Or perhaps just let people disabled downvotes if they don’t like them :). I’m not hurting you, in fact, I can only upvote.

I don’t like the fact niche hobbyist communities on lemmy often have half their posts downvoted because people saw it on c/all and downvoted for no reason.

Podcast? No thanks, I already have to listen to enough deranged right wing rambling during the day.

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Bluesky is mostly moderated by collarborative community blocklists, and so far atleast, the experience has been great.

And do remember that bluesky is simply a privately owned server for a FOSS protocol and frontend.

I mean bsky gained an influx of 1.5 million in past few days.

Really? I’ve had to block maybe one person, but the moderation lists are really well curated and crowdsourced so it mostly hasn’t been a problem.

The polls were historically accurate this election. Most swingstates were predicted within 2% margin.

Yeah. Revving up your engines for fun in a residential area should be a criminal offence.

Completely agree.

But the main culprit by far is fast cars or vehicles with loud engines.

In 99% of places, urban, suburban they are the loudest noise.

That’s how the majority of non-english speaking democracies work.

Some argue that voting for partys that represent ideologies over specific personalities leads to healthier democracy.

Cette carte à été faite avant les éuropéenes.

Oh wow fascinating read, thanks!

This is an excellent meta joke on your username, and for anyone curious, here’s the link to a wikipedia page on flying (more like gliding) squids https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_flying_squid

Social media and rise of foreign interference in elections, paired with massive increases in inequality.

Yup. A small drop due to 2008 financial crash’s after effects. Then a steady rise back. And 2014-15-16 everything crumbles down.

Two things can be true at once.

Russia is exploiting these centuries of white supremacism and christian nationalism in order to forment chaos on in the west. It had undoubtedly helped Trump ever since 2016.

Use voyager UI:

Blocks & Filters > Keywords “Trump” “Kamala” “Election” “Israel” “Democrat” “GOP” “Putin” “Ukraine” …:

Also think of the lost treatments we won’t discover.

The NIH is currently the largest health funder on earth. Kennedy will go there and stop any useful research and instead start his “raw milk” and anti-vaxx bullshit.

Then even if one day that bullshit is over with, we’ll have to spend our research dollars debunking kennedy’s flawed research he funded, instead of actually useful stuff.

I’m not kidding when I say this election might mean worldwide health research gets held back like 5-8 years.