Klye @khird@qoto.org
Mod
Joined Sep 2018
My thoughts:
1. Requiring others to do the tagging will stifle new users. It creates a chicken/egg problem where I need my posts tagged to draw attention and gain followers, but I need people paying attention to get my posts tagged.
2. Trolls will troll. You'll get bullies who visit your profile and tag all your stuff as hate speech out of spite. The current flagging system needs a mod to actually suppress content, but it sounds like your proposal wouldn't.
@TheOges@mastodon.social
5th grade overnight underground railroad trip. Students are grouped in 18-bunk cabins (traditionally, subverting chaperones' attempts to enforce bedtime, sneaking out and banging on other groups' windows, sending Morse code messages by flashlight, etc.). Then in the morning, groups rotate through a series of "encounters" spaced along a trail in the forest, where reenactors offer food/shelter, steal your winter clothes at gunpoint, or try to capture you.
They seal up a loose collar that might let the wind inside your clothes. The rate of heat transfer from your skin into air scales with the temperature gradient, which is reduced by keeping cold air at a distance.
I also wear one while motorcycling in the winter because exposed skin gets very cold at speed (high speed = thin boundary layer = steep temperature gradient). As a bonus, the scarf tucks over my nose and beneath the pads of my glasses to direct my breath away from the visor.
@freemo exactly right
Mundane eyed food bowl
Modern Compressible Flow by John D. Anderson. It's a very useful reference, and as always Anderson pays attention to the details - e.g. under what circumstances each model accurately represents reality.
I get a similar reaction from car chases in action movies, especially when the director goes for spectacle and wants a lot of collateral damage. All those bystanders whose cars the hero trashed are now on the hook for the repairs, and for some that's not a cost they can absorb. How many Russians had to raid their savings after Jason Bourne tore through Moscow, and couldn't afford to <go to college>/<visit their sick parents>/<get vet treatment for their dogs> as a result?
I'm entirely serious - these sequences really impact my view of the protagonist.
It started life as a right-leaning instance who felt existing social media was biased and unfairly repressing conservative users. They joined the fediverse earlier this year, and while it was initially much like noagendasocial or quodverum, I think the centrists are largely gone now and most of what I see from there these days is some flavour of antisemitism. I live in a country where conservatism is generally associated with support for Israel and find this quite jarring.
It's a server, like qoto, running a modified version of mastodon. They have a "free speech" policy where being civil is not a requirement. Consequently, most of the users who are capable of being civil got fed up with the incivility and left, and those who remain largely have no other instance willing to put up with their behaviour. Many instances now block gab, but qoto is pretty good about not engaging in that sort of dogpiling so we are still free to engage with them.
I sometimes raid tunein to add new stations. Pull up the website, find a stream you like, and dump packets to get the audio stream address. Then save it as a bookmark in your music player (e.g. vlc). It used to be possible to do the same with radionomy but that quit working a bit ago.
Picked it because it's the closest to "all else held equal" in terms of circumstance, so as to minimise confounding variables.
I have no information either way. Per media reports, the guys who brought down the White Settlement attacker were church security; it seems plausible that pure-civilians don't usually worship while armed. On the other hand, it would also be believable that the Sutherland Springs shooter did face armed resistance but prevailed against them.
Just read about this - it's reported the attacker was using a shotgun.
Compare Sutherland Springs. Still in Texas, still a church, still brought down by a carrying civilian - but he had an AR-15 clone and killed dozens before he was stopped.
I'm inclined to think that takes them out of the category of "gift" and makes them more akin to "payment for services rendered." Not that there's anything wrong with that in general - my 25c/day allowance as a child was conditioned on doing my chores - but it seems out of step with the "spirit of giving" we usually associate with the holiday.
@realcaseyrollins@civiq.social @shibaprasad
I prefer apps when they use a common protocol - Mastodon apps, IRC clients, XMPP programs, etc. That's even true for non-social media: I prefer IMAP clients to webmail pages, dedicated music players to streaming webapps, and so on.
Apps that speak some opaque undocumented protocol on the wire are much less welcome - a browser parsing HTML may give me less interface control than the above examples, but at least it doesn't hide what it's doing.
I was just thinking about this. Knowing that he's going to be acquitted by the Senate, and that he might benefit, electorally speaking, from claiming that he was exonerated, it didn't make much sense to me.
I think the Democrats are already pretty confident of winning the presidency - they lost by only 50k votes (combined margin in Pennsylvania and Michigan, which together would have been enough to flip the Electoral College) and they can expect pretty much anyone they have currently in the race to outperform Clinton. They aren't really trying to remove the president, or to weaken him in the next election.
My guess is that this is actually a move to improve their chances of retaking the Senate. If Trump loses his reelection bid as they predict, it's likely that his supporters at trial will also take a hit at the polls, so the Democrats want to force the Republican senators to link their fates to the president's. They're specifically targetting seats in Maine, Colorado, North Carolina, and Iowa. With those four seats and the vice presidency, they would control the Senate even while losing Alabama.
Even if they only pick up a couple, it would put the Republicans in a tough situation in 2022, when they must defend swing states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio, and Arizona. Opposing Obama helped the Republicans gain more seats, but now as the ones they won in 2014 and 2016 come back up for reelection, they mightn't have enough support anymore to retain them.
I don't know how many times I scrolled past this before I noticed it wasn't just a monolithic mob approaching. Looking over her head, the sea of signs appears to be continuous, but it's actually partitioned.
The figures associated with sex work and those dressed like scene kids or hipsters bear the slogans of the political left and approach from her left. The ones associated with the military, religion, and patriotism bear the slogans of the political right and approach from her right.
The attention to detail is such that none of the background figures on the left of the image are even bearing firearms.
Well done.
It happens occasionally that even an empty net gets missed, in which case the referee properly denies the goal.
The real problem is not in a particular case where the court issued the warrant, it's in the system designed to remove all obstacles to the state getting warrants as it wishes. When supporters say, "Support the police! They need this tool to fight terrorists," it's important to be cautious.
> Do they have no responsibility to ask questions about/discuss the evidence in these warrants?
Well, no. That's why the whole FISA setup was so heavily criticised from the start. Cross-examining the state's evidence is the job of the defence, not the judge, in British-derived systems like the US. But since there is no defence in FISA, it's entirely one-sided, an adversarial system with no adversary. The FBI just has to score on an empty net.
I'd like that. The more inertia the mainstream Fediverse has, the less power the extremists wield. I consider Twitter likely to take a moderate stance, blocking the really abusive instances but leaving ones like ours alone. Since it increases the audience for instances with which it federates, it would reward maintaining basic standards of decency but not provide an incentive to be overly uptight. Its huge userbase would be a big payoff for meeting a sane behavioural baseline.
I didn't see @Gargron＠mastodon.social call you any names, but it's entirely possible I've missed the relevant messages.
The bulk of "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way" is designed to help you avoid provoking umbrage in the first place, but there are two headings that may be helpful in deflating it once it's come up: "Dealing with rudeness" and "On Not Reacting Like a Loser".
I would argue you *do* have some limited control over what others do - for example, if you antagonise them, they are likely to behave in a more hostile way. You could consider "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way" advice concerning responsible excercise of this control.
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