Hyperreality

Ah sorry. Church as in institution, rather than a particular brand. My comment was unclear.

Yeah. I have a related degree and this is the kind of thing Cambridge Analytica did. Big data scraping, pop it all into SPSS to see what predicts voting behaviour, then target voter demographics that'll vote against your client with propaganda that makes them cynical.

It's really hard to make them vote for your guy, it's easier to convince them to not vote against him.

Hell, I'd argue that even if the system is largely rigged, you need the electorate to believe the lie that it's not, to at least stand at least some chance at keeping the fascists out.

But what do I know.

Editing titles! Yay!

Not that I entirely disagree, but the tweet above is about cities .

To fix cities think paint, bike/bus lanes, buses. Relatively inexpensive and easy fixes which wouldn't take that long to introduce. Not high speed rail that'll cost billions and years to introduce.

Obviously population density is lower, but you'd solve a lot of urban issues by getting at least some people out of their cars and into a bus which can skip congestion. Maybe get rid of some of the parking spaces, build some more houses and solve that population density issue while you're at it.

Countries like Germany, France or Czechia have plenty of cars too. People park on the outside of the city when they visit, then commute into the centre with public transport.

Obviously, not going to happen any time soon in the US. But that's a choice. Not something that America's forced to endure due to technical limitations. Countries like the Netherlands were also very car centric not that long ago, but chose not to keep going down that route.

You have a point.

I suspect going on about gerrymandering too much, and inadvertently convincing some democratic voters they can't win because of gerry mandering, isn't helping either.

Bit late, but I can confirm it has now. Federation takes a while, lemmy was updating stuff, kbin was updating stuff.

Ah, thanks. Google wasn't helping.

Other side wants to know if it's logically illegal to date short people now.

Bit of a tangent, but I've noticed a bit of an over-correction with the age thing. Back in the 'good' old days, a grown ass man like 40 year old Seinfeld would date a sixteen year old, and it would be tolerated or accepted. Obviously icky in retrospect and it's good that it's now illegal. But now you'll often read people say online that a 35 year old dating or even being attracted to a 25 year old is a red flag. I mean, it may not be ideal, and age gaps can cause issues (IRC women who date older men are more likely to be abused), but adults finding adults attractive or dating isn't necessarily creepy.

I do find porn where a petite 20+ actress is clearly pretending to be younger quite problematic though. It's not so much what they look like, but how they act. Like Piper Perri, the small blonde woman from that meme with her sitting on the couch with the black guys. Looks really young even though she's 30. As you say, there's a lot of porn like that.

Obviously even having this discussion and discussing the nuances of it can make you seem really creepy, and as you say make the discussion polarising. A bit like deciding to have a discussion about how to solve Israeli-Palestinian conflict on your first day, no one sensible wants to have it whatever side of the argument they may fall, and I get why many people would not want to see anything even remotely questionable pop up in their feed even if the actors are in their 20s. If only that they don't want to have to explain why they're subscribed to that content to their significant other, family or friends.

Chlamydia?

It looks dead.

You can't even join unless you know someone, to recover your password you need to send an email, and the most upvoted post has 500 votes.

The about section has a philosophy section which likely took longer to write than was taken designing the website, and one of the top posts is about how they're going reorganise everything into their equivalent of subreddits. What's the point if you only have 100 users?

Reddit thinks they don't need mods. Tildes seems to think they don't need users.

it's intended as a spiritual successor to pre-diggpocalypse reddit.

Because the guy who created it, seemingly doesn't get that times have changed. I mean, the nokia 3310 was a great phone in its day, but it's 2023.

And I get that they don't care, but if your main audience is former mods who like organising things without the interference of users, they're not going to have enough or sufficiently interesting content to attract critical mass and a wider audience.

At which point, you might as well turn your reddit replacement into a wordpress blog and have the same discussions you're having now in the comment section. Because unlike tildes, people are working on plugins which will allow wordpress to become fully part of the fediverse.

CSAM?

Tildes is already dead.

Look at the front page. You can't even join unless you know someone, to recover your password you need to send an email, and the most upvoted post has 500 votes.

I mean, the about section has a philosophy section which likely took longer to write than was taken designing the website, and one of the top posts is about how they're going reorganise everything into their equivalent of subreddits. What's the point if you only have 100 users?

Reddit thinks they don't need mods.

Tildes thinks they don't need users.

Florida is red because of gerrymandering.

Biden lost the popular vote in Florida by one or two percent. IRC De Santis won the state by less than 1%. Voters have often and overwhelmingly voted in favour of 'left-wing' ballot initiatives too.

It should be a swing state.

In any case, conservative retirees may be moving to Florida, but they're also mor likely to leave Florida and this mortal coil than the average voter.