95% of the time when downvoting content it’s a question of…
Disagreeing/considering the content bad/thinking the user is behaving poorly.
Also, writing comments takes a lot more time, which (believe it or not) is a limited and valuable resource for most people on the internet.
The solution here is obvious - creating an instance and/or community with stricter moderation rules, much like blåhaj.zone.
Each instance/community has the ability to set their own general rules and whilst (yes) this means that an individual person can’t guarantee their “safety” everywhere it does mean anyone can create their own little bubble and then pick & choose which parts of the fediverse to connect with.
The fediverse is at its core a free speech project, which is why I like it. There are many other platforms out there that focus on safety.
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Sounds nice, it would be lovely to have the means to live like that.
a) Housing is expensive in urban areas.
b) Public transit has difficulty competing outside urban areas due to being relatively slow and inflexible when demand and service is low.
c) Cars win on convenience and service, due to the alternative cost of time.
Usually I need to be at work 08:00 or 08:10. Furthermore, the same trip by car takes approximately 30-35 minutes during rush hour. This means my car saves me approximately 1-3hrs every working day (valued ~4k€/yr based on my current wages).
My car cost ~1k€ 8 years ago and maybe an additional 1.5k€ maintenance per year (a lot of which I do myself) + 2.5k€ fuel + insurance + tax - compared to 800€ for a public transit card.
Our family home is valued at 110k€, the same money would buy a 1 room studio apartment in the city.
Is it because I’m (probably) autistic?
No, it’s a basic human decency thing. No man I know would (intentionally) touch without invitation (whether verbal or body language) and if someone does they deserve a smacking.
The most common gray area is tight crowds where some assholes try to get away with groping disguised as “accidents” which is disgusting.
Besides, alcohol and drugs are no excuse. If you can’t control yourself under the influence, don’t use them.
First time I’d seen it used as a verb and yet is made complete sense. Language is a wonderful thing.
Heck it even looks like some of those crashes that make you go “heh wonky physics” (the roof fold)
Mint is a great starting point. I might also recommend having a look at KDE (the desktop environment) which will feel very familiar coming from windows and is available on quite a few distributions. I use it with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed - less beginner friendly than Mint, but still an ok plafe to start.
People being fine with higher taxes is a function of a trustworthy system where tax money actually goes to spending that benefits the tax payer.
If the expectation is that the funds get misplaced/pocketed/diverted along the way your average citizen will be far more willing (and view it as far more morally justifiable) to make efforts to avoid/reduce paying taxes.
Probably:
K>B>H>E>G. They all have decently developed countries whilst ensuring that you don’t end up born in a developing country.
For the big slices, F should be best (guaranteed to avoid the worst outcomes).
If you are a MasterCard customer, like me, and have any concerns you’d like to bring up with the company they have a very convenient PDF with toll-free numbers for all countries available here:
https://www.mastercard.com/_assets/docs/GlobalServiceTollfreeNumbers.pdf
I was very lucky to be able to find the link, because their customer support number wasn’t advertised anywhere on their website for my country!
Meanwhile google slapped me with nine captchas to fill out a form like wtf?
Saw this comment and couldn’t resist the urge to figure out just how much 60 million USD actually is in this context.
Relative to the revenue of the US gov:t 2024 (~5tln USD) and the US annual minimum wage (~15k usd) roughly two dimes so… yeah basically nothing.
Next question, how much can the US gov:t achieve with basically nothing?
Meal cost estimates at 0.5$ per, 3 meals per day = 1.5$ or 40mln days worth of food. Gaza population this year ~824k up from ~800k last year (worldpopulationreview) which puts us at ~48 days of food for the entire Gazan population.
So, what’s the lesson learned here?
Even Trump is willing to give two dimes of somebody elses money to a starving person… or maybe that the gov:t can achieve a fair bit with almost nothing. You decide :)
Maybe. In my experience showing certain emotions as a man at all can be ridiculed or seen as weakness - which is what I was referring to in my comment.
Allowing yourself (as you say) to be overwhelmed by emotion can definitely leave you weak/physically vulnerable - but the weakness here is not the emotions themselves but rather the lack of control.
I disagree.
A lack of feeling is also a kind of weakness - usually it’s due to long-term suppression of emotion and leaves you out of touch with your inner self. Bottled up emotions tend to be rather damaging in the long term. Plus, you don’t just lose out on the hurtful/bad emotions.
Acknowledging and overcoming negative feelings takes more strength than simply ignoring them.
hadn’t heard of that one, sounds like a fun comedy series
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Yes, it can be a way of exploring various social situations without pressure whilst also having fun.
There aren’t any particularly good forums for it on Lemmy unfortunately but if you like I can send a discord invite to a community for finding people to rp with on DM.
No? We’re already using pseudonyms, which is intentional and has a purpose.
It already is public, just not easily accessible. Why do you want to know all the votes? A voter is not an active part of the conversation. I’d equate it to the audience cheering or booing on a talk show.
For the ones actively participating you can read their comments and it’ll be obvious what their stance is.
Absolutely disagree on that one. Votes are a fundamental part of this type of social media, and the low-pressure interaction of up/down votes encourages a large number of people to interact and rank content. This shifts focus from the loudest/most active people dominating the space to the most widely appreciated content dominating the space. This is explicitly one of the parts I like about it.
Also, more replies are not necessarily useful. Consider all the “This!” or “Same!” comments from Reddit. An up/down vote is much more information dense.
Honestly it sounds to me like you actually want a forum based on fundamentally different mechanics. Technically it wouldn’t be that difficult to create a Lemmy clone that just scraps votes entirely from the UI, but you’d need a new way to rank content.
In an ideal scenario I’d actually prefer the votes be entirely anonymous, but that’s just not feasible with the fediverse system.