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Right, they are not meant to show posts in equal manner - freshness & hotness do matter in engagement and are indeed shown higher compared to other posts and comments. But still, a few posts from last night might have only a couple of comments, but since it’s already a few hours old, we don’t reply or engage with it. We judge engagement by these timestamps and so removing timestamps will lift engagement on all posts & comments.

I’d like to suggest removing timestamps on all comments, like you could still toggle a button to see the timestamp of a comment if you wanted to, but the timestamp shown on default doesn’t serve any purpose other than tell the users how fresh or how stale the conversation is. When the conversation is say only a few hours old, many users will choose not to engage because we assume the conversation is over and there isn’t any point in engaging further, so we skip altogether and move on. I can tell from my own experience I’ve done this more than a few times, I’m sure others have as well. When you only have a few thousand users across the world, unlike Reddit, we must preserve the freshness of the few conversations we do have so as to increase engagement from all.

I really don’t think that’s possible if you’re neurodivergent and unmedicated. There are too many bees buzzing in our heads to be that productive.

Seriously, though, I’d rather be blind than deaf.

Woah, I almost wanna say the same too, but on second thought, I’d rather be deaf than blind - that’s because I think eyes are the windows to a person’s soul, and I can peer into anyone’s soul just by eye contact. Too bad my eyesight is aging faster than the rest of me.

I’m a time traveler, I came back from the future just to tell you guys that we will naturally evolve from capitalism to democratic socialism, aka market socialism. It’s still capitalism, but better. You still have free markets, but cooperatives will beat corporations on account of simply being more competitive - you see, in a level playing field, cooperatives don’t need to squeeze their customers, employees, & vendors to maintain a profit margin for their investors, unlike every investor led corporation in the world. You can even ask the incoming mayor of New York about it. Wait a minute, is he a time traveler too?

Using a similar but different word?
It’s likely / mostly / rather possible / necessary.

Being nice to nice people doesn’t take energy at all, instead it energizes us. But being nice to not so nice people, now that takes effort, i.e. use of mental resources, which can only be sustained for so long before the battery drains out, and you need a nap.

Not fair, poor humans waiting patiently, while mice enjoying advanced healthcare and priority treatment!

Lol, good looks dumb cuz he dresses like a nerd, but he’s quietly a genius.

Are you saying batman always loses?

Correct, but remember the very old saying that good prevails over evil. It always has and always will, even in times when it’s hard to believe so.

This too shall pass! I’m personally familiar with the mental concoction of ADHD, ASD, BPD, PTSD, Anxiety etc that some of us carry, and how life can sometimes become so painful and unbearable that you can’t or don’t want to carry on anymore. Rejection and heartbreaks can be extra painful, especially at a young age like yours. So you turn to self hurt and substance abuse and other reckless behaviors. Many here have probably been there, done that. In that moment of misery, a better life seems impossible or even unimaginable. You don’t even care for a better life maybe. But believe me, things get better. Denial and anger will turn into acceptance and peace. The size of your grief will shrink as more things take it’s place. Life itself is much much bigger than any one individual event or feeling, it’s a precious opportunity to experience all that the universe has to offer. You feel you are all alone, as do many young men and women, but that’s not true at all, we are all here for each other. Lastly, I don’t need to even see you, but I’ll tell you that you are inherently beautiful and absolutely worthy of love, as is any living being. Hugs to you, please stay with us.

Paper beats rock.

Yes, idea is to spread power and not allow greed to take over. A Democratic Republic, i.e. a representative democracy is a good start but not good enough - we already have that in America & most countries worldwide, but that didn’t do much. What we need is widespread democratic socialism, i.e. market socialism i.e. co-ops, credit unions, open source etc.

A greedy sociopathic leader with lack of empathy will always cause starvation, be it capitalism or communism or any other system anywhere. Shitty kings, dictators, and colonialists have always caused this since the beginning of time. It ain’t about the system.

Not me, I’ve actually found my fucking mind, but you do have to lose it before you can find it. I’ve been in and out depression over the last few years. I’m no longer worried or anxious, but instead calm and at ease - because now I am able to make sense of the world, and I can clearly see that things will always be alright in the long term.

Any business that has an investor, will naturally become profit-first because that is the only role of the investor - to grow their investment returns.

Profit-first naturally leads to a hierarchy - on top, the bosses & investors who seek the profit, below them, the entire ecosystem of customers, employees, & vendors from which that said profit will be derived.

Profit-first is short-sighted and self-consuming - as it needs to extract more from that ecosystem, quarter after quarter, threatening the very ecosystem that the business was built on, like a slow axe to your own foot.

They don’t teach you that in business school.

1. I will make infinite copies of myself, then 2) I will physically manifest myself in reality in all the different shapes, sizes, & colors I can imagine, then 3) I will experience life through the perspective of each of those infinite copies, one day at a time, one life at a time, 4) remove all memory of being God so the only memory I have in all of my life forms is the lived experience.

WAIT, I AM ALREADY DOING IT!

A goalkeeper in soccer or similar. It’s a thankless job, you save 10 shots, nobody notices. But you miss one and you’ll be called a bum by your own fans. As opposed to a forward striker, who might miss 10 shots, nobody notices. But you make one and you’ll be a hero being paraded on shoulders.