I think there is a certain amount of social media that is itself the problem.

Like, trolls and rage baiters are a menace; not to mention social media is often an assault on nuance.

Memes are still really popular but they undercut serious discussion ... and often just make noise about depressing shit without even the inkling of answers to the problems they comment on.

Nice find!

Interesting, though I'm not sure that it would really be lemmy at that point, no?

ActivityPub in a certain sense is not Plebbit ... and I'm not sure how compatible these ideas really are.

Yeah, that's not terrible advice.

I think I'm just a bit ... demoralized about that ... since I do know a lot of older folks (I literally shoveled the driveways of 4 older neighbors this winter and have various 50+ friends) and no help has come from that direction...

I might give it a shot though, thanks

That is how inflation works... when costs go up prices go up.

Yeah, your computer probably should cost a lot more in "today dollars" but because performance of components gets more efficient over time, you can likely get a better computer for less money.

It's the same reason you have a computer more powerful than multiple thousands of dollar super computers. The technology has improved enough you don't have to pay as much.

Do you think prices should just be locked in place for eternity at $60?

I haven't seen any good hiking groups in my area. The ones that exist on meetup.com are mostly "people with grey hairs" ... and there's nothing wrong with that other than I just turned 30 last month.

It's been that way throughout my twenties.

I'd joined a "young professionals" group and was starting to meet some people that way but ... it ended up dying out over the pandemic.

Sure, but that doesn't mean the game developers don't need to be paid. It's still a bargain for the work that's being done.

If you look at inflation adjusted pricing, it really is a deal. IIRC we should be at like 90 or 100+ dollar games at this point.

I would argue the top picture is also a big no no.

As much as that makes a great story... The groundwork for lemmy goes back years. It's true that lots of issues were addressed and client apps were ported after Reddit started going down hill, but a ton of work was done beforehand to make that all possible.

I think you've got Gen Z and Millennials backwards.

It's not a broad generalization at all. It's a widespread pattern of hypocritical and contradictory conservative outrage, statements, and laws.

• "I should be able to teach kids about the Bible in school, but you can't teach them about Yoga"
• "we can't have vulgar language, oh unless it's from our religious book"
• "I can't make a cake for you because you're gay and that's against my religion. What do you mean you won't make a Christian cake? That's religious discrimination!"
• "Happy holidays!??! Happy holidays??! You monster, how dare you wage war on Christmas! We have religious liberty in this country! What do you mean that protects other religions? There's only one God and one religion!"
• "It's totally fine that the polling places in large democratic areas have hours long waits so long as my polling places are quick and easy"
• "it's totally fine that a county with 10,000 people has the same number of ballot drop boxes as a country with 3,000,000 people"
• "marriage is between a man and woman ... and may include 17 divorces; they gays can't have it"
• "we need to teach kids (i.e., indoctrinate them in the ways of) Jesus not this woke (black history, trans, etc)"
• "let's let white kids off with a slap on the wrist while we throw a black kid in jail for smoking a plant"
• "I can't believe a president could have such a scandal in the white house as to have had an affair with an assistant! We need to impeach! No, I don't think extorting an ally for information about an opponent is worthy of an impeachment! Trying to overthrow a legitimate presidental victor with a procedural trick? Nah that's not worth an impeachment either! Oh but hey, this Biden guy's son who lost one of his parents and a sibling in a car crash, that lost his brother to cancer, that has a drug problem, called his dad while he was in business meetings to show off... so you know his dad definitely was up to something! We've got to impeach him over that! What do you mean that was before he was even president and that's completely unprecedented?"
• "We should totally lock her up for those emails! What do you mean the guy screaming that's son and law did the exact same thing?"
• "We're sorry we can't appoint a supreme court justice just before the election! Psych! We totally can if it's nominated by OUR president!"
• "We need law and order in this country! What do you mean Trump broke the law? Nah, I'm not hearing it; this is clearly a partisan witch hunt and the majority conservative staff of the FBI is out to get conservatives! Oh but we'll DEFINITELY weaponize the federal government and go after our political rivals full steam if we get the presidency in 2024"
• "I believe abortion is amoral, that's why I hid the fact that my ex/current lovers have had one"
• "I believe homosexuality is amoral, that's why I am one in the closet"
• "we're going to be the party of health care, but don't watch as we strip you of your federal protections for your health care"
• "we're the party of the little man, but don't watch as we cut taxes for the rich (and you but make sure that expires under the next term (probably while the Democrats are in power)"
• "the national debt is an outage! Oh let's spend as much as Obama did in half the time! Oh Biden is in power again, spending is out of control!"
• "the problem isn't guns it's mental health, but we're not going to do anything about that either! Must be because the kids aren't in church, the gays, video games, or hey look over there, a squirrel!"
• "climate change? Nah. It's not real. Okay maybe it is, but it doesn't matter because look at China! Oh we could make a dent and get the ball rolling? Well, it's too late anyways, we should've been building nuclear plants! What do you mean I just made that up? Clearly I've been trying to solve this via nuclear the whole time, and it's not another dog whistle! Oh and btw all of my top presidential candidates say they don't believe in man made climate change! But yeah, totally serious about this issue!!"

... and that's just off the top of my head. If you're a conservative, wake up, your party is a mess.