@dormouse@mas.to @gonzo good points, all, I think, and I agree with your premise
@dormouse@mas.to @gonzo 4. Elon is a mixed bag, just kind of an impulsive attention seeking troll but he hurts his own fans more than his critics. Consider when he hyped Bitcoin, made the price go up, then he criticized Bitcoin two days later and the price went way down. His own fans who trusted him and bought Bitcoin on his say-so lost thousands of dollars
@dormouse@mas.to @gonzo 1. My viewers isn’t showing what was posted before “because most people are…” 2. I think when people ignore a professor’s mistakes it’s because of lack of interest in the course matter, not necessarily cowardice or stupidity 3. COVID. Blown away how people could simultaneously believe that it was a Chinese bio weapon and that it wouldn’t hurt them because they diet and exercise
@petergriffinkinnie @dormouse@mas.to the “not sure” reply was because I thought it was ironic that you are describing others as robotic, and at the same time admitting you are a gamer. A certain type of reply guy likes to mock gamers as themselves being unthinking losers - wasn’t sure if you were trolling
@dormouse@mas.to @gonzo other than elections, what persuades you that the masses are stupid, inanimate, stimulus-response herd follower?
I’ve now done two Zoom calls over the last two nights purely on Mastodon.
Lots of learning happening across our community. Lots of people coming in - or trying to come in with various degrees of success! - lots of appetite to understand more about this federated environment and the right etiquette here.
Big thanks to all the admins who’ve been adapting at pace as we have been flooding in and swamping your servers!
@Little_Rascal @janboehm inside you are two wolves
@wagesj45 @a_lizard@mastodon.social thank you! This is the content I was looking for
@dormouse@mas.to @petergriffinkinnie serious question. Do you believe is it possible for the sheep to wake up, or to be woke up? How?
@petergriffinkinnie @dormouse@mas.to not sure if serious or bait
@douglasfur @a_lizard@mastodon.social the Roman centurion be like waaaaaaaaat
@Little_Rascal @a_lizard@mastodon.social 🙏
@Natsu_Kaze @freemo @stux online freedom of speech is important because of spooks and oligarchs and whatever, but also because there are McDonald’s wagecucks and middle schoolers who want to spin up a discord server and wield their make-believe authority over strangers. On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog… us actual humans need to make it clear that such petty, Reddit-brained, extremely online behavior isn’t acceptable.
Taking a sabbatical from all social apps for the time being. Later, guys