The overall health of a workforce affects health insurance rates and every employee. The more unhealthy a workforce is, the more money comes out of your check for insurance. This is why wellness programs exist at companies.

This dude thinks he’s a Vulcan lol

I wasn’t aware of this, thanks for the tip!

Get your ads outta here.

I’d suggest taking your own advice, buddy.

I’ve given you as much of a response as your comment was worth. Have a good day.

Hamas is evil, they’re a literal terrorist organization that uses fear and violence as their primary tools and methods. The situation Hamas operates in is absolutely nuanced but saying a terrorist organization is evil and supporting a terrorist organization makes you complicit in supporting evil is not an indicator of a simplistic world view, it’s stating an objective fact. If anything you’re the one expressing a simplistic worldview by ignoring the obvious truths of the situation and its various pieces in favor of obfuscating the parts of the situation that are self evident and clear.

Hamas is evil and anyone on here supporting them are complicit in supporting evil.

It’s honestly concerning how so few people understand the world isn’t filled with good guys and bad guys. The collective conscience is so naive and ignorant.

Man, you’re an asshole, a bigot and a dumbass. How’s that for weak? Congrats on being the evil in the world.

What? Taoism has millions of practitioners and since it’s not an organized religion there’s probably millions more that are uncounted, myself included. Also a major part of the belief system is karma so we absolutely believe in standing up to evil in all of its forms because that’s how you reduce suffering and create more good into the world.

Appreciate the comment. I agree voting in theory is a good idea but I think a majority of people use it as not intended and it’s creating a net negative experience for the social media that utilizes it. Too many people use downvoting to show dissatisfaction with an opinion instead of the intended this doesn’t add to the conversation. Dog piling is a major issue IMO, psychologically many see negative votes (or many downvotes) and are inclined to treat those comments or posts with more derogatory comments or oppose the commenter before even reading the full post or comment. That’s a very real general example of functionality that’s shutting down engagement and being contradictory to the intent of the social media system being used. For a specific example, browse all with the new filter on lemmy and look at how many posts get downvoted right out of the gate that are perfectly legitimate posts for the communities they’re posting in. The moving good content to the top of your feed intention of upvotes doesn’t really work well in the fediverse without algo based feeds and the top filter could easily switch to views and comments to get the desired results without all the downside of how it is now.

If this were a minor issue I wouldn’t be commenting and would support the standard just ignore votes spiel but it seems to be that most people cannot handle the current voting system so I still see no benefit to them in their current form. The fediverse is the perfect environment to iterate and innovate on a system that doesn’t work as intended.

I think upvoting and downvoting should be removed in its current form. There should be a way to report content that doesn’t contribute to conversations or is hateful and if you want to know how popular a post is go off of alternate engagement metrics like views/comment count.

I genuinely see no benefit to upvoting or downvoting if the above mechanisms are in place. Upvotes are something many folks get obsessed with and downvotes are too easy to spam, especially on a social network that consists of mostly anonymous users. This post is a good example - it’s adding to the conversation and trying to spur engagement with the community but at the time of me commenting it has -1 upvotes (via Voyager since it aggregates downvotes/upvotes). What is the point of these mechanisms - they should be left to Reddit and the fediverse should innovate in this area and make something better than what we already had.

All religions are not shit. All organized religion is. You don’t ever hear of a Taoist committing these kind of acts.

He’s in social media so much because of the people that are obsessed with him like OP, not the people that are tired of mindless peons inadvertently propping him up.

There’s a whole list of billionaires that aren’t posted about every hour. There’s absolutely no reason to obsess over this guy.

Most people on the entire planet are aware of how shitty he is at this point. Everyone that would not purchase a product related to him is already not buying said product. There’s no more people to convince. Don’t act like a white knight while degrading the content in this community.

I swear this specific community is turning more people off to lemmy than any other. These type of posts are why.

Another prime example of how shitposting has ruined the internet. Who gives a shit if someone has a funny comment if the content is literally degrading the quality of this channel, lemmy, and the greater internet.

My partner got like $700 bucks last time one of these happened.

There’s not really an algorithm. All the feed filters in voyager are time and traction based as far as I’m aware. Part of having social media that isn’t primarily designed to influence our thinking in order to buy things or generally encourage you to spend all your time on it means we have to sacrifice having content served up to us based on our viewing habits (I.e. intrusive profile models based on personal data). This means lemmy feeds will sometimes have odd mixes of content because you’re just seeing things in mostly chronological order. Mostly is italicized because there’s some traction based filters but that’s irrespective of the type of content.

Maybe memmy has introduced its own algo? Would be curious if anyone that knows for certain could comment.

It has the limitation of terrible quality 99% of the time.