volkris @volkris@qoto.org
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
But... people are always going to be wrong on the internet, as the saying goes.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Just speaking into the void, since I figure it's an exercise in futility to conduct discussions on these platforms.
Joined Dec 2022
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There seems to be a great gulf between space industry followers and people who don't usually follow space industry news but do so they can bash Musk. Reminds me of that time someone was utterly convinced that private companies had no business working in space when NASA is the one that nurtured this public private partnership for greater efficiency. Government can't do everything folks. It's not God. 🙄 #SpaceX #starship
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I once saw a woman on TikTok who only had one hand. One of her arms ended at the wrist. And she made a video explaining how she puts her hair into a ponytail with just one hand.
It was interesting! She was so brave to share that. I appreciated her answering a question I never knew I had. So I gave her the token of the realm: a like.
Reader, when I tell you how many amputees I saw after that. Good LORD. It took weeks for me to convince the algorithm to stop.
This is what TikTok does.
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Yes, this is the reason so many people left. One person who I respect, who started here and is now on Threads, said that the culture here is too "scoldy."
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There should be an option to make your Roomba swear when it bumps into things.
When I hear #Trump supporters describing him as not part of the establishment I roll my eyes thinking about the guy who headed **the entire executive branch of the US government for four years.**
But mainly I think of the press that utterly failed to frame their reporting accurately to lay that on the table, instead obsessing over him personally instead of him as chief magistrate.
And that's why we can't have nice thi... government.
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First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled
NuScale and its primary partner give up on its first installation.
From listening to mainstream #conservative commentators I get the impression that core #Republican voters are very insular, an enormous echo chamber that doesn't recognize the positions of even Republican leaning independents in the country.
This is interesting because it's one thing for a small group or faction of a movement to be an echo chamber, but this seems to be basically an entire major political party buying into confirmation bias.
The midterm elections and then yesterday's VA election highlighted this, as Republicans were excitedly predicting a sweep, that they told themselves was coming, that didn't come.
The implications for the presidential primary process are significant, as the primary process exists to overcome the wasted ballots of the voting system, but that doesn't work if a party is so disconnected from the larger voting population.
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(I just want to be clear, because this is getting boosted and I'm a pedantic sort of person, that the "whose" is the joke)
Struggling with malfunctioning autocorrect on my new pixel phone, I'm just saying, I'm not going to trust AI to drive cars until it can at least master the Oxford comma.
Whose with me?
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@volkris "There are a broad variety of users on SPC, from "normal people" to edgeposters, to creatives. Mostly we want to have a good time. You have free speech on SPC but at the same time, we don't want the server to turn to shit and flamewars and Heil Hitler All The Time. So try to relax and have fun. This isn't a rule, but a plea. We've been around for almost five years and the server's got a comfy vibe and we want you to be a part of it." This is the official stance on our culture.
#RT because I feel like I honestly learned something that other people might not realize.
I thought shitposter.club was an instance actively devoted to shit posting, but apparently not?
I'm genuinely relaying this post because I judged posts from that domain as unserious and so spreading the word that apparently they can be serious.
@volkris Keep lurking more and you'll discover that we're a diverse and generally chilled instance. We've been around since the GNU Social days of ...
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If we're going to do daylight saving time we should really commit to the bit and switch to Fahrenheit in the winter so it sounds warmer too.
With the furor over the election of #Johnson to Speaker of the House spreading through the feeds here, NOW can we finally hold #Democrats responsible for the votes they actively chose to place that set this up and enabled the #GOP nutjobs?
Maybe people were holding out over a misguided fantasy that Dems and Reps would form a sort of coalition government, but now that they've elected someone so many here don't like, is finally OK to point out that their strategy was a bad one?
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Day 58 of posting grilled cheese sandwiches until I run out of cheese types: Face Rock Creamery, Monterey Jack https://www.diningandcooking.com/1002834/day-58-of-posting-grilled-cheese-sandwiches-until-i-run-out-of-cheese-types-face-rock-creamery-monterey-jack/
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Having used #Bluesky for a while, here's what it does right, compared to #Mastodon (and lesser extend the #fediverse )
- You have one identity, regardless of server/federation.
- This identity belongs to you and not some server.
- It's OK to have asymetric interactions: journalist model. Journalists are there, and not here.
- It listens to users wishes: algorithmic timelines (opt-in!), search, discovery, quote-posts are what new users want, and what they get.
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@psu_13 I gave up on Adguard because "Adguard *For Safari*" contains an entire copy of Chrome inside it, for compatibility with the latest WebP exploits. https://mastodon.social/@jwz/111132818664259012
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No one is ever satisfied with dystopia. They always imagine that things are better over in dat topia.
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Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
But... people are always going to be wrong on the internet, as the saying goes.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Just speaking into the void, since I figure it's an exercise in futility to conduct discussions on these platforms.
Joined Dec 2022
