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@ FaceDeer @fedia.io

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Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.

Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.

  • Why can people see who upvotes and who downvoted post on Lemmy?

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  • Can't see who downvoted, though. I've actually considered switching instances over this since that's the most important thing to "be serious" with, it'd be nice if people were more judicious with their downvotes and having them be an obvious public thing might make people think twice about that. But the whole upvote/downvote thing in general just seems like a broken concept to me a this point and I don't care all that much about it.

  • Why can people see who upvotes and who downvoted post on Lemmy?

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  • Depends on the instance, mine is an mbin instance but the upvotes and downvotes are hidden.

    I remember coming across a site where you could put in a Fediverse URL and it would tell you who had upvoted and downvoted it, presumably it had an instance in the background that was tracking all that.

    Edit: lemvotes.org, linked below by another comment.

  • Trump Is Making an Enemy of the Gun Lobby

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  • Canada has no intent of pursuing free trade deal with China, says PM after Trump threat

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  • It's worth explaining to Canadians, though. Explaining to Trump is somewhat of a Socratic method for announcing simple concepts to the world.

  • Canada has no intent of pursuing free trade deal with China, says PM after Trump threat

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  • Ragebait. People love being angry.

  • Canada has no intent of pursuing free trade deal with China, says PM after Trump threat

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  • This isn't appeasement. It's right there in the quoted text, for crying out loud.

    We have adults running Canada's foreign affairs. That means we won't be seeing idiotic Trump-style knee-jerk reactions like abruptly trying to go all-in with free trade agreements to other countries without any concern for nuance. Especially not countries like China, which want to be hegemons just as much as America does and would love to get its hooks into Canada this way.

    But the moment any nuance gets introduced into Canada's reaction, the moment there's a speech that uses careful diplomatic language instead of gung-ho blithering about how bad we think Americans are, it gets this "Carney's caving! Appeasement!" Reaction. It's wearying.

  • Trump threatens Canada with 100% tariff if it makes trade deal with China

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  • The "moment" is the duration of the Trump administration.

    Lots of people are keen to blame everything on Trump, imagining that if he would just go away everything would go back to "normal." But Trump is not the cause of this, he is the symptom of this. America has been trending in this direction for many decades now, with increasingly corrupt and authoritarian/isolationist governments that the electorate has been putting into power. It's not going to suddenly reverse if Trump suffers a fatal brain clog tomorrow. There might be a moment of respite but that's not something to depend on as a long-term change for the better, only as breathing room to further prepare for America's continued degradation.

  • Trump threatens 100% tariffs on all Canadian goods if Canada 'makes a deal with China'

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  • Trump threatens Canada with 100% tariff if it makes trade deal with China

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  • It's not really a "moment", this is the cumulation of a long-term trend.

  • Trump threatens 100% tariffs on all Canadian goods if Canada 'makes a deal with China'

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  • Do it, you fat orange pussy. You still don't understand what tariffs are.

  • The White House Confirms It Altered Photo of Arrested Protester to Depict Her Sobbing: ‘The Memes Will Continue’

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  • They don't understand what a "meme" is.

    Not surprising, they don't understand most things.

  • Guess Carney really pissed off the orange turd.

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  • In fact, I haven't actually read his "letter." I saw some headlines and can guess what it's about.

  • Trump says he's withdrawing invitation for Carney to join his Gaza 'Board of Peace'

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  • But how else will we get rid of the $1 billion that Trump wanted us to pay him?

  • Guess Carney really pissed off the orange turd.

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  • Anyone want to tell him we're not paying attention?

  • Guess Carney really pissed off the orange turd.

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  • Took Trump a while to understand it.

  • Trump releases bizarre plans for ‘New Gaza’ featuring luxury apartments and coastal tourism

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  • How nice of them to build such beautiful apartment buildings for the Gazans to live in.

    The Gazans get to live in Gaza, right?

  • Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs

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  • Ah, low numbers of seeds. Must've just not wanted to wait.

  • Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs

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  • Which, as I said, seems strange. Why don't those businesses just download the torrents?

  • Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs

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  • Seems strange. Anna's Archive makes their collection available for bulk download as torrent files, they shouldn't need to "cut a deal" for access to that. Just download the torrent and now you've got the whole collection available locally.