Depends on how exactly it’s implemented, sure. That obviously isn’t the result I’d be looking for.

My point, though, is only that a “downvote” need not mean “hide this kind of post away from the general public”. A downvote can mean something more like “This pissed me off and more people should read it.”

Your position is reasonable if down votes are suppressive, but I wouldn’t develop a content algorithm that treated them as such.

I would use an “engagement” algorithm. Upvoting increases engagement, commenting increases engagement, down voting increases engagement, reporting increases engagement. The viewing time - the time between initially accessing it and viewing a new page - increases engagement.

The most suppressive thing you can do to a piece of content is click away in less than 20 seconds.

The sine qua non of censorship is the authoritarian component missing from your definition. A moderator or administrator removing an article from a forum is censorship. A user demonstrating their disapproval of that article within the forum doesn’t qualify as censorship.

The Oxford definition is not wrong, just incomplete.

That is not at all a reasonable definition of censorship.

It used to be that the best posts would have hundreds of upvotes and hundreds of down votes. They showed +100/-98 and you did mediately knew this was an interesting comment.

Then they stopped showing both up and down, and only showed the summation. 100 upvotes and 98 down votes is now +2, and this comment is now lurking among all the other +2 comments.

Showing the total instead of the ratio was the end of reddiquette, and the earliest Reddit enshittification that I can point to.

Yes.

Romeo and Juliet laws are fairly common. 24 states allow a 2 to 5 year age difference. AFAIK, federal law allows up to a 4-year age difference.

The other 26 seem kinda stupid. Two kids can be in the same class and dating since 6th grade, but for 6 months in their senior year, it’s rape. How does that make sense?

I’m guessing he owes about $1232 in employment taxes…

Fresh meat contains vitamin C, as most animals can synthesize it themselves. Jerky is uncooked, just dried.

Fermentation can develop vitamin C, depending on what you’re fermenting. Cabbage is probably the most famous example, but pretty much everything you ferment produces at least a little.

Jams are preserved by canning, which introduces heat, which destroys vitamin C.

Making jam involves heating the fruit, which destroys the ascorbic acid.

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2021/february/finding-cure-scurvy

Gilbert Blane was appointed to the staff of Admiral George Brydges Rodney as Physician to the Fleet in 1779. Blane was a medical reformer who was convinced by Lind’s original experiment with citrus and appreciated the need for a practical way of storing them. After considerable experimentation, he determined that adding 10 percent “spirits of wine” (i.e., distilled ethyl alcohol) to lemon juice would preserve it almost indefinitely, without destroying its beneficial properties.

The funniest thing would be for Trump to “accidentally” fall out of a 5th floor window while having a private conversation with Putin.

You can create a virtual machine, running within your debian install, to serve as your router. It actually works very well.

I used a headless Debian VM as a router with Shorewall to configure iptables. If I had to do it again, I probably would have used an opensense VM.

$5000-$15,000. If you can’t afford a vasectomy reversal, you can’t afford kids.

While it’s not guaranteed, chances are very good that it can be reversed. If you change your mind later, you can attempt to reverse it.

Nobody should be having kids before the age of 30 anyway.

Trump.doesn’t even know who shits in his pants.

Sometimes you need an up-armored Komatsu D355A to cut that path through the forest.

UPS stores (and many others) offer mailboxes, similar to PO boxes. Unlike PO boxes, they will accept packages from other shippers as well as USPS. Also, they’ll only put mail in your box if it is addressed to you specifically. No bulk mail or “Current Resident” bullshit.

27 years, actually. Specifically, since October 12th, 1998.

I have been looking for a US ISP with the balls to ignore their obligations under the DMCA since the DMCA was implemented.

If the number is excessively multitudinous, feel free to leave out any dial up providers you used back in the late 90s/early 2000s. You can also leave out any ISP that has since merged into another, or gone out of business.

For me, that would leave five names in 27 years, none of which would be a surprise, and all of which issue DMCA letters.

I would love to hear about even one of the many unicorns you’ve engaged over the past quarter century.