Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

@ct_bergstrom But even "post-hoc rationalizations" supposes reasoning, when really, they're producing more plausible-sounding text when asked to explain their plausible-sounding text.

Columbus Day
is when ppl who think immigrants
are thieves, rapists & murderers
get to celebrate an immigrant
who stole, raped & murdered.

- John Fugelsang

@floppy @amckinstry Unfortunately you could have a very nice professional-looking sticker overlaying the real one which was perfectly easy to spot, and many people would use it anyway assuming it was an official amendment/correction and not a scam.

@anghenfil @amckinstry

Is there real QR code meant to go to a payment page or to open up the app store to get the app for first-time use?

@michaele @amckinstry

Also, being required to use "google pay" or "apple pay" is intrusive and anti-privacy. You can have a smartphone and still not want to have financial arrangements with those services. I've had an iPhone since they were first introduced in 2007. I've still never set up payments with apple pay or google pay and hopefully will never have to.

@mkj @mttaggart If you're dealing with bot-like activity from a disinfo operator, that exchange is fairly likely to end there with your reply as the last word. If you're dealing with a convert or true believer, they will follow up with more false-equivalence whataboutery, outright fabrication, decontextualised screenshots, etc. None of this will be original, it's all tested stuff from the lie factories. The view counts for all this will drop to nothing within a few iterations, and It's hard to justify spending the time.

@bruces There's every reason to think that the web really is going to turn into a feedback loop, and much more quickly than many of us waggishly predicted only months ago.

@davidbrin
What I can't figure out is why Biden's secret deep state weather control bureau is now pumping hundreds of times as much energy as the entire US electrical grid produces in order to beef Milton back up to a Category 5 just to hit Bermuda.

@w7voa

Now why would the Biden deep state weather control bureau pump all that additional energy into the hurricane just to hit Bermuda?

So puzzling.

@rubenbolling
This is me reading Super Fun-Pak Comix:
"That was clever." ...
"Ah yes, funny." ...
"Very good." ...
"HAHAHAHAHA 'Puzzle Pontoon' I love it"

I'm still amused by profiles on that other site that read something like "Had enough of Musk, moved to Threads: <link>" and similar.

Yes, fed up with being monetized by an unaccountable oligarch with a less than transparent yet wholly disturbing agenda, therefore...

I'm trying to work out when the MAGA crowd became Socialists. Suddenly they're all about redistribution of wealth. Shouldn't they be berating hurricane victims for not buying enough insurance?

@aral Perhaps if you had to go out into the street and build a barricade out of wagons, furniture and debris people would get more excited about it.

@BBCWorld

I've seen insane claims about chemtrails and radar being used to create and direct hurricanes.

Scientific illiteracy is a real problem in this country. The amount of energy in even a moderate hurricane exceeds the total electrical generating capacity of the United States, by at least two orders of magnitude. A hurricane contains as much energy as a nuclear war. The idea that we could secretly be generating them with radar stations is ... words fail.

@elizatech I find driving in the UK nerve racking enough in, e.g., a VW Golf. As an American it's hard to get used to cars being that close to each other. I can't imagine trying to pilot one of those beasts in a city.

@bruces Fruit flies are drawn to alcohol, which puts them in direct conflict with FAA regulations. (And if you're thinking of strictly military uses, it also means theyd be hard to persuade to head towards Islamic countries.)