[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 31 points 6 months ago

Then you have already lost, and are without honor.

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submitted 6 months ago by Silentiea@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

I tend to upvote a post when it Links an interesting article or provokes an interesting conversation, and only downvote them when they voice an convectively bad opinion (like, bigotry or other unjustified vitriol).

I tend to upvote comments when they make a good point or at least try to support their argument, and only downvote them for the same reason as posts: when they are trolling, being unnecessarily aggressive, or trying to justify bigotry with fallacious reasoning or something

What about you?

[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 26 points 6 months ago

Listen, mate, threatening to kill people is a pretty shit way to interact with anyone. If you don't want to date someone with a penis, maybe say so up front. No one is trying to trick you, and no one is trying to lie to you. They're just trying to live life, same as anyone.

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submitted 7 months ago by Silentiea@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

I can understand the desire to get as many downvotes as possible on reddit. I don't sympathize, but I can at least see where people are coming from. Because Reddit gives you that total and shows it to you.

And I'm sure it's possible to use an API to really that number up on Lemmy, but "total karma" doesn't seem to be something Lemmy cares about by default, so where is the motivation coming from?

Is it just the same reason people have always been trolls? Because I've never quite understood that, either

[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 49 points 7 months ago

It's about taking money from people who like spaceships.

[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 72 points 8 months ago

Trans surgical procedures have some of the best outcomes of any major procedures. they are performed on consenting individuals who are always well informed and at or very near adulthood, and only after many other interventions have been ongoing. People who receive these interventions show incredibly low rates of regret (compare for example the percent of people who regret knee replacements or probably circumcisions), and enjoy increased happiness and satisfaction by almost any metric.

Basically every major medical organization in the world (and certainly in America) agrees these interventions are medically useful and should be performed. While there are doctors who dissent, they are in the vast minority and almost never actually work with any trans people, but rather insist all the doctors who do work with trans people must be wrong. It's not a controversy in the medical world, just the political one.

[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 29 points 8 months ago

So, yeah. To paraphrase, "When reviewed by people without the same clear and obvious cultural bias, circumcision only conclusively provides an incredibly marginal benefit, with evidence lacking for other supposed (and still very marginal) benefits."

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I'm not sure if this is me or if it's a feature request, but is there a way to have people's username show as their display name when they have one set? Or to display profile avatars on comments?

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It's annoying to have to click "view all the comments" and then scroll to find where the one you were looking at is. The other thing I've done is click the permalink button to see it in a browser to find the context...

[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 43 points 8 months ago

Seriously, that comment got, like, an updoot every two minutes so far. Crazy.

[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 146 points 8 months ago

Lemmy has so few comments that people actually read my comments occasionally, which is wild.

[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 95 points 8 months ago

I get the whole "national security" bit, at least to a degree...

But if America's national security is at risk because a woman told the cops she was assaulted, something is very wrong.

[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 27 points 9 months ago

Slightly more correct to say alleles are the "answers"

A gene is a spot where the DNA usually codes for something, where an allele is the particular version of a gene carried by an individual.

[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 31 points 11 months ago

Can mostly handle. Snow blindness is a thing, and that's all diffuse reflection too, not specular. But it's unlikely a roof would be such a problem.

[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 101 points 1 year ago

It always confuses me to learn that when people want to ban smoking it somehow means ban "cigarettes" and not "nicotine"

[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago

We were confused about how much backlash there would be. We didn't think it would hurt our bottom line this much. Sorry for the confusion.

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