[-] ieightpi@lemmy.world 2 points 27 minutes ago

Fair point. I should not have grouped progressives with Liberals. But in the current US political landscape, Liberals tend to move policy forward even if they are onlu tiny incremental changes.

[-] ieightpi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

This makes a lot of sense actually. Conservative values represent upholding the status quo and at this exact moment that is how society works. So in the moment they see society following their values which makes them happy.

Progressives and Liberals are programmatic and critical of society and see things that could be better. That inherently makes you less happy with what's going on around you since you can imagine a better world.

Yes ignorance is indeed bliss when it comes to being conservative.

[-] ieightpi@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

Blessed ๐Ÿ™ /s

[-] ieightpi@lemmy.world 68 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

What's really interesting is to look at the time scale when each our pets were first domesticated. Dogs domestication happened between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago, while the cat started becoming domesticted only 4000 years ago. Pretty crazy to think how much of a difference their is in the time it took each of them to become adaptive to human society. Makes you wonder what house cats will be like given the time frame dogs have had.

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submitted 8 months ago by ieightpi@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world

Hopefully things change once lemmy.world updates to 0.19 with scaled sorting. And maybe you guys and gals have some advice for fixing my issue.

To keep my feed fresh I subscribed to all the big communities full of memes. They do have engagement beyond funny jokes, but I'm tired of how political everything is.

I'm not trying to bury my head in the sand, on the contrary, im highly aware how much fascism has taken its grips on the world. But I don't need to be reminded everytime I'm on lemmy.

So I'm hoping once scaled sorting is on lemmy.world, the lemmyverse will transform. I hope I start seeing my hobbyist community come to life.

Or if people have recommendations for large communities not full of politics that works too. Maybe memes and shitposts aren't for me.

[-] ieightpi@lemmy.world 71 points 9 months ago

Upper class problems

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Why we might be alone (www.youtube.com)
submitted 9 months ago by ieightpi@lemmy.world to c/space@lemmy.world

A public lecture from a scientist adding to the conversation. What makes this lecture interesting is he is not disproving that alien life can exist, but instead trying to curb expectations because of the little data we have to back up claims. More importantly is the message that it is important for scientists to be care of biases when discussing this topic.

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Why We Might Be Alone (www.youtube.com)
submitted 9 months ago by ieightpi@lemmy.world to c/videos@lemmy.world

A public lecture from a scientist adding to the conversation. What makes this lecture interesting is he is not disproving that alien life can exist, but instead trying to curb expectations because of the little data we have to back up claims. More importantly is the message that it is important for scientists to be care of biases when discussing this topic.

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[-] ieightpi@lemmy.world 57 points 11 months ago

Can we stop calling this shit AI? It has no intelligence

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These guys are prolific right now. 2 albums this year? Love it.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ieightpi@lemmy.world to c/videos@lemmy.world

Kurzgesagt took 4 years to put together this video. It's quite profound if you stick with it, with a great soundtrack. We really have been here in the blink of an eye.

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A couple weeks behind, but life's been busy. Can't believe its been 9 years since Pink Lemonade! But this album was worth the wait. I absolutely love how his voice reminds me of Cedric Bixler-Zavala from the Mars Volta.

Rock music has been good lately.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ieightpi@lemmy.world to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

Lemmy is still small and growing, so trying to use your subscribed feed of smaller communities, mixed in with larger communities leaves you with a very uneven feed as your scroll. I like being subscribed to the largest Technology community, but also I am subscribed to the Movies and TV community. One is more active with posts and more comments, and the other is not so much. In this scenario, the current algorithms will always show a feed full of technology posts for pages, and you wont end up seeing Movies and TV until you scroll for a awhile.

I understand that the issues is, "The community isn't active enough". Fair. But could prioritizing smaller communities in the algorithm help these small communities become more active then?

If there was way for the subscribed feed to better spread out all of your subscribed communities over your front page, I think this would help smaller communities get more attention. Plus it would be nice to see my smaller communities showing up at the top of my feed. Instead it shows 5 Lemmy Shitposts, 5 Memes and 5 Technology posts, before I see anything else.

Im no programmer, so Im not going to act like I think this would be easy or possible, but I thought id throw this idea out there and maybe it will get some traction.

[-] ieightpi@lemmy.world 109 points 1 year ago

The real travisty here is The Verge trying to install Chrome instead of Firefox

[-] ieightpi@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago

Now that's a top quality shitpost

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ieightpi@lemmy.world to c/alternativenation@lemmy.world

They haven't done anything innovative in a quite some time, but they are consistent. Still love their style and sound.

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Does Spotify have a way to see if your computer is recording with your DAC's stereo mix? And if so, is there a way around it?

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[-] ieightpi@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

Trains and Trams please and thank you

[-] ieightpi@lemmy.world 342 points 1 year ago

Yay for Firefox

[-] ieightpi@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago

I don't care if the DeLorean is impractical. I think it's one of the classiest and timeless looking cars out there.

[-] ieightpi@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

Im really confused by this sentiment. Ive been using Firefox since like 2007 and I was just a teenager who didn't know any better.

Its been working fine for 16 years now.

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