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- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 1 day ago:
I suspect that’s true for quite a few of them.
- Comment on O hi 1 day ago:
Yeah, one thing I’ve learned about human genetics is that the markers for skin color are wonky and unpredictable.
I just feel like it’d be safer to assume she was a lot darker given the recency of African diaspora, but again I am far from an expert so I could be totally off.
- Comment on O hi 1 day ago:
I’m no anthropologist but wouldn’t her skin be a lot darker? This feels like people making depictions of Jesus look like a modern European person.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 1 day ago:
In a contemporary sense or in a historical sense?
Obviously the latter is virtually impossible to determine but I suspect he’ll be somewhere in the top 5.
Just as obviously he’s #1 in a contemporary sense. There is a lot of hate for Obama from people who swear they aren’t racist, but moderates and Democrats like/love him. I feel like Biden is universally slightly disliked.
Trump, on the other hand, is between vilified and slightly disliked recently (thanks to the Iran War and the Epstein Files). Sure, lots of people pretend to like or love him in public, but I think that’s usually performative to align with political allies as you’re virtually obligated to do under authoritarian rule. Just look at how few MAGAs turned out for America’s 250th. They just aren’t enthusiastic about him any more.
- Comment on Is there any way to set my default submission language to English? 3 days ago:
Fair enough. Thank you.
I would also politely suggest that there be some other feature request pipeline that doesn’t require a Microsoft-tied account; I doubt I’m the only one out there who is Microsoft-averse. There’s also the technical skills necessary to navigate GitHub, which not everyone has; GitHub is by-and-for coders, and most non-coders have never even heard of it, let alone know how to properly submit an Issue.
- Comment on Probably accurate 3 days ago:
I feel like virtually all of The Founding Fathers would have definitely moved to ban it except Ben Franklin, who would have vehemently opposed them.
This kinda supports but also detracts from the implications that follow from the OOP:
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The Founding Fathers would probably have largely agreed that such things should be banned.
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Why should we fawn over all of the opinions of people two centuries dead? Surely they got some things right and some things wrong, yes?
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- Comment on How do I contact the admin(s) of an instance? 3 days ago:
Okay cool, it does look like I’ll have to copy+paste and DM every admin on their list if I want to translate Reddit’s Message the Moderators to Lemmy, but I only found that admin list thanks to your help; I was only able to find the moderator list before.
- Comment on How do I contact the admin(s) of an instance? 3 days ago:
Yeah, I totally get that. I don’t think you’re understanding my question.
- Comment on How do I contact the admin(s) of an instance? 3 days ago:
Yeah lemmy.world is pretty clear, but I was hoping for a general how-to because most instances are not, including the instance I’m looking for the information for.
I’m moving from Reddit and trying to learn all the basics, and of course Reddit has the “Message the Moderators” button clearly visible on every subreddit.
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- 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:
Because there’s big money in doing the worst possible decision and the American voters are more or less fine with money in politics.
- Comment on Every fucking time 1 week ago:
The older you get, the less excited and more annoyed at New for New’s Sake; the yoots either find it normal (everything is new when you’re brand new) or thrilling and exclusive (“Look, something changed! Wow! I bet fewer (older) people understand this!”)
When I go to the grocery store I’m not looking for an adventure, I just want to buy the things and leave. But that’s not as profitable.
- Comment on Operation enduring algae 1 week ago:
- Comment on Operation enduring algae 2 weeks ago:
That’s definitely not how it came across to me (and apparently, several other people).
- Comment on Operation enduring algae 2 weeks ago:
It’s not AI it’s an image that’s been floating around the internet used in memes/shitposts for ages.
Oh okay.
Jesus !@#%^ing christ
??? You’re angry at someone for not knowing everything?
- Comment on Operation enduring algae 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think the AI that was prompted to create their image knows that’s from a movie.
- Comment on Goddammit 4 weeks ago:
Wait 'til you hear that you’re “supposed to” pronounce the H in “who,” “what,” “when,” “where,” “why,” and “which.”
- Comment on Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy 1 month ago:
Frankly, I very much believe this is a reading issue more than a writing issue, but I do agree the solution is “give it another pass.”
Right now we have a data set of 1/1 that had issues comprehending what I meant. When both sides of that number tick up, we can talk about the data tending towards that it was poorly written.
- Comment on Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy 1 month ago:
Wait, being directly cited as not being akin to the three states I listed is a bad thing?
I couldn’t disagree more.
- Comment on I guessed 1 month ago:
Don’t let your kids wander into the wilderness unattended and they won’t get preyed upon.
- Comment on I guessed 1 month ago:
Humans like to reinforce group membership and receive validation by targeting out-groups.
- Comment on Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy 1 month ago:
If Rhodesia, the Confederate States of America, and the Third Reich can live forever in the hearts of the far right, PizzaKentuckyBell can live forever in mine.
- Comment on YouTube now 1 month ago:
A highly engaging video that’s entirely BS is not a good video for anyone but advertisers.
- Comment on YouTube now 1 month ago:
Every step:
“Let’s make it more difficult for people to realize the video they’re about to watch is hated (so people keep coming back for more and advertisers keep paying us more), but not in a way that is blatant so we lose a significant portion of our userbase.”
- Comment on Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties 3 months ago:
True, forgot all about the tenure system, which I barely understand beyond the memes as it is.
Still, earlier discussion holds; outrage that they didn’t fire him yet makes zero sense.
- Comment on Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties 4 months ago:
Now, as Devil’s Advocate arguing against you and me, Harvard could choose to drop him at the mere hint of an accusation. You don’t have a right to a job and not getting fired without proven cause in any state but I want to say Montana? The rest are “Right to Work.”
Back on Team “Give them a second for crying out loud,” we’re talking about Harvard, allegedly one of the best colleges in the world. We can expect them to do right by probably investigating this properly, and we’d hope any employer we’d ever work for would bother to take more than a femtosecond to figure out if there’s evidence supporting an accusation against us.
Obviously a lot of countries do have Big R “Rights” as far as labor goes, but the US is not one of them.
- Comment on Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties 4 months ago:
Administrative Leave starts when a formal investigation begins. You’re basically calling for Chapter 10 of a book to be over when Chapter 1 barely started.
- Comment on I am an amateur propagandist. A hobbyist. Enthusiast, if you will. 4 months ago:
MAGAs see that reading the Communist Manifesto is a requirement for entry and simply don’t bother. They have X, Truth Social, Reddit, etc. to party on, and they’re fine with the downsides of those platforms, i.e. supporting oligarchy/technocracy.
It’s not that they “get their asses handed to them,” they’re just not here.
Compare your perception of reality with election results. Even if Trump cheated like he probably did, I doubt it was bigger than single digit percentages.
TL;DR: You simply don’t witness enough MAGAs and you naturally assume they must not exist.
- Comment on I am an amateur propagandist. A hobbyist. Enthusiast, if you will. 4 months ago:
I hate seeing this comforting fiction.
The truth is there are absolutely tens of millions of people who think Trump is fantastic and will bend over backwards to vocally support him for virtually anything he does. Some of those people have Reddit accounts. Most of those frequent /r/conservative.
Are there bots among them? Almost certainly. We do see slowdowns there whenever overseas propaganda mills go down. Then there’s the Twitter fiasco where so many of their MAGA influencers turned out to be from Eurasia.
But patting each other on the back about how 80% of them are bots serves only to undermine the passion with which people should be opposing MAGA. I guarantee many would-be Clinton and Harris voters stayed home because they were sure MAGA was an extremely vocal minority almost entirely propped up by bots. Just look at the aftermath of those elections on Reddit and Lemmy; it’s generally mass confusion.