Except to work in service of the society one committed a criminal act against.

Yeah . . . the horror.

It varies. Some days it’s better than other weeks. It’s a bot using the best OSInt available for the purpose, but there are inherent limitations.

50mbps is a fuckterrible bitrate for 4k HDR video content.

You should be playing physical media anyway, though.

It’s just not on Twitter.

https://mastodon.social/@elonjet

Paid publicity and novelty of visual effects are the same as people saying something has artistic merit. Ya got me!

I guess you missed literally almost everyone when it came out saying “Looks amazing, but is just a longer Fern Gully in space.” I have never heard anyone call it good, excepting those who praised the legitimate achievement it was for visual effects.

Yes, that’s the classification.

No, that’s your philosophy.

Best practice is to link to the most widely used platform.

He’s remembered as a figure who wanted to kill all of Parliament and return the nation to an absolute monarchy.

You guys know what Guy Fawkes was trying to make happen, right? RIGHT?!

People shouldn’t be able to buy summer homes and weekend retreats? Fuck that.

I mean, yeah. You ever ask an average software “engineer” to have a constructive conversation with someone a different department? It’s a nightmare.

I guess I’ll start screening my surgeons, attorneys, and accountants for how well they know how to use Zoom. This seems reasonable.

The chance that Trump doesn’t try and use a nuclear weapon on Iran is near zero. It’s like drunk, depressed, isolated Nixon all over again, but worse this time.

If Mastodon wanted to be preferred, it should have been better. I moved to Mastodon over a year ago when the Twitter sale first happened. It was not great then and it’s gotten slightly worse since. I created a Bluesky account two days ago and it already offers exactly the experience I missed from Twitter before Elon.

Would it be better if Mastodon was good and the federated FOSS option was superior? Sure, absolutely. But, that scenario isn’t even close to the case we are presented with.

I know posts like those feel good, but the objective fact is that the political conversation and (much more importantly) public policy has moved drastically leftward in both shorter terms (the last decade) as well as more medium-term measurements (the last fifty years).

Dems and Repubs are so entrenched as the 2 primary parties that it would take a miracle to get enough voters to follow a 3rd party

They’re not “entrenched;” they’re ideally situated for the American electorate. There is not a single issue where a third party could take a position that captures larger vote share than those already taken.

lol no it didn’t

The entire population except for fringe groups of terminally online leftists: Yes.