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 mean there were no instructions up front because literally Google is refusing to give them, basically.
No more choice just the company force feeding the user and saying it’s good for them.

Nowhere in the email or any of the Support pages did Google say how to remove all Gemini integrations from my phone.
I then emailed Google PR and… I asked if someone could provide actionable guidance for my readers who want to ensure Gemini integrations are completely disabled. Instead of answering the question, the person responding to my email wrote, in part: “This update is good for users: they can now use Gemini to complete daily tasks on their mobile devices like send messages, initiate phone calls, and set timers while Gemini Apps Activity is turned off. With Gemini Apps Activity turned off, their Gemini chats are not being reviewed or used to improve our AI models.”

Literally that reads like you can’t turn it off and they just scrape less of your data on a technicality.

Tech is silly sometimes.

That’s really not. A calculator that only gave the right output 30% of the time would be worthless.

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.”

Le’No

No.

Literally most fly in, and then just say they are here to visit, then stay.

Your understanding of modern immigration is similar to what you see on Fox News.

This is incredibly bad logic that you have constructed so that you can have the reality you want.

Your simple solutions are like that of Elon Musk suggesting a submarine for a cave rescue just because you think it would be a cool way to do it. It has no backing of reality behind it.

Old people be stealing

Hmm just got to figure out a place to put them…
Does France still own Madagascar?

Or is there some country we are going to war with we can demand them to surrender land for peace, and then plan to export the people to?
I’m actually betting Gaza as slave labor to build his new city he wants with Bibi, but he wants them to win first.

More cities need to be like Philadelphia apparently. They are striking.

Seriously, just stopping and forcing the assholes to show their hand is at least a start. People then agreeing and dumping their garbage on the government for causing the issues is a great second step.

I’m just so tired of everyone just continuing on like it’s bold to do nothing but pretend like it’s normal and decorum will get us anywhere.

No you are just the person who thinks black people winning office positions is a fluke cause they could never do that properly.

I’m not gonna argue with you further cause you are so up your own butt and think somehow you are the only person breathing fresh air.

Also, Martin just ran out two of those problematic superdelegates who had been fucking shit up. Not only that, they had been high ranking members of the committee that has been running the sh primaries.

I’m sorry are you referring to Lee Saunders and Randi Weingarten who are the leaders for the unions for state, county, municipal employees and teachers respectively, which are more than 3 million working people?

Who complained that Martin is not doing enough to fight the current issues and think he is focusing to much on raising money, (a thing he just bragged he managed to do the most of for a 4 month start) and that it doesn’t bring voters back.
Who were removed from their committee seat like everyone else that backed a different party chair than Martin?

I’m sorry but I am not optimistic on Martin and I don’t think I can see how especially after he just cried that David Hogg ruined his chances to be a good leader by saying we should support more younger progressives.

Not a single one of them has ever been able to answer the question of “Even if you believe that, how does allowing Trump return to power make it any better or advance your position?”

Cause it’s not about the one person you are arguing with but the hundreds of thousands who won’t say anything and vote against all that anyways.
That one person didn’t allow trump to come to power they just raised a voice for why they believe all the silent voters are voting the way they do and standing up for it to be heard by someone that will hopefully listen.

I’m willing to bet that Obama was a fluke

If the Democrat party puts forward a woman or minority in 2028, especially after 4 years of Trump stoking racial tensions, they’re going to lose.

Racist and sexist because you believe other people are doesn’t make you any less.