If you're talking news media, much of their worst behavior is rooted in the ad-driven business model. Subscriptions would actually help make things better. Not sure if there's a way to leverage the fediverse for a subscription play, though
After Fukushima, there was a reddit comment to the effect of, "You mean it took an earthquake AND a tsunami to make a nuclear plant dangerous? Nuclear sounds pretty safe to me!"
There is a specific kind of nuclear simp who will go to any length to ignore its dangers. I hope we can leave that on reddit and keep Lemmy a place of honest appraisal. I'm not even knocking nuclear's benefits. They are many. But it's crazy that every 10 years we have one of these disasters and every 10 years the simps come out to reassure us that it's nothing, really
My only wish is that they made a smaller version. I realize that that's probably impossible, given their goals (smaller phones are probably harder to repair). But man do I miss small phones
In my 20s, I always skipped the office holiday party. I love partying. I enjoy drinking. And a lot of my coworkers were young and attractive. I simply never heard of anything good coming out of that mix. Like: The risks (doing something foolish, losing respect) FAR outweigh the potential gains (flirting with someone? Or, maybe hooking up with them if you're really really discrete, but that felt unlikely in any of the places where our offices had parties.)
If you're talking news media, much of their worst behavior is rooted in the ad-driven business model. Subscriptions would actually help make things better. Not sure if there's a way to leverage the fediverse for a subscription play, though