Uh huh. Riiight.

I’ve been on the internet for 30 years, including BBSes and IRC, so I actually have a pretty good idea what it looked like before censorship.

This is bullshit propaganda and if you’re swallowing it all, I’m sorry.

Reddit is manipulated for sure. I didn’t say it wasn’t.

I said that Lemmy shows all the signs of bullshit propaganda. I think the US has its pros and cons, but I can tell RT like content when I see it.

A small social media platform is easy to manipulate as well. The goal for Russia is to divide the West and anger people. When only 15 upvotes will get something to Top for the day, that’s pretty ripe for abuse.

Actually, there is high value in posting where their upvotes matter a lot. That’s why Russia hijacked r/conspiracy - because they didn’t have the numbers to overwhelm some of the bigger subreddits.

A new medium like Lemmy is easy to hijack. And clearly it’s happening. I read a very broad cross section of news, and a lot of the stuff that’s getting upvoted here is simply lame anti—west propaganda.

Ah. It’s a bummer.

I’m ok with criticism of the US, but this just seems like a targeted stream of anti western crap.

It’s sad that the internet is getting trashed by state actors for their own gain, and unfortunate for those who take it all at face value.

Lemmy is quickly becoming a front for Russian disinformation and agitation. Are people not seeing this?

3/4 the posts on my front page are attacks on the US in one form or another. The tone has completely shifted in the last month.

My point is that rich kids get funded partly because they are rich and have connections, but also because people tell them they can do it.

Almost all investors will accept emails with pitches. You can build a pitch on nights and weekends while holding down a full time job.

I am just trying to encourage people to realize it’s more possible than they think because I wish people had told me that.

You can do it on your evenings and weekends. I realize people think I’m being elitist, but that was the point of my post - way more people could do it than think they can.

And failure is not the huge disaster in startups that people think. Even successful entrepreneurs have failures. Also, even running a failed startup elevates you to management if you go work at a big company.

Here’s a secret I wish someone had told me:

Start a company. It’s really not that hard, and even if you fail, you will be seen as more valuable than you were before you started the company.

1. Come up with a good idea. There are a million of them.

2. Read books on startups.

3. Learn to pitch investors. Investors actually want ideas from young people because they know that sometimes they have a better idea of the zeitgeist. They also will help you because they were once young and want to pass on the help. Really.

4. Build your company.

Again, you may fail, but even if you do you will now be the CEO/founder of a company, which is worth way more than an average grad. You will learn a ton in the process and make a lot of useful connections.

Seriously - best career advice out there.

As a parent, I actually support this idea. And it’s partly because kids are simply not always “controllable,” by any human, in a confined space after many hours.

Before I was a parent, I thought the right discipline would solve everything, but airplanes in particular are brutal environments, with very little space to move and limited options to distract them. Even screens, which are close to a silver bullet, don’t always work. Travel is exhausting and challenging for kids, and kids were never evolved well to handle being locked in a seat for hours, let alone dealing with pressure and time zone changes.

So please, until we have adults only zones, have a little patience. There are certainly bad parents, but I guarantee that most of them want their kid to be quiet even more than you do.

Should be a counterpart for women as well.

They actually say that exact thing about democrats because of gun control.

People are making a mistake about viewing Republicans as a block. The way conservatives work is that a single issue is enough to get them to vote for the party.

If that single issue is being against abortion, then the GOP stance gets their support. But if their concerns are gun control or immigration control, they will overlook the disagreement on abortion rights because it probably doesn’t affect them directly.

Exactly. Economic development follows universities.

People don’t even understand history.

I was saying to a friend that I can see that the skies are emptier than when I was growing up.

The saddest thing is if you learn about the wildlife populations the first Europeans recorded in America. Skies darkened by birds. Game by the tens of thousands.

We live in an empty desert of our own making now and most of us don’t even know it.

Wishes are always problematic.

They inevitably devolve into lawyering.

I have been outraged over Syria, but the solutions are far less clear. What solution are you proposing there?