

There’s this quote, I can’t remember the wording or the source, but it goes something like, “What is truly terrifying is not what people can endure but what they can get used to.”
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There’s this quote, I can’t remember the wording or the source, but it goes something like, “What is truly terrifying is not what people can endure but what they can get used to.”


I’m starting with hand-written pages.
That’s the most likely scenario.


Republicans weren’t committing genocide in 2024 -Democrats were.


Just saying, when you support genocide, some people will take a stand, and you won’t always like how they do it.
. . . not to mention lying about it, calling opponents of genocide antisemites . . .
I’m sorry if you still can’t see how some people would look at all of that and realize that both sides want them dead.


The Democratic party’s support for genocide makes it really hard to tell where the legitimate criticism ends and the trolling begins.
And that’s nobody’s fault but theirs.
I’ll take the “eeewww ugly UI” risk over the “high barriers to decentralization” risk.


@irelephant
I’ll stick with the nerds.


@irelephant
Genuine question, then: why is hardly anybody hosting their own Bluesky server?


It’s not a matter of how many users, but whether those users have the option to switch servers. By the former standard, mastodon would be considered centralized simply because of mastodon.social.
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Holding the bag not only for current sunk costs but also for future “lost” earnings. The billionaires are going to recoup that hundred trillion dollar AI boom one way or another.