Anyone that hasn't read "It can't happen here" needs to go do so right now. While it was responding to the wave of fascism in America during the 1930's, it's remarkably prophetic about what we face now.

IMO, most likely boils down to a few things:

-Lack of awareness, because the reddit protest was more of a vocal minority than a lot of people realized. For the mainstream crowd, even if people were upset, they didn't care enough to actively search for an alternative. Even if they did, there were instantly a bunch of small team projects trying to bank on striking gold the way Reddit did when digg failed. This meant that support was splintered across multiple platforms and there was no post that even hit the majority of front pages or r/all that said "okay everyone, we're all going to lemmy.world" or any other alternative.

-General confusion around the tech\platform and how it works. While it may seem to tech people that it isn't any worse than any other site, just the concept of "picking a server" is a barrier to entry that makes a mainstream person think "oh I have to do research, maybe I'll do this later." I don't know if this has been fixed yet, but as of a couple weeks ago there was some techy syntax to be able to properly link to content from outside servers properly if you'd viewed it and copied the link via your server.

-Older tech focused people tend to have self selected for caring about technical issues and searching for solutions to the issues they encounter. They tend to want control over their technology, and have it be open source or decentralized. The confusing nature of the fediverse is a lower barrier to entry for them.

-Performance. Performance was fairly poor at the critical moment when the apps got shut off, even if it's improved now.

-User friendly dedicated apps that didn't have a barrier to entry, like a warning that it was "early access" and granted devs special access to user data to help develop the app, were not available.

-Content. Because of all the aforementioned, there's just not the user base and content yet to populate all the communities people want with enough fresh dopamine drip to grab all the mainstream lurkers. If Lemmy continues to grow and attract quality content though, there will eventually be a critical mass, because people usually go to what's the new hip place after the early adopters have paved the way. Once you start getting a sizeable chunk of teenagers here and they start telling their friends "have you heard of Lemmy? It has less of that lame boomer crap" then you'll see mass adoption. Alternatively, if the older tech folks end up just posting things that aren't seen as hip\cool, that moment may not come.

Assuming this is real, avoid the local pd. Contact your country's version of the FBI. Tell them you fear for your family's safety, there have been threats, and that organized crime might be involved. They can use ground penetrating radar to see if there's potentially any bodies under there before they even dig.

Read the article. Republicans are against no fault divorce, so they want the man to have to approve in order for his wife to divorce him. It's a way to enslave women.

Yeah but you're probably able bodied. Self checkouts are a big burden for the elderly or disabled.

While I'll agree with you that this should not be needed in a long term relationship, as you should have already been able to have open conversations about your hopefully shared core values, but I'd say using it as a weeder for an early relationship or first date situation isn't a bad idea. It allows you to start the conversation naturally.

Makes you wonder about mold or carbon monoxide from basement appliances.

All the studies show literally the opposite. Maybe you're less productive, but that makes you the outlier.

I'd like to suggest that the strictly non-partisan rules of the UFOs subreddit was a good thing that helped keep people focused and avoided tribalist bickering. In that vein, it might be a good idea to remove the reference to 45 in the community header image, and replace it with "Congress" as Congress are the ones leading a current bipartisan push to determine whether they've been lied to or not.

Incite a riot, get charged. Makes sense.

You're not wrong. Then I just feel bad, because I never finish a book since now I've trained myself to fall asleep after two pages no matter what time of day it is.

The lack of serious reply to discuss it isn't encouraging. To be clear, I also find it funny and don't like 45 at all, but that's not the point. What made that sub successful was that it was a serious place that was well moderated. Branding is important if you want something taken seriously.

Agreed. By having this neutral third party you get to see, hopefully, a more genuine reaction than just being told what you want to hear.

Interesting piece though some of the comparisons felt confused and forced. The idea could really benefit from being further fleshed out with more examples, and especially a section of "this is bad, but what if it was like this" and then provide designs for an improved version. Also needs to provide some reality check for the practicalities ie how can this be done in ways that governments will actually be willing and able to pay for.

I could see this being turned into a book, similar to the classic, "The design of everyday things."

I agree. It's confusing and seems like an unrefined idea. I think dignity is supposed to mean that the space naturally makes you feel like you belong there without thinking about it, as opposed to making you feel like a second class citizen or vulnerable. It's more of an integration of multiple concepts that produces a complex result. I think "design" might be a more concrete concept, to go to my original comment on "the design of every day things." Essentially the author is advocating for human centered design. Just like doors are better if they're designed to work without thinking about it, sidewalks are better if they're designed to work for everyone without them stopping to think about whether it's safe, or if they'll be able to easily get where they're going.

Having seen starlink satellites before, I'm pretty sure that's what you saw.

It would be cool if they could deploy some sort of sticky material right before impact to minimize this. Like throwing one of those sticky guys on the ceiling.

I think you should take a look at miro.com but not sure if they have a free personal account or how bad the subscription would be, since I know you want a one time fee.

Other than that you might try something like affinity designer or their book publishing program.

More likely that the lives of vfx workers just continue to get less financially stable while having to have more skillets to cover more disciplines at once while "ai" is suppose to make up the difference according to their corporate overlords.

Oh dude, yeah. The documented symptoms of mold exposure are mainly respiratory, but if you were already under a bunch of stress and your body is getting further stressed by toxic air... Could explain it.