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That does not work in a webpage browser, so seems like a Liftoff ~~bug~~ (/feature?:-P) on top of the underlying issue in Lemmy itself.

Little by little, progress is being made - in the meantime the software isn't quite "finished" yet, but somehow still the UX ends up being significantly better than Reddit:-).

Surely many who have them received them from elsewhere before immigration to America, and likewise the proportion of immigrants who have them I would expect to be oversized. Americans tend to be more greedy than anything else and don't put in the effort required for such small (financial) rewards.

Also, those with PhDs tend to congregate into certain areas that support those jobs, i.e. cities but not even a goodly number of those so much; plus smaller college towns too ofc. As such, many in the general populace might rarely if ever run into one for the largest majority of their lives, unless traveling specifically to those areas for some reason?

And ofc rural areas are far larger, geographically speaking, than places where a person with a PhD would (likely) go. So you could randomly pick a spot on a map 100 times and never manage to find someone with a PhD anywhere within tens of miles, I would expect - although that line of thinking reveals my own biases: do most educated farmers stop at like an MS and just follow up with their own (possibly even extensive) self studies, or go all the way to PhDs while working their actual farms? (I doubt it bc it does not sound practical, and that is a hallmark of farmers afaik, but I could be wrong...) Anyway, I expect the unequal distribution is a contributing / exasperating factor to the general rarity.

But also, there is far less training data to mix and match responses from, so naively I would expect a higher plagiarism rate, by its very nature.

Less than 2% of the world's population has a doctorate. According to the US Census Bureau, only 1.2% of the US population has a PhD.

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Oh I should have added a /s I guess - gVim is really old, and while I literally do use it (DAILY) and also legit DO think that it is great, I am not really advocating for it. I have heard great things about Sublime, but even that is dated and apparently neovim is much more highly regarded. Anyway, thanks for pointing that out!:-)

This does seem the most likely explanation. But... my instance seems to be aware of the deletion at least, and yet still chooses to show it. It could show the old message, it could remove it entirely and show no notification, it could get fancy and show nothing by default but then upon requesting addition information show it anyway... but out of all the various possibilities, it chooses the single most annoying one? 😜

Yeah, gVim is pretty great, isn't it? :-P

B-b-but it clearly says right there in the todo, that's good enough, r-r-right?!

I also see deleted comments, I guess by the user. Which is odd, bc like if they wanted to remove it that's their choice I suppose, but Lemmy still shows me reply notifications, but then when I go to read it, it's gone!?

git 'er done!