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- Comment on Capitalism only asissts innovation for the first few years of existence. After that its a grift. 2 days ago:
Do I understand correctly that you think capitalism started 30-50 years ago? Where? By whom?
- Comment on Capitalism turns countries into businesses to support the lavish lifestyle of capital holders and the government into HR to silence the workers 1 week ago:
Thanks for the report and being active in helping to shape the community.
There is gray area in the no politics rule. I’ll be the first to admit that it is inconsistently enforced. The comments section has stayed pretty civil. And the post made some interesting analogies, it wasn’t just “capitalism bad”. So I’m tempted to leave it.
Always open to feedback.
- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 1 week ago:
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. While I agree there is a lot of hostility on online forms, I hope you will work with us to make Lemmy less hostile and more welcoming.
- Comment on I hope Lemmy gets big enough to make the mainstream news... 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I got stoked for the 404 article. Keep up the original posts folks!
- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 2 weeks ago:
I think your perspective and critique is valid and interesting but it can be helpful to assume the best in people, especially when giving a critique.
In my experience, kids (and adults) love the fact that Iceland is greener and Greenland is icier, so it’s not surprising to me that other languages have similar odd names. It’s not surprising to me that some people would have a biased opinion of a place due to an odd name, but like Iceland I expect many know much more about a country than just the name and thus the name doesn’t hold much weight.
- Comment on The richest people in the world are morally bankrupt 2 weeks ago:
This was reported for not being a shower thought. It’s certainly not hard to get a bunch of up votes on Lemmy by saying “ultra rich people bad”.
I error on the side of leaving posts up. If there is an objective way to enforce what is or isn’t a shower thought, I’m open to ideas.
- Comment on Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood. 2 weeks ago:
^ This was reported for being a troll. I think the reporter is correct. Even the original post is a bit of a troll for the average Lemmy person.
If you choose to reply to this comment, careful not to feed the trolls.
- Comment on This year’s highlight is 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for posting in shower thoughts.
Rule 2 is that the entire thought must be in the title. Do you think you could edit your post?
Ideally shower thoughts are applicable to lots of people. See the side bar for examples. I guess the fact that the prior year has been bruising could be generally applicable.
- Comment on Tattoo Ink Moves Through the Body, Killing Immune Cells and Weakening Vaccine Response 3 weeks ago:
In the study the longest they waited after tattooing the mouse before giving the vaccine was 2 months.
They made some connections with people that had tattoos for a much longer time. But I can’t tell how meaningful those connections are.
This is well outside of my field.
- Comment on Finding a private self hosted Google Photos alternative that doesn’t profit from my photos 3 weeks ago:
Wow these all sound so much better than Proton’s photo backup. In the words of @mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud , it’s pants.
- Comment on In many ways, Cat is to Lion as Bear is to Dog 4 weeks ago:
I think pigs and bears are pretty closely related.
- Comment on Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away 5 weeks ago:
Liberapay is really nice. I like the payment options they have to minimize the fees, like making 2 years of small “monthly” payments in a single charge to your bank card.
- Comment on Anti-AI communities might be helping AI 5 weeks ago:
Rule 2 is a little gray but if it reads like a catchy headline, then it’s probably not a complete thought.
OP, would you mind updating the title?
- Comment on I never understood what it was people did on Twitter. I understand it even less now that it is X. 5 weeks ago:
I try to be objective where I can but all of the rules have gray area so I try to err on the side of not taking things down. Little nudges from the community, like your comment here, help to shape the community so thanks for being an engaged member!
- Comment on I doubt there are many people alive these days who died in WW2 1 month ago:
I see there are many variations of this joke.
- Comment on Looking to buy a cheap but best first 3d printer. Ender3 V3, CR-10 SE, or something else? 1 month ago:
I have a CR-10s that I bought used. I asked the seller to ensure that it worked before I bought it. Most of my problems I had with the printer are due to me trying to make it print faster. If I had just downloaded Cura and used the default profiles it would have served me well.
Learning how to level a bed is probably the most significant skill you will need. It’s not too hard.
- Comment on Everyone has died and it is by sleeping 1 month ago:
As a mod, I thank you sincerely for your judgement.
- Comment on The mental health industry is probably profiting a lot from political turmoil. 1 month ago:
I see no reason that professionals shouldn’t be allowed to make money off of their profession. There are some opportunities for some perverse incentives in any industry, but that’s why licensing and ethics boards exist.
- Comment on The most valuable advertising keywords could be "ublock origin" 2 months ago:
It’s the last hurrah of advertising. It’s probably a good place to advertise a VPN.
- Comment on I feel like all current political debate is basically trying to choose between the three endings in the original Deus Ex. 2 months ago:
Rule 3 is no politics. Obviously there is grey area in the rule. It’s generous to say that this post is in the grey area but the post avoids being rage bait and no one has reported it yet.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
If you define ‘need’ very loosely then the statement becomes pretty meaningless but I agree with it.
Otherwise there are many scenarios where I disagree with it.
There is lots of valuable talking that happens that doesn’t strictly need to be said.
Small talk is important for relationships.
Anyone learning a language needs to talk a lot just for the sake of talking. Even if nothing needs to be said.
Sometimes people need to be and feel heard to feel welcome in a group. It’s easy to say that the content of the conversation isn’t nearly as important as the act of having the conversation.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
This post was reported. I agree it can come across as a bit agressive and arrogant.
I think the other commenters are doing a good job of pointing out the many perspectives on this post so I won’t take action for now.
- Comment on I don't mean to brag, but I made a killer joke on my company Teams group 😎 2 months ago:
😆
- Comment on Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old?? 2 months ago:
This was reported twice for not being a shower thought. The reporters are correct, it’s not strictly a shower thought.
But thinking about getting older is something we all do in the shower, for multiple reasons :)
Looks like people are mostly enjoying it so I’ll let it stay for now.
- Comment on An eggy smell is horrible if it comes unexpectedly, but arguably pleasant if you're eating an egg mayo sandwich 2 months ago:
Happy cake day!
- Comment on I just lost the game and so did you 2 months ago:
- if you lose the game you must announce “I just lost the game”
- Comment on Meh, I'm more of an Aragorn fan... 2 months ago:
Thank you. I didn’t understand it.
- Comment on BlueSky has drama so the Fedi-Marketers are waking from their slumber 2 months ago:
TIL Wafrn let’s you post on both Bluesky and mastodon wafrn.net
- Comment on if we all lived within close proximity of sock processing facilities we'd have fewer problems with socks 2 months ago:
Maybe this is a dumb question but what does a sock processing facility do?
- Comment on people who use AI a lot would probably be the most likely to get their exact wish from a genie. 2 months ago:
AI is kinda like the monkey’s paw.