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  • I had commented a long-winded opinion a few minutes ago, it probably doesn't matter, but I've been sitting here wondering for the last 20 minutes...

    Why does this matter to you, or to anybody? I'm not trying to be judgemental, I do not understand it.

    Do you feel like there should be rules about community names? That they should have to be as descriptive as possible woth the name, or something like that?

    I'm not sure why it would matter if communities want to name themselves anything at all, and many communities are intentionally named something completely different than what the community is for. Do you think that shouldn't be allowed, or is it just situations like with this community where you see an issue?

    Personally I really don't think the names matter, one way or the other. I'm really only against this community changing because I wanted a US politics community in the first place, and if this stops being that, I'll have to go find another one.

  • Some instances do not allow downvotes. I don't agree with your post but cannot downvote it.

    I'm not complaining, I like no downvotes, downvotes are usually just a way for people to vent frustrations without articulating them.

    But, you can't necessarily use votes to draw the conclusions you have.

  • I didn't agree when people tried to insist subreddits with certain names should be obligated to try to be as nuetral an interpretation of their names as possible, but here on lemmy, this concern is even more silly.

    On reddit, another /r/politics couldn't be made, and there was a valid argument that they were preventing anyone else from using the generic name more appropriately, essentially holding it hostage. But, I already didn't think it was a big enough deal to really matter, many other possible names continued to be available for a more generic subreddit.

    Here on lemmy this is a complete non-issue. You can make a /c/politics on any instance you like, and you can start your own instance if you don't like any available. The only difference would be subscribers and participation, but the subscribers that are here are here for a US politics sub, that's what it was when they joined, changing it would not be ok with many of them.

    If you want a world politics community with subscribers you have to start one and get people to join.

    And lemmy.world is just the instance name, it has no indication of theme for the communities it hosts

  • Fixing our emissions problem absolutely is the most important part, but technology for ecology restoration is ALSO very important. There are things (quite possibly the survival of many species of coral) that are already gone or past the point of no return, that are necessary to fix or replace to prevent further collapse of ecosystems. And don't downplay the effort and work done by biologists and ecologists to save individual species, it is difficult and often underappreciated.

  • The most convincing argument that elon does a lot of cocaine is just listening to him speak in a less formal interview.

    BUT! I don't think he used to be actually smart, just lucky. Too many people assume "succesful" people had to have done something exceptional to earn it, but 99% of extremely wealthy people acquired that extreme wealth through a simple combination of luck and startup capital (which of course they have because they are lucky).

  • Doesn't reddit not make money though? Like, if traffic resulted in them making money, I'd agree, but everything I've heard would indicate using reddit with an adblocker literally costs them money.

    Exclusively using reddit to protest should be fine IMO, just don't contribute anything that isn't a protest (including voting)

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  • I hate this argument, that criminal people sonehow have the ability to do anything anywhere unhindered by everything, and so making laws will only cause more crimes. It is the same type of thinking when people say "masks don't work", 90% efficacy is WORTH HAVING.

    It is asinine. Making laws and properly enforcing them would absolutely reduce mass shootings. Some people certainly could still purchase unregistered guns illegally, but it would be a small fraction of the people who would/will do it under our current laws.

  • Maybe as far as the shock value but imo they are completely different. The bible verse is about absolute surrender to the christian god, where anything you might value as highly as god should be made lesser than him in your mind.

    It seems like "kill the buddha" has the opposite intent, aggressively reject all notions of "other" or "authority" etc

  • I'll just let you know you missed the joke. No one is trying to frame lower taxes and small government as hateful - they might despise them as policy, but it isn't anything to do with the hateful reputation of conservatives.

    The views that are getting conservatives labeled hateful generally have more to do with the racism, the sexism, the homophobia, the transphobia, the disregard for human life, the disregard for other peoples economic standing, the warmongering, or the weird way they keep voting against letting kids at school have free lunch.

  • Reading arguments about these concepts while many people completely disagree what their definitions are feels like treading water waiting to exhaust myself and drown.

    Maybe the point is the policies and anyone who argues about words is part of the problem.

  • If you suddenly got notified that the place you live has been redistricted to put you in a district which reduces your voting power, would you be ok with your "solution" of uprooting your entire life, changing jobs, finding a new place to stay, and re-registering to vote? Or would you maybe pursue a less completely-insane solution to the problem?

  • I get what you mean, but IMO we are at the point where the "good christians" should be thinking of a different name for themselves and attempting to distance themselves from the rest of Christianity.

    When the great majority of self identified christians are hateful, bigoted, and cruel, then Christianity as a whole is hateful, bigoted, and cruel. People outside of the religion do NOT see a distinction between those that actively advocate for hate and those that are just still showing up for church on sunday.

  • It's rainbow capitalism, sure, but if someone is going to make money selling rainbow cans with alcohol in them, at least this is outside of pride month and owned by an actual gay person. It's more genuine than rainbow cans of bud light, at least.

    And the more successful Gay Water is, the more this can be an easy response to that dumbass "go woke go broke" shit.

  • Nah, asking it to do math is perfect. People are looking for emergent qualities and things it can do that they never expected it to be able to do. The fact that it could do somewhat successful math before despite not being a calculator was fascinating, and the fact that it can't now is interesting.

    Let the devs worry about how good it is at what it is supposed to do. I want to hear about stuff like this.