Anything is better than nothing. This is true. But that doesn’t mean you aren’t wasting your time on something that does the bare minimum.

Duolingo keeps doing mass layoffs, so the bird is overworked. You can help him out by switching to a language learning app that actually helps you learn a language instead of endlessly throwing flash cards at you without teaching you anything! Win win.

that works for me, but I want to have good conversations with others, that’s kind of the point. Blocking terrible people doesn’t get that to happen

People here are blaming politics. I don’t think that’s it. The quality of comments and discussion here has taken a massive nosedive for the past four months or so, no matter what the topic is.

I think it’s pretty simple, the terrible won. Everyone who wants good quality discussion left quickly when people started to act terrible. They didn’t come back. So now we’ve created the toxic enabling environment that is enabling it hard today.

You can fix it with moderation, but that’s a lot of work, and people get really angry.

I’m pretty close to just cutting my losses on lemmy. It’s heading in the same direction as reddit but with less moderation, and simply because it’s smaller, the awfulness is more visible.

yes because they employ tax avoidance people in general and they make more money paying those people to avoid tax all over the place than if they were taxed so it’s a net gain.

to be clear, they don’t even know they are lobbying for tax on these things to be low. their people do it.

and again, to be clear, it’s not the money we care about, its the other 995 million that we should be focusing on nixing.

They barely spend money on these things, it’s worth understanding what billionaire really means. You could levey hundred percent taxes on these things and billionaires wouldn’t even notice

Streaming studios are still studios, and they act the exact same. Yes, there is a studio jumping in to make cuts. Of course they are. The man is saying there is a director’s cut.

The final cut of a movie is often not the directors cut. The director gives the studio their cut, and then studio executives get to do what they want. Good execs with good directors know not to fuck with a good thing. But if the movie the director hands in stinks or if some bad audience previews get execs scared all kinds of things can happen

Basically, this is why the idea of a directors cut even exists. Because what you see is rarely what the director handed in when they were done.

It’s a tiny part that doesn’t have much relevance today. And it’s not a hidden history it was big news for years.

To blame the terrorist attacks France has suffered on a cartoon by a niche newspaper is a rather blinded look at the situation, and ignores pretty much everything about the state of the world in the past few hundred years as well as modern times.

I hope no one walks away thinking this comment is correct.

99.999% of people have never heard of this guy before and won’t even hear this news, the face of the company is chatgpt

We don’t know, but it likely had absolutely nothing todo with the actual technology and everything to do with maximizing investor returns.

The reason reddit enhancement suite existed was because the developers couldn’t fix reddit. Lemmy is open source, the frontends are open source. You and anyone else who wants to can fix it.

There is no need for an extension.

Everyone on the fediverse is a white male tech nerd. Obviously, not everyone, but it really feels that way. There is a distinct lack of voices from outside that demographic, and it’s super obvious. Reddit had this, too, but it’s way worse here.

It’ll get better in that regard, but it’ll take a decade to get there.

I’m totally okay with talking about tesla’s charging infrastructure being good, but that’s a different thing isn’t it.

I mean the answer to your last thing is battery technology. the lithium ion battery boom is the real driver of EV’s in general. you really gotta understand the role that Tesla played here is to surf on the wave, not create it.

1. a bunch of weirdo cars came out that were based on lead acid batteries in the 70s? i think, that killed that market
2. Prius proved the market existed with their Hybrid, that demand was there. they also totally dominated the market with their brand and no one else was tooled up for it.
3. Batteries with the capability of pushing hybrids, ev’s boomed into mass scale in the mid-2000’s
4. Tesla and many others take advantage of both of these things happening to great success.

Because there was nothing else to compare it to at the time.

grab this thread, you can maybe start to understand how they were instrumental in creating and proving the EV market that Tesla would eventually capitalise on top of

The prius did not sell incredibly well. That is completely false. It sold well enough to be profitable but even a standard Corolla sold more year after year.

… uh, yes. the traditional fossil fuel based card sold better than a car selling to a new market. do you want to compare it to, oh i don’t know, a ford focus too? are you trying to talk about the hybrid version that came out in the 2010’s like 15 years after the prius?

if you want to make the argument that the prius wasn’t instrumental in proving the EV market, good luck. you won’t find much backing with these talking points.

I’m not defending musk. So tired of that qualifier in this thread.

did not say you were.

The prius is not an EV it’s a hybrid and nobody thought they were cool.

it sold incredibly well and proved that there was a market, and yes it was a hybrid as the technology wasn’t there. do tesla get kudos for waiting for battery technology now?

You have your history completely backwards.

do you think that the prius came out after a tesla? you need to explain this one.

The new Prius Prime is cool af in my opinion.

it doesn’t matter what you find personally cool for what it’s worth, then or now.

everyone was moving to EV’s with or without tesla. if you want to credit anyone go back to the Prius way back in the late 90s. They set the trend, Tesla jumped on that trend.