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Lemmy dev suggestions: Remove all downvotes. User blocks should keep the blockee from seeing the blocker.

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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • As you say, tools are just tools. Even a dumb phone and CD players are “technology.” You can use a hammer to build a house, or you can use it to break into a house and kill the owner. The tool itself really doesn’t hold any sin.

    Some people prefer to use older tools, though. It often gives them more of a feeling of connection, especially if we’re talking about the things they grew up with. So, there’s nothing wrong with choosing older technology just because you feel like it, either.




  • LOGIC💣@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.worldDo we need more users ?
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    26 days ago

    100% agreed. A Reddit clone with Reddit amounts of users will end up almost as bad as Reddit. The thing that makes Reddit worse in that situation is that they are a public company.

    This platform would have to evolve a lot before it can deal with so many users. There has to be some significant innovation and improvement in moderation and administration, or more users would inevitably lead to endemic misinformation and power tripping and all of that shit you see on Reddit.


  • Stupid may not be the right word. I used to listen to his podcast occasionally, and he’s certainly… What’s the right term? “slow witted”?

    Like, he seems like he has trouble keeping up. Maybe it’s the weed he’s smoking.

    He also doesn’t completely lack introspection, but his introspection seems unbelievably shallow. He’s basically just afraid that other people might judge him not to be manly. He’s scared of not being seen as manly, which is ironically pathetic and weak. But he’s demonstrated it repeatedly.

    So, these things together might work to the same end of having him… and I’m going to use maybe the wrong word again… be so stupid that he doesn’t realize how much of a Nazi he’s become. He talks with anybody, and the bad actors he talks to lead him around by the nose, and he lacks the tools to analyze how that has affected him.




  • Trump is so old and unhealthy that it wouldn’t be surprising if he just keeled over and died of natural causes at any point.

    It’s pretty obvious that Trump believes that he’s going to live for a long time and that he’ll remain in control as president or whatever for all of that time. You don’t build a ballroom if you think you’ll be out in three years.

    Vance is like a vulture, circling around waiting for Trump to die so he can swoop in. His best case scenario is that Trump becomes a dictator and he succeeds him. So, Vance will say and do anything right now.






  • I heard that police are supposed to be trained not to get their bodies in front of moving vehicles.

    Because if you get hit by a car, that’s bad. And because it is escalating the problem. When a police officer stands in front of a vehicle to keep it from moving, they are turning a minor crime into a life-or-death situation.

    This ICE officer did everything wrong, and a woman died because of his mistakes. The woman who died didn’t do everything right, but it’s not her job. She didn’t do anything that deserved a death sentence. The ICE officer, on the other hand…

    When you put completely incompetent, yet completely arrogant people into positions of power, you get situations like this and Venezuela.



  • One of the bills, to provide clean water to rural areas in Colorado, if I remember correctly, was passed nearly unanimously in both houses. To override the veto only requires 2/3 of both houses.

    It’s just my personal opinion, but I think that if a lawmaker votes for legislation and then doesn’t vote to override the veto, and it’s not some extreme situation, they should be ejected from any government office and pilloried publicly for wasting taxpayer time and making light of their serious duties. Let the people pelt them with rotting fruit.

    When I say “extreme situation”, I refer to the idea that some vital information comes out about the bill and that’s the only reason the President vetoes it, to get a better version of the bill passed. Like there might be some technically important legal jargon in the bill that seems otherwise innocuous, and nobody realizes at first. Or the situation the bill is supposed to address significantly changes in the meantime.