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- Comment on If Europe and the rest of the worlds response it to make weapons of war, someone will eventually insure they are all used. 8 hours ago:
A relatively small minority of people through history have wanted wars. But if we look at the past 4000 years, we nonetheless find many, many wars, the vast majority of which people have never even heard the name of. You cannot escape this by simply disarming yourself.
- Comment on Sun God 4 days ago:
My fav is just that the sun is, all by itself, 99% of the total mass of our solar system. Most of the rest of that 1% is Jupiter.
- Comment on How to get people to use Mastodon? 1 week ago:
Somebody needs to put this guy in charge of all the branding elements.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
For a conservative that’s amazing, I’d be kinda proud of him. I’d comply with his request, assuming he wants you to see a couple other doctors and not attend some conversion camp or something. I’d just frame that as getting a second/third opinion, basically, which is always a good idea anyway.
- Comment on Who's making older games so expensive? 2 weeks ago:
Supply and demand, since they’re all collectors items now.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Same. Every time I see someone complaining about the all feed I wonder if they came from 4chan’s b board or something.
How many places on the internet expect you to regularly use some sort of all feed? 9gag maybe? Did people regularly use reddit’s all feed, despite it being crammed full of garbage and vote farming? I think I used it for like 5 seconds when I first started there before I gave up in disgust and started picking communities intentionally.
Do you set up your newsreader with all of everything? You want all the sports, all the pop culture, all the tech, etc etc?
I just don’t get it. All is always going to be garbage on every service just because the world is a big place, and that’s fine.
Now, rant aside, I did actually find his idea of an all feed where local instance voting is all that gets counted kinda neat. I don’t have any problems with that being an available option if someone wanted to work on it.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 3 months ago:
Don’t forget the FDA’s aggressive suppression of exercise.
- Comment on Production quality often has in inverse relationship to information quality in youtube videos 3 months ago:
“Why make a good product if you can put your effort into making it just seem like your product is good? This way you can pivot around more flexibly. Instead of having to possess a wide array of hard-earned skills you can make specific content about, you can simply learn the skills of marketing, branding and style, and now you can bullshit your way through anything you want.”
-many modern business practices
- Comment on USA President term limits 3 months ago:
Assuming he abides by constitutional law, this will be his final term.
- Comment on AI tool that sounds like elderly grandmother created to waste scammers' time 3 months ago:
Was wondering how long it would take to roll something like this out. Bout time.
- Comment on We should have elections with no candidates. 3 months ago:
I actually sort of like this idea. People would still figure it out, of course, but it’d shift people’s default attention from the person to the platform.
- Comment on Metal is plastic. 4 months ago:
No. In astronomy, everything heavier than hydrogen or helium is referred to as metals. So, a star’s metallicity would be including carbon, oxygen etc.
- Comment on Metal is plastic. 4 months ago:
Ices are metals.
- Comment on Why Do People Gather? A Study on Factors Affecting Emotion and Participation in Group Chats. 4 months ago:
Positive emotions (γ = 0.128, p < 0.05) boost participation, while negative emotions (γ = −0.144, p < 0.01), particularly when linked to user behaviors, reduce it.
Well, it’s nice to have hard data on trolling, I suppose.
- Comment on ‘We don’t want aid. We want dignity.’ Air-dropped aid kills 3-year-old Palestinian boy in southern Gaza, family says 4 months ago:
That too. Unfortunately that also failed.
- Comment on ‘We don’t want aid. We want dignity.’ Air-dropped aid kills 3-year-old Palestinian boy in southern Gaza, family says 4 months ago:
What rescue operation required a multi-million dollar pier to be set up? Usually armored ground vehicles and/or helicopters work just fine for those.
- Comment on ‘We don’t want aid. We want dignity.’ Air-dropped aid kills 3-year-old Palestinian boy in southern Gaza, family says 4 months ago:
What do you think it was for? Oil exploration?
- Comment on ‘We don’t want aid. We want dignity.’ Air-dropped aid kills 3-year-old Palestinian boy in southern Gaza, family says 4 months ago:
That was the point of the temporary dock. Still didn’t do much when the IDF controls all entry points except the one overhead, though, and refugees aren’t living right next to the dock.
Perhaps a UN task force could be assembled to militarily escort aid trucks through IDF checkpoints by force, if necessary, since diplomacy doesn’t seem to be working.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 4 months ago:
As the dev’s flagship instance, there is only so much that can be done. There is also only so much that should be done, since they should have the right to run their own instance however they see fit. They did put the work in to create the service, after all.
I think the most reasonable solution around this is to simply push mbin a little harder. Since .ml will always garner a certain degree of attention as the dev’s instance, simply pivoting more attention to a lemmy-related service may be the best option to make us more appealing to less politically-interested people overall.
- Comment on The 1900s 4 months ago:
I mean, tbf that was admittedly last millennium.
- Comment on Super hero movies should have more scenes of them accidentally maiming people just because of the sheer amount of power they weild. 4 months ago:
The web serial Worm by Wildbow, written like 10-15 years ago maybe, is also a pretty good superhero deconstruction.
- Comment on Patient gamer philosophy 4 months ago:
Personally I am very willing to pay full price and even occasionally buy pointless extras I don’t care about if it helps reward their passion for a project I see as a valuable contribution. I’ll even pre-order or provide them some free advertising in some cases. Especially if its the sort of dev where it seems like their long-term survival might be in question.
I feel like you can usually tell when the dev needs money or doesn’t.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Convenient scapegoat. What is easier to admit, that we are causing our own problems by not addressing new challenges appropriately, or pointing a finger at an outside group and going “their fault!”.
- Comment on Its a lot easier these looking at a beautiful person these days and not feeling a bit of jealousy know there is a decent chance they would vote for fascism. 5 months ago:
For the record, the number of die hard MAGAs is smaller than that, it’s just a subset of the gop. Then consider that a lot of MAGAs are duped into just thinking “oh, he jokes a lot, but he’s a businessman so he’ll do a good job!”
So the number of actual outright fascists is going to be pretty small when we weed out the people that just fall for their promises and lies. We need to distinguish between a fascist and a fool.
- Comment on They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot. 5 months ago:
That’s cute, but the point is that despite Hilary’s very broad appeal to the big dollar doners, she was beaten by Obama in 2008 due to his, at the time very novel, online small dollar fundraising campaign. She was again defeated in 2016, despite having far more money given to her campaign than Trump.
www.opensecrets.org/pres16 www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/02/…/index.html?iref…
So the idea that the big doners actually dictate election results does not match our recent historical realities at all.
- Comment on They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot. 5 months ago:
Tell that to Hilary Clinton.
- Comment on Let me at 'em!! 5 months ago:
Don’t eat fissile cucumbers.
- Comment on Since cats don't pant like dogs how do they release trapped heat? 5 months ago:
I too have seen cats pant on hot days.
If I remember right though, they’re originally descended from desert animals, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they have a higher tolerance for temperature extremes than dogs do.
- Comment on Emacs.ch (Mastodon Instance for the Emacs community) will shut down. 5 months ago:
Yeah I caught that when I reread your comment. I made an edit, just a little too slow.
- Comment on Emacs.ch (Mastodon Instance for the Emacs community) will shut down. 5 months ago:
Oh, I see. Still not seeing a big incentive for big tech, those meat bags are providing free labor. No strong need to replace them.