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- Comment on Where did the conspiracy theory that America was behind 9/11? Was there any evidence to back up these claims (real evidence)? 8 hours ago:
You haven’t really addressed the 9/11 conspiracy in any way, but merely why conspiracies exist in general.
Generally, I agree with you. Conspiracies are perpetuated because people like to think they have special knowledge possessed by only a few. Also, a “conspiracy theory” is almost by definition unsupported by evidence. I’m a big fan of taking the advice of people more knowledgeable than me regarding their interpretation of evidence.
I don’t really know the details of 9/11, but I will say that a lot of credible people seem to support the false flag perspective.
- Comment on How come they don't do a cooking show for poor or middle class people? Something that is under 10 bucks that will last a couple days and be great. 11 hours ago:
Cooking shows are funded by product placement and advertising deals. You can probably figure out the rest.
- Comment on Anon is a rabbit 1 day ago:
We use calixi virus now.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 2 days ago:
Yep. If you want to count all the people who hate Trump and say he is “the most hated” then you kinda have to count all the people who love Trump and ask whether he is “the most loved” also ?
I don’t know the answer to that question. It certainly seems as though some portion of his supporters are more committed than I’ve seen for any other political leader, but it might just seem that way because of the way things work in 2026.
Regardless, it seems most accurate to say Trump is the most divisive because “most hated” doesn’t really capture it.
- Comment on Is anyone else apprehensive to down voting even if you're being down voted? 5 days ago:
Personally I don’t see much point in voting either way in a thread like that. You’re using the vote button to express disagreement but you don’t have anything to say or contribute.
- Comment on Is anyone else apprehensive to down voting even if you're being down voted? 5 days ago:
Not sure why all your comments are being down voted?
- Comment on Is anyone else apprehensive to down voting even if you're being down voted? 5 days ago:
I do know exactly what you’re talking about.
When you get 5 or 6 responses deep no-one else is reading along it’s just you and the other person. When each of your replies receives 1 downvote it’s obviously from the other person just downvoting everything you say. It’s just petty and childish and I’m not going to stoop to that.
That said, I do downvote comments that I feel deserve less prominence for whatever reason.
As an aside, piefed shows a user’s “attitude” on their profile. Your’s is 98%, mine is 62%. I think that means 62 of my last 100 votes were upvotes.
- Comment on Is anyone else apprehensive to down voting even if you're being down voted? 5 days ago:
I don’t think that’s true.
Lemmy uses vote counts to decide what content to show, just like reddit. The details are described here:
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html
The main difference between lemmy and reddit regarding votes, that I’m aware of, is that the votes a user receives are not collated and shown on their profile.
- Comment on It’s always too little or too much. There is no in between 6 days ago:
Put as much on a plate as you want to eat, then put two thirds back to account for the density / expansion.
This helps measuring for my toddlers or whoever.
- Comment on Brexit isn’t working: British voters are ready for a European future – European Council on Foreign Relations 1 week ago:
LOL.
Imagine working with a bunch of people, some are great, others less so, but there’s this one guy that just relentlessly complains.
Complains about everyone else, complains about the work, complains about the money, but mostly complains that theyre treated as an equal when everyone should treat them like the CEO.
You know the rest of the story.
- Comment on Butter 1 week ago:
I refuse to cook with my partner because she can’t just acknowledge that everyone does things in their own way, which is not necessarily better or worse than her way.
Basically, she’s super bossy.
- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 1 week ago:
Indeed.
In fairness the USA has been fairly methodical about regressing in this way, not like this one thing had totally fucked them.
- Comment on Butter 1 week ago:
Honestly if this is “mildly infuriating” IDK how you make it through the day.
- Comment on Before the revolution 1 week ago:
And Jenny.
- Comment on Generational warfare 1 week ago:
Obviously.
If he did not have double standards then he wouldn’t care that his daughter is getting fucked in the bum hole by his father in-law.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 week ago:
Ah yes but the US has the “freedom” to not have all of those things.
- Comment on Is it just me or has Windows 11 gotten way worse the last few years? 1 week ago:
I just dont really think we are the target demographic anymore.
- Comment on Using conservative logic 1 week ago:
I remember my dad explaining that “the gays” did it for the money. A household of 2 men would have more money.
- Comment on Scan to Verify You're Human 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t the site choosing to use recaptcha?
- Comment on is it spelled "grey" or "gray"? 3 weeks ago:
Australia uses both, but grey is “correct”.
- Comment on Guerrilla plantfare 4 weeks ago:
Besides which, of you could just propagate and pla t this stuff wherever, it wouldnt be rare and protected.
- Comment on Flipper!! 5 weeks ago:
Exactly. It’s something like a gish gallop - you can’t really rebut that and explain why it’s a comment made in bad faith, but to casual readers it’s a valid retort.
- Comment on Flipper!! 5 weeks ago:
That sounds like a hell of a survey.
Mine are always like “on a scale of 0 to 10, 0 being very poor and 10 being outstanding, how would you rate the service you have received today?”
- Comment on What is the point of this community compared to asklemmy? 5 weeks ago:
Fair point. I do agree.
- Comment on What is the point of this community compared to asklemmy? 5 weeks ago:
Correct on all counts.
Most stupid questions in nostupidquestions are indeed stupidquestions, but… that’s literally what its for.
With the frankly pathetic MAU numbers on the fediverse this stuff doesn’t matter very much.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 1 month ago:
Oh I thought thats what everyone was complaining about.
Everyone here has after market LED light bars or spot lights. Factory lights and evern high beams are no big thing but light bars have the fire of a thousand suns.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 1 month ago:
In regional areas the extra light at night is genuinely helpful.
However, thats on unlit roads with so little traffic that you only see an oncoming car once every 5 or 10 minutes.
On roads with more traffic theyre just not necessary because there aren’t any animals or other obstacles.
- Comment on Self sacrifice is honorable 1 month ago:
Yeah. Maybe call your lawyer before publishing the company code base so they can tell you not to do that.
- Comment on What is the deal with IPv6? 1 month ago:
Last time I looked into this i think my ISP hadn’t assigned a range or whatever theyre supposed to do.
I also didnt understand how it works but didnt invest any time trying to figure it out.
I think basically it hasn’t been necessary so I just haven’t implemented it.
- Comment on Can someone break down the real differences between kbin, mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed? I know they're all in the Threadiverse, but I'm not sure what the draw is to use one over another. 1 month ago:
Its not me downvoting you LOL.
Ironically, the silly hand thing and the avatar likely has the opposite of the implication you’re hoping for.
Buddhists are very particular about the use of images of buddha, and wouldnt use one as an avatar: