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While on the one hand I can agree there’s a place and time to be present and participate appropriately, on the other hand it’s so goddamned tiring to see politics that in situations of nuance zoom in on ‘control them’ as a thing everyone can rally to as if the solution of phone control was really going to be simple and accomplish its objectives.

I mean, criminalizing drugs seemed on its face to be a simple-enough thing to do, and a good idea- who could object to that, right? Who favors addiction, right? What could go wrong? Fundamentally, the ask for enough power to ban anything isn’t a trivial ask, and it shouldn’t be undertaken lightly.

My optimistic side thinks this will be monitored, at least some of the names he gets will be wrong in ways that will identify him as the leaker when their names become public or they are harassed by MAGA types. My pessimistic side thinks this is the way our justice system works- with rules that don’t apply to wealthy or powerful people and even though he’s repeatedly set his flying monkeys after his enemies or those he wants to ‘go through some things’, they’ll let him because he’s innocent until proven guilty again

the rest of jumbo kinda let him go for it

Kind of, but that stuff didn’t happen in a vacuum. Sepp was able to get into the breakaway in the early stages mostly because the favorites were looking at Roglic and Vingegaard, thinking they were jumbo’s plan and at most he’d be set up as a satellite rider to support them in a later attack. It was probably not expected that he’d end up with 2 minutes on GC, and when he did, that put the team under a lot of pressure to not be seen as attacking their own guy.

In the end jumbo did a pretty good job of supporting him (as opposed to tasking him with riding for Roglic or Vingegaard) but he still had to do the winning himself. He’s super-strong and I thought it was hilarious to hear the commentators expressing surprise that he could time trial as well as he can- I guess they’d decided he was just a climber. (but really, in his role as superdomestique it doesn’t make sense to go hard in time trial days, and as GC leader it absolutely made sense for him to do that)

One wonders what will happen to these schools’ accreditations, really.

I mean, if you’re teaching something you call history and you don’t teach students how to put the course content in its historical context and interrogate those sources critically, you’re not teaching them history, you’re indoctrinating them.

…tho to be fair, that’s honestly what passes for US History in most US schools. The more history I learn, the more I realize most of us aren’t taught

Welp. It’s time for Tesla workers to unionize, and hard

"We’re tracking you for your privacy 🙄

It’s this kind of bullshit that’s got me to give up watching football altogether. If there’s a simple, reasonable-priced option I can pay once and not have to feel gouged or upsold later, I’d consider But being made to buy multiple channels I otherwise would never want to watch in order to see a game? No.

When given the option to not murder quite as many cyclists, the drivers of Culver City agreed overwhelmingly that any inconvenience is too great to bear and it’s back to human sacrifice as public policy once again

Isn’t that in the Torah?

Yes, it’s in Exodus. Exodus is part of the Torah, as well as the Old Testament, along with Leviticus. The Torah is the first 5 books (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)

Leviticus (11:9-12) is where shellfish are banned, mixed seed or fabrics (19:19) It is where modern Christians cherry-pick their justifications on being anti-LGBTQ. (Lev. 18:22, 20:13)

Point is, they cherry-pick from the Old Testament when it suits them, and if you look at the rest of the rules in the books they reference that they ignore (e.g. tattoos, touching pig skin, eating pork, shellfish, etc. etc. ) it’s totally fair game to point out the rules they ignore in the same books as the ones they cite.

Yes! your fedi client will spit out a text file (.csv format I think) of accounts you follow, or of accounts following you and I forget how many other kinds of information (like block or mute lists, etc). You can share that with others, or if you decide to migrate to a different instance, you can use that in your new account to automate following of everyone you followed in your old account.

how people find accounts they like to follow.

The low-hanging fruit is sometimes checking out posters that show up in your feed because someone you do follow boosted their post. This sort of amounts to having the people you follow nominate people for you to also follow.

(fwiw, boosting a post just shares it to your followers, liking it just notifies the poster that you liked it)

FWIW you can follow hashtags in mastadon If you know where to look you can see trending hashtags In other fedi clients (particularly firefish) you can configure antennae and channels to give you the ability to have pre-set feed filters and focuses (e.g. search by hashtag, keyword/subject, etc) You can also curate lists (can include people you don’t follow if you don’t want) in case you want to look at what the law or history or cycling people on fedi are talking about just now. Often when I want to change subject I’ll check to see what #lawFedi or #histodon or #biketooter have to offer today

If that sounds a bit like rolling your own algorithms, that’s probably because it sort of is

This has been a thing the mobile carriers (AT&T in particular) have demanded of handset makers- that they give the carrier the ability to lock down the tether feature so they can sell an upcharge on your plan (or a piece of hotspot hardware they can charge you a whole separate line for) so that they can un-cripple it and pretend they didn’t take that away to begin with. This ought to be regulated like the taking-away-of-the-feature-in-the-phone-you-paid-for that it is.

First, the price point is stupid

Second, I don’t trust a folding monitor to last

Third, every other time I’ve gone to a platform that’s different from what 99% of apps are written for, I’ve felt frustrated because the apps didn’t take advantage of that and here I was with support for that but no benefit to me.

That’s his whole plan. He doesn’t have a defense, he’s guilty as fuck- he’s just going to ask for delays until he’s won the presidency and that will get him immunity so long as he stays in office. If the courts allow that and he gets into office, America will deserve what it gets, good and hard

Wow. When they use government as a weapon to threaten people exposing their bullshit and proclaim themselves to be fighting against the weaponizing of government, it’s… impressive that they can put up with the dissonance, honestly

Yeah it’s pretty neat when the thousand-year events keep happening every couple of years

Infuriating. In a just world the people that buried her report should be discharged dishonorably and the victim should be put in charge of evaluating reports like it in the future

Yes, so long as we’re using passwords- I like Keepass because it doesn’t have a browser integration or exploit pathways if any one of my passwords is out there on some host that gets compromised

I expect that pretty soon we’ll be moving on to using passkeys instead of passwords I’ll reevaluate how I keep my auth keys and passwords when that day comes