>This is still the absolute best place to get news and minute by minute updates on what's happening in the world,
No shit. Millions of eyeballs and fingers on keyboards reaching into every deep dark corner of the interwebs in real time and reporting waay before conventional sources have run it by the editor, got a read from legal, had the editorial staff proof it for spelling/syntax/punctuation/political sensitivity/gender issues/race issues/proper pronouns….barf.
First place I go in the AM to see what I missed in the 5 or 6 hours a day I'm not on here. This place is a lightning rod for the news.