They never mattered. Its a psycological trick to steal your attention. Some instances disable downvotes or voting at all
Zoift [he/him]
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Are you still friends with any of your exes?English
6·4 months agoSome yes, some no. Gonna depend on the circumstances of every breakup
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Are you brave or are you a coward?English
10·5 months agoYou calling me a coward? Fight me
UPDATE: You are absolutely calling me a coward. Fight me right now
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Well, that's weird ? Where is the porn ??English
102·6 months ago
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Well, that's weird ? Where is the porn ??English
84·6 months agoYou deserve every bit of bullying you’ve encountered in life.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Well, that's weird ? Where is the porn ??English
109·6 months agoHaving a chronic masturbation addiction isnt the flex you think it is. Shut the fuck up gooner
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Democracy is the best form of governance but we use dictatorship for our forums. Is this for efficiency? Control? Something else?English
201·6 months agoThis is a webforum, not a nationstate, or a union, or even a book club.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you think they found the DNA of the Kirk shooter?English
2·6 months agoThat would help in the getaway, but the lack of activity would ping just as hard in a longer investigation.
And yes, assume every device with a power source is spying on you, esp if its got a speaker or antenna, because it probably is.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you think they found the DNA of the Kirk shooter?English
3·6 months agoThey’ll catch him with the mass surviellence panopticon the US has been extralegally constructing for the last 30 years, and then have to scramble for a parellel construction to avoid a mistrial and/or avoid spilling the beans on how pervasive the state intelligence apparatus is.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you think they found the DNA of the Kirk shooter?English
6·6 months agoNo, most forensic science is almost honestly bullshit. And even if they did, a single hair or a bit of skin particles has a lot of ways to make it to a rooftop. There’s probably a sampling of 1/3rd of the students that walked by that place in the last year on that rooftop.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What do you think about reaching AGI?English
4·9 months agoI was reaching up a GI the other day actually.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If the speed of gravity is the speed of light, how can someone outside of a black hole detect its change of mass?English
141·10 months agoCause black holes don’t gravitate, but the event horizon does. Black holes dont really have volume in a way thats meaningful to us, but they do have a surface area, and thats what you can interact with.
You’re correct anything past an event horizon cannot interact with us, for all intents and purposes it doesnt exist. So all the interactions you associate with a black hole are interactions with the event horizon itself.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What percentage of Reddit users are bots or foreign bad actors?English
34·1 year agoIn 2013 Reddit accidentally revealed the most “Reddit Addicted City” was Eglin Air Force Base. A city with a pop of 2.8k getting +100k visits. Neat.
The 2nd most popular city from that list, Oak Brook Il, is the HQ of Elsevier, a data analytics company & DOD subcontractor.
The Research Lab at Eglin AFB was cited in a 2014 paper on how to influence social groups to converge to a “common desired state”
It’s been a decade since. How far do you think they’ve come?
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•The whole world population dead or only 99% dead (keeping the wealthy 1%). Which do you choose and why?English
4·1 year agoDo you think the kind of circumstances that would lead to the 1% being ended would be conducive to another slotting itself in without problem?
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is there a way to make my pumpkins last longer?English
3·1 year agoEasiest things is to wash/disinfect the surface before you carve, like give the pumpkin a nice bleachwater bath. Use clean tools & seal the cut edges with petrolium jelly or WD-40.
Long-term you probably could dry it as a gourd to preserve it, but it’ll shrivel up a lot and look like shit.
Formaldehyde/pickling would also probably work, but i imagine it’d get all mushy.
Wanting transphobes to fuck off isnt self-centered. Its avoiding the Nazi bar problem.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What factors do you think contributed to the "Reddit Hivemind"? How do you believe it can be avoided?English
141·2 years agoRemove downvotes. Unironically, its a good idea. Requires people to actually engage with something if they disagree rather than just downvote and move on. Gets people talking & raises user engagement. Will be an uptick in shitflinging for a short while till all the assholes out themselves, get banned, and site culture improves from that alone.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is the current state of Lemmy?English
131·2 years agoWait, you didnt know? Servers shut down in 4 days.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Does one have to be an iconoclast or revolutionary these days to be validly left? I consider myself to be left of center, and very much in favor of progressive policies.English
33·2 years agoCompletely unbothered.
One of the historically proven and least abstract forms of capitalist violence comes in the inability of any society to opt-out of capitalism–to legislate in opposition to the class interests of capital (the common interests of capitalists not shared by the general public)–even to minor extents.
Even within capitalism, decisions must be made, typically by the state, about who is responsible for property damage and personal afflictions. Capitalism means the private ownership of capital, the funding and property that comprises productive enterprise. Because these enterprises are privately owned, their goals are to a greater or lesser extent divorced from the public good; therefore, it is often in the interest of capital to externalize their costs of doing business–to avoid taking responsibility for the costly circumstances they have caused. Contrariwise, it is in the public interest (championed in theory by the state) to force capital to internalize those costs against their will to externalize.
For example, it was in BP’s interest to minimize the appearance of damaged caused by Deepwater Horizon (e.g. spraying dispersants) and thereby minimize their obligations, while it was in the public’s interest to assess the damages thoroughly and liberally.
When a state decides that certain businesses are causing irreparable harm or have acquired their capital illegitimately, by the same right by which externalities are opposed, the state may expropriate or nationalize a formerly private enterprise. However, history furnishes countless examples of democratic nations attempting to take such action, only to have capital directly solicit the state, some subset of the state (such as the military), other states, or peripheral forces to use violence to extinguish such democratic efforts.
Some famous examples:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d'état
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Coup_d'état_of_1953
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d’%C3%A9tat
Thus, even without reference to the minute-by-minute exploitation of the products of workers’ labor that comprises the most ubiquitous violence of the capitalist mode of production, we have incontrovertible historical proof that the apparent voluntarism of people in capitalism is the voluntarism of slaves choosing to comply rather than suffer violent retribution. In a sense, open revolt would be less violent than peaceful acquiescence because the former is not compelled by hopeless domination.
It is not difficult to add a theoretical basis to the historical evidence. Insofar as it has a single purpose, capital has an unambiguous interest in every state of affairs and every possible outcome. In this way, capital has a subjectivity, an ego, independent of the good of any particular person or group of people. Everything that happens either augments the value of capital, diminishes it, or leaves it unchanged. According to this judgement, capital stands in favor, opposed, or indifferent (respectively) to everything in existence. If the state intends to impose regulation that will cost $X, it is in the interest of any regulated capital to spend up to $X to eliminate that regulation–regardless of the good the regulation might do for society as a whole, including the individuals involved in the operations of the business itself. Such individuals are not free to follow their own judgement, but must always act in the interest of their employer capital or else be replaced by someone who will. If in the extreme case, the state is determined to eliminate a capital, the capital has no choice but to deploy all its resources to oppose that end. In the presence of large businesses (or unions of businesses such as a Chamber of Commerce) with the resources to oppose any existing regulatory agent, this dynamic imposes strict limits on freedom of people to self-govern. The mere presence of capital as capital is enough to guarantee violence if certain norms of political life are violated.
Because businesses are often dedicated to facilitating cultural practices, rather than strictly utilitarian productivity, capital can be a powerfully conservative force in every domain of life.
Alternatively - Have a quote
“There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.” - Marky Twink

Lets be real, If you’re asking that question, you’re gonna do it anyways regardless of what we answer.
Probably a bad idea tho