Soulcreator
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- Comment on In hindsight why was/is america upset they elected a leader who constantly lies while making fun of politicians literally and figurativly for years that they lie there ass off? Y B Shocked? 1 week ago:
One of the major flaws of the American voting system is the electrical college. It effectively means that for a large swath of Americans your vote doesn’t matter unless you are voting for whom the majority of your state also voted for. Especially during tight elections, everything boils down to having the deciding votes, in a handful of states, if not a handful of counties in the entire country.
In a country of 300+ million people, the votes of only a handful of people in a select few locations really matter.
Are you a blue voter in a deep red state? Sorry the electrical college will throw out your vote and go with the majority.
Are you an independent voter in a deep blue state? Sorry you might as well be throwing out your vote.
Thanks to the electoral college a keen candidate can work the system and set it up so they win with the majority of the electrical votes, but not the majority of the overall votes.
TLDR: The reason why a good number of Americans didn’t vote, was by DESIGN. The current system in America de-incentivizes a large portion of the population to vote. This was likely done on purpose. This also leaves the system wide open to manipulation, further de-incentivising, and thus compounding the problem.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 1 week ago:
My concern is that if he were to drop dead tomorrow that a large portion of his followers will just say something dumb like he’s gone undercover in an attempt to take over the deep state. And then proceed to add him in as a write in ballot for the next several decades.
- Comment on the wok agenda 1 week ago:
“I totally found the new way of trolling the libs, I have sex with guys on grinder but the jokes on them because I’m not gay!”
- Comment on The Undiscovered Country: Why is the galley set so worn out? 1 week ago:
This theory makes too much sense, I love it. One question though why specifically the Yorktown? How do we know it was that specific ship and not any other damaged federation ship?
- Comment on How come decades in the 1900s look fairly well differentiated but from like 2004 on feels like a giant run on? 3 weeks ago:
Personally speaking I also lived through the 80’s and the 90’s but if you were to ask me to pick out the differences between the aesthetics from two photographs one from 2007 and one from 2017 I’d be hard pressed. If the images were taken on a consumer grade camera I’d probably focus on the differences in image resolution, but other than that I’d probably be hard pressed.
Now if you were to repeat the experiment with two images from 87 vs 97 oh yeah I’m confident I’d be able to figure out which decade things were from.
What I’m getting at is I’m not sure how much living through the eras really blunts our ability to perceive the differences between decades. If anything when watching period pieces with actors pretending to be in the 80’s or 90’s I feel like I’m acutely aware of the subtle tells that give away this wasn’t actually filmed in the past.
- Comment on we need more users 1 month ago:
Agreed lemme is probably one of the most negative places on the Internet. I joined because I was hoping this place would grow to be a proper alternative for Reddit, with fun niche content, and its own culture of obscure inside jokes. Instead even after several years it still feels like we are the angry trolls living under reddit’s shadow.
One of the biggest things I’ve found that helped me avoid the politics was to leave lemme.world and fill my personal feed up with subscriptions to content that fits my interest. Politics has ways of working its way into content none the less, but at least I’ve got a fighting chance.
I really do believe lemme is going to struggle to find people who want to stick around unless it starts to embrace fun light hearted content. I’m not sure how we’d do that as a platform, but I do believe that’s one of the big reasons people will struggle to adopt this corner of the Internet as their own.
- Comment on We always hear/read about Goverments cencoring the internet. What is something that the US is not knowing is being censored? 3 months ago:
Same, this is literally the first I’ve heard about the natives just “giving up and making way” for the Europeans. I recall being taught about the trail of tears and how we forced them off their land by any means necessary. Then again I grew up in a liberal city on the East Coast so my experiences probably aren’t universal.
- Comment on plump pumkins 3 months ago:
I’m not an expert in the whole giant pumpkin phenomenon, but it’s my understanding that the pumpkins are generally grown by hobbyists for fun rather than farmers on an industrial scale. So I don’t think it’s a trade-off on our food system, where kids are starving in Africa because farmers are wasting their resources growing pumpkins. I think it’s more of an, “look what I did” type thing.
- Comment on Star Trek: Legacy — 22-minute recut of 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' set to Daft Punk's original score for 'Tron: Legacy' 4 months ago:
I mean there are a lot of issues with the TMP, it was an odd script likely because it was written by a man who never really worked in movies prior (only television to my knowledge) and rather than being written from it’s inception as a two hour movie it was also adapted from a pilot of a television series, which all makes it feel kind of klunky with odd pacing.
That said recutting the movie into a 22 min streamlined version makes a lot of sense to me, no fluff only plot.
- Comment on Hmm this "unisex" bathroom seems biased... 5 months ago:
It’s not a discussion I’ve ever seen Americans have IRL, only in sitcoms.
- Comment on If fossil fuels aren't vegan that would mean almost nobody is actually vegan. 5 months ago:
Can you give some real world examples of systems that contain animal exploitation that vegans would want to see improved? I’m not sure I completely follow that point.
- Comment on The people developing vegan meat alternatives must have eaten a lot of meat beforehand so they can replicate the taste and texture. 5 months ago:
I’m fairly certain most of the big name alternative meat products on the market were developed by capitalists and not vegans.
- Comment on The people developing vegan meat alternatives must have eaten a lot of meat beforehand so they can replicate the taste and texture. 5 months ago:
By any strict definition of the term it’s not considered vegan, that said there are people out there who attempt to debate the matter.
- Comment on The people developing vegan meat alternatives must have eaten a lot of meat beforehand so they can replicate the taste and texture. 5 months ago:
According to the vegan society’s definition of the term veganism, which is generally considered the go to definition, human breast milk when given with consent is vegan.
On the other hand while some attempt to debate the matter Honey is not considered vegan according to that definition.
- Comment on Have you ever noticed no one ever looks at a penis and then says, "wow, he must have big feet." 6 months ago:
I feel like more context is needed for those unfamiliar with the article.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 6 months ago:
I’m a web developer in a marketing department and agreed UTM tags aren’t really nefarious. We generally use them to track campaigns, and to see the effectiveness of our paid campaigns. (As in how much of a return on investment did we have, are people continuing to traverse the site after hitting the landing page, etc) That said those codes generally don’t give us any info about the user other than what parts of the site you are hitting, (which we can find out through other means anyway). There are tools out there which can give us a creepy amount of data about the users on the site, but UTMs aren’t it.
Removing them when sending out links is good practice as you probably only really need a fraction of the characters in order to get to the site, so your links are cleaner, you look like less of an idiot, and ironically marketers will end up having cleaner data (I doubt you care about this, but it’s true.)
That said, if you really want to prevent sites from getting your data when browsing turning off JavaScript in your browser would probably have the biggest impact.
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 8 months ago:
It’s funny how quickly Lemmy will get nasty on people for asking the wrong questions.
Not everyone with a contrary viewpoint is a troll, and some people can actually be won over to your perspective with a friendly conversation.