This had been well documented a number of times now in multiple countries.

It’s ironic given the right usually argues they’re doing better for the economy.

Sure. But it’s a two way street. Climate change is important but you don’t realistically solve it by stopping everything coal powered tomorrow. You have to gradually introduce it.

I don’t know if it’s a younger generation thing, but they’re not patient and demand change now when it’s just not realistic. Change is glacially slow. Voting in something that’s not ideal is better than voting in something completely opposite.

The more you allow that left or moderate side to win, the more the axis changes towards it, which is still a win if you’re left/moderate as it moves it away from the right. It’s this last bit some people don’t understand.

Why is the onus on the left to vote left to promote left values? Because that’s how voting works?

I’m not sure how to answer that question. Reword it as “Why is the onus on the right to elect a right-wing candidate?” maybe to see.

So many dumb Americans here not voting. Cutting off your legs so you can hold the moral high ground. Moronic.

It’s always a balance between a few things.

1. It will always become shit at some point and no longer feasible. It’s impossible for it to be great for any amount of time.
2. At the moment it’s tiny and the quality and discussion can be pretty poor. It would benefit from growth in my opinion as atm it can be an echo chamber of “Linux good, Windows bad lol” which is a dumb take. Or in other places it’s just empty, you have no community in most areas.
3. Vs. Bringing in everyone all at once which would make it pretty crap instantly. Although I don’t think that’s what Threads has done.

There’s already shitty people on Lemmy and the like… We’re not some special elite, there’s dumbasses and people with ridiculous views here as well.

This is why integrating with threads is kind of important… Their user base is massive compared to Lemmy and increasing knowledge of the fediverse is important.

Otherwise you just end up with Lemmy and very little growth.

I don’t think I am actually.

I think it’s almost impossible to miss every single one of these all the time. I have worked with the extremely poor, and watched documentaries of people in third world countries regularly. Most people even those who are literal third world slaves (indebted for life) can still regularly enjoy at least 2 of these things regularly.

I’m not saying it’s not shit and that ideally everyone should experience all of them, but it’s unrealistically cynical and nihilistic to think everyone poor is just miserable and doesn’t enjoy anything.

People are missing the forest for the trees. These are luxuries yes, but missing every single one of them is an extreme poverty of life as it’d be extremely hard to do.

Yeah I’ve lived out of home for close to 2 decades.

I think people here are being extremely dramatic if they say they never are able to sleep in or never have a chance to hear birds singing though, or to watch a sunset. That is absolute hyperbolic bullshit.

Unless this post is about doing it every day (which it isn’t), then everyone gets to enjoy these luxuries at least semi-regularly.

We’re talking about a very small amount of people who have to work multiple jobs 7 days a week, with many more poor people who don’t do that.

And you didn’t cover the birds singing, which you can do pretty much any place…

I didn’t realize I needed money to sleep well… Or to have a slow morning… Or to listen to birds sing?

Even in third world countries you’d have this…

Sorry to hear.

Small consolation but you did use affects correctly. Something affects you, while something can cause an effect.

Who gets banned from Reddit as a whole though?

You’d have to literally be posting child porn or something.

Or is this just a conceptual argument that doesn’t actually mean anything in reality?

Not sure I understand tbh. Seems exactly the same?

You get banned in a reddit community you can’t access it, you get banned in a lemmy community you can’t access it.

I’ve been banned from reddit communities and can still access reddit. If you’ve been banned from Reddit completely you must have done some terrible shit.

In your example, you’re also suggesting a transphobic person has more scope on Lemmy to continue being transphobic than on Reddit. That’s not a good thing?

I am quite confused by your post tbh.

Just be aware Lemmy has its own share of issues and extremist views. It’s not as simple as Reddit is evil and Lemmy is good, both have their pros and cons at end of day and realistically they both probably have a role to play for people.

I’m in the same boat as you. It’s a waste of time for me, but others seem to need it.

It’s worth noting I have autism though. So social interactions don’t do much for me.

It actually sounds like the opposite.

Your “good” credit card customer is presumably paying more credit card fees on accounts so is actually less sound financially.

So if you mean playing the rules means paying higher fees to credit cars companies then that just helps show how stupid the system is.

Also, I actually disagree fundamentally with the argument. If it’s just based on how old your accounts are then that is a shitty system. It’s not only easy to play by the rules, but then presumably to abuse them as age of an account doesn’t indicate much about your ability to pay off bills.

From what I understand it’s a pretty shit system that doesn’t work that well.

From the example posted here, it’d be extremely trivial to set up a system that doesn’t deduct points because you paid off a debt. That makes zero sense.

Some dude may have come up with a basic model 20 years ago but it needs updating - any half decent data scientist at this stage would be able to build a better system.

I don’t think that changes the fact the system is illogical and stupid though. It’s way too basic a system if that’s how they’re running it.