shasta

joined 2 years ago
[–] shasta@lemm.ee -5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was just thinking about this yesterday. These days, Lemmy is just making me depressed. I like to read comments to get further insight to articles, maybe someone trying to point out the author's bias, or a joke. But Lemmy comments are all some variation of "the world is doomed", "kill this person", or "capitalism is the root of all woe". They are neither useful, insightful, or improve my day in any way. Lemmy is making my life less enjoyable. It was already an overall negative and cynical space during the Biden administration; now it is unbearable.

I've been on Lemmy for a long time now, since Reddit killed 3rd party clients with their API change, but now I think I might go back to Reddit. The company itself has a lot of problems, but at least I can get a lot of non-doom content to fill my day.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

"would Luigi approve?"

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Must have done it wrong then?

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Maybe different brackets based on measured testosterone level? The highest tier can be super buff dudes on steroids. Sounds interesting.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

Like Michael Jordan? Very weird

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

A pretty normal one?

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

No, the person you're replying to likely lives in an area with annual assessment limits. This means when they move into their house, they pay taxes on the assessed amount at that time. Every year, even if the assessment shows a 50% increase in value, your tax increase will be capped at something like a 2% increase. Over the course of 30 years this adds up to huge tax savings the longer you stay in one place. The downsides are that it causes more traffic, causes homes to sell less often, and provides less local tax to fund public programs like schools.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a series of bad decisions is required to persue that career path

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

I'd hire him. That's C suite material

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

No, don't English me, bro!

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

That's one way to bolster the ranks.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Especially him!

 

On other apps, when an image or video is posted I can long press on it to copy a direct link to it. The best I could find in Voyager is to copy a link to the lemmy post or open the post in a browser. This makes it hard for me to share memes with friends who don't use Lemmy. But maybe this feature already exists and I don't know where to find it. I just started using Voyager yesterday.

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