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I was commenting on pro sports and somewhat college athletics. Kids sports are cool imo except for how overly engaged and competitive the parents get about it.

Sure, not everyone can play sports themselves. If they tried it more though, they’d be more likely to be able to. I’d bet the majority of sports fans are not unable to engage in athletic activity. I do realize that watching sports is also different than playing sports. That’s what I’m being critical of though.

I have long thought that there’s way too much emphasis placed on pro sports in society, but there are a few aspects to this. First, I agree that it inflames division and tribalism. I’ve had people act angry and want to start fights with me because they saw my license plate and grumbled something about football, or I was wearing a hat for some sports team I wasn’t even aware of and people were upset about it. The amount of attention and money spent on basically watching adult adults play little kid games is absurd. Incredible amounts of money are spent on stadiums and salaries.

Still there are positive aspects. The competitive and high profile nature does propel people to exceptional feats of athleticism. The same goes for Olympic sports. Olympic stadiums are a bit of an excess, but there are benefits to international relations that come from the Olympic games. A question I have is as far as the Olympic it goes, what sports are not competitive? Even solo sports are done as a competition.

But generally, my perspective is that if people are interested in sports, they should play them themselves. I don’t know why it would be so exciting to go watch someone else play basketball or something. You should just play basketball if you like it so much.

Good idea. That’s true now, but personally most of my experience needing programming info was several years ago.

I agree. If you’re starting something new and just want to get the gist of it, a video could definitely be helpful. Where I get frustrated is if I only want a reference for one or two specific things, and I have to skip through this 40 minute video to find the 2 sentences and code example I’m looking for.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels this way. Back 10-15 years ago I was learning JavaScript, Python, CSS etc and I saw people say “I learned programming from videos!” and was wtf, how? Maybe a video explanation could be okay, but trying to extract certain kinds of technical information from a video is maddening and takes 10x as long as getting it from text.

It registers disapproval. Maybe the designers of Lemmy wanted to avoid the censorship aspect voting has on reddit? I suppose it depends on what type of sorting viewers are using, as downvotes mean it won’t appear on Hot or whatever. I do agree it works that way to some extent on Reddit. Real censorship is mods or admins deleting your content, though.

On reddit it will make comments automatically folded and at the bottom, but not hidden. Or for posts, prevent them from showing on algorithmically sorted pages. On Lemmy it doesn’t really do anything afaik. So how so?

Way back 2008-2012 I had a server running on a “slice”, the early virtualization tech. Since I was running a complete linux system, having outgrown shared or managed hosting, I figured I’d run my own mail server.

It mostly worked fine but overall was way more work than it was worth. It’s complex software. You can end up dealing with misconfigurations that are tough to figure out, spam bans, security threats, and the worst for me - upgrades that break everything and then you don’t have email u til you spend hours fixing it. And since it’s complex, and that would only happen once a year or so, it took a lot of effort since I wouldn’t remember what I did last time.

So, I ended up switching to a mail host. Way easier, works all the time. If there’s a problem they get to be the ones to fix it, and they’re surely better at that than I am since I didn’t set out to be a mail server specialist.

That’s known as “Schrödinger’s asshole”. It’s both a joke and an insult at the same time, who knows, until they see the reaction!