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If you're right through manipulation (propaganda, marketing, etc), are you really right?
  • Nothing matters to reality. "Mattering" is a human judgement. "Fact" is also a human judgement. The things you have in your head that you call facts and opinions are both the same kind of thing. We consider the ones that model reality effectively to be facts. They are all opinions and discerning which we classify as facts is an ongoing process.

    I did not say opinions are fact. And I am not saying that opinions change reality. But your assertions about what facts and opinions are is incorrect.

  • What's the most manipulative thing you've ever done?
  • It constantly amazes me how many people haven't caught on to the fact that just always preemptively being nice to people makes your life so much better because people tend to treat you decently in return.

  • What's your favourite Youtube channel most people probably haven't heard of?
  • https://youtube.com/@FishingHistoricPlaces - Brief visits to places, mostly in New England, with interesting historic and natural history info. Rarely any fishing.

    https://youtube.com/@EarlyMusicinadifferentway - talented multi-instrumentalist and composer playing early music and his own compositions and improvisations in an early music style. Interesting videos too.

  • How can one make cotton socks softer?
  • Washing in hard water can make cotton feel rougher.

    Also when cotton is damp, like if you sweat much, it tends to be abrasive. That is why hikers say 'cotton kills' and recommend you stay away from it in favor of wool or synthetic 'technical' fabrics.

  • What are you buying now to avoid upcoming price increases?
  • If you are willing to grind your own grain, whole grains can be stored in plastic buckets for years without spoiling. You've probably got to like whole grain stuff, sifting to get white flour is a pain.

  • First few seconds of videos dimmed

    So is this Thunder itself or some app it is deferring to whose config I should look at?

    Basically videos start out dim for a few seconds until the video controls fade out. This means the first few seconds of every video are basically unwatchable, and with short videos this is all or most of the video. For example https://lemmy.world/post/17884719

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    why is the create comment button at the top?

    Of the many Lemmy clients I've tried, Thunder is the one I like the best, but the one place I have nits is the creating a comment experience.

    After typing the comment you have close you keyboard, to have any hope of the create button being visible (if your comment is really short) and then scroll all the way back up to the top. Isn't the bottom the obviously better place for this button?

    Even worse, if in trying to scroll the screen, you accidentally hit the little horizontal bar at the top, you just lose your comment.

    Finally, it seems to always lose my place in the thread and put me back at the top after entering a comment.

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