volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@salixsericea Well quickly, I suspect this is one of those cases where The Guardian won't really understand American culture enough to really report comprehensively on the issue.

In particular they might not be aware of the supposed rules that tips included should amount to minimum wage, or the common under reporting of cash tips to tax authorities. It's a mess.

But yes, not only does the world know how ridiculous the tipping thing is, a whole lot of the US knows as well. Unfortunately it's one of those things like daylight savings time where the institutional inertia and complex interests at play prevent us from really changing course.

Personally I think the no tax on tips proposal is a terrible, terrible idea, only serving to further ingrain tipping when we need to be moving away from it for the good of workers, and that's not even getting into corruption, the way it would encourage more and more pay to be moved over into tipping dishonestly.

But, the people pushing for that idea aren't the brightest. So, there we go.

@highduc honestly, I don't know what y'all are talking about, but I think there can be actual value in replying to something with that phrase.

I think there's a general understanding about what it means, so to lay that on the table can be an effective way of criticizing a stance.

Depending on the context it's not trolling at all.

@anon

@TheZeldaZone keep in mind if they are trolling then It's powerful in terms of encouraging them to continue.

@gatewaypundit_official The funniest part was, sounded like she took it as a threat when she was merely asked for evidence of her extraordinary claim.

@highduc a lot of people actively like and promote echo chambers

It's just the world we live in.

@wjmaggos saying they have a centralized relay is like saying your admin here has a centralized instance:

I guess technically it's true, but only by ignoring all of the decentralization.

Yes there is only one relay, except for any others.

@curiousgawker Well that's not true.

@manton I'm guessing they're doing it purely so they can inflate the amount of money a customer "saves" by paying for Prime.

So they can send out an email once a year inviting customers to renew Prime with an even more inflated figure of their "savings".

It might even be that behind the scenes they had a particular number in mind for this marketing message, so they set the $20 figure just to hit that mark.

@manton from the live blog it looks like the event is over and they didn't announce any new hardware?

I honestly don't know how many people actually want this AI stuff at all. But I would have loved improved hardware that better fits into my space then the orbs.

Seems like a misstep on the part of the company.

@MentalEdge I have one important clarification to what you said: content is not controlled by the instance it started on, but rather the original instance sends content out to others, and each instance controls the content on its own.

Among other reasons this is important because it has privacy implications. You don't control your content here. You cannot rely on the privacy you set it to, because once it's out every instance can do with it what they want.

@azalty

@zombywoof What specifically are you referring to?

I'm seeing the MAGA fans embracing the show, not explaining it away.

@hsolerkalinovski oh! I was listening to a podcast about recent news that may have jogged my memory.

Now I might be wrong, but to answer your question, I think I was annoyed by a BBC report saying that Trump said that Ukraine started the war when that's not all what he said.

Trump is an awful communicator, but nowhere in the statements they were referring to did he say such a thing.

@Nonilex That's not a conflict, though.

@walterolson.bsky.social

If the president can prevent its members from working on cases involving classified matters unless they signal political fealty to him then there was never Independence at all.

Just tolerance.

@hsolerkalinovski I understand that sentiment!

In a way I stopped regularly checking many news sources as news sources a while back when I just got too annoyed with opinion taking the place of news.

These days I regularly follow them for both academic and practical reasons, which don't involve factual accounts of the world. On one hand it's really interesting to see how stories evolve based on assumptions and interpretations.

And on the other, if I know what different groups are talking about it makes it a lot easier to talk to acquaintances from those different groups. It makes a lot easier to understand what they're talking about if you know the background that they have been exposed to.

Pretty much just how all of society is working out these days 🙂

@hsolerkalinovski ha, as fast as the news cycles progress, who even knows what they were talking about just a couple of days ago?

@lawprofblawg and the people who died aren't like money.

So.

@manton ha, I go farther and think all of the web tech in ActivityPub makes it kind of unavoidably fat.

Slim it down without content negotiation... and keep going :)

It's far too heavy of a protocol for what you get.