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don't feed the trolls, just downvote and move on

I took a trip out to the Rockies earlier this year, and booked an AirBnB. The listing was for the basement of a house where a lovely old retired couple lived. The basement was decorated and furnished beautifully, and we got to chat with the couple every now and then. They gave us recommendations to a farmer's market which was pretty cool.

It was the first time I've ever booked an Airbnb that was true to its original mission. This is what AirBnb should be - renting out spare rooms - and not a turn-an-apartment-unit-into-a-hotel thing.

Air Canada is dispelling the decades-old reputation that Canada has for being polite...

Why not sort your subscribed communities by New?

nice! love the color scheme!

I wish I could fail so spectacularly at my job and yet not face any consequences...

Jaded Burning Man participants from 2022: "It ain't what it used to be like, there isn't much of a challenge in being there, people aren't connecting with the envrionment like they used to 20 years ago"

Monkey's Paw: "Ok i'll fix that for 2023"

Yeah, I mean this might my personal deficiency that other people don’t have… but if I see a comment I disagree with and then I see that it has been upmodded heavily, I get a greatly increased urgency to shit on that comment to make people see how wrong it is. Totally toxic and encouraged by the scoring system.

As with anything, this is intended behavior but perhaps taken too far by some people.

A points system is the best way to get a sense of what other people think, and whether your views are generally accepted. When you're in a social setting, you can tell from nonverbal clues (e.g. if you start saying something and people frown/inch away, you know they don't agree). This is valuable.

When you see something upvoted highly that you don't agree with, OR something downvoted highly that you agree with, it could be one of two scenarios:

A. You're right, but people generally have misconceptions about the issue.

B. You have a controversial take on the issue.

It's not always clear which of these it is. That's why a lot of internet yelling matches devolve into some variation of "downvoted for truth" or "downvote all you want, facts are facts and you're just blind" - people think it's B, the person arguing thinks it's A.

To combat this, you need the following:

Reasoning and critical thinking skills are important. At the most basic, learn to distinguish fact from opinion, but also learn to understand an argument.
Be humble. Don't approach it from a "I must win this argument" mentality - try and understand why they're thinking that way.
Pick your battles. Sometimes you just have to disagree and walk away. Nobody is going to give you a prize for making the last comment in an argument.

Of course, it's easier to just not look at the numbers. But then why not just... not use lemmy/reddit/internet forums? If this isn't giving you any pleasure, why read/comment at all?

RIP. He wasn't all there towards the end, what with the drinking and the Nazi stuff and the COVID denial/antivax stuff, but Smash Mouth had such a big impact on the world.

I don't know what you're talking about, there has never been a movie adaptation of the book! Never!

@mizu6079@lemmy.world , was it you?

of course, but that's not too hard to pull off :)

Are there plans to build some sort of instance-blocking feature?

oh yeah, much less jumping from video to video nowadays.

YT could have provided recommendations based on categories you picked out, or countries, or just what's popular today. Instead they decided to throw a hissy fit and show a blank homepage.

I'm taking it as my detox from social media. Facebook many years ago, Twitter last year, Reddit this year, now YT (although to be fair I still use the subscriptions tab, but it's made me spend less time on YT).

It's wild that companies essentially destroyed the practice of overclocking.

oh wow. Can it even be wheeled forwards and backwards? I feel like the axles might give out...

Some photoshop required haha

If you have any leftover food storage containers, they're perfect for putting parts in! And if there are multiple bags for each stage, you can split them up as well.

Mine is usually 100% chocolate, 0% nuts, 0% fruit. Oops