So I haven’t made this month’s “Gigathread” or “Megathread”, and I realized that perhaps some rebranding is in order. The Gigathread and Megathread topics were for grossly off-topic discussion and community building. I’m not sure if people “get” it here in Lemmy. But there’s a wide variety of off-topic conversations that can be helpful to this community.
Maybe it’d be helpful if I posted some examples. The general rule is that “a little bit off-topic” can certainly make a new post. But extremely off-topic posts should be isolated here to just chat with everyone else.
A minor rule change: I’ll be recycling the “Chatting” topic more slowly here on out. Its going to be a soft-rule: when discussion seems dead (ie: when there hasn’t been a post in several days) AND at least a month has past, I’ll update the “Chatting” topic to help keep things fresh. Its important to have an outlet like this topic to have this community feel more like a community. Off topic, tangential, and other such topics are very welcome here. Having a dedicated spot for more casual interactions is important for any community.
https://therickwilson.substack.com/p/who-redpilled-elon
An interesting perspective, but I’m not quite in agreement with it. Elon always was right-wing in that he came from Apartheid era South Africa, always had anti-African American viewpoints (see “Plantation” lines in Tesla factories), always had this crap. Its just that the internet has turned a blind eye to it because a lot of people thought the cause of global warming was more important or something.
Well, now no one is shielding Elon Musk any more and these extreme right-wing are more obviously coming to light.
Meta: I’m posting it here in this chatting topic because I’m not in agreement with it enough to make a topic. But if someone else wants to make a topic for greater visibility, you’re certainly welcome to do so.
There’s been a big shift rightward by all the idiots he looks up to, and it’s working on feeble minded people with no morals compass of their own. This is why Musk took to it like a duck to water- it had that old comfortable feeling of African racism from his childhood, a bunch of moronic conspiracy theories about people hating the rich, and an easy way to deamonise the left wing politicians that truly had left leaning politics rather than just repeating talking points to get campaign finances.
Basically, he’s everybody’s least favorite uncle during any holiday. Already a dumbass, and became much worse.
Example of an offtopic discussion: The role of CPI / Fed rates. Anyway, the CPI turned out to be 0% MoM for October, a very good result suggesting the end of inflation. And so the stock market went up in general.
Not that I have a real crystal ball or anything, but there’s a lot to unpack here. 0% MoM is certainly lower than I was expecting, and dangerously low. One month isn’t so bad I guess, but multiple months of low-growth and/or even negative-growth is considered a recessionary sign. I think its important to be thinking of the general macroenconomic trends at the moment, Fed-rate policies and CPI and PCE are all important indicators to think about.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717367
Hacker News is reporting right now a major Twitter/X outage.
I figure its important to tally these up because so many Musk-fans just assume Twitter is “as good as it always was”, despite the fact that we all know that these outages have become more frequent.
