Yeah pretty much this smells like an infowar casualty

British people outside of Britain

Best sellers are mostly a self-reinforcing process. Money decides who gets educated, academia decides whose ideas get represented in education, publication decides which of those works become popular. If something is not promoted it will not be sold. They also have separate best-seller lists, so it’s self-aggrandizing pageantry as well.

What country are we talking about, by the way? I mostly see “homestyle” not “homemade” in marketing.

New York Times bestsellers will invariably be awful. Find personalities who are drawn to a deeper art scene, this will teleport you 25 years into the future withput their disadvantage of being jaded. Trust me, they’re looking to offload it to people who still have feelings left

Not a fascist at any point, but in music spaces you do notice many of these pipelines. It just takes personal responsibility to find artists who reject that from their scene. Electronic music is littered with fascists but plenty of radicals too

STILL IN HOSPITAL

my fucking eyes

Doctors are criminally insane be careful

My ex-gf (RIP) (she’s not dead she just doesn’t like me now) did not rly wash her hair. Nevermind about that. Historically sex has often been terrifying. We have got it so good you have no idea

Buddy I’m shadowbanned from LEMMY

Don’t bother harassing the scammers back some of them are kidnapped if they’re not just bots looking for marks

What many people perceive as negativity is cognitive dissonance related to their own standpoint on an issue. It can be quite relaxing to get the truth up front and save yourself a few hours. I’d say this site is already good, just needs more people to flesh it out still. ;)

I used to dislike political entertainers but now I view them as an advertisement for the status quo, not even their professed ideology, but the supposed compatibility of whatever they claim to be selling with a bourgeois democracy

Ayatollah Khamenei (RIP) in both cases

Lol it happens. There’s a deeper critique of his work but I’m a bit lazy

Malcolm “who is this Epstein guy and how did I get on his plane? 🤪” Gladwell (not paraphrasing)

I genuinely don’t give a fuck about Reddit and if everyone on there literally died I don’t think I’d be distraught

Will definitely check those out

I actually never read Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe even though it gets recommended so much. It’s great. Halfway through

I hate Obama

Just found out one of the site runners I believe it was @nutomic@lemmy.ml is making a federated wiki, which is terrific considering how wikis work and the process of filtering out the ideological bullshit on Wikipedia itself. Less drama since there’s split, more tightly-knit teams, but also consider the possibility of being caugut up in multiple wiki moderation wars simultaneously 🤔 who knows if it would increase or decrease overall moderation spaghetti

The point is, what could possibly be worse than the current wikipedia moderation? They are absolute nolifer hellions

hi, just wanted to notify you that this can be circumvented automatically with a https://libredirect.github.io/ linking to an IMDB instance. I just checked and there is at least one public instance available. It has a button in the settings that scans a public registry of them, it can randomly select from them, and there is a button in its popup menu to automatically remove any broken instance + reroll. Often there are some that exist it doesn’t know about, and the whole point is that you can host your own. In fewer words, it’s a collection of private frontends run by a variety of collectives and hobbyists, with a slick addon that works in Firefox Android mobile btw 😎 . This should drastically improve your experience on mainstream websites, especially if you are the kind who “just drops in for second” and slams into a stupid login wall

Don’t get caught lacking my friend nobody should be browsing default Youtube and IMDB layout. They have themes 🎀