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  • Spoiler: they won't, but meanwhile Republicans will promise to (BBB lowers taxes on tips and such, thereby incentivizing those styles of employment at the expense of the middle class).

  • It seems to me more like a game of "chicken" - you wouldn't really vote for the other side, would you? (Immediately votes for other side.) Okay yeah, but you wouldn't like, do exactly that yet again, would you? (Immediately does that again.) Okay yeah, but you wouldn't like, do exactly that still yet also again, would you? (Repeat.)

  • This is what people miss about conservatives: they seem to be getting things done. When you have a single-minded focus on a particular thing, like abortion, then regardless of whether you should have done so or not you are going to get it done when you put in the level of time and effort that was done.

    Never mind that it was a cover for lowering taxes on the wealthy - The People voted for it, and so got both in the same package. In contrast, the Dems seem to stand for... what exactly? Besides being merely less obvious about making payments to corporations?

    Survival of the Fittest for now looks like it has doomed the USA Democrats. We'll see if it has doomed democracy itself (this one globally). All I know is that afaik no democracy in history has ever survived devolution into a 2-party system - the parties each merely claim that they are not the other side, which incentives them to avoid actually doing anything themselves, which causes systemic collapse (hrm, sounds familiar somehow...).

    I wish I could see a way out of this.

  • Ironically they would have been happier if they had remained ignorant of such matters...

  • Welp

    Jump
  • rule

    Jump
  • Babe I love you but... not that much!?!?!? 😛

  • Omg Lemmy still auto plays videos WITH SOUND :-(, I miss my PieFed account so much right now (Cloudflare issue - it happens sometimes).

  • Counterpoint: number must go up! 💲💰💸🤑

  • Actually the OG is ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ (yogthos@lemmy.ml), although we can see the cross-posting chain as well as the true OC attribution in the lower right corner so perhaps no real need to provide such a mention at all?

  • Answer ready: it is 42. Now, would you like to know the question?

  • So should I like... downvote this one then? 🤪

  • Depending on where you are, maybe just "cd".

  • And it's not even one creature or even type of creature. Look up rhizobium.

    Tbf, as we learn more about our gut microbiomes, it turns out that humans are that way as well. Maybe that's why we have the thoughts in our heads vs. the feelings in our guts... (no that's actually not it at all, except... isn't it though?).

  • So it's a B.A.T. signal detector? 🤪🦇

  • (Account issues so trying again)

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world

    Use the Geordi

  • I got busy and did not respond sooner, but wanted to say that I think you are correct: it's not merely the listing of Topics, which e.g. an RSS reader could do, but rather their ranking of those topics that was an enormous part of made Reddit so popular.

    Although didn't some forums offer that functionality, even if not all?

    So as you say it's the Threaded content, ranked by users as to priority order, that people want to see.

    This ofc is all justification after the fact for us here - for whatever reason, people decided on that name, whether they should have or not, and I guess now the question is would a better name be worth the pain of switching? :-)

  • Wow you went right there to the edge, didn't you? (username checks out!)

  • No I did mean up & downvotes, and you added a good perspective. I don't use Mastodon and my main experience there was Kbin, now Mbin, which has both Boosts and actual upvotes (and reduces, which aren't shown, and downvotes).

    I think you are correct: the voting was always the core behind why people liked Reddit, as compared to others at the time.

    Although it seems like people are more adamant about remaining with Threadiverse, for the sake of history.

    But if a new term was to be used, it would be good for it to reflect voting. Like Forumverse does, perhaps?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world

    What should the subset of the Fediverse that is Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed be called?

    Lemmy Be Wholesome @lemmy.world

    I wonder if you'll be able to see this?

    Lemmy Be Wholesome @lemmy.world

    In case you need to read this today 🙏😁

    Uplifting News @lemmy.world

    Reminder that there's no "it's too late, its over" for climate change

    AskUSA @discuss.online

    Does this seem legit? The most common words in place (town/city) names per state in the U.S.

    BestOfLemmy @lemmy.world

    You don't need the Fediverse, we have the Fediverse at home ...

    AskUSA @discuss.online

    What’s a not-entirely-obvious sign that someone is genuinely a good person?

    AskUSA @discuss.online

    How many of yesterday's terrorist events did you hear about actually yesterday?

    Lord Of The Rings Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Better get used to a lot of walking

    Lord Of The Rings Memes @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Old friend

    AskUSA @discuss.online

    How often do you comment/post on Lemmy?

    Videos @sopuli.xyz

    Fareed Zakaria's opinion piece: To save democracy, save its institutions (5:20)

    Political Videos @lemmy.world

    Fareed Zakaria's opinion piece: To save democracy, save its institutions

    Political Discussion and Commentary @lemmy.world

    Fareed Zakaria's opinion piece: To save democracy, save its institutions

    AskUSA @discuss.online

    What style coffee do you prefer? How often do you drink it?

    Texas @lemmy.world

    !askusa@discuss.online - Come chat about anything related to the USA

    AskUSA @discuss.online

    Does anyone want to take over the new AskUSA@discuss.online community to allow for more serious discussions?

    [Closed] Moved to !fedigrow@lemmy.zip @lemm.ee

    Does anyone want to take over the new AskUSA@discuss.online community to allow for more serious discussions?

    Fediverse memes @feddit.uk

    In celebration of the creation of AskUSA@discuss.online