.

You can tell by the way it is!

IMO they’re less bad than a lot of American outlets, but they’re by no means perfect. I use them as one input of many.

Put another way: there is no single source of news that I would ever trust 100%. Observing the patterns and trying to get a handle on the bias that any particular event is being spun with is frankly far more useful if you want to actually understand the nuance and context of current events.

Of course, if you’re just looking for that dopamine hit of intense emotion/scary things/daily hour of hate, enjoy MSNBC or Fox or whatever (I straight up do not trust pretty much any TV-focused news org - pretty much all of them seem to have devolved into overt propaganda operations, some of which are more obvious than others).

No no - it’s not plagiarism; it’s standardization.

You’re looking for Feeld

Threeve onions

But only the yellow ones that you carry on your belt. The white ones are too scarce due to the wars

It’s definitely fairly conservative, with a healthy dash of neoliberalism and corporatism.

That, and as an adhd-haver, my morning stims havent kicked in yet

I don’t want lemmy to become as popular as Reddit

Also, composites tend to flex more than metal. And the 787 uses a shitload more composites than pretty much any other civilian airframe.

That is some big dick energy ngl

I would partially base it on tax records, honestly.

And yes, I’m specifically trying to exclude billionaires who declare their residency in zero income tax states; they’re specifically trying to evade societal responsibility in the form of tax avoidance, so we should avoid making them a part of our society.

Clearly there’s more nuance to be implemented, but I think addressing wealth inequality very pointedly at a foundational level would be a GREAT idea.

So, explicitly maintain the societal shadow-rung of illegal immigrants…? Can’t say I love continuing to underwrite that idea.

…words fail me.

Bravo, fellow meatbag.

Where’s your trackball my dude

State flag, but: Maryland’s got an absolute banger, imo.

Oh hell yeah. That sweet/savory got me all

It’s conceptually very close to the French je ne sais quoi