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- Comment on Gargron Reopens Github Discussion Of Quote Post Support On Mastodon:
Considering I'm pretty sure both of us use soapbox, I find it really weird watching people having these giant discussions over what is an uncontroversial and frankly hardly ever used feature.
- Comment on No, Fediblock Isn’t Better Than The UFOI:
Is aids worse than ass cancer? Who knows?
- Comment on Is Trump planning his Twitter return?:
If he's planning to run for president, probably.
Thing is, I don't know if he can win again. A lot of people who were swept up in his big talk got to see he didn't deliver.
- Comment on Black Fox News Analyst Booted From North Miami Restaurant Because Of His Conservative Beliefs By White Liberal Owner (VIDEO):
"you gots ta believe what we tells ya ta believe!"
- Comment on School System Failing And Is No Longer There To Educate, Says Teacher:
Pretty much totally sold on homeschooling, at least until grade 8, since a high school diploma is basically a requirement for any post-secondary education.
There's the argument that kids need socialization, but I don't see that as a compelling argument. It's like saying "I'm feeling a bit low energy. I'm going to take some meth" -- seems like there's more constructive ways of solving that problem...
- Comment on Norwegian government funds research to find out if white paint is racist:
I spoke to some white paint once, it was shockingly racist. Like, old school racist. Had lots of things to say about Italians and the Irish!
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- Comment on FediMod Proposal:
"I want whatever FediMod ends up as to be to be ethical, designed and built with empathy and equity in mind."
Funny, I don't believe you.
Why don't these people just go back to big tech where they clearly want to be? Then they can have big daddy censor silence everyone who's unpopular!
- Comment on Taylor Swift and the music industry’s next $20:
I think a lot of people are actually disappointed in the music industry. A lot of us haven't really seen anything good come out of the establishment music industry in a decade. When I play music, it's music that's 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 80 years old because there's lots of good stuff there, but they stopped making it forever ago.
Indie is better, but the reach of good stuff isn't the same so you really gotta dig for it.
- Comment on The FAA’s flight management software is as old as the Nintendo 64:
Lifecycle planning is something a lot of industries just don't do.
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- Comment on Tu-104: Was This The Most Dangerous Airliner Ever? (11:50):
openttd is top tier
- Comment on Tu-104: Was This The Most Dangerous Airliner Ever? (11:50):
Goes to show you that resource constrants never go away. Bureaucrats will always cut corners to look good to their superiors.
As a random aside, I never would have known about Tupolev except it's one of the available brands of airplane in Aerobiz, a Super Nintendo game about operating an airline. In the game, those planes were significantly cheaper than their alternatives out of Boeing et al.
- Comment on DeSantis Hammers NHL Over ‘Discriminatory’ Job Posting: ‘Not Welcome In The State Of Florida’:
Yeah.
If we're supposed to speak up against racism, the first target should be explicit discrimination, not deep lore if you're familiar with the last 400 years of theory then if you stick your tongue out just right it's definitely maybe racism probably.
- Comment on I don't know why federation is broken with wolfballs:
ack -- I figured it out, it's entirely my fault. I was using a hosts file to clean up name resolution. Sorry for wasting your time!
- Comment on I don't know why federation is broken with wolfballs:
Thanks for looking into it, mob. It doesn't look like federation is broken for everyone, the other lemmy instances seem to be ok, so it's something specifically with compatibility with other services, so I'm guessing mastodon compatibility is broken too.
- Comment on Merrick Garland Considers Race in Sentencing Recommendations:
Sadly, that's a good point.
- Comment on Merrick Garland Considers Race in Sentencing Recommendations:
They do something similar in Canada due to the history of aboriginal people.
I can sympathize with people who have been historically disadvantaged, but the solution to racism isn't more racism.
A bad history isn't destiny to be bad in the future, or the world would never improve because the world has been incredibly bad in the past.
We have a choice in how we respond to the bad things in our past: We can either choose to respond by perpetuating a bad world, or we can choose to respond by deciding to be better and stop the line of suffering. There should be rewards for choosing correctly and punishment for choosing incorrectly, especially when that incorrect choice harms others.
- Comment on Only half of US women under 45 have children: CDC survey:
Population collapse has bad sides, but also good sides. Historically, periods of population decline were also great times for the common man because the value of it individuals rise when there are fewer of them. Also fewer people competing for scarce resources
- Comment on Occupational Licenses Are Killing Minority Entrepreneurship:
I know a couple of my licenses are just to keep my name on a list. 100-200 bucks a year to keep your name on a list. It's absurd, just a money grab for no good reason.
- Comment on Occupational Licenses Are Killing Minority Entrepreneurship:
I tend to agree. Voluntary certification is one thing, mandatory licensure is quite another. It isn't like licensure makes it so frauds don't exist.
- Comment on The FAA’s flight management software is as old as the Nintendo 64:
Yes, I'm aware of the irony that here it didn't, but imagine if you wrote software that ran an entire industry for 25 years!
- Comment on The FAA’s flight management software is as old as the Nintendo 64:
tbf, if it works, it makes sense nobody would bother changing it. Especially if there's no real payback to doing so.
- Comment on US Government Approves World's First Vaccine for Honeybees:
I don't need to be vaccinated against bees, I just don't go where they are and they don't sting me.
(I kid, I kid)
- Comment on Hundreds of Chicago Teachers Raped, Sexually Assaulted, Groomed Students in 2022:
Every week I want to homeschool my son more. If the kids groomed by weirdos think he's weird.... Mission fucking accomplished.
- Comment on Fresh bad news for kids makes pot legalization look even worse:
Doesn't make it look worse to me. It should be illegal for underage kids.
The evidence has always suggested that pot usage should be kept away from children. There's a big difference between a 15 year old and a 25 year old with respect to the long term effects of cannabis.
- Comment on FediverseAlmanac - An API For The Fediverse:
Seems like a lot of people are really focused on who is banning who. Some people need to figure out high school ended a long time ago.
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- Comment on Can’t Decide What to Do About Twitter? Here Are Some Options:
We tried to warn them, they refused to listen.
- Comment on Twitter is a mess, so former employees are creating Spill as an alternative:
oh look another twitter alternative im sure its worth looking at since its made by the employees who werent good enough to stay at twitter