Pfft. Not even going to be the hottest this year.

Hottest Summer 2: Australian Boogaloo

Hey! This guy’s noseist!

>:¬(

Rights are won with blood, not money. We spent our blood and bought our rights, still waiting for America to start spending blood instead of money.

Then maybe you should start using that 2nd like you’re supposed to instead of using it to keep your emotional support weapons close.

Unhealthy, people with no access to mental health services, or adequate education, shouldn’t have access to guns even in a healthy society. If you had all those maybe you can be trusted with guns.

Yes, you should get those too, not ignore gun control.

Sure, that’s why it doesn’t work that way anywhere there’s gun control. Because Americans are special snowflakes.

They haven’t turned down a job, they’re in contract negotiations for a job they want to work.

Gun regulation doesn’t stop you having guns as tools. Educate yourself instead of spouting idiocy.

It’s been hard to tell because reddit isn’t releasing user retention statistics that are easy to find for other social media sites (minutes per user per day), also due to vote obfuscation it can be difficult to know from vote counts because they could just manipulate the bias.

There’s also a lot of established communities around media/internet personalities that are largely unaffected by the changes and unlikely to move without significant fan pressure.

But people go where the content is, last time I checked the top 5 posts on Reddit were under 30k votes and were all tiktoks. That tells me that the content creators and the progressive adaptors have all moved on already, the rest is attrition over time as the service and content continues to stagnate.

The one thing reddit has propping it up artificially is it’s remaining position as a valuable information resource particularly for niche topics and especially while the fediverse doesn’t get boosted in seo yet.

Poes law. This isn’t Internet 101. Catch up.

That’s like saying Digg isn’t dead because the website is still there. But what was once the front page of the Internet is a forgotten footnote that now stands as a bot content farm. Reddit will go the same way.

Silver lining.

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Yes, still not worth risking using a duplicate password though.

More temporary rather than low paying, we get decent wages here. Effectively the same problem though.

Unemployment hit record lows.

I currently live in Australia where with a 2 year trade cert your minimum wage goes up from $16 to $28, and I receive a fortnightly payment from the government that has just gone up to $917 with rent assistance while I’m looking for work, my only obligations are regular meetings with an employment services provider and recorded proof that I’m applying for 20 appropriate jobs a month. For comparison a full time job here can be expected to pay a minimum of about 52k a year.

While unemployed I also receive concession on public health services, discounts for pharmaceuticals, and various other social services.

Once I start work I can continue claiming payments up to the value of $1000 to assist with transitional costs, as well as being provided a stipend for new uniforms or equipment costs.