TheObviousSolution

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey is Sharing Luigi’s Manifesto on Social Media Actually "Glorifying Violence"? Because Reddit Said So 😭⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
See, then you are giving a murderer’s message publicity. As opposed to UnitedHealthcare, responsible for far more many deaths, having the ability to have as much publicity and as many lobbyists as they want.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Depends on the justice system and if I respect it. If the justice system isn’t prosecuting the people responsible for deaths nation wide due to lack of prosecution, it cannot be respected. Specially given the state of the Supreme Court and the government.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK."⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s funny to see the different types of ideological bubbles on display. They really believe this.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whelp⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Moron says things that reveal he doesn’t even know the country of who he’s speaking about. You are a complete utter moron, a complete utter fool, and frankly, utterly disgusting. Go fuck yourself.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whelp⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Some people need social networks and a large number of users to create the bubbles of ideology they eventually become trapped in. Some people are capable of doing that all by their lonely self.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Democracy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Now is time for the “well, if we don’t develop it first, the bad guys will” superpower to show itself off, I guess.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whelp⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
People who don’t care about geopolitics are the ones who immediately turn to nationalist rhetoric those geopolitics begin affecting them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whelp⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
You said the rest of the world doesn’t care, the lemmy downvote count determined that to be a lie.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whelp⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Look on the bright side, late night political humor is going to get more interesting. They are putting RFK Jr in charge of key public health industries, which is going to create an entertaining amount of karma.

I do hope that the US is able to rush some Ukraine aid, but it does look like Europe is also going to have a hard road ahead. This isn’t just Trump winning out, it is a form of undermining democracies winning out, and it will continue to spread much quicker now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not worried you're worried⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Why do people from Europe go and build monuments and luxury in Saudi Arabia?

Money. Same answer in the US.

The US is an oligarchy, as attested to by this Oxford study. To answer your question, mostly yes, hence places like “Silicon Valley” and institutions like the electoral college.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not worried you're worried⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
When Trump was first elected, it made me realize how stupid most of the US is. The results of this election were not surprising, I even linked to the sort of self-serving articles that preceded just before Hillary-Trump’s elections to people who were doing the same in this election. At least in this election, it’s sort of like Israel, they are leaving no doubt about who they support. I don’t even care if Kamala gets the popular vote, most criticize the electoral college word only and refuse to consider gerrymandering as electoral fraud, leading to it occurring in greater and newer ways this election.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
This won’t change as long as property ownership and property renting is unified. There’s just to much of a business incentive from renting, even if it takes decades to make it back. Worst that can happen is that it can sell it back to a market that criminalizes homelessness instead of treating it or its causes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
The biggest problem is that part of the way they usually game is by trying to create and promote a legal minefield by promoting footnotes in the law. Before you get to their armies of clever lawyers, you will be inundated with right issues from Accidental Americans.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surprise!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It’s a tickle-me-dragon-tail!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Also gameable.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I have to repeat my response here, that is meaningless, when their taxable income is meaningless. How much did Trump pay in taxes again? The trick is to keep it tied up in an “investment” until they need it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Those are meaningless, when their taxable income is meaningless.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This hair product remains effective up to 230 degrees C which is really handy because when I'm exposed to ovenlike temperatures, my first thought is "Oh no, my hair!"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
So a hairdryer?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
The problem is that they have enough independence to just cross borders and easily pay for new citizenship if it suits them. It would have to be a world wide movement. It’s impossible, or at least would only be possible within some mythical completely self-sufficient country that could withstand their meddling.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She-Ra Lives!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
The only thing that might predispose women is when they get pregnant. Most forms of hunting don’t require excessive strength. This is not speculation, prehistoric people do not give a shit about your value system or how it imposes itself on science. Animals in animal world be animals.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indiana Jones doesn't "endorse" Nazis, Bethesda assure, just in case you were confused by him repeatedly murdering them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
If they think that, they may have a problem with what they consider glorified. They may want to avoid recognizing parallels that are far more personal to them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indiana Jones doesn't "endorse" Nazis, Bethesda assure, just in case you were confused by him repeatedly murdering them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Germany be like, “Nazi symbols, NEIN!”, showing it is totally not missing the point, specially given whom they support.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be a rebel, pick up trash.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
glub glub glub glub
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The EchoChamberinator 9000!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
He’s literally doing the same thing the platform owners are.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The EchoChamberinator 9000!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Social networks are crazy. It’s like they appeared and suddenly journalistic integrity does not matter anymore because your easily shaped feelings is equal to their fact.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It has been growing, but it depends on the community the people who are submitting posts of each community. It also depends on the engagement of the discussion and whether participation decays or is allowed to decay into toxicity.

I think Lemmy could be doing a lot more than Reddit, like showing who votes what, but people want the ability without the responsibility or transparency. It’s ironic because not only is it perfectly visible to the admins, but there are ways you can get a pretty good idea of who’s performing them as a normal . It would help not just in the sense of getting a better idea of why or where someone is coming from and prevent false suspicions, but it would also allow you to keep different groups of users whose recommendations might be something you would like to prioritize over other submissions or whose moderation you’d like to favor over the standard. Abusing the transparency would be easy to denounce and moderate, too.

In regards to the modlog, I don’t think it’s doing enough, the reason might as well be “word” and the transparency isn’t compensation for a process of resolution. There are still things like no notification of mod actions that affected your comments or your user, and some decisions, like allowing mods to ban you, delete some of your comments while allowing others to remain, shaping or serving a narrative without giving you the ability to delete or edit your contributions while the ban is in place. But it’s very slightly better than reddit’s, and there’s nothing like shadow bans here. There’s no way to contest modlog actions within the modlog, and the maturity of the people has been proven to be very, very questionable when they’ve been outed. Don’t feed your carnivore pet vegetables if you aren’t prepared to go all the way to seek and get an approved diet and dietary supplements for a bonafide veterinary. It’s funny to see all the anarchy people not have a problem with the present power imbalance between the users and the leadership within the current system, but then again, they have a nice instance with the label.

Overall, fuck spez.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Do you know what secular means? Google it, then tell me. Tell me while you sport a religiously obsessed username.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oblivion Horse Armour dev looks back on hated DLC – “We had no idea what we were doing”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Online games are different because you control the hosting and the service has much higher upkeep. Don’t try to apply the same shenanigans to single player games. Also pissed me / pisses me off that they started doing this Borderlands 2+

But then they say,

Despite the massive backlash and more than a decade of memes, Horse Armour DLC’s popularity was proven by the wallets of gamers. While Bethesda was being flamed for releasing the paid content, the numbers don’t lie, and gamers were actually very interested in paying for the DLC

Their main market focus is on whales now. They make it very clear, they see the Horse Armor DLC as a success story.

I don’t know how people there are like me, but I have forked over a lot on TES:O that I will no longer ever fork over again, and I regret having fueled their foray into single player. I will not preorder TES6, and I will have to wait for discounts to begin applying to their new franchises. As someone who was deep into TES lore, I will no longer care about TES6’s monetization or their attempts to tie into and guide players into TES:O.

But whales… Whales never change.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
#ThatsThePoint

The problem is at the source of Abrahamic religions, so being only concerned about one particular subset says a lot.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Say what you will about him, but he still links to the videos he reacts to, allowing me to immediately click on them if a recommendation for his reactions ever pop up. I think our monkey brains still try to look to see the reactions from the group (hence karma scores) to determine how to approach a topic, and they fill in the void that is absent in streaming platforms. So now, we have more personality cults than ever before and the hidden agendas that try to subvert them to their interests (Cambridge Analytica, now Emerdata, only one example because only they were brought to court).

Still, opinions aside, reaction videos should be forced to share revenue with the original content creator. And if its supposed to be criticism, they should learn how to do it without reaction videos. Only the platform can really begin to do this.