That makes sense, that wasn’t the mental image I had in my picture. It’s hard for me to understand why someone would react that way then if the sequence was, for example
A: Says something awkwardly too loud
A: “Sorry my brain made that too loud”
B: Disgusted look
In that interaction, person B is a jerk IMO.
Did you not read my comment before responding? I explained what I was picturing & asked for an example of what they meant in case they weren’t aligned
Well, yeah, no shit.
Maybe provide an example, because I’m picturing someone making a mistake and claiming it was “their brain that made them do it”. Which, ND or otherwise, is a lame ass excuse. If it actually was a direct consequence of being ND then I would at least expect the respect of discussing it in a mature way.
It’s pretty much every post in this community.
If they don’t contribute to good conversation.
“Stupid questions” i.e. questions that reveal you are missing some basic common knowledge, are actually generally downvoted on No Stupid Questions. Along with any that intentionally agitate people or are otherwise bad faith, bury the lead or otherwise strawman The Correct Side in an unpleasant way.
There needs to be something at least marginally interesting about the conversation the question generates. If it’s just annoying/tedious/aggravating, people will downvote.
Almost all databases store time in Unix time stamps, which is just a number counting up. Then the various consumers of that value, such as clocks, convert it based on their need (such as time savings, geographic region, etc). But someone in florida has the same unix timestamp at a given instant as someone in Africa.
I have some scary statistics to show you about the typical geographic region of Lemmy users.
Especially once filtered for English
TLDR shit is cold up there
This is what I’m hearing as well. From slightly (but not extremely) informed sources.
Discussing polling data does not imply people shouldn’t vote nutter
Right exactly, if you want someone already making $135k then you should offer $135k or more.
Requiring salaries was passed as a pro-labor move. We know it increases wages over time. That’s the point.
Ok and zero % chance he escalates wars to a point that there is backlash in a way that affects US citizens? cyber wars, etc?
Zero is silly.
Ultra-ultra low, I can respect. But you think there is zero chance trump will refuse the results of the election? That’s not reality.
Pretty much anything about science.
We all know models and simplifications but even the people at the utter cutting edge of any sub-niche of any sub-field you pick will agree there are parts they don’t really understand.
You can master & fully understand sufficiently simplified models but to actually understand the underlying process is to take a step beyond what humanity is capable of.
I generally find it unhelpful. People’s reaction time sucks and and so many people hear ‘left’ and jump in that direction before their brain can process. It’s not an intelligence thing that some people try to make it seem, it’s just that the average person has this interaction like once per year thus don’t have muscle memory baked in.
I yell out ‘excuse me’ from several feet back or ring a bell if I’m on a bike. Or more often just slow down as I normally don’t really care.
No I enjoy it. I’m not sitting there getting angry over anything or having it ruin my day.
Just once and a while swing by and laugh for a bit. It’s like a zoo I guess? But I have more respect for zoos.
“What are the idiots up to today… oh being idiots lol”
Yeah this is all second hand from an announcement about something that is “going to happen”. So details might differ from what actually shows up.
And yes I think mod abuse is starting to show up in their bottom line. They need people commenting so they target ads more effectively, same reason they killed r/All. They need to know stuff about you so they can send ads.
Mods being the toxic assholes they are is driving people to lurk, as you stated.
They recently had a mod event where they announced they are restricting ban abilities from mods. Basically AI can ban, mods can choose to unban - but not initiate a ban in the first place.
There are a couple mods I like to hate-watch, once a month or so I swing by and see what kind of BS they have been doing lately. The schadenfreude of watching them mald over this was the best I’ve had all year.
The current most scalable way to do that is to give cities a budget to plant trees everywhere they can.
I would love a $Billion in green energy research, but 1000 cities getting $Million budgets to plant thousands of trees and maintain them over the next 15 years would be better
We should start buying farms in the Califoirnia Valley where they are essentially abusing water rights - and plant massive forests. It would take a fraction of the water to accomplish this and reduce desertification. Eat some of the smog from LA & SD, give the millions of residents a desert forest to camp in, and so on. Expensive plan but one I would vote for.