Death, taxes and this post on Lemmy

It's a volunteer poll on the Economist. It's wild how excited people are to believe shit like this and use it to talk shit about other people.

I just want some reasonable and active communities. Those "wholesome" based communities often end up feeling really fake.

Anyone considering striking US likely realizes the fallout from that strategy though

I'm sure it's true, but do we poll over everything now? I feel like there are better, more scientific sources to use than a CBS poll.

I just saw a poll about Bluetooth headphones being unhealthy for you earlier so I just feel like this in general and am using this as a place to put my thoughts tbh.

I just feel like we are putting to much faith into opinions of the "masses", and believing what we read online.

A lot of things can be actually proven in other ways.

You must be a car driving capitalist tankie to be hatting on this place.

jk, I definitely agree. This place is way more radicalized than Reddit, or at least it isn't nearly as diluted by bots so it seems more prominent.. Some dope people around here but I'm definitely losing hope that this place will grow into a cool place.

It's all the same topic posts and the same hateful comments, but you can't even find small active communities to get away from it.

YouGov is a volunteer based, reward based, anonymous polling website.

If anyone wants to claim they are a 91 year old martian and just rapid fire clicks through these polls to earn gift cards or whatever, you can sign up within a minute with just an email to verify you. I just did out of curiosity. And they use pretty questionable weighted methodology.

but YouGov is usually the "statistics" for multiple posts of the front page of Lemmy every day.

I don't know shit about this band/this type of music... is it actually the kind of music that only Nazis would listen to?

Like, if someone leaked a Pantera fan list, I guess I wouldn't be on the wagon to ruin all their lives, even though Pantera is pretty well known for racism, shouting White Power and Nazi sautes n shit.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/26/pantera-shows-cancelled-after-frontmans-nazi-salute-prompts-fan-backlash

if you didn't know about Pantera

Not going to lie, I really hate when the internet gets a new favorite phrase. Destroys discussion on the subjects and feels like it's a race for commenters to say the hit phrase.

I find myself wanting to kill time by using my phone and scrolling, even Lemmy, and realizing it's not doing anything for me. Just a comfort scroll. I think I'll probably kick the social media/scrolling habit completely within the next year.

I hate to say it, but we are likely already in the sequel.

was convicted of two counts of misdemeanor trespass and one count of felony conspiracy to trespass last week

What a strange and leading question.

It's an irrelevant question leading into a off topic point that you'd like to make. If you'd like to deliver a point, go ahead and comment it. Not my job to try and land your point for you though.

I'm confused by the whole comment line. Do I seem like I'm outraging, or have any strong opinions any way that needs to be clarified?

It's weird that this is a link to the exact same 25 day old post on the same community.

Museum ≠ old.

I'm sure there are mp3 players in museums as well.

How do you think even/odd detectors work? A team of coders has been working on this else if for years...

If you want to help

https://github.com/samuelmarina/is-even