Oh I am not really one for sarcasm unless for comedic purpose. Hyperbole, sure.
But, I wear my emotions on my sleeves and when I thank someone or tell them off I mean it entirely. I’m here for the conversation and I appreciate you having it with me.

Oh shoot forgot to say.

Thanks for the conversation. I feel more, I want to say expanded, in my view on voting and it’s usefulness for those that remain more silent than myself.

Interesting. I particularly think your last point might be really key to the use of voting.

It feels like a way to participate.
I guess it takes all types to make a community and that includes those that don’t want to participate at full effort all the time.

I do not find upvotes and down votes to be very guaranteed to match facts and using it as a checking tool would require a very different user ase that would likely not be human. But I understand you said to an extent. I just… Give it less slack. But hard down voted, sure, needs way more reservations.

I am just saying the point of these forums is more the conversation and less the voting and it’s really not very useful as a tool, while not being useless.

Imagine a substack post, as these forums were based on, where someone asks for support with a batch script and someone suggests using a sticky note taped to the monitor. It gets downvoted but no one offers any countering support.
No one would use the site for support anymore. It’s clearly not with helpful information, and the person looking at it would not know but just see what looks like an unkind user base.

Right but if you disagree shouldn’t that be vocalized otherwise the downvote doesn’t make sense and people don’t know what the countering opinion is?
I get it’s not everyone’s responsibility to respond but… It doesn’t really make sense as just a tool to show disagreement and provide diversity in the comments.

But someone making an opinionated statement, sure at the top level the votes just act as a miniature poll but beyond that I’m not sure I see it’s usefulness as a conversationary tool.

Yes, and how well do people treat Mark Zuckerbot?

Yeah I think big level at the feed, down votes help control what is interesting conversation pieces and not and then in the comments it should be related to how on topic or useful or fun to the conversation presented by the original item.

There is some extremely childish behavior on Lemmy in regards to downvotes and in response to them as well.

I think you may have some rather big issues with paranoia and fantastical idealizations.

I know you don’t care persay but also try to stay grounded in reality that’s real around you. Not caring to the point where you slip completely away can leave people you know and care about not knowing you anymore when you exist in your own world.

If you have to invent whole new laws, physics, and tech to make something work and even then it doesn’t nothing to help you for knowing it… It’s probably best left alone, until you are not alone.

How much crap are you watching if you have to speed it up to get through it all?

This is practically not an article. It really lacks any info other than
“they are recruiting for some kind of job people who had some other job and they are paying less but those people who didn’t do that job before seem to be happy because they didnt quit right away.”

Oh 2003? Nah $20 stretched hard back then, especially if it was a thrift store. Man even as a kid I could get so much stuff with $5 at a thrift store, I think I literally got a PC and a DVD player for like $10. Nobody was trying to maximize profit on every thing cause more was on the way.

Hasbrown at McDonald’s were .80¢, they are now $2.70. That $20 was more like $67.50 in actual purchase power.

Vacuum sealer.

They are always available used at thrift stores and they are simple machines but I can reseal bags of chips or other grocery items.

You can make your own bags for cheap from a roll and then individually wrap portions for the freezer that stay longer and don’t get freezer burn.

And if you get one that has a hose attachment you can seal bottles of wine, mead, or Tupperware for the fridge if you get the right lids.

There is no way you got that for $20. I keep meaning to get one since I love my wool coat I got at a thrift store but they are never that cheap.

Also very good for making hot chocolate.

I didn’t remember this so I looked it up.
According to GoogleGPT she purposely gave that recipe to teach the town how to make mustard gas but made a little whoopsie because instead of everyone getting to make their mustard gas it actually makes Chloramine.

And that it’s a recurring theme of the show that people get the recipe wrong. Aw shucks, just not teaching people the correct way to make mustard gas.

I understand that people need to get paid to exist but, I’m not sure if I agree when it’s opinion pieces without expenses past their own existence.

Like you are putting your opinion out there for people to read. Why does that have a cost attached to it?

I fled from one parent before 18 and managed to basically force my estranged father into taking me in but the only reason I didn’t get kicked out at 18 by him was because I had 2 months of school left, was gone the second that wasn’t true anymore (both Gen X).

He recently lamented to me that I didn’t visit often after that and figures I must have hated living with him so much that I chose to avoid him.
God they are so fucking oblivious to how they make the world a miserable place.

He said he wanted to teach his new kid more resilience than me. God help them.

Any day now right?

Literally just last week in Philadelphia, guy tried to kidnap a woman and rob the business she worked at.

And then there is all these ones.

We have absolutely set it up so criminals and bastards have a template to follow to hurt others as they want. No rules anymore in America unless it’s about rising up against the lack of rules.

They are literally going around like this in every state and have detained at 51,000 people publicly on the record.

See them Try? They already Do.
Don’t believe what you want that they just haven’t been to the right place to get stopped.