Huge book nerd, chemist, data analytics developer

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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Hm, alright. It’s gonna be one of:

    • Fully completing Majora’s Mask with a bud, going through each of the mask quests and figuring them out together was amazing
    • Having a hilarious good time smashing through Mystical Ninja Goemon with another friend
    • My friend group as a whole organizing around games of Smash 64/Melee for our own tournaments
    • Halo 1-3 co-ops and multi with my brother and cousin



  • I get you, altho that I’d just report.

    If we took a less spammy/insane thing for example though, like just a low quality post, I understand that. Not objectionable enough to report, and no utility in responding because it’s just noise and you’d just increase the noise. And there is utility in getting rid of it (or at least deemphasizing it) because it gives space to actual discussions.

    I think that’s a reasonable use case for downvotes. It’s definitely not the only way they are used (e.g. disagree button), but valid anyway. There are other mechanisms to sort this way too (e.g. number of likes + age of comment, so old comments with no/few likes sink - new junk still sits at the surface for a bit tho, possibly longer than if downvotes could drop em). But worth more thought for sure.


  • Why is that the exact opposite of what you want?

    If there’s something objectionable in a rule breaking way, report. Otherwise, this seems like you literally just don’t want to have discussions, which is certainly your prerogative but then what exactly are you getting out of this?







  • Yeah, I think this attitude that you can’t dislike dogs is actively harmful, both as an unnecessary social stigma and to dogs themselves. Like, this cultural idea that you should just have and enjoy having dogs contributes to bad dog ownership, because people end up owning dogs that they don’t properly care for because they think it’s what they’re supposed to do, or that it’ll all be sunshine and roses.

    Dogs are needy pets (especially puppies, lord help me)! They need physical, mental, and social stimulation to be happy, if in varying amounts by breed/individual, and not to mention training. You gotta be prepared to (and ideally enjoy) provide these things.

    I’m about as far away on the dog opinion spectrum from you as it gets - I love em big, goofy, and slobbery, and if I was independently wealthy I’d be some weirdo that lived in a mansion with an entire pack. That said, it is okay not to like dogs.