Mastodon doesn’t have a recommendation engine really. If you’re getting lots of right wing lies and propaganda, then it’s because of who you chose to follow.
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Is this ironic? Certainly my Mastodon feed is radically left…
53·12 days agoThere is a film from 1995 which is literally about companies trying to prevent a cure from getting out since it would interfere with their ongoing treatments.
Tap for spoiler (the name of the film)
The film was Johnny Mnemonic .
16·17 days agoMeh. There’s also .UK, which is not the country code for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland… that’s GB.
We also have .EU, so this stuff is all pretty flexible in some sense.
Country codes are defined by the ISO, which is not UN run.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization
1·26 days agoI’m not sure. I visited a Soviet high school in 1988 and there were gay kids. They were shunned by the other kids, but it wasn’t illegal or anything.
I took it to mean people working in farming, food-processing factories, restaurants, and the like. I’m not sure how that is racist?
This strikes me as nonsensical. If one person stops eating meat then the meat industry will create less waste. Maybe not exactly 1 person less, but unless they literally trash all of the meat that person would have consumed, it must be less.
8·2 months agoA new twist on a classic:
This is pretty much how The Handmaiden’s Tale book goes. “Terrorists” nuke DC and some Christian fundamentalists take over.
There is an interesting question as to what happens if he dies before being sworn in. It’s not clear what succession looks like then, I think…
Voting by mail is inferior to having a voting booth. The women secretly voting for Kamela have a much lower chance of being able to vote as they want by mail-in ballots. Indeed anyone in an unequal power relationship has the same problem.
There’s a reason we have voting booths, and it’s still important.
So you think that Kamala is destined to be President?
4·2 months agoDon’t you mean 5/7?
I don’t see much negatively. But I use lemmynsfw.
This is why the fantasy of asking AI to solve global warming will either end up with no benefit (possible) or with us being converted to carbon-neutral paperclips.
Jerry: “Aren’t you going to see what the message is?”
George: “Nah.”
Kramer: “Why not? It could be important!”
Jerry: “It’s not like you to ignore a message…”
George: “Okay, okay! I’ll tell you. I was sitting at home.”
Jerry: “Doing what?”
George: “Nothing.”
Kramer: “Oh yeah! I love doing nothing! I love it!”
Jerry: “Nothing? Sounds boring.”
George: “Spoken like an amateur. I have it down to an art.”
Kramer: “We should compare notes!”
Jerry: “Anyway, then what happened?”
George: “I get a text from this girl I had lunch with.”
Jerry: “Lunch? Like a date? A” lunch date?"
George: “I don’t know, I don’t know! How can you know? Who suggests lunch when someone asks them out? I don’t know, but she did!”
Kramer: “Yikes!”
Jerry: “Okay, so you get this text message.”
George: “That’s right.”
Jerry: “From the lunch maybe date maybe not woman.”
George: “That’s right.”
Jerry: “What does it say?”
George: “What are you doing?”
Jerry: “I’m asking what the message said!”
George: “I know! The message said, ‘What are you doing?’”
Jerry: “Ooooo. Okay. And?”
George: “So I sent her a reply, that said ‘nothing’.”
Kramer: “Classic mistake.”
George: “Well I wish I had known! How am I supposed to know?!”
Jerry: “I don’t get it. What’s the mistake?”
George: “After I told her that I wasn’t doing anything, she called me!”
Jerry: “On the phone? What for?”
George: “To talk!”
Jerry: “About what?”
George: “Nothing! I wanted to do nothing, not talk about nothing!”
Kramer: “You got yourself a phone talker.”
George: “A phone talker!”
Jerry: “Seems like it. So what are you going to do?”
George: “What can I do? I’m going to have to tell her talking on the phone causes me migraines. It’s the only way…”
Kramer and George leave. Jerry sees a message from Elaine that says, “What are you doing?” He puts the phone down.
Will you please explain this?
I feel like I understand each sentence but not why you put them together.
As you did when you made the decision decades ago.