Instead of raging about something you’re powerless to change, why not just block those instances you dislike and never have to worry about them again?

Or, as you said all instances, you could delete your account and touch some grass for a bit.

All of us, at times, need a break from the internet. Even if we don’t realise it yet. Maybe now it’s your time and we’ll see you later, when/if you return?

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and even here we argue all day long.

No we don’t!

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Always has been

Why does the state need to count votes quickly? Votes should be counted accurately, not quickly.

Total number of votes cast doesn’t really change anything, because total number of counters and witnesses can also be increased relatively. The USA has a 5 times larger population than the UK but that doesn’t mean it takes 5 times longer to count.

And again, accuracy is more important than speed.

Aye, which is why I said trees are better than no trees. I’m not advocating for ripping them out or anything ridiculous like that.

Just that when people see pictures like this, because there’s trees, they think it’s nature. It’s good. And yes it’s better than nothing, and it supports some life, but it could be so much better.

I don’t buy the argument that just because a city is old it should be absolved of its duty to nature. Poplar trees don’t get particularly old as trees go, all of these will have been planted sometime in the last 100 years. Future plantings should be sporadic, to mimic nature, but due to tradition and the normalisation of perfect rows most around the world still aren’t. People like their perfect neat rows, nature be damned.

So planted for human aesthetics.

Don’t get me wrong, trees are better than no trees. But the normalisation of perfect rows causes great harm by making people think it’s good and natural and how it should be. It normalises a fascistic view of nature that it should be controlled and perfectly ordered.

Nature is chaos. Nature needs chaos to properly thrive.

It’s good as a picture but depressing AF at the same time, that much of the world’s woods are perfect rows of plantation. Planted only for human economic gain or aesthetics.

It’s almost as if Lemmy isn’t a homogenous entity with a single viewpoint… Wow! Who would’ve thought?