iT hAs BoNeS iN iT!!!1

What else are you supposed to do when you have no food because your house was destroyed and all the stores are closed?

If someone started filming me at my job I would give them their check, tell them to leave and have the police deal with them if they refuse.

Snuff it out from the source, go after YouTube for promoting this behavior

That’s why it always gives me a headache

I get the worst nausea whenever I drink something from a k cup machine. Nobody ever cleans their machine and the ingredients are questionable.

Is Spez mixing vodka and crack? It seems like they have no end goal except to make a small amount of money for a short period of time by not paying google, but they’ll lose money once they find a large portion of their views come from search traffic.

I feel like Israel is crossing the line at this point. They have a right to retaliate against Hamas, but they’ve already bombarded half of Gaza, and killed lots of fighters and civilians on top of that. The only reason they’re going to invade is that it’s a very opportune time for them to finally annex the strip of land they’ve had their eyes on for a long time. Both armies are being despicable, and I feel for anyone caught up in this who has nothing to do with the drama.

Hamas knows that they need to keep this conflict between themselves and Israel. If they piss off any more NATO/Allied countries, the chance that the Gaza invasion will turn into an international coalition increases significantly.

I can totally see how it used to be more ideal, however it’s been completely perverted from a legitimate currency into a MAGA-style investment fraud cult. At this point people need to start denouncing crypto- every new crypto project now is a get rich quick scam and people who don’t know any better will fall for it. I think that crypto’s days are numbered, coins will probably be heavily regulated by the end of the decade.

Besides all that, my personal opinion is that investing in “nothing” is scammy. There are no physical or heavily regulated securities like when you invest in stocks, precious metals, and art.

Keep letting people know that this is an alternative to Reddit! There’s still hope, and getting Lemmy to grow starts with you.

It’s a cult too. It feeds on hype and marketing so people will say anything to keep the value of their worthless investments up. That’s probably why you’re getting a couple downvotes even though you’re 100% right. Wouldn’t be surprised if some coins got big from bot network spamming on social media.

Edit: they won’t even argue about it, they just keep downvoting. Proves my point exactly.

Apologies for the crypto website as the article source- it summarized things well and was written by someone who knows a lot about the subject. That being said, if you’re going to invest, invest in something real and tangible.

Spez and the whole Reddit company culture seem to be very in touch with the whole crypto scam industry. I wouldn’t be surprised if Reddit admins moderate the crypto sub part time and they got in on this.

Reddit introduced a crypto as a way to monetize Reddit gold so users would get paid for posting. They abruptly cancelled the program after people had already bought into it but it looks like some insiders at Reddit got the news first- they sold their shares before they announced the cancellation. Basically Reddit committed investment fraud.

There’s a closer knit community than Reddit due to the smaller size, and advertisements and paid agenda posts are few and far between. We have momentum and lot of potential- as long as Reddit keeps up the downward spiral, people will join lemmy and tell others about it. If you want to increase activity on lemmy, it starts with you! Remember to upvote and comment, and post something you found that was interesting, even if it’s to a community you don’t usually post to.

Reddit is just a crappy crypto scam at this point

All we can do now is watch and wait

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Those are all great points. I’m concerned about how this specific sources (I24) stats hold up against my go-to news sources, AP, DW and Reuters on mediabiasfactcheck.com (which might have it’s own biases, but that’s a whole discussion for another day). I think the best tool we have to combat misinformation is time. War moves quickly, and so does reporting, but that leads to sloppiness. There are also bad faith actors pushing stories to get one side riled up. The longer we wait to jump to conclusions, the better information we have at our disposal. I am thinking about a specific example today about the girl whose body was reported to be paraded around naked; earlier today a story just got posted on here that she’s alive according to her mother. We will only know for sure when a neutral and reputable party verifies this in the near future.

I really want this whole Lemmy thing to work out in the long run and I want to avoid the mistakes made on Reddit that led to witch hunts and misinformation being spread. If everyone could take one thing away from this, it’s to double check multiple sources, be skeptical about who has an agenda to push, and wait for all the information to come out.