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Our country’s gonna boom.

Not that I’m aware of, but Lemmy-compatible fediverse server software like Mbin does calculate a Reputation score for all threadiverse users, including people from Lemmy. I went into a bit more detail about it in this comment. Mbin users can see Reputation scores for other fediverse users, but because this whole system is decentralized, it’s only the score as known about by that server, so it’s not a complete picture of the “real” score.

You’re probably somewhere in the high 600s, but I am estimating. I think the info exists in the backend, but Lemmy deliberately doesn’t make it available anywhere because of the things it encourages–stealing and reposting content for karma farming, judging which people are worth talking to by how well they conform to the dominant opinions, etc. Admittedly, that second one is exactly what I used it for earlier, but -11,000 is a lot so I’m not too worried about it.

The scores used to be accessible via the API, so some Lemmy apps used to show them, but ultimately the feature was removed on the Lemmy end, i.e. Lemmy servers no longer provide that data to apps. I’m not aware of any way to see karma totals within the Lemmy interface today.

That said, the threadiverse is made up of more than just Lemmy: you can interact with Lemmy users and vice versa from other federated sites running Mbin, PieFed and eventually Sublinks when that software is ready. I’m not sure about the other two, but Mbin sites support a Reputation count which is the karma equivalent, so it is possible to see a user’s Reputation from an Mbin server. Here’s a link to your profile as viewed from kbin.earth, a popular Mbin server.

Boring technical “Well actually” stuff: The nature of federation means that the scores visible from remote servers are incomplete: what you’re really seeing is the user’s Reputation based on posts the remote server knows about. e.g. Somebody looking at your profile from kbin.earth will see your Reputation as 664, but somebody looking at you from fedia.io sees you with 609.

This probably means something pretty simple, like that you comment in more communities followed by kbin.earth users than fedia.io users, so the kbin.earth server has “seen” more of your posts in order to calculate a higher Reputation score. Alternatively, you might have one super unpopular post that fedia.io saw and kbin.earth didn’t, which got -56 points. But the first guess is more likely, unless you know otherwise. :P

I know Lemmy doesn’t support karma scores for a reason, but in case it helps you decide which people you want to continue to hear from, the commenter you’re replying to would have almost -11,000 (negative eleven thousand) karma, were Lemmy to support such a thing.

He prefers to groom Ivanka anyway.

I keep seeing opinion pieces like this, but I remain unconvinced. Sure, if his sincerely held intention was to do anything at all positive for the US and its allies, his actions would read as insane. But if he actively, deliberately desires to harm and destabilize both, then he’s going about it the right way. Screw Hanlon’s razor: stupidity is inadequate to explain any of this.

You know what, at this point I’d miss the messages if they stopped coming. I had a two week gap and I was weirdly disappointed about it.

Next option.

“We’re getting these babies now–strong, American babies–these babies are at temperatures, big numbers, numbers we haven’t seen for 60 years here. Yesterday I had… a baby came to me, tears in his eyes, he said ‘Sir’–these tough babies call me sir, have you noticed that?–he said ‘Sir, you’re giving us something in this country that we haven’t had in generations.’ People are saying they’ve never seen this before. We brought it back.”

Just for reference, while it has been edited, the comic is by Stan Kelly, The Onion’s resident cartoonist. Kelly is fictional, a satirical stereotype of a right-wing newspaper cartoonist. His signatures are over-labelling everything, gratuitous self-inserts, and framing the wealthy/other advantaged groups as morally upstanding patriots unfairly victimized by their inferiors. The latter is usually accompanied by them crying a single tear.

All that to say, in the context of a Kelly comic, “Honest Tesla Salesman” is definitely meant ironically.

And worst of all, Rob Schneider is there.

I’m just joking about the headline saying “One Click Stops It”, because realistically it takes at least five.

Where’s the Settings > Apps > View All Apps > Android System SafetyCore > Uninstall button? Having trouble getting there in one click.

The article never suggests any physical violence, though. The problems he reported to CBS are a “hateful sticker”, “threats online”, “somebody tried to cut me off” and “three guys pointing the middle finger and […] screaming at me”. Not super cool either, but they’re not physical violence. Those last two might even be legal, depending on the circumstances.

For anybody curious, since the article doesn’t mention what the “hateful sticker” was, from a quick search it was: “NAZIS FUCK OFF”.