Xel

Xel, 10 months ago

I think it’s due to the stereotypes and the bad experiences, I’ve had pretty bad experiences with indians in gaming (racist, annoying, begging) and work (incompetent, corrupt, etc), but I’ve also seen that from other people with different backgrounds, more importantly though is that I’ve also seen some amazing tutorials in YouTube from Indian peeps and I’ve also found some great repos from Indian devs as well.

Xel, 11 months ago

By having an upvote / downvote system it already has a censoring and ranking system.

If you look at most threads people downvote dissenting opinions regardless of the quality of their arguments, some instances become echo chambers that way.

You can easily control the narrative by upvoting someone that argues against you, most people will see your comment as

1 upvote 1 downvote

And the person arguing with you as

2 upvotes

Therefore they will be biased to downvote you further and upvote the other person as their social calibration defaults to thinking you are in the wrong as someone else said so already, it’s more economical that way as you won’t really have to do that assessment.

It’s a very interesting phenomenon and I’d like to do some formal testing with it across multiple social media with upvote/downvote functions, but I believe it does censor opinions that do not adhere to the usual feelings of the majority.

Xel, 11 months ago

Some clients have post and comment score across instances visible, see Voyager

Xel, 11 months ago

There are multiple people falling prey to Nigerian/Philippines romance scams, thinking a celebrity/influencer/hot person is using an alt account to contact them because they fell in love with them at first sight.

They give thousands of dollars, millions even. They take out loans, sell their houses, lose all their inheritance, all because they think they are special, when in truth they are just lonely enough to believe the lies that make them think their life has any meaning at all.

The way these scams operate and how Trump manipulates people is virtually the same. It’s impressive what loneliness and egocentrism do to us and how vulnerable we can be to the most obvious lies.

Xel, 11 months ago

Mitosis

Xel, 11 months ago

Honestly, what were you expecting? There just can’t be any Utopic website or group that won’t fight at all. People moved over to Lemmy because they hated Spez’ decisions, not because they were these mythical, superior moral beings that only help others out of selfless reasons. Sure we all have values and principles but that does not excuse us of our faults.

Xel, 11 months ago

Still, it’s still used as a measurement that only a small fraction of the world still uses.

That’s a lot of stills 🤔

But coming back to your point, yes, I have no idea why the US insists on keeping the imperial system, it’s outdated, ugly and inconsistent. Plus you cannot easily convert from one unit to another.

Xel, 11 months ago

It’s funny and sad at the same time that career politicians are allowed to exist because they tend to be the ones voting for their own restrictions and benefits.

Term restrictions? Fuck that

Increase our own salary even though we haven’t passed any new laws actually helping society? Let’s goo

Xel, 11 months ago

Israel is going full Pikachu meme after trying to commit genocide against Palestinians

Xel, 1 year ago

It’s funny how in most old scifi they showed a future where we as a society had AI working labor intensive jobs but art was a human-only activity. I guess we didn’t account for how bad capitalism was going to overpower our value.

Xel, 1 year ago

That’s because your meme is dogshit, you used the wrong template for whatever the hell your point was.