I'm definitely not going to miss them, they've been an absolute eyesore for many years now. Hopefully some good student accommodation will be built in their place.
Reddit sucks and in the past I've hosted my own websites, so I'm aware of how much better an independent service can be. I'm sick of slow international websites. We need more websites hosted in New Zealand - then I don't get 400ms latency when I click.
Are there any users, big or small who make videos on any platform? I'd like to get into video creation in the future, currently I only make half-assed videos. I'd do more if others were making videos. In 2006 I recall YouTube had a feature called video reply, and people would reply with their real face and voice. But I was only ...
It's good to have specifics to work towards but sometimes I feel like everyone is trying to create the same kind of video with the exact same intonation.
On YouTube a person can get 300,000 views on a video but then nobody subscribes - subsequent videos only get a few thousand views. That's why I believe it's important to have a community surrounding a channel, maybe if it's political activism it can be promoted with flyers. That's how I imagine doing this, I'd need to reach new people face-to-face and actually be a person who talks about interesting stuff. Not just someone who's online who develops a random audience of people from various countries - that's what I want to avoid. There should be a core audience, ideally a local audience since I live on a tiny island.
Nothing wrong with marketing 101 of course - I tend to ramble! So obviously having a script and editing a video is something I need to work on.
I really admire the long interviews on Rumble by people like Glenn Greenwald. I really don't know his reputation but some of his talks are just fascinating to me. It's a totally different experience to the cheesy-smiley youtubers! Perhaps there's some good stuff on BitChute and Odysee too and I just haven't looked at it for ages. The creativity is better outside of YouTube.
I won't lose my mind, but I'll start using Rumble more. I subscribed to Rumble instead of YouTube, found that I enjoyed it more, and every time I want to share a video of something I'll try to share the Rumble version.
I don't care about your stupid reports. I post nazi stuff that doesn't make me a nazi though, I just bought a large russian flag to give an F.U. to the fascists in eastern europe.
I find it hard to believe that peddit needs you to have a certain amount of karma to post or have an account that is X days old. The CEO of Gab says he blocked pretty much all spam, simply by blocking ip addresses of third world countries. Then he blocked Israel and all the porn bots stopped attacking. ...
Yeah if people can make comments but not create threads that's a decent compromise. I've seen what happens on drupal if I dont regulate it. The pp pill advertisements start flooding in lol.
Power is included but not Internet and there's a laundry that's shared between this unit and the neighbouring unit. On the downside, there is no kitchen sink and only a "mini oven". If this place had a real oven and a kitchen sink then I'd sign up immediately. ...
Raf Manji really screwed up by proposing to land tax empty sections - but only in the CBD. He would've got my vote if he included empty land in some suburbs like Riccarton. There's a partially demolished home on Ilam Road near the Adventist church and it's been that way for 3 years. All windows smashed and boarded up, rubbish and old tyres all over the section. Just down the road from uni and it looks nasty.
On reddit, Top voters panicked because they thought that nobody outside of reddit knew about the party. They were very open about this. Great advertising! Imagine meeting "FreshAnus" and his mate "SeyGecksFuttBucker" at a campaign rally and suddenly becoming a Top supporter.
If top was the party of reddit weirdos then I have no idea what it is now.
I don't think TOP had great ideas, otherwise they'd have got more of the youth vote. I just want to get a decent quality rental that has privacy, and which doesn't get either too hot or too cold. Can't be that bloody hard, but everyone seems to tread carefully around landlords.
I'm sure they'll be fine. Once the war is over, the media will just forget about the 100,000 or 200,000 allegedly abducted children. If they have family in Ukraine then they can go back, but it's morally wrong to send children into an area where there's a war. Sending children back to donbass is itself a war crime, one that Zelensky seems desperate to commit.
I'm pretty sure that they aren't raiding houses and abducting children from their parents. That sounds like propaganda. If the parents and children were found together, they'd be moved as a group.
Is there any proof that there's still an earthquake rebuild happening here in Christchurch? It's been 15 years, you'd think we could move on from blaming the earthquake.
Uh yeah, because my local PC shop had its website hacked and disabled, and then PB Tech bought his domain name as soon as it expired, even though this was a 2-3 person operation. Now that domain redirects to PB Tech. Very convenient for them huh.
What they did was disgraceful. I watched part 5 of Tucker Carlson's 9/11 series and it reminded me of all the stuff I hadn't thought about for 10 years.
A DOCUMENTARY FEATURING mothers surviving Israel’s genocide in Gaza. A video investigation uncovering Israel’s role in the killing of a Palestinian American journalist. Another video revealing Israel’s destruction of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank. ...
I think I figured out I was never going to make it back in 2015 - 2017. When I was in my mid twenties. I rented shitty shared flats with tenants I didn't like (one even stole property from me) and I also lived in a crack den, a place they sent people to, after they served their prison sentence. Meth and whores from time to time. Lots of passive-aggressive crap in the TV room that tenants obviously learned from prison. I heard that in prison people fight over what to watch on TV, so people were anal about rules in that crack den. They lived like they were still locked up.
Once I was planning to do a fruit picking or forklift job at an orchard but the email conversation stopped when I told them I didn't want to work 12 hour days. I have no idea how people are supposed to do this work unless they have money to put down on a bond for a rental plus a reliable and sturdy car for the open road.
I used to work ridiculous hours at Foodstuffs South Island, we didn't even get a bonus for working past midnight. I don't know how it happened, but our society is ruined.
FBI Director Kash Patel said Tyler Robinson, the suspected killer of Charlie Kirk, wrote a note stating his intention to "take out" the influential conservative activist. ...
When I first read about this, I understood that the assassin had destroyed the note, perhaps burned it or ripped it up, and that the FBI somehow put it back together or found the traces of ink on a burned note. Am I wrong?
That must have been the note under the keyboard, maybe the boyfriend panicked and destroyed it, but then later told the FBI what was written. It was just badly communicated in the news.
It's pretty funny watching the left try to claim that Tyler Robinson was a republican, when he was clearly an out-and-out butt bandit and democrat, by his own parent's admission. They could've caught Tyler Robinson with his cock up a trans-ass and The Onion would find a way to explain it and distract everyone.
We won't see the full consequences for years. A lot of people saw Charlie killed and they're going to start questioning why people should be killed simply for offensive use of language.
Also, I worry this is going to be America’s Reichstag Fire or Kristallnacht moment. This could very well lead to pogroms against leftists and ethnic minorities.
I'm in New Zealand so I don't care if revenge killings claim lives, let Americans fight for control of their country lol. That said, there are plenty of us who are reasonable, the problem is with the "neuro-diverse" teenagers and twenty-something year olds on Lemmy and other left-wing echo chambers. These people who never had a real job in their life, they just work in government office jobs and live with mum and dad. Of course they're brainwashed. I just hope that they grow up soon. Ideology isn't something that you have to believe to the letter. Nobody has to live their whole live according to ideology. It'll only lead to that person becoming miserable.
I can only imagine the kind of trauma that could impart. I truly feel bad for those kids.
Thousands of people saw the video of him being killed, that's not great either. Luckily I've seen worse, I'm now immune, but a lot of zoomers just saw graphic violence for the first time and they will have problems with mood and sleep for a while.
I'm pretty sure the first one is fake and the second one is a joke. Nobody gets sweaty and nervous because a black person is the captain or co-pilot. He's just making a joke about DEI which was going around recently. Some of his opinions may be ridiculous but we've all said ridiculous things. I didn't know anything about Charlie Kirk until this week, I'm actually quite impressed with his college debates. He was giving people political experience and being really decent with people, he even discouraged crowds from jeering the speakers.
I'm late to reply, but I don't think we'll see anything in the near future. I'd bet on a doomsday scenario where democrats are elected and republicans panic over mass-importing of voters (real or not) and see no solution. I don't think many people would justify any sort of revenge while Trump is president. Right now it looks like people are unifying and peacefully remembering Charlie Kirk. Liberty Hangout had some interviews and people in the videos were optimistic.
Wellington's Gordon Wilson flats to be demolished this month ( www.rnz.co.nz )
I'm definitely not going to miss them, they've been an absolute eyesore for many years now. Hopefully some good student accommodation will be built in their place.
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Does anyone on Lemmy make videos?
Are there any users, big or small who make videos on any platform? I'd like to get into video creation in the future, currently I only make half-assed videos. I'd do more if others were making videos. In 2006 I recall YouTube had a feature called video reply, and people would reply with their real face and voice. But I was only ...
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Spam and bots as an excuse to limit user privileges
I find it hard to believe that peddit needs you to have a certain amount of karma to post or have an account that is X days old. The CEO of Gab says he blocked pretty much all spam, simply by blocking ip addresses of third world countries. Then he blocked Israel and all the porn bots stopped attacking. ...
Russian spy ship enters British waters and shines lasers at military pilots ( www.theguardian.com )
Defence secretary reveals details of recent incursions as he warns UK is facing ‘new era of threat’ from hostile countries ...
The pathetic state of apartments in Christchurch ( www.trademe.co.nz )
Power is included but not Internet and there's a laundry that's shared between this unit and the neighbouring unit. On the downside, there is no kitchen sink and only a "mini oven". If this place had a real oven and a kitchen sink then I'd sign up immediately. ...
Opportunity: TOP rebrands as it chases 5% MMP threshold ( www.youtube.com )
Ukraine found about 400 places in Russia where kidnapped children are being held ( babel.ua )
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Reddit users blame the 2011 earthquake for the lack of apartments in Christchurch
Is there any proof that there's still an earthquake rebuild happening here in Christchurch? It's been 15 years, you'd think we could move on from blaming the earthquake.
PBTech Deals Finder & Filterer ( pbscraper.netlify.app )
I found this listed on cheapies. It looks like someone scraped all the deals and organised them in a searchable / sortable way.
Article: Musk aligning himself with global far-right, anti-immigration Neo-Fascists and using X to spread hate, says The Guardian
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Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race ( gizmodo.com )
RIP Dick
YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations ( theintercept.com )
A DOCUMENTARY FEATURING mothers surviving Israel’s genocide in Gaza. A video investigation uncovering Israel’s role in the killing of a Palestinian American journalist. Another video revealing Israel’s destruction of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank. ...
Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more
PM tells jobless youth to leave to find a job. So they are going. To Australia. ( thekaka.substack.com )
FBI boss Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws ( apnews.com )
Tyler Robinson Left Note Vowing to 'Take Out Charlie Kirk': FBI ( www.newsweek.com )
FBI Director Kash Patel said Tyler Robinson, the suspected killer of Charlie Kirk, wrote a note stating his intention to "take out" the influential conservative activist. ...
Bombshell ‘Wall Street Journal’ Investigation Finds Tyler Robinson Once Had Trans Uber Driver ( theonion.com )
Charlie Kirk shot and killed while speaking at Utah college ( www.independent.co.uk )
Charlie Kirk confirmed dead. ...