Oh I am not really one for sarcasm unless for comedic purpose. Hyperbole, sure.
But, I wear my emotions on my sleeves and when I thank someone or tell them off I mean it entirely. I’m here for the conversation and I appreciate you having it with me.

Oh shoot forgot to say.

Thanks for the conversation. I feel more, I want to say expanded, in my view on voting and it’s usefulness for those that remain more silent than myself.

Interesting. I particularly think your last point might be really key to the use of voting.

It feels like a way to participate.
I guess it takes all types to make a community and that includes those that don’t want to participate at full effort all the time.

I do not find upvotes and down votes to be very guaranteed to match facts and using it as a checking tool would require a very different user ase that would likely not be human. But I understand you said to an extent. I just… Give it less slack. But hard down voted, sure, needs way more reservations.

I am just saying the point of these forums is more the conversation and less the voting and it’s really not very useful as a tool, while not being useless.

Imagine a substack post, as these forums were based on, where someone asks for support with a batch script and someone suggests using a sticky note taped to the monitor. It gets downvoted but no one offers any countering support.
No one would use the site for support anymore. It’s clearly not with helpful information, and the person looking at it would not know but just see what looks like an unkind user base.

Right but if you disagree shouldn’t that be vocalized otherwise the downvote doesn’t make sense and people don’t know what the countering opinion is?
I get it’s not everyone’s responsibility to respond but… It doesn’t really make sense as just a tool to show disagreement and provide diversity in the comments.

But someone making an opinionated statement, sure at the top level the votes just act as a miniature poll but beyond that I’m not sure I see it’s usefulness as a conversationary tool.

Yes, and how well do people treat Mark Zuckerbot?

Yeah I think big level at the feed, down votes help control what is interesting conversation pieces and not and then in the comments it should be related to how on topic or useful or fun to the conversation presented by the original item.

There is some extremely childish behavior on Lemmy in regards to downvotes and in response to them as well.

It’s directly known that if you are taking an SSRI or an SSNRI basically fully blocks the effects of psilocybin and most other hallucinogenics.

Someone had once said it seemed like deep thinkers, it didn’t work on and I always wonder if it’s some combination of brain chemistry difference in ADHD or depression that makes it less effective in some others not even on them.

I mean there were no instructions up front because literally Google is refusing to give them, basically.
No more choice just the company force feeding the user and saying it’s good for them.

Nowhere in the email or any of the Support pages did Google say how to remove all Gemini integrations from my phone.
I then emailed Google PR and… I asked if someone could provide actionable guidance for my readers who want to ensure Gemini integrations are completely disabled. Instead of answering the question, the person responding to my email wrote, in part: “This update is good for users: they can now use Gemini to complete daily tasks on their mobile devices like send messages, initiate phone calls, and set timers while Gemini Apps Activity is turned off. With Gemini Apps Activity turned off, their Gemini chats are not being reviewed or used to improve our AI models.”

Literally that reads like you can’t turn it off and they just scrape less of your data on a technicality.

But… Mah Skrimps, they the fruit of the sea.

I just want you to know that got an audible laugh out of me.

I think you may have some rather big issues with paranoia and fantastical idealizations.

I know you don’t care persay but also try to stay grounded in reality that’s real around you. Not caring to the point where you slip completely away can leave people you know and care about not knowing you anymore when you exist in your own world.

If you have to invent whole new laws, physics, and tech to make something work and even then it doesn’t nothing to help you for knowing it… It’s probably best left alone, until you are not alone.

Who doesn’t like saturnalia?

Nah, but certainly prototyping it by some point.

My vacation is staying home and tending to my garden and eating my own produce.
We are not exactly the standard polling public though who have absolutely been sold the concept of getting to see the globalized world. There are all types in this world. We can’t ask them to all be like us.

Also it’s a bit wild to think you may ever be more established. This world and societal structures are crumbling and people can feel it. People can feel they may not get the chance before things change.

You are upset that people are alerting you to it being AI?
It’s ok to miss it, there are other people who maybe didn’t and share how they spotted it. I don’t get doubling down to demand that reality change cause you perceived it as some crusade.

You can’t get anywhere without getting on a plane in America or out of it.

Also the average is almost certainly skewed by the incredibly large amount some people spend on vacations and the basic minimum it costs to do so.

And people will put nice things in debt so that they can still enjoy it cause nobody wants a life where they do nothing and get nothing nice ever. That’s literally a whole style of monk because it’s hard to do.

I dunno, what are we calling the Romans these days?

Friggin delicious.

Yup, that sells her as evil way more than shitty recycling.