Karma scores - on an account level at least. Up/down votes on a post or comment are fine and make sense, pushing bad replies down and the best, most thoughtful stuff to the top.
But a system where accounts can build up a karma/reputation score just leads to karma whoring comments just intended to gain upvotes and adding little to the conversation. Or worse, repost bots just reposting whatever was popular last week to gain karma. Reddit's been plagued with it for years and it just makes the whole place seem spammy and low quality.
Exactly. Comments and posts/threads should have up and down votes, but those should not accumulate on an account like Karma does.
It gets people used to the idea that the more points a person has, clearly the better quality their account must be, when in reality Karma could be easily accumulated by exploiting lurkers with cute animal photos or generic/milquetoast opinion pieces literally nobody could disagree with.
Reddit Karma exists to get a score of 1000000, at which point the account is worth serious money on the black market. With a Karma of 1000000, all banned subs and moderated/deleted content is visible. It's the world's biggest CP operation operating in plain sight. Always has had that reputation, but nothing ever changed.
Why not the Great Wall of china? Like not the exact Great Wall of China but a duplicate of it that is one to one scale. It would be clearly visible when people are looking at Mars with relatively strong telescopes so we would know it was there long before we were there
Zojirushi Bread machine (I use it for the dough cycle. Don't at me.)
Electronic scale. It can be a cheap OXO, but you need one.
Banneton and liners
*Lame (honestly, my favorite is the cheapo Breadtopia one with the plastic handle--much better than the walnut-handled one my mom had)
More Emile Henry ceramic bakers than I'm willing to admit. Crown rolls, anyone?
I haven't ventured into sourdough but I'm teetering on the edge. Looking at the King Arthur crocks.
a rocket perfectly designed for the martian environment, so that the rocket doesnt destroy itself on launch like the starship prototype for one example, and for humans to return home from mars.
It's uses ChatGPT to work out which news stories are the most significant so it can show only the important ones. It's great and has been my main source of world news since I started using it a few weeks ago.
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