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Lemmy on Mastadon

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  • My understanding is that if I follow @dadjokes@lemmy.world from Mastodon what happens is:

    • I will see all posts on that community
    • I will also see all replies to that post
    • The replies are listed in Mastodon as boosts from @dadjokes@lemmy.world

    For example:

    That's what I see if I go to @dadjokes@lemmy.world from Mastodon.

    Is that what you are talking about regarding boosts?

    • Woohoo! Just in time for the holidays!

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  • Don't forget to multiply that value!

    • Selfish or not

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  • The people who are taking up extra space are trying to tell you that they'd rather sit alone than talk to a stranger on the bus/train/etc.

    They will move their stuff so that you can sit down if you ask. There is no trouble in asking and you don't need to "pick the biggest guy." Just ask someone "may I sit here, please?" That works 99% of the time.

    What happened, he ended up vacating the seat and like a preschooler wanted to know why him and not everybody else.

    That's because some person yelled at him for what should have been a very civil and simple conversation.

    • It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers?

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  • I find this is often the case. People want to make noise because they want other people to notice them or because they have oppositional defiant disorder and like to piss off people.

    • Is it ethical for a parent to distribute inheritance based on the child(ren)'s mental capacity (aka refusing to give an inheritance to child(ren) with reduced mental capacity)?

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  • I can't speak to whether or not it is "ok" unless I have a lot of knowledge of the situation.

    I think the fairest way to split an inheritance is by need, although that's not always known at the time of drawing up a will.

    • You have the ability to control any person in the world for one minute, what do you do with this ability?

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  • The actual problem here is that it's not clear when he will be near a gun to the point that someone could do that. You only have a minute. Is Trump within a minute's range of a gun and would not be stopped by his security detail if he tried to use it?

    • NATO must shift to wartime mindset, secretary general warns

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  • Agreed in part. We should absolutely continue to support Ukraine in any/all ways possible against Russia. However Russia doesn't have the economy to really do much to the rest of Europe. Rubles are going to be worth more as toilet paper than money in the next few years.

    • What's your religion?

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  • I have no religion. I guess I'm an apatheist. Not sure if I can be considered practicing or not.

    Edit: I believe the existence of God/Gods is irrelevant.

    • You have been randomly selected to become the leader of the world, but if you do not maintain more than 50% approval rating, you immediately die. How do you survive?

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  • I would die pretty quickly, so I'd do as much good as I could in the time I had. Mostly tons of wealth transfer.

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  • In some states they simply reuse the picture they have on file when you get a replacement card. Depends on how old the picture is.

    • When Digg has the “Digg Effect” and Reddit has the “Reddit Hug of Death” then what is Lemmy’s equivalent?

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  • Was just gonna say. I'm old enough to remember when it was the Slashdot effect. And you put links to the Coral Cache of the website as a nice way to guard against slashdotting.

    • What's one product or type of product that you never think is a waste of money?

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  • A mattress. You spend about a third of your life on one.

    • Should Democrats also gerrymander blue states to counterbalance any advantage that republicans have due to the gerrymandering in red states?

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  • Yep. You play by the rules on the ground. Gerrymandering shouldn't be a thing, but as long as it is, the Democrats should use it to their advantage.

    • Why are Republicans struggling in Swing State Elections?

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  • Why is this? Do these people literally go to the ballot box just to vote trump and leave?

    This was found to actually be a somewhat common voting pattern.

    • What's your Star Trek hot take?

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  • The Borg came about when I was very young, so they were incredibly scary to me.

    I recall the Tholians from a Game Boy game I had, but they were no big deal. It was when they were featured on Enterprise that they became scary to me. They're so different and we don't know a whole lot about them (I haven't seen any Trek after Enterprise, no spoilers please). That's what makes them scary to me.

    • What's your Star Trek hot take?

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  • The Tholians are the scariest alien race in the series.

    • Your country is now under martial law, what do you do?

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  • Well I still have to go to work tomorrow, so I guess make sure my alarm is set.

    • You've been given the power to remove anyone, who was alive before you were born, from the timeline. How do you use this power without inadvertently making it so you were never born?

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  • Do you have to use the power so you were still born?

    • If you were president and knew you were going to pardon your kids on the way out would u tell them to do all they want and I'll pardon you? Why or why not?

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  • This is true. No one has tried, and it hasn't been adjudicated. However everyone treats pardons as needing to be backwards-looking.

    • If you were president and knew you were going to pardon your kids on the way out would u tell them to do all they want and I'll pardon you? Why or why not?

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  • but doesn’t protect him from anything he may go on to do

    The only limitation on the pardon power is that it must be for things that have already happened. It is not possible to pardon someone for things they might do in the future.