poopkins

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[–] poopkins 10 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Ironically, I've been downvoted for saying this in response to somebody sympathizing with my previous downvoted comment that was expanding in support of somebody's highly upvoted comment with some background.

I think the general sentiment on Lemmy is that any comment reply must surely be in disagreement and receives an automatic downvote. Mostly I visit the comments for discourse and upvote interesting threads of conversation.

In my opinion, really there should be no downvote button.

[–] poopkins -3 points 11 months ago

I've learned from this community that piracy isn't theft, yet Nintendo's attorney said to the court, "It’s for that reason that we do all we can to prevent games on Nintendo systems from being stolen."

Why is the attorney allowed to lie to the court? Shouldn't he be disbarred and prosecuted himself?

[–] poopkins 1 points 1 year ago
[–] poopkins 1 points 1 year ago

Not everything has to be a debate; my comment is simply there to add to the conversation in the thread. Perhaps it can be argued that speed cameras in themselves are a form of traffic calming.

[–] poopkins 3 points 1 year ago

Who's Fred? Also, perhaps related, what's kerning?

[–] poopkins 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I believe it's more complex than this: governments have some obligation to create infrastructure that's safe for everybody. Simply slapping a speed camera to fine drivers doesn't make the road safer. By comparison, the Dutch have a terrific way of designing roads in such a way that drivers adapt to the conditions, for instance through the road surface and deliberately placing vegetation near the road to help drivers accurately perceive their speed.

[–] poopkins 9 points 1 year ago

This guy hated Japan so much that he joined an anti-Japanese extremist group to kill his countrymen, then only to live out the rest of his years in Japan and die there at the age of 70. What an odd species we are.

[–] poopkins 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Calm down there, sugartits.

[–] poopkins 1 points 1 year ago

I find it intriguing that you're only just now discovering the challenge facing many smartphone users in the United States, where the use of iMessage is dominant.

The problem isn't with 1:1 chats, but with being excluded from group chats. If everybody is chatting on iMessage, I'm sure you can find the challenge in getting everybody to use your preferred alternative.

[–] poopkins 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The onus is upon him to force all his friends, family and other contacts to switch? That doesn't seem reasonable.

[–] poopkins 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] poopkins 1 points 1 year ago

Right: public works are content in the public domain where the copyright has expired and Creative Commons licenced content is, well, licenced.

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