While it’s true that the downvote often gets abused as a way to stifle otherwise-good discussion, without it it’s hard to deal with discussion that truly should NOT be happening.
There’s a reason election denial is more common and looks more legitimate on Facebook and Twitter. It’s because they don’t have a mechanism for people to nuke that discussion out of the top of the thread.
The GameCube was pretty mediocre as a console, but SO MANY of its games have aged like wine.
“China is the worst polluter on the planet and they need to do better”
[China invests heavily into green technologies]
“NO NOT LIKE THAT!”
It’s the “all your eggs in one basket” problem.
While I agree with the sentiment here, this is pretty 1-dimensional. For one, US support of Ukraine actually has little to do with democracy and everything to do with national sovereignty. One nation with imperial ambitions invaded another nation without pretense, US provides aid to stave off that invasion.
Hypocritical given US history of imperialism? Sure. But it’s NOT imperialism under the mask of democracy.
Similar arguments apply to various points on this list. Supporting NATO is about maintaining a military alliance against common enemies, not spreading democracy.
“In a gold rush, you want to be the guy selling the shovels”
Nvidia is the shovel-seller right now. A couple of AI companies will probably get huge, 99% will fail. But Nvidia is getting paid by them all.
Antibiotics. Turned so many lethal wounds into minor cuts.
My favorite fortress fail was from a were-iguana. A visitor turned into a giant iguana in the middle of the dining hall and caused a minor ruckus before my militia dispatched it. 2/10 invasion, really not that special.
Then next full moon there were 7 of them, including my militia commander. Oops. Pay attention to combat logs when you fight a were-creature! Quarantine the bitten!
Banning tax prep companies is a bad, poorly thought out idea.
Simplifying tax prep is the avert. Doing what the rest of the developed world does, where the IRS sends you a receipt and you can either accept that or manually file if you think you owe less.
Banning tax prep companies just hurts people who have a nonstandard tax situation. Small business owners, people with tax relief from disabilities, all manner of normal people in niche situations. Don’t take away the tools they need, remove the opportunity for parasite companies to prey upon average people.
OR have a mandatory specialist/professional input throughout the process
People on the internet don’t like to hear this, but that’s called Lobbying.
Hangers or a dresser for your clothes.
Don’t worry about the broom thing if this is a shared house, that’s really a “one per house” type of thing, no need for every tenant to have their own.
The desk/storage next to it is getting a little cluttered. Be careful of that, it’s a natural starting place for mess to creep out into the rest of the room.
You don’t feel like an adult because you’re 20. You barely are one, it’s okay. You’ll figure things out as you go.
Connect for Lemmy renders these as
So it’s at least acknowledging that there’s something there.
I get a mental image of The Bad Donald crossed with Rick & Morty’s Elon Tusk.
I think they’re talking about it from the other end: more cheap tech like wifi security cameras means more people are vulnerable to “an improperly sealed microwave”
I spent so many hours in the Sonic Adventure 2 Chao garden, training and breeding the ultimate racer.
BG3 runs like a dream on steam deck.
Latvia is actually in NATO, not just receiving support from NATO countries. This is meaningless bluster.
What is your background. “A job using Linux” is super broad and remote work only narrows it further. If you don’t have plenty of experience, it’ll be hard to get a remote position.
You don’t even need “power hungry mods” for that to go wrong, you just need mods who don’t care. That’s EXACTLY where Facebook and Twitter are right now. Getting content removed there is basically impossible, I’ve reported people for death threats and was told they never violated community standards.
If the platform isn’t going to moderate itself, the users should be able to.