Note that this account is meant to be specially prejudicial against instances, communities, users (even admins) who either don't seem to be acting in good faith or if they claim to do so while being inconsistent or applying a heavy dose of favoritism.
The determination is substance based and involves whether they are condoning harassment or making unevenly applied claims and accusations, not just downvotes.
This means I'm not ignoring them, just not even seeing them
Honestly, someone like JD Vance believes what it is convenient for him to believe, and right now it is convenient for him to believe the same sort of drivel that the base dumb enough to build their authoritarian regime around believes. I don't think it was coincidence that soldiers were spouted biblical narratives preceding the latest Iran invasion, these are the sort of loyal reliable zealots whose lack of foundation in reality is actually an asset for them. They are the ones being promoted and getting the jobs at the root of their command chains.
Unless it's the downvote circlejerks they are in on, Funny how normal users have to go through exceptional means to find out who is upvoting and downvoting while mods and admins clearly aren't subjectively performing on the feature. Sounds to me like the worse pattern is excluding someone from entirely unrelated communities, and that modlog hardly offers an explanation.
How much do you want to bet the powermod/admin saw their comments downvoted and that was basically what fueled their ban rage moment? And how much do you want to bet that that user probably has an alt user to do the same, with several months between any actual comments but a daily tabulation of upvotes and downvotes, just to avoid the same scrutiny?
This doesn't need to be justified, if downvotes are a problem then they should be particularly addressed in the platform (and they are, and sites like reddit have already done so for years), besides the obvious of making them as easy to see as they are to mods or admins. By all means allow communities to vote neuter non-active participants.
Lemmy has a "robust" "community" blocking system (that is easily circumvented by alts - and I've even seen admins encourage this over just working out issues and retaining that bit of traceability to an actual person) because users are forced to leave their "communities", they can't just choose to switch to a moderation team for the same community. And yes, only a very small portion of most "communities" ever care that deeply about any particular mods, which ironically they would actually do if they had a choice between competing moderating teams instead of the community dramas we've had as a result of this "robust" system.
Incidentally, regarding the whole blocking thing, you've got a post on Ye Power Trippin' Bastards that does not make your own moderation look good FYI.
The data set and the algorithm are still there, it's just not available to the public anymore. I wonder who will still get access to it. This just seems to follow the general trend of oligarchs encouraging startups to do anything and everything to disrupt an industry, go as far as they can, and then pull them out through any pressure, government or corporate, as they try to scavenge what they want.
Besides that, there's still alternatives alive, local or otherwise, and I doubt the people who were using Sora are suddenly going to stop without trying to search for alternatives first. People are celebrating after just chopping off the first head of the hydra.
While many of them continue to suck up to the pedophile-in-chief. The irony. It's very telling that they place all the blame to the last link in the chain, they may very well be able to include entrapment in their defense.
A. Another comment (and my own observations - not even in the US, so no idiocracy factor either) prove otherwise. They claim it's to deal with bodily fluids (I guess sweat doesn't count for them).
B. Not a shared reality. Your market, your choices I guess, but even amazon.com (US market) disagrees on the prices you are claiming.
The only draft I would accept is a police instead of a military one. Force some civilian eyes on how cops handle themselves, wash the profession enough so that it has to survive public scrutiny or otherwise get eventually called out on it.
They did the bare minimum of just eliminating or replacing those in charge of enforcing it, because they lack so much basic decency they don't even feel the need to feign.
Funny how you end that last comment, given what it is ... And funny how parting from such a class based obsession, you twist the argument back to the default that's served to get us to ignore reality. Your argument isn't anything new, it is what we are fed up with.
The first affected by this are the people who don't have job mobility or wealth. Those are farms, and by "family farms" I I assume you mean the big corporate land owners who end up buying them. These are migrant workers. Their conditions also go to the bottom - they have more ready access to social services but their wealth and acquisition power is the first to be affected.
They are the ones who are already at the bottom, and are seeing their quality of life tank first. Housing, the economy, they are the first to have to adapt their standards to those of the migrants coming in to perform those jobs. They have to say goodbye to things like the family "farm" and homes you so romanticize and their best hope is to at least be able to use the advantage to move into urban jobs, not because they are more educated but because they pay better. They are the first stuck with "owning nothing" and coming to terms with it.
Same story for the large meat processing companies in Germany who need more butchers and the jobs they displace, except that now it makes it harder for those at the bottom to move into jobs like them. Was it something you were considering because as a migrant farmer your life was going to shit with the increasing cost of living? Not a choice anymore. I laugh at the notion that anyone could consider these "middle class", but then again you just regurgitate the same old. It doesn't have to be with the lowest paid jobs, either, this has been going on with the tech industry to great effect for years. This has resulted in countries that really don't have any control of where their own technology sector is heading off to but rather one that belongs to one of a few international corporations keeping the cycle going.
Migrant farmers and workers have it worse than ever, unless they are coming from far worse economies, I find your argument laughable at best. Maybe the reason you are so blind is because you've already accepted working at age 5 and shit standards as a norm. Meanwhile, governments become increasingly corrupt and the increasing wealth gap between the leaders and the lowest rung of society is only praised by comments like yours.
I'd recommend to be sure to use them locally as well, the LLM services don't need any more money and the ones you can download are still pretty useful regardless of how many astroturfers may want to downplay their usefulness. Just use with care and under the assumption that you are dealing with a charismatic yet frequently hallucinating liar.
I mean, yes, but is this particularly unpopular? I get the sense that there are plenty, but if they aren't erotic they don't tend to focus on the NSFW aspect. It then depends on the artist, you just have to look.
There's basically two sorts of people: the one's willing to overlook the aesthetics and the one's who aren't. There's a reason hospital staff wear them. They are not designed to look good, they are designed to let the humidity from your sweat evaporate instead of letting it accumulate into a damp breeding ground ripe for a host of foot conditions. For some people it will matter more than others.
There's plenty of Crocs designs that don't look ugly, but I hope they continue to be unpopular as that keeps them cheap. It's risky to switch to other brands with this sort of design, Crocs got it right.
Honestly, someone like JD Vance believes what it is convenient for him to believe, and right now it is convenient for him to believe the same sort of drivel that the base dumb enough to build their authoritarian regime around believes. I don't think it was coincidence that soldiers were spouted biblical narratives preceding the latest Iran invasion, these are the sort of loyal reliable zealots whose lack of foundation in reality is actually an asset for them. They are the ones being promoted and getting the jobs at the root of their command chains.