Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

@w7voa

When you're born into his world, or are really any combination of prominent and right-wing, then consequences are for other people.

And before anyone says it, this ISN'T cynicism. It's manifestly the case and has been repeatedly demonstrated, including -- one might even say especially -- in his case.

@EugeneMcParland
Helping someone rise to power is not only no guarantee of safety, it makes one very possibly the greatest threat to that person.

Once you're in power, it's safer to surround yourself with people who just plain lack the competence for such machinations. Say, a blundering drunkard as Defense Secretary, a vacillating weakling at State...

@sundogplanets
Maybe the Incas bred them to be weird for some social reason which has since been lost to us?

@PizzaDemon @evacide
Seven-fingered gloves, for people who are AI generated

@pivic I'm running an extension to suppress Google's AI summaries, since the URL parameter and search term flags have stopped working, and what it does is simply expunge it from the page at render time.

It's still burning all that coal and drawing down the water table because Google desperately doesn't want to not do that.

@fedops @lorenzofb

Yep. Unless the client is open-source, e2e is just marketing.

@SomeVeganCheeseIsOk @luckytran

Gonna be damn hard to change anything if we can't flip some of the saner ones, and you don't do that by being tribal.

@SomeVeganCheeseIsOk @luckytran

Yes. Worse is they way I hear some people insisting it should be called the Democratic Health Alliance. As if further entangling it with politics will do anything but harm. As far as I'm concerned if a purple state with a red Governor or red-leaning House wants to reject the Trump administration's dismantling of healthcare and join in, that'd be all to the good.

@SomeVeganCheeseIsOk @luckytran

Nothing to prevent it from expanding as long as the fundamental principles are agreed on. (In other words, no Hungary/EU crap)

@Tutanota

Still, y'know, best of all worlds:

Google provides the justification for many leading manufacturers to produce a variety of devices.

Then the best of those devices get support from third party OS's.

I mean yes, of course Google sucks the big sausage. But Asus and Lenovo and Samsung etc. wouldn't be making all this great hardware for reasonable prices if Google weren't out there pushing Android. And we all benefit when we install LineageOS and similar on those devices.

@sundogplanets
Not since Thiel named his Big Brother omni-surveillance system "Palantir" and offered its services to the world's worst despots ...

@bruces I expect Gemini would fall precipitously in the rankings if this were adjusted for whether it was being used intentionally.

@evacide

Classic advice from Ernesto Sirolli; it never gets old. (Ted Talk: "Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chXsLtHqfdM

@UndisScot

Does it have a small sheltered bay which we could refer to as "a Rum cove"?

@xkcd

It's not _that_ near the surface; the moon is actually almost 30 Earth diameters away.

@bruces It's a good thing that prop sword didn't have an edge on it, I thought he was going to bob his horse's ears there.

@stux Yeah every now and then "that should have worked" becomes "that shouldn't have worked"

@Ruth_Mottram

"One high-profile vegan, crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried, is in jail. Another, New York mayor Eric Adams, turned out to like eating at fish restaurants."

Golly, we're meant to take two fantasist assholes as above-the-fold proxies for veganism as a whole, I guess.

@Ruth_Mottram

"One high-profile vegan, crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried, is in jail. Another, New York mayor Eric Adams, turned out to like eating at fish restaurants."

Golly, we're meant to take two fantasist assholes as above-the-fold proxies for veganism as a whole, I guess.

@w7voa

I'm all out of sympathy for anyone still using Meta products. They simply don't listen.