James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

I was there for 15 years and three-quarters of a million tweets. On Twitter’s best day, it was never as interesting or stimulating as the Fediverse has been for me on some of its worst days. Twitter was mostly noise and mayhem occasionally interrupted by interesting moments. Here, it’s almost the complete reverse of that.

I now have more followers on Mastodon than my dad's stupid dog on Instagram. Who's a good boy now, huh dad??

Rain gauge says 84 mm of rain so far today…… 🤯

Fun fact: during early development the gonads of the human fetus remain undifferentiated; that is, all fetal genitalia are the same and are phenotypically female.

- So, if biological sex can't be changed,
- And if life starts at conception,
- Then all men are trans.

Sorry, Republican men. You made the rules.

Nutjobs want to debate vaccines?
Here you go.

Sennheiser makes headphones. Some of its models are very pricy, and others are cheaper. This is a common tactic for firms, selling products at multiple “price points” so it can capture revenue from people willing to pay at different levels.

It’s apparently not very cost effective to make all sorts of different models. But then how do you justify selling headphones at different prices? Why would someone pay hundreds more for the same headphones?

Why, just make one version *shittier.* Turns out Sennheiser was inserting a piece of foam into some of its headphones, to deliberately lower the sound quality, in order to sell the same headphones at different prices to different people.

Once you recognize sabotage for what it is, you can’t help but start to see it in every aspect of your life: a deliberate shittiness imposed on us so someone else can earn a profit.

http://mikebeauchamp.com/misc/sennheiser-hd-555-to-hd-595-mod/

8/8

#Factcheck: No, #airplane #contrails are not being used to combat #climatechange
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/04/14/fact-check-chemtrails-arent-real-arent-related-climate-change/11624336002/

lemmy world

#California: No more #diesel #locomotives older than 23 years, starting in 2030.

Railroads: Wait, what? NO.

CA: you can do this.

RR: But but
No battery locomotives yet.
We're already reducing #carbon.
Those people with #asthma? who cares about them?
States don't have jurisdiction over railroads, anyway.

CA: ...

RR: We're gonna sue you

.
(RR are too cheap to electrify the network. Battery locs are a solution looking for a problem. Waste of lithium).

https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/railroad-industry/EHYKXOXL73F4WZYY5EUSOKHWBQ/

No see, you can't blame me. I'm for *redacted*ing the fascists. I've studied a lot of history and I'm pretty sure that's how you beat fascism; I haven't found a lot of other effective ways except one. And that one is the state absolutely smushes the shit out of the fascist movement as soon as it sees it, strangling it in the crib.

But I'm not the one concerned about nazis rights, you are. What I'm saying is even by your own rules, you're letting us all down.

Just ask yourself a real simple question - what'd FDR do when a buncha rich fascists tried to take over the country because "New Deal big mad?" What did LBJ do when a bunch of cracker Klansman said "we don't give a fuck what the Supreme Court says, we run Bartertown round here?"

Yeah they made those guys scream. So don't tell me your delicate sensibilities make this impossible; those dude's liberals? Right.

Imagine looking at the massive dumpster fire that is Twitter under Musk and thinking, “That’s great. Reddit should be more like *that*.”

Ignore the way Twitter’s run full-tilt at bigotry, harassment, and arbitrary authoritarian fiat — maybe that’s your thing 🤷‍♂️ — it’s also cratered its advertising revenue and its valuation and become unappealing to new investors. And Reddit’s going for an IPO… how does it make sense to emulate that business disaster? 🙄

https://toolsforthought.rocks/@absamma/110556514115316077

Hold on. Think about this. If you spell each number in order, so “one, two, etc” is it possible you will never use an A?

Really??

It’s entirely irrelevant when or what any elected official knew about the Bernardo transfer.

It isn’t their job to interfere, especially not to appease public outrage, and you’d have to be fascist to think otherwise.

#Canada #cdnpoli

Poll: What kind of Internet Connection do you have at home? Please boost for reach. TIA.

If all y'all want to take away any one lesson from watching site after site enshittify, it should be this:

Never. Trust. The. Money. Men.

Sooner or later, they're going to demand you take your great product that you worked so hard on, all the users and communities you've carefully built, and squeeze all the joy and life out of them in exchange for profits. And if you won't do it, they'll replace you with someone who will.

Integrity commissioner ‘looking into’ lobbying firm run by Doug Ford’s longtime right-hand man.
#ontario
https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/the-trillium-investigations/integrity-commissioner-looking-into-lobbying-firm-run-by-doug-fords-longtime-right-hand-man-7138199