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Blue sky (and just about anything else) is an improvement, but remember, there is no bottom, things can always be worse. Truth Social and Gab both still exist.

These websites, because they are all centralized, are all ultimately moderated in accordance with the whims of their owners, the effect of which was thrown into sharp relief after Apartheid Willy Wonka bought Twitter.

With a federated platform like Mastodon, no single owner would be able to do this. If an instance suddenly became terrible, they could be de-federated and they'd lose their reach.

Of course, if one instance became particularly large, the 'whims of the owner' problem would come right back, but at least the alternatives would still be readily available.

Should be about sea level.

(The top of the cliff is, assuming Google maps is halfway accurate, about 600 meters)

The social media rhetoric is a response to the material conditions. If people weren't regularly pushed to bankruptcy or left to die by the "Delay Deny Defend" industry, they wouldn't have any malice towards the industry's leaders. If the industry didn't give nearly everyone a reason to hate what Brian Thompson represented, they wouldn't have celebrated his death.

He said he was going to do what he said he would do.

Not that he wouldn't do things he said he wouldn't do.

The fact that they have intra-party disagreements about the budget.

They're saying that the people jumping to conclusions that the suicide was a murder are engaging in conspiracy theorizing.

Society will have to relearn a lesson like this every so often, because people kind of yearn to offload the mental energy involved in controlling some aspect of their lives to someone else. And while they'll probably start by offloading or to someone competent and with their best interests at heart, eventually someone who wants to extract wealth from that position will rise in such a space.

If they open too many more they'll just have one big front.

Can't get there. The Bosphorus is closed to warships

It is bad that vigilantism is being celebrated (though I'll admit to being aboard the "laugh about this specific murder" train).

But I think the reason that this is being celebrated is that this is the only kind of justice this guy could have ever faced because his crime is legal

If he was shtupping your wife, what better way to direct suspicion away from you than to play into the angle that would give every American not on the Forbes list a motive?

I'm saying you can't get pregnant if you're dead.

If they were worried about birth rates before...

What if your robot was just a guy?

There is, and has been, a large number of left-wing podcasts. But the Dems don't want to pump money into Chapo Trap House, Five-Four, or the Cool Zone network. They want Ezra Klein to be as cool as Rogan.

There's probably a small loss of some nutrients (the heat breaks some chemical bonds). The benefit would probably be somewhere between negligible and marginal before you factor in the risk of food poisoning.

Because your dermatologist isn't used to checking for skin cancer where the sun don't shine.

Trump's campaign was big on vengeance, and the various unjust kangaroo courts that are going to spin up are going to be a nightmare.

But I'm not sure Merrick Garland's prosecution is going to get much sympathy from the left.

With 2/3 of the Senate, 2/3 of the House, and 3/4 of the states' legislatures.

Not actually named to a cabinet post. Government Accounting Office does the thing he's about to get paid to pretend to do. DOGE is gonna be like the Chamber of Commerce, a private entity that a bunch of people will just believe is part of the government because it has an official sounding name.