up/down voting is simply a way to help comments you think are good, or agree with, become more/less dominant in the thread.

In some cases, comments are useful to explain why - but often that's just not the case.

Fireworks are brilliant. I think you live somewhere with cultural issues... people reserve the right to party and annoy everyone else...

They have their time and place - and 2am sounds more like problms with arseholes, not Fireworks.

They should be banned after 9pm (except for New Year - extend until 00:20 for that).

I've been witness to some amazing displays that bring tears to my eyes they were so awesome. The most memorable being ones that I'm close enough to feel the pressure wave, a truly trouser flapping experience.

'true fact'.

• Facts cannot be anything except for true.
• Anyone who uses the two words 'true fact' together cannot be trusted because they know neither the meaning of the word 'true' or the word 'fact'.

I can't see this post, I am just replying to let you know that.

Don't ever join the infantry, I imagine you in camouflage approaching the enemy - and you stand up and shout "Please, I need to stay hidden - so let me know if you can see me so that I can hide more effectively".

Some of the jokes were nice - with the best laughs coming from the replies and the bad puns.

Maybe the wrong way is to start with Book 1. I'd say try 'Witches' first, as I found the first book a bit offputting.

• Stop using the word 'Google' instead of saying 'Search'. Take offense if anyone tells you to 'Google' something - fuck them!!!
• Set Firefox as your default - don't keep 'defaulting' to chrome, or chromium based browsers (as this code mostly comes from Google).
• Be sure to become more acquainted with more platforms, keep shortcuts handy and use them when they have content...
• If you must use Youtube, use it signed out - find your channel and add it to an RSS reader. Avoid using the Youtube interface and avoid the algorithms. Search for any channels you watch on alternative platforms.

Such an obssessive need we have, to claim 'inventors' for everything!! Oh, I guess 'clickbait' answers that one.

Wasn't it Jeff Dahn (along with colleagues) at Dalhousie University who found the final piece of the puzzle in developing the Li-Ion battery? https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1990JElS..137.2009F/abstract

He is simply one of the co-creators who SHARED the Nobel prize for DEVELOPMENT which helped to transform the technology.

Goodenough and Koichi in 1979 helped with the positive electrode material that helped early commercial batteries LiCoO~2~ and Goodenough's name does appear as one of many 'inventors' who worked on this.

However, there are many many names involved - we don't really have 'inventors' these days. We also find that most famous inventors are simply people who claimed credit for other folks work.

Thinking about the possibility of brain-computer interfacing is insane. It'll be possible to shove a thought into your shopping list... convert your dream into a text file to edit and include in your book later.

I do think writing by hand is a good skill to teach at least until highschool... from then on, there should be more accessible ways of getting your notes down and organised - and also easy to search and re-organise.

It's strange that after I tested out a couple of REALLY dirt cheap chinese pens to replace my old, trusty, fountain pen which got lost - this ended up with me having three transparent plastic pens (WingSung) that cost $2 each - and now my son has stolen one for school, filled with some Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue (every bit as nice as a blue EnerGel) but with a couple of ink-eradicator pens, he says it's better and faster than using the alternatives (FriXion is way overpriced, and not nearly as nice as a proper GelPen - and the rest of the competition is just nasty).

I also use a double-edged safety razor to shave, and found out (when I figured it was something most folks just hadn't thought about) that a few of my friends went there a year or two back... so many things should never need to die out, but obviously some things should be skipped...

Longer form (essays, dissertations, anything more than a page) is certainly a bit of a waste of time. I wrote a list of 'to read' books and stuck it up in my wardrobe, but the list changed... so now it's digital and that paper got trashed.

Another 100 years should see more convenient and effective alternatives.

Aha, yes - this is the first (internal) issue. The wider issue is - how can these comments be included in search engine results?

The ultimate power of Reddit is that it shows up everywhere in search. Lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, BeeHaw etc... they just don't.

As I expected.

I'm not sure it it's just Reddit that makes me sick, or Google. It's the way that society is getting dumber and more subservient.

I definitely get angry when I hear people are 'googling' everything they want to 'search' for. Similarly that people simply wish to protest Reddit - when they don't really care, they're just jumping on the RANT bandwagon.

With the advent of instant gratification, smartphones/internet access, I welcome the lack of need for a paper dictionary.

However, people go further - they love the way the big tech can aggregate their content and dish it up to them.

They don't care that they are being spoonfed solent green, and increasingly denied the ability to find actual answers to their questions.

If you do disturb them, like a borg they will become disoriented. They start to drown until they can feel the comforting caste of blue light on their faces as they dive back into their familiar environment.

Reddit's CEO is not stupid - he knows that most of it's users are sheep, and the escapees will be a minority. The mods, addicted to their power trips, will return and take whatever shit they have to... what else is their life good for?

Reddit is not 'crushing' the protests. The protests were mostly a flash in the pan - now most folks got bored, and just wanna go back to reading their joke of the day.

Moving Forward

A couple of problems. Firstly, even if I've been talking on Fediverse somewhere about a topic - if I search that topic, it will not take me to the Fediverse - I get taken to Reddit.

Unless the Fediverse content is getting included in search engine data, it'll never be driven from that direction.

I know personally that the reason I created my Reddit account is that I would find answers there, and then end up discussing them where I found them.

For limited opportunities to pee, I'd carry a good sized bottle and limit drinking to sipping water/an electrolyte beverage through a straw.

For limiting poop, I'd try to be empty ahead of time, and just take something solid like bread and cheese which means you probably could go through three days without pooping.