Downvote means incorrect/unhelpful/unrelated

I’ve never before actually seen anyone argue that downvotes should be used for stuff that’s incorrect, especially when it’s not touted as being correct in the first place. Downvotes are for “the thread would be a better place without this”.

Either way, the OP here isn’t even stating anything as fact, but openly speculating. If just can’t fathom why anyone would downvote someone for being open about their ignorance and freely speculating/hypothesizing over an answer. The only thing that does is contribute to the discussion by adding a new facet/idea people can respond to.

Edit: Also, “very unlikely” != “incorrect”. Even if downvoting was used for incorrect answers, it would be wrong to downvote here since the post is asking a question, and a question, more or less by definition, cannot be incorrect.

First of all: I hate that you’re downvoted when you’re explicitly up-front about having zero expertise on this, before putting forward a completely valid hypothesis.

Secondly: It’s very unlikely that formatting is the culprit here. I/O operations (read/write) are far slower than CPU operations, especially on spin-discs (like HDD’s), they can be several orders of magnitude slower. When you copy data, it’s basically

• Read data (I/O)
• Possibly do some formatting, scanning, whatever (CPU)
• Write data (I/O)

Whichever of these is your choke-point will determine your speed. It’s very unlikely that a pure copy operation will be choked by the CPU-bound task. Much more likely that the read/write speed of the HDD is the culprit.

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Had something like this happen to me. Luckily, we have laws in place stating that collections companies cannot follow up disputed claims. So I emailed the collections company, with the people that sent the claim to them on CC, telling them I disputed the claim (with some attachments to back up why). They responded by basically saying “sorry, our bad, the people that sent this claim can pound sand.” Then I never heard anything more about it.

What sucks though, is that it’s really stressful to have something go to collections. Most people would probably just have paid, because they get stressed out and don’t know the law.

Full disclaimer: This law may very well not exist where you live.

The worst conceivable argument: When someone tries to shut you down by claiming that “you’re always so combatative, why can’t you just let this go?”

My brother in Christ… you are arguing with me. You are provably being at least as combative as myself. Why can’t YOU just let this go? And of course, if you do anything other than let them have their way, they take that as proof that you never let anything pass.

Awesome, thanks!

I’ve been thinking of self-hosting a server (and some other stuff)for a while. I hope you don’t mind that I post this comment just so I (hopefully) can try getting back to you for tips when I get around to buying the hardware.

Am I the only person that’s extremely put off (and in a way intrigued) by Americans hang up with “race”. Like, even the fact that there are “official” races is very strange to me. In my country we absolutely operate with a concept of “ethnicity”, but that’s not set in stone, and is a kind of mix of “where do your ancestors come from”, “what is your phenotype”, and “what culture do you identify with”. The idea of having a “race” that is set in stone and that people actually care about is pretty absurd to me.

Regarding the very last point: Won’t his kids retain citizenship regardless if they were born in the US, in which case they have a citizenship in their own right (not tied to their father)?

My impression was that you got a US citizenship if you were born on US soil, regardless of the status of your parents?

I would say that this directly targets the people that can already clearly afford the fines easily enough that they keep speeding enough to get caught. Someone that is severely hurt by the fines are already likely to be deterred from speeding by the fines. This addresses the people that eat the fines and keep speeding again and again.

It’s one of the most fundamental principles of chemistry and physics. It was discovered by Antoine Lavoisier in the late 18th century, and you can only meaningfully break it during nuclear reactions (fusion/fission). If any container is gaining mass, it is either a dying star or there is more mass entering the container than leaving it. This also applies to the human body: If you are gaining mass, it is because there is more going in than out, otherwise you’ve broken pretty much all known physics (or you’re about to go supernova).

You won’t gain net weight my that mechanism though, you’ll just grow more dense. Mass is a conserved quantity, so if you’re gaining more muscle mass than you’re losing fat, that extra mass is coming from somewhere. That somewhere is your food.

Or conclude that they were accumulating mass some other way, such as

• Accumulating water
• Being severely constipated
• Some obscure bone disease that causes them to accumulate absurd amounts of minerals

My bet would be on (1) and/or (2).

Water content could be increasing.

I honestly think that whether people like or dislike them is a bit beside the point. I don’t think I can mention any other family “dynasty” that has had the same consistent political power as the Kennedys over decades in the modern world. And I live in a Monarchy.

I seem to remember reading that the US navy comes in second (which makes sense considering that a single carrier has a larger air wing than most countries air forces) but the point still stands.

I don’t know for certain, but can’t really imagine that being the case. There are several reasons I can’t imagine something going viral off lemmy per now:

• 1. The combined user mass of lemmy is probably smaller than the critical mass needed to really go viral

• 1a. This could be “worked around” if someone reposted from lemmy to some other, larger network. Still, I wouldn’t say that meant something “went viral off lemmy”, since that would imply it went viral before being reposted.

• 2. Lemmy doesn’t (by default) push heavily to get trending stuff into everyones feed.

• 2a. I say “by default” because I’m assuming someone could set up an instance designed around maximising the views of trending material.

• 3. Slightly related to 1, but afaik, there are few, if any, very big social media personalities on here. For something to go viral, you’re basically reliant on either an algorithm catching on to your stuff and shoving it in everyone’s face or some person with a huge following shoving it in everyone’s face.
• 4. The very system of lemmy (following communities rather than users) makes it extremely difficult for any individual user to gather a large enough following to make things go viral by posting/sharing them

Basically: Too small user mass, no big personalities, and a “following system”/visibility algorithm built around promoting interesting and healthy media consumption rather than cultish behaviour prevents things from going viral off lemmy.—