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Yeah. It’s the repost functionality common on Mastodon.

Back on Kbin.social I would have some followers from Mastodon, and when I saw a neat comment I would sometimes boost it and thereby push it straight to their feeds.

Same thing would work on Mbin, except that i don’t have followers. Oh well, I still boost posts I find neat.

This I miss from the public downvotes in kbin.social. It was a great way to weed out people i don’t need as part of my internet experience.

This is how it is in mbin. Well, over at the instance I’m using at least.

I find it amusing sometimes, because I can see whether posts have been liked from Mastodon or other services. Gives some insight into how interconnected we really are.

I guess over at Lemmy you can’t currently tell if your post is boosted by a Mastodon user. Sometimes they are, and in theory they can kind of live a life of their own from there on. It’s fun to be able to see when it happens.

A friend of mine keeps doing this. He’ll pretend to be an expert of fucking anything, and you can generally tell immediately that he doesn’t know shit. When he goes on about things that I actually do know things about it’s unbearable, and of course his ego is too fragile to handle being told he’s wrong.

We have a lot of impressive common friends with awesome general knowledge, and I frequently wonder how the hell we have the patience to keep him around. My general knowledge is shite, but at least I’m quite open about being ignorant.

He’s hyper sensitive about social situations, yet introducing him to new people is almost always embarrassing.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, he is a professional psychologist.

I guess it’s bordering on being literal poison. Chilli peppers have evolved specifically to be inedible by mammals. So I guess being obsessed with hot sauce is not a toxic trait per se, but it’s in the neighborhood.

More seriously though, I love spicy food, but not all food is supposed to be spicy. Leave other favours room to breathe as well.

I think you have a point, and it is indeed something different - if two people live together and simply have different preferences or care about different things, it’ll of course lead to some friction.

I think this goes both ways in most relationships. I keep bothering my girlfriend about the bathroom sink and the office desk we share; she complains about me keeping half dirty (half clean) clothes in a pile in the bedroom. That’s not what it’s about, though I think it can get easily confused.

It’s more about the “I don’t know how to use the washing machine/book bus tickets/change bags in the vacuum cleaner/cook a pie/change bedsheets/clean the toilet/make a vinegrette/change diapers/whatever”, where instead of an emphasis on learning the skill it’s only left to the other person.

It’s not all men, but it is common. I think it’s a systematic issue that men don’t carry the full responsibility for. They’re raised by mothers who do everything for them, and while their sisters are taught how to take care of themselves they are simply left to “be boys”. And then they go out in the world and find a woman who can effectively replace their mothers.

It’s the kind of guys who move away from home but keep going back to their mothers whenever they need laundry done.

Yeah, I kind of agree. Toxic masculinity is a thing, but it doesn’t mean all masculinity is automatically toxic.

Then again, usually when I’m hanging out with guys and the testosterone level runs a bit high, someone will crack a joke about it and we’ll laugh at ourselves.

I think having a fragile ego and not being able to joke about yourself and/or your masculinity probably does make it on in the toxic list.

When we have female friends in common and suddenly it turns out they want to fuck her and they assume I’m only hanging out with her because I want to as well.

I have never had any men brag to me about their sexual encounters; generally the people I end up hanging out with don’t make sexist comments about women in public or anything like that. But this bullshit I’ve experienced on numerous occasions.

I guess it’s not really a “toxic trait” as much as “being toxic as fuck”.

Well, men do it better

This is why I think weaponized incompetence is a better term than willful incompetence.

I don’t think it’s even always intentional, conscious, or willful. It’s just, well, “not giving a fuck”, and getting away with it because women are always around to deal with their shit.

Ugh.

If you consciously change your behaviour once there’s no women around… Yeah, chances are you won’t see me again unless I’m absolutely forced to.

It’s like some people think they’re contractually obliged to make a sexist joke or some shit. Thankfully I don’t meet these people often.

I discontinued my subscription because it’s stupidly expensive and they keep investing in dumb AI shit I don’t want rather than making search cheaper and/or better.

Gotta admit, I do miss it. It’s a neat service. But not for that price.

Yeah, time and energy is key. But I do notice quite a bit of these types of quality interactions here - it’s very much appreciated! :)

I completely agree with this observation. Generally if people get upset about my posts here it’s people I’m close to agreeing with, who just cannot fathom that I don’t agree with them on the details.

I keep thinking about the People’s Front of Judea.

I generally downvote in two scenarios. One is if someone is being a jerk, which is not necessarily enough for a report but always annoying. The other is if they are sharing misinformation, even if I believe they mean nothing bad with it.

I think it has it’s place as a way to reduce visibility.

And sometimes I enjoy getting downvotes - there are times I knowingly rub a group of people (generally authoritarians) the wrong way, and I’m happy to see the message is well received. ;)

Had young Morrissey known how pathetic old Morrissey would end up, he would no doubt have written an incredible soul searching song about it.

I used to think ThinkPads were good because they make conservative decisions in product development and assure quality every step of the way.

Turns out that’s bullshit. I am on my second ThinkPad since 2019. The first one stopped receiving charges, and I got it fixed with a new motherboard. Now it kernel panicks every 15 minutes for no good reason, so it basically came back from repair effectively bricked. The second one one of two charging ports are not working reliably, and the physical mouse buttons and the nipple joystick don’t work at all. I’m just waiting for the day the remaining charging port breaks.

I’ve been careful with both, always carrying them in a solid sleeve and treating them well. My Fairphone goes through a lot worse and never has any problems.

I really would not recommend ThinkPad any more.

I suspect a 2012 ThinkPad is more likely to still be operative than a 2019 one, sadly. My experiences with recent models has not been good.

I have been recommended ThinkPad for this, but I have had terrible experiences; the charging port breaks, and it’s soldered to the mother board rendering the entire machine bricked. The quality of these machines is not what I’d expect.

My next laptop will be a a Framework. I guess the recent launch of a new model means there might be some old ones on the market, even though the crowd buying Framework laptops might hold on to them a bit longer than other people.

If proximity to anything else than nature is not a priority, you can get amazing houses in rural Norway dirt cheep.

Costs of living there is another question entirely, of course.