tomenzgg @ tomenzgg @midwest.social

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It's funny because, while not a 1-for-1 cultural fit, Mastodon's site structure has felt much closer to Tumblr's. I feel like the reason Twitter people keep saying Mastodon's insufficient (while, eventually, flocking to BlueSky) is that BlueSky offers a more similar UX, in terms of shunting you along algorithmically. I don't think there's any issue with Mastodon's UI (other than maybe PixelFed, I think it's the closest Fediverse project to other mainstream social media UI) but I suspect the UX isn't quite right for people expecting Twitter.

However, I, as a Tumblr transplant, felt right at home.

So…the proper correction turned out to be much less dire.

I mean, I have to assume they meant "oppose" and just mistyped.

Understanding disability thought and theory is one of the foundations of marginalization justice but one of the most invisible such that, once you understand certain tenants, it's impossible not to see the impact of their ideas in everything in daily life.

I mean, last insane homeless person I ran into threw his arm around me like we were lifelong buddies and told me all the things he'd seen that day that he found cool/interesting, not tried to assault me.

Why you always gotta go and make things so complified…

I was reading an article where he claimed he wasn't as hardline, as some, and his immigration policies were actually motivated by the guaranteed safety to everyone when we follow the rules (he gave the example of a migrant nearly dying from falling down a ravine during zir trek).

…

Anyway, color me surprised~

Associating this man is an insult to the mentally disabled, actually.

I mean, that's the biggest counter-argument I've always seen against it. Similar to being against capital punishment: sure, you could perfectly execute (pun slightly intended) it if it was a perfect system devoid of bias and personal interest but, in the face of that lack of reality, giving that much power to the State is inadvisable on reality-based principle.

You're assuming they wouldn't find this agreeable to get rid of "undesirables".

It's the nature of conservatives to break things into simple concepts and metrics that are easy to comprehend and conceptualize because facing the nuance and complexity of reality requires work and bravery.

Dual-booting was how I first got into Linux; it truly leaves open the ability to keep everything you're worried about not having.

What's the VPN?

First I'm hearing but that doesn't surprise me; it's probably better than most companies you could give your money to but, in any way they could, they don't do anything truly groundbreaking such that I can justify to myself giving money rather than just keeping said money in my pocket (and, in turn, much more likely to go to mutual aid, charities, non-profits, or coöperatively-owned or union-backed businesses).

They could have done a more traditional coöp, open-sourced their infrastructure (even if it was just the app.!), or really emphasized a particular stance or message they as a company would stand by…but they haven't done any of those. They basically are just offering up YouTube but as a streaming service. But that doesn't solve the myriad of issues that make a streaming service a business that (like most businesses) prey on their customers.

Don't threaten me with a good time, Mr. Paul.

If it helps, one of main arguments of the antitrust lawsuit against Amazon that the Biden administration opened was that Amazon routinely, actually, costs you money because they use their platform to offer more expensive options in your searches first and other means: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/09/ftc-sues-amazon-illegally-maintaining-monopoly-power (I'm not sure if that link with detail or with a much clarity as wherever I first read it but I can't recall where I originally read it 3 or so months ago, I'm afraid).

The only major advantage that I'll fully admit Prime has is speed of delivery; I admit I do use it when our cats run out of food and I dropped the ball on making sure we had more or I need filters for our air purifiers that just noted they need new ones.

But, even if you can find cheaper versions on Amazon, it can become easy to fall for the setup of their site if you use it by default all the time.

To be fair, Lemmy's UI does it no favors; I can't entirely blame your friends for thinking it looks sketch.

In the Chicago black community

I'm sorry, what‽ As a black Chicagoan, no the Hell we aren't.

I feel like we've run this meme further than is useful; there's absolutely criticisms to be had about how the separation of church in state operates within American government but it's hardly the only "developed" (hate that word but you know what I mean) country to have a government that takes for granted Christianity as default; Britain, after all, has a state church – for (pun slightly intended) Christ's sake – that definitely bleeds into the way its government thinks about what a religion is and how much "religion" gets support.

I'm not saying I wouldn't prefer (and hope we move towards) a more strict and complete separation but let's not pretend America is astonishingly unique…

Yeah; I hate Android's file navigation capabilities…

I mean, people always think teaching not to bully people is boringly obvious and it is, if you stop to think about the concept in theory, but it can be different, when you're in the heat of the moment; teaching the fundamentals do help people, even if painfully clear to those at a higher level. I think those're actually pretty good.

The issue (as you've kinda noted) is they never go beyond that. The Honey scan might be hard to impart as, if I didn't know some of how the system worked because I program for a living, it would've seemed like magic gibberish. The other two are good ones, though.

Honestly, teaching the fundamentals of how the intervals work in some way I think would go far. The number of people who don't know what file extensions are always worry me.