I’ve seen it said quite nicely elsewhere on the Internet: It’s not Red vs Blue, it’s billionaires vs you. Act accordingly.

I have never heard the phrase “everything you like about life is a market inefficiency” before, and I think it is simultaneously horrifying and accurate and my life is now a little worse. I don’t know what to do with this info, but I feel I need to share it

Looks beautiful!

I too left Twitter around the same time, and I really wish that Mastodon would just replace Twitter already. There is a certain silliness that occurs there that is still rare on Mastodon. I’m excited for more of that silliness to come to the Fediverse. I don’t look forward to all the Nazis who eventually will get bored of their echo chamber and try to meander over. I hope the right tools, people, and hardware are in place when it happens.

I kind of imagine all the right people and tools are there. I’m less confident on the hardware.

I mean they made some strong arguments for their existence. I don’t think creating a technically novel piece of software was the goal. This is a technical solution to a legal issue that they expect will soon exist. The sheer existence of this acts as a warning and hurdle for politicians and those funding these laws for the next more invasive version of these laws. I don’t expect I’ll ever use this, but I’m glad it exists, as its existence is enough for it to work.

Very fair, it is definitely polarizing, but it is up my alley. Cheers

That truck looks amazing and I want nothing to do with whatever engine they’re putting in it. Someone needs to drop a Toyota engine in there and it could legitimately be awesome

My understanding is from the heater coils

I was under the impression that there are metal flakes in the flavors that absolutely wrecked your lungs. More so than regular cigarettes, was my understanding.

Then email the notepad to MyEmail@myemailprovider.com Post it all to Twitter

My understanding is it was originally made for figuring out what grade a child belonged in. Like if a kid came to a school, what grade do you put them in? Give the IQ (intelligence quotient) test to determine what grade they go in. Take what they know (score on top) divided by what you expect them to know at that age (score on bottom) gives you a quotient for choosing what grade to place them in. Highly educated? Higher grade. Lower education? Lower grade. Fast learner? Jump a grade. Slower learner? Redo a grade.

Seems like it used to be a useful tool. I don’t think that’s how society uses it anymore, but from the start, I bet it probably worked ok.

What is the best place for news? I feel like Lemmy is where I get my news. I’m wondering if I should be paying for a news service like ground news or something. These journalists should be paid for the work they do, and I feel like I’m not doing that as of right now. I’m using Adnauseum, so technically every ad is getting clicked then blocked, so the site may actually get some ad revenue, but I’m wondering if a paid news service is the right thing to do. If Apple news is wrong, and Google news is wrong, what is right? Or perhaps what is least wrong?

Man, love all the options 🤣 I assumed there would be one or two, but it seems we have tons of options. Thanks for the great info!

I sincerely hope this government goes away soon. I also acknowledge it is much easier to ask someone else on the Internet to do it than it is to do the work myself. The more you have to lose the harder it becomes to risk it. Everyone has something they don’t want to lose. I think there is a balancing game to be played here by everyone. Support as much as you can while not over extending yourself. Doing nothing is the wrong answer. I don’t think one person will come in and save us. A tidal wave of small actions could.

I think politicians are obsessed with messaging and media over actually doing anything. I think protests make for good TV/visual messaging that politicians can’t ignore. Perhaps a real path forwards is massive protest turnout and speaking with reporters. Catchy protest signs. I think that is how you speak a politician’s language without lobbying money.

It’s an amazing building! There is a bar at the top and the only way up is with a glass elevator that is terrifying to ride on.

Some may go as far as to call them deplorable

I’m pretty sure Ireland is where all the major companies are “headquartered” and technically keep all their money there for tax reasons. Ireland could just freeze the bank accounts of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Intel, … Or do something similar if they so choose as retaliation. Would be devastating financially afterwards, but would get the US’s full attention

As someone who is flirting with the idea of attempting to own my media, I have a question for you. If I couldn’t find a torrent for some song I wanted, is there a recommended tool or path for “collecting” my own version of a song? I don’t see myself getting into such a situation where I want some super obscure song, but knowing I have a path for getting a version from one of the major streaming services to bridge any gap I come across would be nice. Where would one go to learn how to safely collect rare/difficult to torrent music files?

I’ll commit to commenting more. I prefer to lurk, but the fediverse needs me 🤣

I’m no authority on anything involved in such an idea, but I just can’t imagine how the economics of a vacuum tunnel could be viable. The maintenance costs on constantly running lots of industrial scale vacuums sounds crazy expensive. I hate trying to keep good suction out my vacuum cleaner and imagine at huge scales things get harder, not easier. Maybe there are clever people who have a solution for that and it’s not a big deal though. No clue.