Thanks

Even it was AVNJ, you shouldn’t let some random strangers on the internet ruin things you like. Every one has a skeleton in the closet but if you like the videos, watch them.

What’s syncthing?

Why is AI bad?

I mean it’s not perfect, but it’s only going to get better.

I think despite the downsides of the internet that it’s clearly overwhelming good for society.

I thought you were talking about disposable vapes, if not, apologies.

Devils advocate:

If you’re known as a guy that loves Pokémon cards and people keep gifting you Weedle’s (one of the lowest powered and most common cards in the game), then after a while you’re going to be like “thanks guys, I know you want to gift me and to not just throw the card away, but these are worth literally nothing to me because I already have much nicer examples and I don’t need/want/have room for them, I’d just be throwing them away myself”.

Buy a reusable one

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Yes, some jokes are silly and that’s why they’re funny. Although jokes can be harmful, I don’t think that this one was.

Are jokes productive for discussion or discourse? Not necessarily, but I’m not so precious that I’m going to downvote someone for making one.

I mean what’s more likely here, a guy made a joke and a load of sensitive Lemmings downvoted them or a guy was literally comparing people that support Palestine with bigots?

I endorse the use of /s so that we can avoid this type of debate, but whenever you mention it you get a load of complaints.

The chin/jaw line of the young woman is the nose of the old woman, the ear is the eye, there is a horizontal line of the young woman’s neck that is the mouth of the old woman.

At first I only saw the young woman too.

If you define a “shit take” as a comment that is factually wrong and or harmful, that’s fine and I’ve already said that. If your idea of a “shit take” is “I don’t like / disagree with your opinion” then I hope you’re fine with Lemmy becoming an out of touch echo chamber and I’ve also already said that. Why am I having to repeat myself?

It doesn’t take much browsing here to see plenty of rational disagreements that have been downvoted for failing to conform with the groupthink.

Yep. There’s no pain free solution to halting an addiction. You only stop when you really want to.

That comment received 17 downvotes but the only person willing to reply deleted their comment.

The comment seems rather silly and I’d wager that the writer is making a satirical comment about the repetitive nature of Lemmy’s narrative rather than legitimately equating people that dislike Musk to the Ku Klux Klan. If anyone was willing to engage the writer rather than just burying the comment then it’s possible you may have seen that.

God that got old quickly.

I also agree with most of that, but that doesn’t make it OK to downvote opinions to the contrary for no other reason than “I disagree”.

If comments of different perspectives, made in good faith get downvoted to oblivion then participation is discouraged, debate gets replaced with circle jerking and Lemmy becomes a very boring and out of touch echo chamber just like Reddit.

Downvotes should only be used for comments that are off topic, factually incorrect, hateful or made in bad faith etc.

I went to college and have worked a middle class job since I was 17. Believe me, being smart has nothing to do with it, I’d say less than five percent of people I’ve worked with were “smart”, the rest are just doing the bare minimum to not get sacked.

What ever you’re lacking in knowledge and skills can be made up for by just being keen.

I admit that money does help, unfortunately, the mobility of classes has been in decline for decades now.

It’s absolutely not too late.

Your advice is decent except the start steroids bit.

Thanks! $200 sounds expensive but probably very worth it to save you from tinnitus or from going deaf.