ML2 @mathlover@qoto.org

@atomicpoet Yes, but at this rate Tesla sinking is probably going to embolden the competition that is rapidly entering the EV market; so if that was their intention, it's going to likely backfire on them.

@peterweyand

2. Not everyone who posts about climate change or politics is virtue signalling. Many are actually trying to address the problems they complain about. Heck, many of the people I follow on the issue of climate change, including many on this server, are *climate scientists*. Just because Twitter promotes virtue signalling idiots to the head of the feed on climate change or other issues doesn't mean that Mastodon is the same way; indeed, Mastodon really doesn't have an algorithm to speak of in that sense.

3. I find North Korea fascinating for a variety of reasons. I know *I* can't do anything about it, but it's fascinating from psychological, cultural, and historical perspectives to see how that country operates and has operated. There's also a lot we *don't* know because the regime is so secretive.

3. You realize you can do a timed mute, or even a regular mute, right? Because it's rather presumptuous to follow a person and then demand they don't post or boost stuff you don't like. I'm not going to change my boosting habits simply because you find certain topics to not be worth it.

@peterweyand I generally boost things that I find interesting, and I actually find North Korea news interesting because I feel bad for the people suffering under that dictator and because *that place is so fucking weird, repressive, and backwards*

Do you always do this with people you follow on social media retweeting or boosting something you don't like?

@peterweyand No, I am not. Why do you ask?

@peterweyand
As a person who is actually rather pro-2A (though not stupid about it): The NRA and the idiotic gun nuts can go DIAF, but I have no issue with people having guns for self-defense and/or hunting. Gun regulations should ideally be written by people who know something about guns (i.e, not Kathy Hochul and not most people in Congress, Dem or GOP).

As for the LGBTQ+ crowd: I'm *probably* asexual to be honest, and I have many, *many* people in my life who are gay, trans, or otherwise not cis het, so I would very much like them to still be at the table.

@voron @Davidtoddmccarty

@voron
That's possible, though given the views of Gen Z and my own generation of millennials and the increasingly stronger support for things like renewed antitrust pushes in the Democratic party, I would not rule out the possibility of progressives and liberals remaining relevant and/or even gaining relevance.

If the past 6 years have taught me anything, it's that the entire world can be upended by the smallest of things (such as a literally microscopic virus) and I find both comfort and terror in that fact that we cannot know the future with much certainty, especially as concerns people, politics and society

@Davidtoddmccarty