For those who didn’t read the article:

The donation program has existed since 1996, with a total of $67.3 million contributed — an amount that remains negligible compared to the federal debt.

The only new thing is more convenient donation methods.

I said the same thing on another post and got upvoted to the top. Damn, lemmy is fickle.

There are way more people today and we compete with the entire world so it’s harder to stand out.

And progress is a lot more complicated today. It requires bigger teams working with more complicated equipment and more data than ever before. That means more people involved and, again, less opportunity for any one person to stand out.

This is all exacerbated by scientific journals and media companies that are more interested in making money than in making sure the best stuff rises to the top.

And people aren’t on the same page like they used to be. When there are a billion books, movies, songs, etc. to choose from, pop culture becomes less and less of a thing. People end up in their own increasingly atomized camps and can spend whole lifetimes there, not really caring about stars from the other camps.

I think very few of them would have been famous, even posthumously, if they had lived today.

Oligarchy is nothing compared what’s in store due to global warming. These are the good times…

I’m all for it, actually. I’ve just seen things go awry way too many times if you’re not able to condense your message into an airtight sound bite.

Seems like a terrible name for it. It sounds kind of juvenile and the other side will latch onto that immediately.

For me it’s The Matrix.

I never like to retread old ground, but this one’s an exception. It’s hard to overstate how much it blew our minds 26 years ago. I might have a soft spot for it too because I was raised sheltered and it was the first rated R movie I saw.

PC load letter? What the fuck does that mean?

Erythritol makes my entire mouth feel like it’s on fire as soon as it touches my tongue. My body did me a favor on this one.

To me it’s insane that food also isn’t on that list. Anything that isn’t a luxury can’t be trusted to be handled by capitalism.

Back when reddit had awards, the admins would routinely award posts to make it appear like people were actually buying them.