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For serious comments, my true audience is the unknown reader. For jokes, my audience is myself alone.

Lemmy dev suggestions: Remove all downvotes. User blocks should keep the blockee from seeing the blocker.

  • New Community Rule: "No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports."

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  • You're right. One problem is, even though mods already have the power, specifically saying in the rules that the criteria is subjective sounds like something that a mod would make when they are tired of having to explain their moderation choices.

    They can just say that it was low-effort, and problem solved. They don't need to explain themselves, right?

    But when the rules are vague, I think they'll end up with more complaints from people who have different criteria of low-effort from the mods. This sort of interaction leads to accusations of mods power-tripping.

    If the mods can nail down exactly what is low-effort, like, "X will always get removed. Z will never get removed unless it violates other rules. Y may be at risk of the moderator's mood. You have been warned." If they nail things down a bit more, then they will probably make things easier for themselves in the long-run than just keeping things vague.

    Plus, if the rules are not vague, then people can discuss them safely when the rules are changed. When rules are vague, people will simply be upset that moderation was sprung on them, and everything will be discussed while people are upset. My belief is that people best discuss things while calm, and not while experiencing one person having power over another.

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  • if you don’t need penicillin does it actually help you at all?

    No, it has virtually no chance to help you, and most probably can only hurt you.

    First, it kills indiscriminately. If you're not sick, what are you killing? Your own healthy gut flora. That's what.

    Second, what if you are slightly ill? Guess what? It still probably won't help. Doctors don't just throw penicillin at you in random amounts. They prescribe a specific dose that has been shown to be effective. Having one untested dose of unknown quantity isn't going to help.

    Third, when you're given antibiotics, you are told to take it over a number of days, and to take the entire amount, even if you feel better. They do this for several reasons, but one of the reasons is that, if you only kill some of the bacteria, but not enough of them, the remaining bacteria have a small chance to evolve to become resistant to antibiotics. By taking antibiotics without the guidance of a doctor, you have a small chance of making yourself even more ill with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. I want to emphasize that this is a very small chance, but unlikely things will happen when given enough chances.

  • The Bound We Share

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  • forever chemicals

  • MAGA fans wig out as Costco sues Trump: 'About to be the new Bud Light'

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  • On top of that, Costco could probably make tons of money because of the tariffs if they wanted to. Any time prices skyrocket, retailers that can afford to give things at discounted prices can make a bundle. When everybody's prices go up, people lose the ability to shop at more expensive places.

    I think Costco is doing this because they want to continue prioritizing their customers.

  • MAGA fans wig out as Costco sues Trump: 'About to be the new Bud Light'

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  • ...but who am I going to believe? Do I really think Leftyslayer would go on the internet and just lie? I'd have thought Leftyslayer would be even more fair and balanced than fake NBC news. /s

  • The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme

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  • I haven't read the article, but I have read previous accusations of the same thing, so I assume it's the same.

    Basically, the new AI companies are all losing money, but they are all investing big money in each other which makes it look like the industry is doing well.

  • Gatekeeping

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  • I would wager a shiny nickel that you're actually quite cool irl.

  • Gatekeeping

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  • Nothing in the world would elate me more than having a dbag who looks and acts like that tell me that I'm not a part of his group.

  • White House launches website to excoriate media for ‘biased’ stories

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  • I don't see how anyone could believe that Trump's orders for the US military to destroy civilian boats were legal.

    They're non-military targets nowhere near the US who were not doing anything violent at the time. The flimsy excuse to kill them could be used to kill anybody.

  • Dying to be right

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  • How else could he intentionally describe himself incorrectly as poisonous and mean venomous though?

    Since the snake did not describe himself as poisonous, I don't understand the relevance. The grammar is just twisty enough that I could imagine that I'm misunderstanding it, or I could imagine that there's a typo.

    Neither of us would be eaten by the snake, but only because the snake just ate that rat, and it's not hungry.

  • Forgot your name

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  • If you can remember vulva, then you can remember uvula.

  • xkcd #3174: Bridge Clearance

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    A lot of the highway department’s budget goes to adjusting the sign whenever the moon passes directly overhead.

  • xkcd #3174: Bridge Clearance

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  • The sign on the left is mounted on a pole that extends 10 ft 6 in above the ground.

  • Dying to be right

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  • The snake wasn't lying when he said he wasn't poisonous, so the rat had no reason to correct him. The snake also didn't mean "venomous", since we learned that he was saying "poisonous" on purpose. So, the snake's assertion that he wasn't poisonous was true, while the rat's statement that the snake meant "venomous" was a lie.

    So, if it works every time, then every time, he's eating critters who are incorrectly trying to correct someone and say that something true that they said was actually false.

    If the rat was only stupid for correcting somebody just to feel the superiority of correcting them, then I think, "Eh, a snake's got to eat." But combining that with the rat's hypocrisy of correcting something true into something false, then I think, "This snake is a fucking hero."

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  • Welcome to Cretaceous Park!

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  • I've seen videos of horses and deer eating small animals. I don't remember which was which but one just picked like a pigeon up off the ground and started chewing.

    Anyways, the point is that the herbivores we know today will often eat meat if it's an easy meal. There's no reason to think that a brachiosaurus would be any different.

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  • Good lord. People who pass out in the sauna can get cooked alive, though.

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  • Taking a bath when you're about pass-out drunk is dangerous. If you still have this habit, you might want to switch to showers.

  • Elon Musk Blames Jeff Bezo’s Ex, MacKenzie Scott for the “Decline of Western Civilization”

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  • I think when Musk says "Western Civilization", he's thinking about unbridled capitalism where increasingly rich people think they made all of their money themselves, and meanwhile, the poor people who they exploited and stole all of the money from end up living the lives of a slave.

    Basically, almost everybody in the 1% has this sort of skewed view of the world, and all of their experiences seem to back that up. If you don't think that way, then you'll stop trying to earn money once you have enough. Almost all of Musk's billionaire peers are going to think the same way.

    Then, he sees somebody like MacKenzie Scott, who didn't start out ultra wealthy, and who didn't really fit into that group. But because she was married to the sort of lunatic who belongs in that group, she ended up ultra wealthy. She likely doesn't share the mental problems that the rest of the group have. So, everything she does is going to seem completely incomprehensible to a person who completely lacks self-awareness like Musk.

    She's just giving away money to people who would otherwise be much closer to the ultimate goal of the slave class. To a guy like Musk, that is the same thing as "the decline of Western civilization." I think all of the top billionaires share a mental illness, and we, as a democracy, have been remiss in our efforts to help them by setting limits on how much wealth they can accrue.