Sadly these still a lot of folks on there that haven't moved elsewhere. If you curate your follower lists and don't venture into the replies of big/ trending accounts then it's still manageable. Mostly I just use to to read people I follow rather than post anything new myself these days.
Also, I've feeds of decent journalists that I've built up over many years that don't post elsewhere. There's still that immediacy that you just don't get elsewhere.
For people still using Twitter, if you view it in a browser like Brave it will hide all the ads for you. Even better, you can save the webpage view as a Web App in your phone and access it that way and you barely even notice it's the web version you're using and not the app. I've not seen an ad on Twitter in months since doing that.
Very little of the price is the gold.
An actual gold watch case (excluding the bracelet and the movement inside it) weighs about 20g.
At about £50 a gram that's £1000.
And I doubt the amount of gold in the case of the Apple watch is anywhere near the same amount as in a traditional gold watch case.
I like the fact that the article had to refer to the non-Musk site as XSM instead of its full name of 'X Social Media' because it would just make the article too confusing to use the proper name.
That perfectly illustrates the point.
I suppose it also means that if XSM lose the case because X is too generic, anyone can then set up a rival social media company also called X.
They can probably use the same logo too as it's just Unicode.
People say that picking a server for Mastodon isn't that important, but really I think it is. Because just a with Lemmy where you can view your Communities, Local and All it's the same on Mastodon - your server is the Local feed made up of all the people on that server. So you can just read the whole feed of everyone that way, and is it's a server based around a topic you like then it's a great place. But if you pick a server based around Crypto or Dance or Sport then you're going to have a dull time.
Yes you can find individual people, but it's a lot more fiddly to find people that aren't on your server. You kind of have to know who and where they are already.
That's why the fediverse works better for Lemmy than Mastodon IMO - because it's about whole topics than people.
Yes, you really didn't read anything else I wrote did you. Good to see that Lemmy is just as full of people who feel the need to spout their opinions but don't actually want to engage with anyone else's. Why should people listen to you if you don't want to listen to anyone else?
"I have an opinion and I refuse to hear any other perspectives incase they cause me to think about anything".
We encourage women to use their bodies for sport, for fashion, for art, for drama, for motherhood... who are you to say that they shouldn't by their own free-will do another profession or service?
Sex work is still work. People will choose to do it for a wide variety of reasons. Online they can be completely in control of how they do it and who they choose to work with and for.
You can be a prude if you wish, but sex work is one of, if not the oldest profession out there. It's going to exist whether you like it or not. Let's just make sure people aren't exploited against their wishes and that they can work safely and in full control of their own actions
This assumes everyone can have a charger at home. A large portion of people can't. Apartments, associated spaces, on-road parking... a lot of people need public chargers.
Faster charging means a lower chance of all the chargers are in use at the service stations en-route. Currently if you're in need of a charge you'll have to wait for the others cars to get charged and then you still have the 20+ minute wait for your own car. That's going to put a lot of folks off owning an EV. Coupled with the fact the EV uptake is growing a lot faster than the charging infrastructure to support it. Faster charging has a lot of benefits.
Which is why RT scores were usually good. Because a RT percentage is just the percentage of critics that thought the film was good or better.
Too many people treat RT scores as a single "this is a film that has a quality rating of 90%" whereas it's "90% of critics think it's not shit".
Really, this is RTs fault for picking a metric so often used in a different way.
You can't replicate the cinema experience at home, regardless of how big your TV is or how impressive your audio setup is.
Watching some epic sci-fi on the big screen, or communally experiencing some creepy horror movie, or a whole crowd of 100s laughing along together at a ludicrous comedy is something I don't want to give up.
Sure, a lot of films are fine to watch at home but with a decent audience the cinema experience can't be beaten.