When I trawl the net for UFO stuff, what I see more than anything is people hoping for a savior. People hoping that aliens will save us from our economy, from climate change, from religion, from fascism, from war, from nuclear weapons, from disease, from Republicans, from Democrats, from progressives, from regressives, and mostly from ourselves.

I’ve been speculating that that fear is a driving force for a lot of the current UFO craze. We’re in a dangerous time, things are only getting worse, and people are becoming desperate for a superhero to come and save the day.

I think we’re more scared that there aren’t aliens, sometimes.

Depending on who you ask, they already are >_>

This has been the response to everything that’s come out since the Nimitz Incident. Bigger revelations have come out in the last seven years than in the last seventy. We’re tired, and we’re scared, I think. Aliens are going to need to really shake their cans if they want us to care.

Rupert Murdoch, to answer your question.

EDIT; I forgot this was the internet when I wrote this comment. Hopefully editing helps remove it more thoroughly.

They did last year as well. I recall there being some racy stuff that was being blocked out by black boxes placed by the admins, and people were able to track admin and mod accounts (like spez) that were placing pixels instantly with no cooldown. People were pissed then already, and the admin/mod response was basically “get wrecked we too smort lulz”

Place even last year was blatantly a ploy to give reddit more free and controllable content.

Which is the point of all of this. They’ve been flexing their ability to control the flow of information on their site to show off for investors since the minute they announced the API changes. They’re going to use Place to further demonstrate the level of control they have over the userbase by “shutting down the protests.” Advertisers and investors are going to be eating this up, especially since so many people are still engaging and giving hate-clicks along the way. Imagine how attractive a completely pliable and obedient userbase of literal millions of progressive swing voters is going to look.

Get me a Millenium Falcon-sized interstellar freighter and a stable supply line, and I’ll never set foot planetside again.

Gotcha, you’re probably right. Still getting used to the federated stuff, makes it tricky to tell what comments might be referring to what all the time.

Unfortunately, I like the way you can “open” picture links by clicking the thumbnail without opening the actual link like on Lemmy, but I also like the infinite scroll that’s on kbin. Maybe there will be a way to have both one day…

Done. Which setting is for infinite scrolling? Or for automatic post updating?