volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@RealJournalism Well that's not true, because that's not how US law works.

Biden has been very ineffective in promoting workable climate protections, but the decision to stay home doesn't mean all of the existing protections go out the window. The president doesn't have that power.

It's more, let's dump Biden to send a message that we need a president who will be more effective than this guy was.

@thisismissem

I wouldn't say it's the result of living in a capitalist society.

It's the result of wanting things and needing a way to convince other people to give you their things because you want them.

That's not capitalism. That's just human nature.

@anarodrigues

@si_irini I hardly think this is the ideal world.

There's no ideal world to keep intact, because this is not ideal, there is no such thing.

@SteveThompson that wasn't the goal, though.

The goal of this test flight was to test a number of different operations, and it was a rousing success in general.

The ship was always planned to be lost. There was no plan for recovery because that wasn't the goal of this test.

To say the goal was a splashdown in the Indian Ocean is kind of misleading as to what the mission of this flight was.

@Wen obviously do you think that but, notably, you aren't saying why you think that.

I know that you're wrong. I know that the bitcoin protocols don't include anything even approaching the reporting of water usage, which, I mean that's nuts that it would, but that's a connection you're trying to make for some reason.

So I know you're wrong, and I'm inviting you to explain yourself, and if you don't feel like it, great!

@Wen No, I'm interested in hearing from you.

You say I missed something, so why not tell me what you think I missed.

I have an entire bookcase full of physics textbooks here, but what do YOU think?

@Lassielmr I think the best way to consider the SOTU speech is to ignore any sense of ideology or philosophy or statesmanship or anything like that.

The guy is having trouble in the polls among his own base, so he decided to use this giant platform to target specific audiences to try to win their favor, regardless of anything rational or realistic.

So he might be all of the things you list, but in this particular speech, none of that mattered he was just trying to pander to a particular group of voters, who themselves might be out of touch and all the rest 🙂

It was very unbecoming, very inappropriate for the event, but the people who would care about such things the most already won't vote for him no matter what.

@HistoPol

@Wen Well then, enlighten me, Don't just say nah uh.

@Aethelstan but to me that's where the rank and file of the Republican party wants to go.

I CONSTANTLY hear Republican voters talking about loyalty, which is absolutely not my cup of tea, but that's the direction the party has gone. Folks like Nikki Haley, for example, were pummeled by both mainstream commentators and in discourse between common voters specifically because she was perceived as disloyal.

The us versus them, we're on a sports team, be loyal to the team sense is very strong in the party these days, so it's not surprising that party leadership would need to change to respond to that shift.

@Wen no.

Different people can use different amounts of water and electricity to do different amounts of work, so measuring work by those is disconnected.

In the context of Bitcoin the useful measure of work is probably operations per second, FLOPS.

If one really wants to measure work, that is. It's not a very useful thing to measure in this context.

@smallcircles

I think @dajb knew it was an analogy. He was pointing out how problematic the analogy really is.

The idea that folks would treat the platform as sacred--and many do--absolutely brings up issues of inclusion and diversity and accessibility.

It's to project your personal opinions on the system and impose your perspective on others, demanding that they conform to your own values.

You worry about "I do whatever I want here" but the other side of the coin is "You don't do what I don't want you to do."

People leave corporate platforms to escape that sort of thing. It's shame to see it here, just with a different master.

@tomw often it's not about corporate appologism but rather worry that the EU would be WORSE.

It's not that the person wants the corporation to have the power. Its that they don't want the EU to have it.

The new boss might be worse than the old boss. Doesn't mean the old boss was any good, only that the new one isn't.

@nileane

@nileane I mean, maybe the average person really is surprisingly dumb?

We see examples of that left and right, and heck, that people buy into dumbed down narratives is itself evidence of that.

It took dumb people to buy the dumbed down rhetoric used by Brexiters!

@Aethelstan RNC leadership gets a good deal of attention and airtime in popular conservative media circles, though.

It was especially high profile after the 2022 elections fell so far short of Republican expectations and conservatives were struggling to find someone to blame.

This has nothing to do with principles or policies. It's pure pandering and shifting winds of public perception.

After all, Trump was for McDaniel until he was against her.

@Wen but that's simply not the case.

The increase in work only happens if the coin increases in value. If the coin decreases in value then the work decreases.

It goes to highlight how much people misunderstand how the system works, from its core.

@fisunov Oh! Right. I guess both email features are referred to as forwarding.

I suppose off the top of my head forwarding like that is handled by clients and not the protocol itself.

Your instance would still be in charge and would pass content along, transparent to ActivityPub, just as an email server passes email messages along.

@jupiter_rowland

So that sounds like the reasonable solution to the problem.

If a user doesn't want long posts, let them avoid long posts.

That leaves the rest of us free to enjoy those, and we all get the experiences we want.

@phani