Yeah, no shit. The Internet remains mankind’s greatest mistake.

I own it, but haven’t played it yet. I’ll check it out. Thanks!

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

Fucking great game, Inscryption was mentioned in here at least.

cope and mald over another authoritarian regime toppled by domestic freedom fighters.

Not particularly, it’s just a large public event and so, disrupting it draws attention to the protest more than other less media-covered events would.

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We don’t generally measure post-tax (or “take-home”) income in economics discussions. Gross income is the preferred measure because it allows for a more like:like comparison.

Millionaire isn’t 1%. Everyone with a 401(k) in their 60s is one. It’s younger if you count assets like houses.

Usenet and an on-site NAS agree with me, any data cap below 10 TB/mo. is a non-starter.

Love the Pax MAGA:

1. Russia moves west until Putin doesn’t need to drum up nationalist fervor back home;

2. Israel gets all the weapons it needs to control every inch of the Mediterranean coast from the Suez to Turkey;

3. All US troops out of South Korea and IDK probably an arms sale to the DPRK;

4. The Seventh Fleet gets permanently reassigned to patrol the California coast as some immigration stunt and to make Pooh happy;

5. Probably a tactical nuke dropped on Tehran.

Seems awesome, right?

Tump high-key fucking hates Google. I don’t know that this goes away.

Discovery sucks out loud, federation is all to often at the whims of some admin in a pissing match with another server, even when you know someone you want to follow locating their account is a hassle, it’s slower than Bluesky to populate across federated instances, there isn’t a good app design out there for free, the web portal is inferior in both UX and UI to even Twitter, I could go on.

If you want to make strawman arguments, go ahead; but, you’re ignoring the real problems with Mastodon that have caused users to avoid it.

Gee . . . I wonder why

An order to sell Chrome would be accompanied by an order (or consent decree) to not engage in web-engine and/or browser development.

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.

Take a long look, this is what leftist victories look like

I wonder how much Trump is going to sell the Seventh Fleet for. I’m sure it will be the best deal ever, right?

Just in time for a federal ban, whee.