My point is if we down vote with the assumption that a post is from a bot, instead of engaging in good faith with a person who likely has reasons, no matter how misguided, for believing what they do, then we are actually doing the work of our enemies for them
You know what? You're absolutely right about this.
It is too easy to fall into "sounds like a bot, must be a bot" as a mode of operation when it may just be an actual person poking out of an echo chamber for a minute to see what things are like elsewhere. Instantly shutting them down is probably part of WHY there's so much "the leftists are an echo chamber" rhetoric being advanced in right-leaning circles...because that's what that would look like if you were on the receiving end of a downvote for doing nothing more than saying what YOU think is the truth, especially if it's all you've heard and still think noone's lying to you.
I not quite in a spot where I think I can equate downvotes with censorship, possibly because I don't fully understand how lemmy treats them in comparison to reddit, but I will definitely be much more careful with mine.
Thank You.
If any of y'all catch a whiff of criticism, you start screaming "bot" and slamming down votes
And that's not awesome, but...
What's a more productive way to deal with the very real, very extant, very anti-community onslaught of bots and psyop style political manipulators invading lemmy like it's facebook in 2015?
Refuting those bots with fact-checking is all well and good as a form of actual political activism but at what point does giving bad actors who outnumber those with a desire to do good and promote honest discussion become futile? Bots don't tire, mods do.
I want a better solution, too, but when the comments start sounding like bot propoganda, I think it's okay to downvote.
They're processed, yes. The corn is milled, pressed into triangles, coated with preservative-heavy flavor powder and cooked in one order or another, possibly repeatedly.
What makes it ULTRA processed?
Frickin... most raw potatoes are "processed" because they're typically not covered in topsoil when they get put in 5lb plastic bags.
A grass-fed organic, antibiotic free, roaming free-range massaged poterhouse steak is "processed" because it's not still attached to the cow.
I'm trying to understand the definition, here. Almost everything is processed to some degree or another.
Is white flour ultra processed because they bleach and de-hull the wheat berries? Or only when it's made into cake flour? Or do both of those count as "processed" and only "cake MIX" counts as "ultra processed"?
Am I making sense?
Do they?
I don't even know what an "ultra processed food" •IS•.
How is it different than the "processed cheese product" that passes for most individually wrapped "American cheese" cheese slices? Or is that ultra processed?
Are Doritos ultra processed or just the regular kind of processed?
Which kind of ground beef qualifies for "ultra"? Only the pink slime or anything that's been chemically treated?
I'm not being a pedantic contrary asshat, I legitimately do not know what qualifies something to be in this category and why it's worse than normal processing.
Bpa from plastic tubing used in the processing of Annie's organic leeched into the food. Is that considered contamination or a side effect of processing?
No, that's GOOD news.
Learning is a good thing.
Fascinating stuff.
Thank you 😊
It looks like a fossilized wasp hive.
Seriously. ^That's the important bit.
I would be shocked if that was on any of the judge's minds, but it's the primary concern in cases of domestic abuse.
Domestic abuser plus gun owner is the "my boyfriend choked me during sex without my consent" red flag for upcoming potential future death.
it's not a guarantee, but it' statistically waaaaaay more likely to end that way.
It's fucking "'til" not "tell".
'til is short for "until".
Please stop saying "Let's wait tell later to do that".
Looks like critical thinking deteriorates above 72f/22c
That explains SO many things about the decisions leading up to several of my former employers going bankrupt/getting bought out.
Pay for air conditioning in the office, people! It's science!
:P
At what point do these kind of lies, SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO CURTAIL HIS FURTHER EMPLOYMENT begin to count as illegal?
When does it meet the New York Times v. Sullivan requirement for "actual malice"?
I thought it said "Grimes" and it was making a joke about how ugly and comical the cybertruck looks.
Oops.
LOL
New billboard time --"according to the city of Portland, traffic cameras are worth $100,000 each. We don't know about all that, but they sure do contain a lot of copper.."
:P
My understanding is that the "re-imagining" is due to the timeline.
Vivec City in ESO is 700+ years before Vivec City in Morrowind, for example.
I think it was the original meaning when it was brand new and still very niche.
Part of me wonders if it made it onto one of those "Parents! Know these abbreviations!" memes where they purposely list the acronyms incorrectly (LOL--Lots of Love) and then got more popular that way.