I’m talking mostly about the vibrant niche communities the comment above mentioned. That all happened well after the Digg and slashdot stuff. Niche communities grew on reddit relatively unchallenged.

Sure, reddit could have a similar meltdown to Digg, but I don’t think it’s a forgone conclusion. Social media has inertia. The bigger a platform is is the harder it is to lose people, because the mass is the feature.

But reddit also didn’t have that when I started using it.

reddit also didn’t have to compete with reddit.

was it a genius idea if it was never needed in the first place?

give it more than 14 days.

A. T. entered the US in 2021 as part of the Special Immigrant Visa Program, available to people who worked with the US army or under chief of mission authority as translators or interpreters in Iraq or Afghanistan.

The indictment did not mention whether the Afghan national was indeed a translator for the US armed forces.

the movie Toys called it 30 years ago although they were remotely controlled, not automated.

pretty sure US is doing this too.

China’s ruling Communist party has long prioritised instilling loyalty in students and has made the political education of teachers central to those efforts. Pre-travel instructions for teachers in the eastern city of Wenzhou indicates local authorities are concerned about the ideas they would encounter outside the country.

that may be, but we don’t even know if it’s true that Blinken approved it.

misleading headline. clearly they did not approve bombing of aid trucks indiscriminately. the question is if they approved bombing of aid trucks hijacked by Hamas, which is unclear.

I know, that was my point.

you’re conflating mortality metrics with incidence metrics. increasing incidents are very likely biased by improved detection and reporting.

anyway the point is not that cancer is going away or anything, but that you can’t easily say “pollution is giving young people cancer” as the top comment is.

more likely the opposite, we see higher “incidents” because of improved detection and reporting. meanwhile deaths decline because of improved treatments and prevention.

we’re already almost at the point where biometric tech will make all that irrelevant, especially facial recognition. to really fly under the radar in the future you’re gonna need to hack security systems and erase your data every so often.

the father son and holy ghost

to get to the other side.

Old people come into contact with all that stuff too, not just young people.

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Cancer deaths are consistently declining in the US. American Cancer Society’s 2023 report

Despite the pandemic, and in contrast with other leading causes of death, the cancer death rate continued to decline from 2019 to 2020 (by 1.5%), contributing to a 33% overall reduction since 1991 and an estimated 3.8 million deaths averted.

if that were the case, you’d expect more cancer in older people as well, not just young people.

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Cancer deaths are consistently declining in the US. American Cancer Society’s 2023 report

Despite the pandemic, and in contrast with other leading causes of death, the cancer death rate continued to decline from 2019 to 2020 (by 1.5%), contributing to a 33% overall reduction since 1991 and an estimated 3.8 million deaths averted.

thankfully someone actually read the article (which is pretty bad in terms of accurately representing its citations). One of the other articles cited in OP says:

Research published in BMJ Oncology found there had been 3.26 million cases in 2019 - 79% more than in 1990. But experts cautioned against reading too much into the findings. The research did not take into account a 40% rise in the total population, while factors such as better reporting may also have played a role. The team, of experts from around the world, including the US, China and the UK, agreed no firm conclusions could be drawn.

Deaths (as opposed to “incidents”) is a more accurate metric to track since it’s more reliable in terms of detection (obviously) and reporting:

Cancer killed more than a million under-50s in 2019, a rise of over 25% - but with the 40% population rise, this could actually indicate a falling death rate.

ugh the amount of times I’ve tried to schedule a teledoc appt only to be told two days later that I need to schedule an in-person appt. and the doc is an hour drive away or doesn’t have any in-person openings for a month…