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- Comment on I have discovered chat IS cute and so are you <3 6 days ago:
This post was reported for spam.
Its not a typical showerthought, but it doesn’t seem to be doing harm, just people having good fun, so I’ll let it go for now and let the votes do the talking.
- Comment on It was only a fish! 2 weeks ago:
Now I’m walking with feet, she keeps her young in a bag. Wow, he just made smoke. And she’s tamed a stag. Now they invented a cure for when my stomach is sick. And there’s math in my head, and she’s discovered the Higgs.
- Comment on An alien who sees in the radio part of the light spectrum would probably be blinded by all our wireless communications 2 weeks ago:
Not that power input and light output are exactly the same but the Las Vegas sphere is 28MW
- Comment on Announcements on the train should refer to "port / starboard side" instead of "left / right in the direction of travel", when pointing to the exits. 2 weeks ago:
Good point, the lights on a boat or airplane (probably not a train) are red on the left and green on the right. Not sure how international that is.
- Comment on Announcements on the train should refer to "port / starboard side" instead of "left / right in the direction of travel", when pointing to the exits. 2 weeks ago:
My favorite mnemonic: “We have some red port left”
- Comment on What is the cutoff distance when you point and say [thing] is "here" or [thing] is "there"? 3 weeks ago:
So “here” is close enough for your needs. “There” is too far away to be useful.
- Comment on What is the cutoff distance when you point and say [thing] is "here" or [thing] is "there"? 3 weeks ago:
Arguably you are touching, or nearly touching, both of those things.
- Comment on Denying uniqueness is both a compliment and an insult. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Denying uniqueness is both a compliment and an insult. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, some people want to be seen as different to stand out from the crowd, but if you call someone out as different it can be considered “othering”.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Othering
I don’t have a good idea where the line is.
- Comment on TACO Taxes are delicious you DeMoCrAps! 3 weeks ago:
Goose
- Comment on If the Romans had put Jesus in a box with Schrödinger's cat, Christians’ souls would be in a quantum superposition of saved and damned. 3 weeks ago:
Haha, what a thought
- Comment on Pee pee is never poo time. But poo time is always poo time. 3 weeks ago:
ha, cool, fits the post
- Comment on Here's for 2 years since I joined Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
hey me too! All the best!
- Comment on Pee pee is never poo time. But poo time is always poo time. 3 weeks ago:
Why the youtube link? Am I missing something?
- Comment on In Argentina the far right never mentioned anything about immigration, since the immigration is so high that speech would work 4 weeks ago:
Rule 3 is no politics. “Far right” is a pretty good sign the post is political
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
In this comic xkcd used the equation: half your age + 7 imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dating_pools.png
It’s fun to reference but it’s not a hard rule. The fact that you are thinking it over means that you are probably in a healthy mindset to at least go on the date and feel it out. You have your daughter batting for you! You got this!
- Comment on The history of societal collapses are all just examples of Universe 25 4 weeks ago:
What is universe 25?
- Comment on I'm so tired. 4 weeks ago:
Sorry I had to run and didn’t get to wrap up my thought.
I don’t really mind if a post isn’t a perfect fit. I try to give benefit of the doubt. If we had hundreds of really strong posts every day then I imagine I would be more strict. Lemmy is small so at least we can be friendly and supportive in decisions that aren’t clear cut.
- Comment on I'm so tired. 5 weeks ago:
This post is certainly outside of the norm of shower thoughts. I think in general people want posts that score a little higher on the scale of funny and interesting. Taking the sidebar strictly:
- Does this thought pop into people’s heads? yeah, probably
- Is it lighthearted? Not really, but its friendly.
- Is it clever? No
- Is it true? Yes
- Comment on It's best to take a piss before eating a hot chip. 1 month ago:
Interesting that your default unit of chips is ‘a chip’ and not ‘a handful of chips’ or ‘a bag of chips’.
- Comment on i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies. 1 month ago:
.ml many loofahs
- Comment on French culture 1 month ago:
Not sure if you are poking fun at it but I like Bigflo & Oli dommage
- Comment on French culture 1 month ago:
Got any more?
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 1 month ago:
They lower the price of Pass. proton.me/blog/proton-pass-price-change
- Comment on i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies. 1 month ago:
Is this a self affirmation or are there other people in your shower?
- Comment on Dolores Umbridge was a JK Rowling Self Insert all this time. 2 months ago:
I think we are very much in agreement. I don’t read a lot of what goes on in Showerthoughts. I would rather let people sort out their differences. Several users reported the thread, meaning that they wanted a moderator to take action.
If someone prefers zero moderation then they will need to look outside of Lemmy.world.
- Comment on Dolores Umbridge was a JK Rowling Self Insert all this time. 2 months ago:
You should be able to see all the reports against you here: lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=1…
I observe two things about your comment.
- You have an unpopular opinion of JK Rowling. I want to build a welcoming community so I want to support people with unpopular opinions, like yours.
- The comment is written in a way that not only states your opinion but is aggressive towards the other users. In isolation this comment isn’t too bad but in the context of your other comments there is a trend of agression that stirs up more aggression. I want to build a welcoming community so I want to avoid aggression towards users.
These two points are at odds. I originally removed your comment, you didn’t like that, you sent me a DM, so I tried this approach.
If you were in my shoes, how would you resolve the conflict created by observations 1 & 2?
- Comment on Dolores Umbridge was a JK Rowling Self Insert all this time. 2 months ago:
What is bullshit?
- Comment on Dolores Umbridge was a JK Rowling Self Insert all this time. 2 months ago:
Mod here. This thread devolved and reports were flying around so now it’s gone.
It was kicked off with the above comment. rainrain asked a question. If we assume the best intentions, it is a reasonable question but it is worded in a bit of a hostile way.
Leraje did a good job answering the question and ignoring the hostility.
In general, please approach opposing ideas with curiosity not hostility. We are all on the same team, we are all working together to build a better internet.
- Comment on If all the money in the world can only make you look as good as elon musk or jeff bezos there is truly some things money can't buy. 2 months ago:
Beautiful
