Well deserved 1-star rank if you ask me! That will show them.

If the food was great, shouldn't that fact alone give at least one star more? Why are people do fixated with 1 and 5 stars? Don't they realize there are three other possibilities to rank? I'm upset.

The nuance! The nuance!

I can think of a couple of uses from the top off my head.

1. For parents. This is a way to control what kind of products your children could get, giving them a limited sense of control.

2. There are people that are not very generous when it comes to giving away something. Like those who won't give money to beggars because they believe beggars will spend it in drugs. But in this situation they think they keep some control on the money they give away.

In both cases, if the person is smart enough, they will find out how to make cash from the gift card anyway. However, they'd be really gifted salespersons if they can get the whole value back.

Well, my guess is people got depressed discussing who is the less genocidal candidate to govern the most military powerful country on Earth.

Ah, I see. Well, I had a discussion in that thread too and it felt off at some point. I replied about a similar crime backed by the CIA and some people accused me of whataboutism, while the other guy assumed I was denying the Tiananmen Square massacre. That was not the case.

I used to participate in a subreddit where a permanent set of people, including moderators, would downvote you to oblivion as soon as they read a divergent opinion, though, the subreddit wasn't about a specific ideology. It wasn't about arguments, it was systemic. They would eventually ban you if you insisted on your points of view. Both things are shitty, in my opinion, and while one is more permanent than the other, the banning felt at least more straightforward to me.

What I find excessive is the instance ban.

Please keep the same minSDK, please, please, please, pretty please! And thanks for taking over such a great project!

EDIT: Oh, well. It sure needed to be changed.

Well, I'm here and I don't know what you all are talking about. And this is sincere, truly don't understand what's the issue, could you point me to some of these controversial situations/discussions/measures?

I have a feeling that, if you ask for any specific instance, you'll get people complaining and blocking that instance for their own reasons. So, I'd let my users decide whether they block or not a user or a whole instance. For example, I don't like some of the communities in lemmy.world and I complain about it because it just feels the same as being in reddit, but having access to a different point of view is very valuable to me, so I don't block them.

I also have to add that I use lemmy with the voting system completely disabled. I hate the voting system because it shapes people's opinions to fit in some specific communities. This is why I think blocking instances should only be used as a last resort against things like blatant spam, boycotting, CP, hate speech and the likes.

They are rewriting Neo Launcher. Some alpha builds are available for testers right now, but yeah, it will take time to get to stable.

Oh, sure, Mr. Enshittifist, you can call me that.

Today I learned about AI agents in the news and I just can think: Jesus. The example shown was of an AI agent using voice synthesis to bargain against a human agent about the fee for a night in some random hotel. In the news, the commenter talked about how the people could use this agents to get rid of annoying, reiterative, unwanted phone calls. Then I remembered about that night my in-laws were tricked to give their car away to robbers because they thought were told my sister in law was kidnapped, all through a phone call.

Yeah, AI agents will free us all from invasive megacorporations. /s

I'll take sleeping pills to get through it.

Unbelievable, but at the same time, being the USA the military hegemony it is, unsurprising too that these are words said by their leader.

American democracy in action.

I stopped using Ventoy. I don't trust the OSs installed by means of it, sadly. Also, lost any hope of a clarification on the issue. Yes, you should not use it for the time being.

Jigsaw puzzles. Start with a couple of hundreds of pieces and then go with the ones of thousands. Also gardening, but you need to have a garden or enough space to have plants inside your home.

Is that a debate? Of course it happened. All massacres are inexcusable.

You sure react in favor of the USA government. I mentioned a case of a massacre of hundreds of students in a public square in a completely different country because it is related to the OP. The treatment of this case was the same: "nothing happened here, nothing to see". The USA, through the CIA, got involved in the whole thing. Your reaction? You accuse me of "whataboutism", overlooking the fact of the massacre. You do not even mention anything about it with your "nice whataboutism". Well, it was not nice at all, but it happened. My intention was to show another horrible and similar case of deadly authoritarianism against students. I'm expecting people can hold two or more similar crimes against humanity in their brains for a while.

Hilarious? It would be literally fantastic.

I don't think I can do memes of crimes against humanity, but thank you for the suggestion. Getting people to know, or be more aware, about the hideous activities of entities like the CIA is enough for me.