Irreversible PermaBan with no explanation. And I always disliked the prevailing culture there.

I think OP is right to be concerned, because while we don’t have karma like reddit (thank god), supposing someome was browsing old posts in a comm[unity] they might utilise the “Top of all time” filter or even the “most controversial of all time” filter - if our OP here makes a particularly useful post, e.g about a tech support issue - then I’m pretty sure having extra downvotes will actually reduce the reach and visibility of the post, using these filters.

Also in this case it was just useful because it exposes someone acting in bad faith on the fed.

No mate give it a rest and don’t worry about it. People aren’t going to know when you started college unless they’re looking at your CV or you explicitly tell them, and even then they have no idea what you went through. Could have been working in between years or taking time off for health, it’s not really their business.

I myself will be graduating at 24 unless I switch to a quicker program. It feels a bit awkward but only when I look at it through the lens of hateful people who neg all the time.

Far more people graduate outside of the expected range of 21-25 YO than you realise -

• anyone who worked right after highschool but didn’t like it,
• anyone sitting a second degree or a conversion degree,
• anyone who served in the army before enrolling.

…but you might not encounter them all that often.

(If you’re on a prestigious course you’re going to be with a very young cohort who came straight from high school to university, but throughout the countless other courses in the country there will be 25-50 year olds sitting down for their first lectures in the subject. Most of them will elect to study remotely, e.g online or lecture recordings, so you’re doubly less likely to encounter them)

University was not created to be an age-bound thing like school. We lose sight of that now that it’s been clipped on as a near-mandatory last stretch of the educational conveyer belt.

Nukes

Best of times a phone hast lasted about 4 years

Yeah if I’m cooking for myself it’s over too quickly and i have less appetite

I totally agree with this. I prefer to cook for others because the process of serving it out gives a cooldown from standing over the oven and inhaling the food, and so i usually enjoy it more.

Sometimes people act like they’re helping but it means they just bring up your problem again and again and confuse you as to what you really want to do about it. This could absolutely be done on accident, in an eagerness to help, but i also see it done deliberatrly by a few, just to pester people

Men and women lie when they say they want you to express yourself more. Whether they intend to or not, they get angry or sad about you burdening them with knowledge of your own experiences. Many will atore away anything you confide with them, so they can use it against you further down the line.

I think you need to move out, as hard as that might be. Even if you need to put stuff like your educatiom on hold you should get away from them all for good

See it used for “jam lids” (any jar lid actually, lol) or other packaging because those things can be complex to tell if you’re opening it correctly, so by saying “depress” it tells you to press but then simultaneously describes what happens as it is pressed (it goes down) so you know if you’re getting anywhere in the process. This is why it’s been observed more in technical documents, as rljkeimig notes.

I think it’s used for when something is kept lowered for a bit - so yes, some buttons, but most notably Jam Lids and Levers. Many buttons spring back up at you so those are just presses or taps

Which specific people are you thinking of

Where is anti-hierarchy useful, or “flat-hierarchy”?

Well, basically in all the places you already see it: Small or Medium sized businesses comprised only of very educated professionals, who are therefore better at managing themselves rather than being managed by someone from outside of their field. (E.g engineering designers, graphic designers)

Allotment associations

University departments/colleges. Secondary school departments.

Hierarchies are good to have if

1. they help to organise things more efficiently and
2. the leader is benevolent/interested in the wellbeing of the participants.

Hierarchies can be good if there is real movement up and down a hierarchy according to skill level - a good army for instance does not succumb to nepotism when assigning posts, but Judges only on merit.

Hierarchies and other constraints are useful in politics to ensure that decisions are reached quickly. The Netherlands, which has dozens of small parties and a very level playing field between all of the parties. Had multiple elections within a short time frame and was unable to choose a PM in their last (or penultimate) election.

I think it’s not even the fundamental flaws that make it so bad (they could theoretically be worked-around or fixed), I think at some point the system was captured by a group that to this day ensures both parties remain ineffectual and operate towards the same war goals.

Saying “the whole thing is a pantomine” seems like a lazy throwaway remark from some stranger you meet at a bar or your disillusioned uncle, and yet it’s exactly the conclusion you have to come to. We are controlled by the illusion of democracy and illusion of own influence

Sounds… Sexy?

A meekness

To have created the universe, God has to exist outside of / independently of it. Therefore probably not made of atoms.

Fun fact - according to most christian thinkers/speakers I’ve listend to, this makes Christianity incompatible with pantheism (the belief that God is the universe, often referred to as “we are the universe experiencing itself”).

ETA:

No idea - maybe the best way of contacting him now is to ask someone else you knew from school to reach out to him.

Maybe he just forgot/mixed up your name, mistaking you for someone else he went to school with.

Maybe he doesn’t get messaged on facebook a lot, so you reminded him that it exists and he decided to delete it - i know i historically had no space for it on my phone so I got rid of it.