AceTKen

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[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

I am absolutely in the same boat. I would love to listen to Jeff as well and every time he has a guest on I make sure to grab the podcast, but I can't listen to one person podcasts. He absolutely needs a co-host or guests every week.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

What? That's not correct at all. The leading cause of death for women is heart disease, which accounts for approximately one in three female deaths each year. "Men" or any derivatives thereof on most statistical lists are below even common mosquitoes (malaria) as causes of death. A woman is more likely to be killed by their own kidneys than by a man.

Don't spread needless culture war scare bullshit.

Source: The goddamn CDC.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ohhhh, THERE'S the boner I was looking for! Thanks bro.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Mostly acid reflux, I fear.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago

I haven't been pumped for a specific contestant on the show like this since Noel Fielding.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Yeah, it's a pretty dumb slang.

You know some people say they have an automatic reaction to the word "moist"? I have that with the slang above.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago (5 children)

What an odd thing to display. I wonder what their reasoning is for this?

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ooh, would you happen to know whereabouts? I can't seem to locate it. Sorry...

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sure! So, for example, our current weekly topic and this new topic by a user have been downvoted by user named @Pfeffy@lemmy.world. Looking around, there's a few others within they've downvoted as well with no upvotes anywhere. Checking the modlog shows they've been banned from other communities for vote manipulation as well (among other things). They don't need to be able to do this.

Checking older posts, I see that someone named @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca had gone in and downvoted dozens of things with no upvotes. Nearly every topic we had at the time, in fact (or at least as many as I looked at). This is not only against community rules, but it's a pretty shit thing to do.

We've also got old blank accounts like @arnacre@lemmy.world and @lanky@feddit.nl with zero posts or anything of any kind downvoting. They're not contributing anything anywhere, so they don't need to be there at all.

That's just a few examples, but there's more.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)

WOW. Community mods can now see votes and I can now verify things I've been suspecting for a long time. There's a ton of non-posting users going into the community and downvoting every topic in it.

Does anyone know how we can ban someone from a community for vote manipulation if they've never posted there?

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

Not disagreeing with anything you said and enjoyed your perspective, but just wanted to add a personal thought to the end.

I don't believe that hate speech can survive in a well-behaved logical discussion because most hate speech isn't logical. This is one reason I feel you should never ban or even discourage discussion. If you figure out the hows and whys of someone you see as hateful, you can often expose and dismantle their faulty reasoning. If we can't logically describe why an idea is bad instead of relying on personal morality-du-jour, then we are relying on faith, not intellect. Faith can not be relied upon for logical guidance because it is blind and often astoundingly stupid. Banning offensive speech as a blanket to extinguish thought is how churches (past and present) deal with dissension and detractors; it used to be immoral and offensive to be against God or interpretations of the higher-up holy rollers, and is still considered so in some countries.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Edited for clarity.

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