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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scodd pilgrim comics/film/series comparison summary (thematic spoilers only)
comic: loser starts dating manic pixie dream girl with historic relationship problems, fights her exes, realises he's a loser, goes through character development to become slightly less of a loser, they date happily ever after (?)
film: loser starts dating mpdg with historic relationship problems, fights her exes, they date happily ever after
series: after a new relationship immediately hits a crisis, mpdg addresses all her failed past relationships and comes out of it with character development, resolves to stop running away from the losers she dates
it's kind of interesting how the series is mostly ramona & her exes having character development and scott having zero or debateably negative character development lmao
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A US drone killed a Somali mother and her daughter – but no one was found guilty https://lemmy.zip/post/6039990
Boy people let themselves get obsessed over the mythology surrounding Elon #Musk.
It's not good for them, and it's like, people taking an alternate reality game waaaaay too seriously.
Anything that doesn't fit their plotpoint is clearly part of the in-game conspiracy.
Some notes on #bluesky under the hood.
I've heard from some who looked at the protocol that it's horrifying, so it was interesting to hear from someone saying it was workable.
@volkris @maegul I do like it much more myself (I've been hacking on it since April). It fixes some issues that AP has like the ease of account mig...
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@admins Holy itchy trigger finger Batman. I went through their list and they blocked journa.host because they are “an instance of journalists?” I would consider this a badge of honor. You aren’t truly on Mastodon until you’ve been blocked by .a*t! We made it, folks!
I'm seeing a good bit of misinformation about the lawsuit against Media Matters, which is funny because it's a lawsuit alleging misinformation.
For example people are saying the suit is over scrolling too fast without looking at the next line in the complaint that finishes the sentence to say that led to misleading results being reported, and THAT is the charge.
It's one of those sad cases where people are so eager to take things out of context that they don't even finish reading a sentence much less an entire document.
Such is the state of the world.
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Another person criticized me for promoting my Patreon. Let me put this into perspective. People spent $74.6 million to see the 2019 film Cats in theaters. At the current rate, it would take 34,158 years for my project to bring in as much money as Cats. I like to think Low Quality Facts provides at least as much entertainment value as Cats, a film which one critic described as "The worst thing to happen to cats since dogs".
In conclusion, here's my Patreon:
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts
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Me, finishing another long day at the tortilla factory: "Well, that's a wrap!"
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As usual we turn to @ScottManleyHimself for a breakdown of todays #SpaceX #Starship test flight and possible causes of the RUDs.
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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?
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
