Victoria Antoinette

People don’t upvote. You’re more likely to be criticized for a position than engaged with. Opinions that disagree with the hive mind are often quickly downvoted regardless of whether or not the position has validity.

i experience this constantly on lemmy.

org mode

it’s heuristic, so it doesn’t matter what layout you use.

renters bring risks. if the home is on the market, they also make it a half to sell

thank you. this has been a problem since at least November.

!modabuse

Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.

copying isn’t stealing

no, there isn’t. it’s a term coined in the 1940s in colonialist Britain.

His video on First Past the Post voting should be mandatory to watch.

he doesn’t actually state in that video what should be the biggest takeaway: strategic voting is what leads to consolidation of parties, so your best interest longterm is to vote your values, even if doing so has a likelihood of losing short term.

The only supplement you must absolutely take on a vegan diet is vitamin B12.

you’re not a nutritionist. ok, i’m assuming that. but i know you’re not my nutritionist and it’s highly unlikely you’re a nutritionist for anyone here. please do not tell people what their dietary needs are.

it’s correct so i don’t know what your comment means.

those water figures are impossible to track down. can you provide an actual study?

al gore won that election, but votes didn’t decide the winner. don’t blame greens, blame the people who have had power for 100 years and shepherded us into this situation.

snapdrop

it’s not punishment. we aren’t assigning moral agency.

I’m not sure you want to rely on Patreon in any case, since it also relies on the retention of rights for profit. In your scenario, when they upload to Patreon, anyone involved could tell them to get fucked and pay the author nothing.

anyone could do that now. people still get paid.

Exactly, and since it certainly follows a long tail distribution, the rest of the 250,000 creators on patreon make a tiny fraction of that. For the vast majority of people, it doesn’t provide a primary income.

this is true for the vast majority of storytellers and artists and musicians through all of history.

any time it has worked proves you are wrong. the top 50 patreons clear over $100k a year

only one person would need to be able to live on either model to disprove your claim. since that has definitely happened, you’re definitely lying.