Climate change is real but it’s not as drastic as this. A lot of people refer to this phenomena as “El Nino” and “La Nina” and they describe a changing pattern is ocean surface temperature and winds that drastically shift the average temperature.

Where I live, we had a ridiculously hot summer about 6 years ago and ever since then our summers have been really mild. This year it’s been absolutely brutal.

Climate change is just increasing the average temperature of the range over time. But to say that this “118F temperature is entirely because of climate change” is kinda disingenuous.

I’m confused a bit by this honestly. Power strips are easy to hide where they are not visible. In their case, an LED is actually preferable to know the state of the power strip. I also don’t think I’ve ever seen a power strip with a blue LED. None of my charging adapters have LEDs and it’s extremely rare for me to find one that does. If you don’t want an digital clock, then don’t buy a digital clock? I also searched for a floor fan and 95% of the results appear to have no LEDs.

If LEDs are such a problem, I’d recommend not buying things with LEDs in them? It seems like it’s actually difficult to run into the problem you’re experiencing.

No, they’re being paid by a European group to develop Lemmy.

Lemmy devs are being paid to develop Lemmy, they literally admit to it.

I mean… in this case they’re going after a former president. Of course there’d be some hesitation. Even just to protect the symbol of the president.

But just like everything, Trump turned everything he touched to shit and now the office of the president is forever tainted because of it. It’s insane that we actually have to have a criminal probe into a president inciting terrorism in their own country

I’m seeing a lot of worrying trends.

The whole idea of Reddit is changing. It used to be the front page of the internet and that encompassed basically everything. Now it seems like there’s a lot of focus on making it advertiser friendly

Then we see Spez basically spitting in the face of the community. Mocking them, calling the unpaid mods “entitled” and just showcasing that he actively seems to despise the users.

Now we’re seeing Reddit do shady stuff like undelete comments. Destroying any trust the community may have had in the website.

The 3rd party app issue was just the kindling that ignited all the other issues

I get that, there's a bunch of unethical associations with everything we use. But right now the main developer of Lemmy has his profile setup with Chairman Mao as his background, his Github repo avatar is Che Guevera, and he has an entire repo filled with propaganda copy-pasta. In the past people have also pointed out that lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml resolve to the same IP address although this is no longer the case. Lemmygrad supports the DPRK and transitively one of the most horrific dictatorships in the world, and yet it's advertised on the "Join-Lemmy" website.

Even if the software itself is apolitical and we can see through the open-source nature of it that it is not going to be abused to further those agendas, there's no doubt that as that knowledge becomes more commonly known that it could severely impact the whole idea of a Federated Reddit alternative.

Honestly I’m casting my support with KBin after hearing about the political affiliations of the main Lemmy dev. It’s worrisome because at this time of volatility, the community is going to be very fragile and stuff like that can really cause a massive problem when the community starts hitting critical mass