I don’t get i- oh… Oh no… Jesus fucking Christ indeed!

Ok WHAT. What do Italians eat then?

Can we please keep depressing American politics out of “uplifting news”? I’m not subscribed to this community to see “Hitler definitely getting in biiiiig trouble” for the twenty seventh time.

That definitely is the case with me (say in around 70% of cases?).

I think in my mind, people that are my type = attractive. I want to be attractive. Therefore, my ideal look = the body type I am attracted to. Thankfully, I have almost achieved my ideal “look” or whatever.

So yeah, I do look like people I have sex with usually.

I’ve heard that Indian street food can be so unhygienic

True. But at least it’s cheap. Taco Bell in India is as expensive as a full dinner at a good restaurant.

unsanitary and even dangerous.

I mean yeah… That’s what you get when you visit/live in an unregulated, corrupt hellhole.

I can’t even think of how someone would have “sex in front of their kids”. Sure, sex when kids are say in the next room, or in the same house seems harmless enough.

I imagine that OP meant a scenario like, “hey kids, don’t come in our room without knocking, because we’re going to have sex” instead of “this is how you give a BJ. Let me demonstrate on ur dad. Watch n learn bitch”. If they meant the latter, then… uhhh yeah that’s fucked up.

No, they meant if having sex when children r around was common in their culture.

That’s Taco bell in India. Never had such expensive, shitty food before.

I don’t lol

Can we please have actually uplifting stories (like cancer being cured, more access to electricity, etc.) instead of shit like this?

“Rebels kill stormtroopers” is not uplifting news.

Wow, pedos rlly are disgustingly creative, huh…

OP asked for non political takes, friend.

The answer is very simple. Our universe is very likely not static. We already know that it is expanding (as of today). The further you look in space, the faster that space is moving from us. This causes more and more redshift of light the further you look away (the wavelength of light becomes longer and longer).

Beyond a certain point, space moves faster than the speed of light. Thus, we get no light.

Sorry to be that guy, but goats don’t scream. It’s kind of a huge misconception.

See, here’s how it is-

The movies suck ass. BUT the story still continues. And it continues in a way that I personally am liking so far. The new Ahsoka show, the mandalorian, etc. have worked out pretty fine. So I you want to be invested in the franchise (I would recommend this), then try watching the sequels.

The prequels for example imo sucked-ish too. It’s the surrounding story and shows that made them a lot cooler (the clone wars especially).

I think disabling downvotes totally for the user’s content by default would be a bad idea, because it is important for a user to know if what they are saying is unpopular.

Here’s an approach I have taken for my app (for all posts and comments).

• If downvotes are <= 5, downvotes show as 0.
• If downvotes <= 5%, downvotes show as 0.

Remember, the reasoning for this is a mere hypothesis and not results obtained from an experiment.

The 5 percent rule aims to prevent fringe opinions from downvoting. This solves issues like, “why do I have 3 downvotes on a picture of my cute puppy?”.

The 5 downvotes rule prevents downvoting bias. I have observed this happening on Reddit a lot. If a comment has 3 upvotes and 2 downvotes, people tend to downvote more (just because of the downvote counts and not the content itself). 2 downvotes in a 5 total votes sample size is too small to make any decision about the quality of content.

In my opinion, cases like these are where the downvotes serve more as a mental health destroyer rather than decentralised content moderation.

So to answer your question, I think having the current as default would be better, I.e., option “Show”. However, if you’re open to refine this even further, I would suggest the 5-5% idea.

I agree a little with the post tbh. So I generally hold pro AI views (where I admire the tech, believe it can make the future a lot better, while being against it being owned by oligarchs and for profit corpos).

When I started using Lemmy in 2023, everybody here was ABSOLUTELY AGAINST AI. Any post/comment mentioning AI in a slightly positive tone was downvoted to oblivion.

It was really depressing to see stuff like this, because the concept of downvoting on Lemmy and irl works very differently I suppose. No one irl just randomly shows up, shows you a thumbs down and leaves, right? Most conversations like these offline tend to be a lot more developed than a “thumbs down”. In my experience, people offline are also a lot less meaner compared to online, as they are talking to a real human being rather than a profile picture.

I suppose this platform makes you a little thick skinned too. Sometimes you have to say, “I am right, even if this large group of people thinks I am wrong” and accept that sometimes the majority does not share your opinion, no matter how correct you think it is.

Now about disabling downvotes for your own post- I’m not sure if that’s a good idea. Doing so prevents getting feedback from others. There are times where I have been a dick (mostly unintentionally). The amount of downvotes told me that what I said was wrong, and I needed to do better. If downvotes were disabled, then I wouldn’t have access to this feedback.

Why are good dads so goddamn rare??? Almost all dads I’ve seen around me have always been assholes. Just sad.

Fuck your ex BF. What a pos human being ugh.

Okay, I know this is a really bad idea but I’m already here so Here we fucking go… RAWR!!

x3 nuzzles! pounces on you uwu you so warm Couldn’t help but notice your buldge from across the floor Nuzzles yo’ necky wecky-tilda murr-tilda hehe Unzips yo baggy ass pants, oof baby you so musky Take me home, pet me, ‘n’ make me yours and don’t forget to stuff me! See me wag my widdle baby tail all for your buldgy-wuldgy! Kissies ‘n’ lickies yo neck I hope daddy likies Nuzzles ‘n’ wuzzles yo chest (yuh) I be (yeah) gettin’ thirsty

Hey, I got a little itch, you think you can help me? Only seven inches long uwu PLEASE ADOPT ME Paws on your buldge as I lick my lips (uwu punish me please) ‘Boutta hit ’em with this furry shit (he don’t see it comin’)