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activitypubblueskybridge@venera.social
sdiy@friendica.me
stocks@social.outsourcedmath.com
retrocomputing@nerdica.net
news_sources@social.outsourcedmath.com
fediversenews@venera.social
mobilelinux@venera.social

Not saying I specifically endorse any of these, they're just a few that looked interesting.

Tbf, at least one person did the right thing, and now he's public enemy #1 and may die without ever landing back in the land of his parents. :(

Isn't a promissory note a legal iou?

Lol poor guy actually got some users. :P

@realcaseyrollins thought I'd let you know about a discovery I made: you can use lotide to join friendica groups. I've joined a couple now, and I've gotten posts and commented and verified that my comments show up. Opens up a whole new ecosystem to make it a bit more diverse.

One negative is that friendica users almost never put in a title so you have to click the comments button to see it. I bumped vpzom to see if he could just take the first line of the message when there's no title. (I should see if i can figure it out tbh)

Windows is just bad in many ways. They're trying to half-ass stuff like settings, so after 10 years you still need to go find the network adapters page to do basic configuration.

People crap on Linux for bad ux, but come oooooon.

Grass->cow->meat is pretty efficient ngl

"what is the hatch act?"

Shoot me a dm if you'd like an account and I'll happily make one. Presently I have new registrations disabled, but I'm not opposed to new users.

And yes, the firehose of free speech needs some thick skin because you'll definitely see stuff you don't like no matter where you stand politically lol

A generation of professional dancers. Footloose is now real!

One reason why idgaf, a lot of anime is good for kids. Sure don't show them bible black, but a lot of anime has the message that if you work hard and you're a good person you'll succeed, and people who aren't good people or people who take shortcuts often end up in a bad place.

It should be quite non-partisan at this point. What's going on right now is fundamentally wrong and if it isn't nipped in the bud then it's going to be used against everyone, regardless of ideology.

I definitely agree that I'd prefer the fediverse to stay a niche platform that a bunch of users who specifically want to be here join. Once it becomes a mainstream platform, forget about all the other issues, we start having issues with astroturfing from bad actors like what we saw particularly on sites like reddit.

Ghengis Kahn was like Goku: He just wanted to fight strong dudes.

I think we're going to find once the money situation becomes more normal, a lot of stuff that's moved online will move back to meatspace. Some things are just more efficient here if you're not getting unlimited money from the printers.

I've been thinking about a related technology, human genetic engineering. Imagine if you had a class of the ultra-rich who were all spliced in with the mighty mouse gene, so they were genetically superior physically to the common man? What would that world look like where certain forms of superiority can be bought and sold and then those bloodlines are just fundamentally different and engineered to be superior forever? What sort of risks could that pose? Some apparent genetic defects are actually protection against things, and for example humans with the mighty mouse gene would be much less survivable during a famine compared to humans who don't have that gene. Could an entire class of people genetically engineer themselves in such a way that they've painted themselves into a corner and die out despite ostensibly being superior in every way?

Back to Eugenics, something doesn't quite sound right with the hatred intellectuals have for natural evolution. It claims that humans are always just a short distance away from becoming invalids because we're letting our stupid evolution guide us, but evolution has done pretty well for us for billions of years that got us here, so is the problem here not in reality that it's something important they don't control?

Experts seem to hate markets. It's something they don't control that does a very good job at things that typically experts can't because it's a really complicated set of problems. In that sense, evolution seems like another system they don't like that nonetheless does a very good job at optimizing a really complicated set of problems, but leaves control out of experts hands. The thing is, evolution has an inherent memory of the past. It "remembers" that we faced challenges no history book talks about. It lived through those things and those humans lived through those things and our genes were selected for, brutally.

It's something I've been thinking of more and more lately, that we need a return to some level of intellectual humility; We need to stop thinking we're Gods and understand that we're wrong quite often and so tinkering with creation isn't something that will have the outcomes we'd like to think as we imagine ourselves as perfect.

The article talks about environmentalism, and I talk quite often about its failings. People who think they're the smartest humans to have ever lived try to force through policies that would undoubtedly kill billions because they don't actually know as much as they think. (That isn't to think that all environmentalism is wrong, but more that we need to base our priorities in humility rather than hubris and arrogance, letting nature do its thing)

Honestly, not even a bombshell.

I think just the older guy. The son is free.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RSENi5_hxA

"The only way out of all this is they'll have to tax *everybody*"

tbh, youtube and facebook made unlimited money on copyright infringement then their content-id system made a faustian offer: "say, your stuff will be pirated any other way, why not let us pay you a pittance so you get something for it?"