if you're into RSS feeds, i've found one for iOS called feeeed that will let you subscribe to subreddits (or lemmy communities, apologies i'm new here) and when you click on them it starts with the article and you have to tab over to the comments. it's been nice.

i don't love the implication here that politicians are corrupt due to mental illness. they can be perfectly average mentally and still be corrupt because corruption is an innate and ever-present exploit of human psychology. empathetic people can be mistaken of where to place their empathy. mentally ill people can be a better option for a public office than someone else who is neurotypical, it all comes down to their platform and record of reliability. disability should not be mutually exclusive with ability to govern.

at least everyone sees the same thing when they click that button. tiktok will literally send you so far down a niche that you'll try to talk to your friend about some huge trend you've been seeing for a week with millions of views and they'll have never heard of it before because their feed was giving them an entirely different trend

i've actually moved over to feeeed on ios recently and i've really liked it. it has a ton of granular customizations down to even editing the navigation bar itself. would recommend!

I am so glad that knitting seems to be incredibly immune to this despite on the surface appearing like it could fall into the "trad wife"/crunchy anti vaxx slide like homesteading and canning.

It takes a long time and is quite repetitive so you can't post a ton of content about it because you'll have to stop and actually finish a project first and that can take weeks where your only update is "i kept doing that same thing for a hundred hours"

It's not very merchable and doesn't require a ton of tools besides the needles and yarn itself, and needles are really a one-and-done purchase

the cost of the yarn is a barrier for newer people which prevents flooding of trendiness but since one can only knit so fast it's not so expensive as to be crippling for people really into it. (i'd say at high speed I can go through about 100g of yarn every 2-3 days and each costs me about 10-12 bucks if I dye it myself so 3-6 dollars a day for hours of entertainment and also a usable custom hand made item produced at the end isn't so bad)

on top of all of that, it's not very "girl boss small business" friendly either because alternatives like crochet are just so much faster. you see tons and tons of copy-paste crochet plushies at every single convention or craft fair because each of those took maybe an hour to make and people will pay 30+ dollars for them. a knit equivalent would take 3-4x the time and would therefore cost that much more.

Due to this, the culture around knitting is to only really make things for people you love. You don't often sell it because it would be extremely expensive, and you quickly run out of things that you yourself need.

This is a long winded way of saying that knitting is one of the most socialist hobbies by structure and by communities out there and if anyone is looking for one of those, here it is!

I've had this book on hold at the library for weeks and i'm so excited to finally read it

It's been a pretty common spice in vegan cooking for many decades now. it's dystopian that this is how it's being used now but the actual existence is pretty cool

Here in southern california the only eggs I have even seen on shelves are my usual small farmers market eggs, which are now the same price or cheaper than the grocery store. It has been astounding me that the better and now cheaper option is the one not sold out. Humans really are just psychology multiplied.

This set of fraudulent sales happened in January and before inauguration more importantly, so I doubt this was due to beefing car sales. Most had not called for a boycott at this point, not enough at least to justify this massive scale of car sales.

The sales DID begin immediately the day the canadian government announced the rebate program was running out of money and could only fund a few more weeks. It lasted exactly three days, which were a friday, saturday, and sunday. Most car dealerships in canada are closed on weekends. Tesla registered enough sales at exactly four dealerships that, assuming each was open for 12 hours, they would be selling 100 cars per hour per location. By the time monday rolled around, the government confirmed they had entirely run out of money for their rebate program and closed it early. Car dealerships from around the country that had already paid customers the credit but hadn't yet submitted the sale to the government for rebate then had to eat that cost themselves because they thought they had a couple weeks left.

Tesla doesn't have any dealerships not owned by them so it's not a case of some rogue resaler, and the dates are so damning that i can't see any other motivation for it.

I think you (past you at least) would have identified as a libertarian socialist and those other idiots are libertarian anarchists.

If everyone went to work every day for 8+ hours for the direct benefit of the members of their community, the economy and the community would both be incredibly healthy.

If everyone purchased the tools that other people need to live and work and decided to rent those out instead of doing their own labor, the economy and community would fail.

This should be incredibly obvious.

A landlord can pay a manager to take care of the properties they own for them.

A manager, on the other hand, cannot pay for someone else to "landlord" for them.

Landlording is about ownership, management is about labor.

i joined lemmy today because i deleted reddit during the API purge and just replaced it with RSS feeds of news orgs before finally digging in to trying this out. and this was literally one of the first comments i saw. incredibly ironic and very hilarious