Technically I’m an archaeologist, I guess.
I was kinda hoping that in the current era, political scandals would get a new suffix. Watergate happened 50 years ago, so popular first-hand memory of it is waning.
There was a moment when I thought we could transition to [scandal]-a-lago, but it never happened.
I’d probably still be at the emerald grove if they hadn’t limited the number of Scratch’s pets per interaction.
We’ve done that for 70 or 80 years. Like the saying goes, “do what you love, and you’ll eventually become a global hegemon, weilding your influence like a club and keeping your boot on the neck of the majority of the planet, both economically and militarily.”
Mom always said that.
I feel the complete opposite!
It stresses me out to feel encumbered on a plane. I don’t mind waiting at a carousel for a while to get my luggage if it means I can board with nothing but headphones and an overpriced pretzel.
If they lose my bags, I’ll get them back eventually. It’s not like they don’t have stores at [insert destination].
I want to set my clock back every time. Let’s just do that.
Vanguard says they can thank the retirement industry for that.
lol
Man, if I had a nickel…
I haven’t listened in a few months, so now I’m nervous that there won’t be any cute, terrified new kids this year lol.
Either way, it’s a good station. Enjoy!
EDIT Listening now. We’re good… Mathea B. seems pretty flustered 😅
My university’s college radio station runs the full gamut of what you described. It’s kind of interesting how they do it.
Broadcasting students get to have a show after completing certain core courses. They begin over summer, when listenership is very low. Listening to the station in late June/early July is adorable. I should actually tune in today, now that I’m thinking about it, because it’s around time for all the baby broadcasters to be doing their beginner shows.
Students must have the option to end their show at some point, because a lot of student broadcasters just kinda disappear. Others, though, will stay on for 2 or 3 years as they finish their degree. Some of them become VERY good.
Yep! You can listen live to whatever is hosted on there. It’s definitely not everything, but I bet a solid 75% of US-based radio stations are on there. Can’t speak much to non-US radio, but I have listened to some stuff out of Germany before.
Another cool one is the site n10.as. It’s a volunteer radio station out of Toronto (I think). It’s primarily reruns these days, but there are still some folks doing live shows.
I listen to my local college radio station, as well as a handful of others on TuneIn. It’s nice having an idea of what people under 30 are into.
I’d personally like it better if nothing tAkEs oVEr. I’m comfortable with the internet having more than one website.
I’m uninformed about the interesting stuff from Mozilla, Tumblr, etc. that the author mentioned, but I hope it’s cool and varied.
The most surprising thing to me is that Pyrex alone isn’t able to carry the entire corporation. They’ve also got Corelle and CorningWare. What the fuck, guys?
Of course they are. They had already done their projections and accounted for whatever melt they would incur over all this. The ad/whatever else revenue they expect to generate by forcing users to the official app outweighs the loss in users and collateral damage to subreddit moderation.
Reddit gradually became one of the single most important websites on the internet over the course of 17 years. Like Facebook, Reddit is functionally the ONLY website on the internet for a massive number of people. The IPO was always going to result in decisions that would tarnish Reddit in the eyes of the type of people who’d even consider migrating to a place like Lemmy. But that kind of user doesn’t matter when we’re talking about things like vaLuATioN.
I mentioned in another community yesterday that my most realistic hope is this whole ordeal fractures the power user base into various diasporas. I hope that people migrate to a bunch of different alternatives, and then they apply the community building energy there that they used to apply exclusively to Reddit. Maybe we’ll be lucky and enough people get excited about enough other places that we’ll have a [viable] diversity of choice online again.
Here’s why that’s a [evaluative adjective] thing.