A bit of advice from some dental organizations and my family member who is a dentist, you really shouldn't use the same toothbrush twice a day. The toothbrush should be left to completely dry out before reusing and that takes longer than 16 hours in most climates.

My neighbor drives one around and it definitely belongs there, it just gets louder and makes more random mechanical failure noises every time he drives it by

I was raised as a haredi jew and I will never stop saying oy vey, you can pry that from my cold dead hands.

My red line is the existence of nation states and standing armies. What is the point? The military runs any nation that has one even if the population is unaware. I've never been presented with an option when I lived in the US that didn't directly support US military interventionism and the destruction of the place my family originates from, so I didn't vote in federal elections. The constitution is literally broken and the structure of the government there is less democratic than Iran, but the Americans will never see it. The ultimate say on laws there are lifetime positions that come up when they randomly die or a fascist is in power, so they step down, it is the most comically ridiculous and frankly dishonest system I've ever come in contact within my life. Right now Americans are saying if you don't vote for an appointed candidate who is a literal fucking cop then you are supporting a fascist, they have gone into nonsense land and there is no return. What even is the point. It is so sad and tragic the totalitarian mind control they are forced to live under. Most of them will never travel and will never see it from the outside.

I'm in the (years long) process of migrating and establishing residency elsewhere, but the US is a prison and I'm actually not really allowed to just leave.

Holy shit this is a classic

requires code changes to Lemmy so not any time soon. I'd like to fuck around with it though

I got the answer I was looking for so I think so

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I had someone test this out, if you use the API on vegantheoryclub and try to post a -1 activitypub like activity it fails. This is good for me because I was concerned bots would sign up and be silently downvoting things on other instance communities without me being able to tell.

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Thank you SO MUCH for testing this!

I found someone who is more familiar with programming than I am and we tested this. If downvotes are disabled posting -1 fails. Good news for me! Thanks for clarifying for me what I needed to be looking at

Thank you, I will turn this on for sure. Good idea, I'll check the load balancer logs for this as well.

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I would prefer a way to detect the manipulators from my SQL database then doing detective work to be honest. Someone else mentioned that they can actually do this so I will have to research this.

Disabling downvotes is a feature of Lemmy, I have it disabled on vegantheoryclub.org from the admin preferences. I don't know though if that just disables them on Lemmy-ui and compliant apps or if it actually disables them completely. What I am concerned of is someone creating an account, not using a reputable app, and sending API calls directly to my instance to federate to others.

Thank you for introducing me to the term debate pervert. I think this encapsulates what is going on perfectly.