Also, the batteries need to be available at a reasonable price to the user.
Or they’ll start scheming

Making it a sort of a museum would be a pretty good idea.

Are the books really that bad? (Sorry, I mostly lived on NCERT)

Well, I don’t think we have decided on a standard meaning for an upvote in the first place, so we do as we like.
In the end, it’s all about what makes me feel more satisfied.

I see a blue button, I press it, it goes grey, I’m happy.

I see you being Chaotic-Chaotic over here.

Your own upvote on your own comment doesn’t mean anything

Neither do words, or little magnetic particles lain down nicely on a polymer disc, until people decide they mean something.

if you dont think what you are saying is relevant or necessary why say it?

If I worried about necessity, I would probably not have a Lemmy account.

level the playing field

I’m not playing dependent upon others, just upon my own ideals. I feel like an upvote needs to mean something. In my case, it means, I need more people to see it, for me.
In most cases, the feeling behind my posts/comments are: If someone sees it, good, have fun.

The Lemmy web client, same as Reddit, allows you to de-upvote your posts.
It feels weird to upvote your own post anyway and I don’t do so unless I am asking for help and want it seen more, urgently.

Google: Sure, we’ll sell it to anyone who pays off our Russian Govt fine.

Username checks out

It’s called “Distribution of Power”.
We should be thankful it’s still here.

Had they just used some punctuation - “The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders on Thursday, announced”, it would have made it easier to get. Even, “The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders, on Thursday, announced” would be doable.

How do these feel?

And gives some energy (and building material) in the process? Yeah, it’s just kinda hard.