I generally upvote when I see a comment that makes a good point I think is underrated. You could argue that this is a kind of agreement. But, in my view, agreement alone is not the only criteria. Stating obvious truths isn't really worth anyone's time, even if they are agreeable. I will also upvote posts that changed my mind or are close to doing so, or impress me (insightful, or funny).

I down vote spam and posts that misrepresent a position or argument (straw man).

I will not vote at all for most posts.

Americans are so obsessed with money, they forgot about actually living.

My dudes. Money is just a means to an end. It is not the end goal. Wake the fuck up.

Congratulations, you've discovered the only negotiating power consumers have ever and will ever have: voting with your wallet.

Let's normalize real customer loyalty again by sending a strong message that continued business is not to be taken for granted.

Don't apologize. That pain is exactly why millennials are so much more tech literate than boomers and gen Alpha.

Even dictators need public support. This is a fundamental truth about leadership, that even Trump can't escape. Those that don't tend to have a short life expectancy.

You are right, but I would go one step further: enshittification is specifically a subsidized (artificial, unsustainable) capture of a free market by a middle man, followed by a squeezing of both buyers and sellers in that market using bought leverage.

It's just another variety of antitrust that happens to be legal because society has not yet outlawed that behaviour.

One narrative is about effectiveness of sanctions, specifically the ones levied at the start of 2022. Zooming out beyond 2015 doesn't really change that narrative (no appreciable effect tied with a change that happened in 2022).

The other narrative relates to Russia's big picture strategy. Undoubtedly by this measure, Russia is underperforming. We might conclude that the sanctions was effective only once, in 2014. Or just a bad economy for another reason that spurred war.

Arrogance: a tale in two acts.

Studying different perspectives is only a valid technique to arrive at the truth when all participants are participating in good faith.

The average story between a truth teller and a liar is still a lie.

Millenial and gen x skewed Harris more than any other demographic.

Back in my day, ensuring a person was behind the decision to kill was the whole god damn point.

This is basically an invitation not to come. This is probably the smartest play, geopolitically speaking.

Nobody wants their transactions public.

This is a broad generalization that is easily refutable. Examples:

• Property titles
• Political campaign contributions
• Supply chain certifications, to fight consumer fraud and counterfeitting.

Frankly, you say you can talk for hours on the subject, but I don't think that hours of thought has been given to the subject.

I'm thinking that a good jointer sled should probably be a perfectly adequate substitute in a small or low-budget shop. If those are not concerns, or a high volume of jointing is expected, a jointer is a great addition.

I would accept boards glued together on an axis other than the thickness. So plywood, no, finger jointed wood, yes.

Your list could have ten things in it or 500. Perhaps you should order by necessity.

I would put things like miter saw, jointer, dado blade at the very bottom of the list, and move table saw, router, and planer to the very top.

OK, I'll bite.

For some, maybe even many, the problem with becoming a minority in your own country has nothing to do with poor treatment, and rather has to do with identity and diversity. Perhaps the big irony here is you cannot have diversity without a concerted effort to preserve the origin of each individual identity within the diversity, simply because geographic minorities always end up naturally assimilated.

Tons of people out there on the other side going "this isn't a problem" is just going to come across as disconnected from reality by those that actually live with the daily consequences of their identity being assimilated. There's no clearer evidence of this than the very real problem of languages dying out globally, but it affects many other areas including local customs and attitudes, religion, sense of community and family, food, traditions, etc.

I don't know where this idea that only the left cares about identity politics has come from. It's a bunch of bullshit. Identity permeates just about every aspect of politics, from all sides, from race and gender, down to socio economic class and national identity. It's really just about competing priorities about which identities to cater to more.

Debatable. You overestimate how engaged and attuned the average person is.

The American people were sold a big fat lie that a vote for Trump was somehow going to be good for the working class, and reign in capital interest.

Gross violation of the first amendment, peaceful transfer of power, representation, freedom, and democracy. The USA is falling fast.