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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I agree entirely. Just because I might not agree with someone on their politics doesn't mean we can't have a civil discussion, especially regarding apolitical topics

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I guess some of that has come over here based on your comment scores, but at least your comments aren't being removed πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ I haven't been downvoting anything here based on disagreement cause a) I think discouraging people from sharing their opinions here will kill the site, even if you don't like their opinions and b) I think it's wrong anyway.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So glad someone else made the connection. This movie FUCKED me up for real

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Allow bigotry to fester in the thread for extended periods of time

I know this will be a controversial opinion but I just don't see this being a big deal. Those comments inevitably get downvoted and kicked to the bottom of the list, and if you expand a comment that's -10 karma you probably know what you're getting into. I created and modded a sub that now has over 2mil subs and never once have I locked a thread (granted, it's one that's non political but we got our fair share of weirdly bigoted comments)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I say this with the best of intentions so bear with me, but I think most of the disdain towards moderators on Reddit came from locking threads due to "excessive trolling" or "y'all can't behave" etc. It was so visible and immediately shut down conversation which was frustrating for average users. In my opinion excessive trolling isn't a reason to shut a thread. The only things that would really need to be shut down would be things that are straight up illegal. Obviously people saying offensive things or trolling is an issue but, again in my opinion, that's what the whole upvote downvote system is for, and moderators can step in for things that are blatantly out of line.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And I have 8gb in my work laptop. C'est la vie

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Fair enough, just stating how it works at my org

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Having lived in a place where winter means everything gets blanketed in snow, I find there's not much novelty to the NZ winter :(

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

We're in the surface ecosystem where I work and the performance is abysmal. Granted we're at 8gb ram on our standard models so not much to go off but it's a super heavy application for what it's doing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Raise taxes on everyone who isn't me :)

Nah I don't have the answer, money is what all the issues boil down to in the end.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Completely agree. Back in the day I used to just scroll through /r/all and constantly stumble across cool stuff, now it's devoid of any decent content. Whenever I read any of those millions of aita posts they'd always be clear fiction, and then full of comments as if they were absolutely true. The general quality of content on that site is at absolute rock bottom.

I am glad Lemmy has a small barrier to entry. It's easy enough that you don't need any sort of technical knowledge to sign up and use but it requires a little more effort than most social media, which hopefully acts as something of a filter. Reddit now kind of reminds me of usenets "eternal September".

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No national fan but this might be the only decent ideas to come out of this party imo. Not enough for me to vote for them but man I wish labour would stop letting Auckland and Otago bullshit their way through securing their duopoly at the expense of our countries medical system.

Of course, the plan to fund a new medical school is sketchy at best. Medicine is obviously underfunded already, perhaps I'd hear an argument that the money would be better spent increasing wages for our existing doctors. That said, I'm of the opinion a new medical school couldn't hurt us.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

From discussion I've heard by my gen z friends I'm pretty sure apple could sell almost anything and people will buy it and claim it's the best thing ever. Airpods are treated as jewelery at this point. I will say their phones are decent products but they're way too locked down for me to ever own one. Great for my parents etc who want something simple

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Missed having an MDE forum like the good ole days, had some big laughs on the old page, hoping to cultivate a fun kinda chill vibe around here

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