Goodson told police she was actually “scared” of shooting the gun and hoped simply producing it would be enough to deter potential threats.

Going to be honest here, I don’t think the drop bears care much about you drawing your gun.

Best just taze him.

Sure, but as you cannot know the future, it’s a bit tricky to pick a successor you want to support based on that, instead of absolutely right-now-essential things such as “Where people actually are”.

It’s also important to keep in mind how long Twitter’s run was: It was originally founded 18 years ago. I’d be okay if every 10-15 years I have to get a new Twitter, tbh. I buy a new phone every 4-5 years, a new car every 15-20, I’m alright. It’s cheap to go onto a new Twitter, I’m far less resistant to change with that.

That is to say: Sure, maaaybe (again, can’t truly know) Mastodon is superior on a technical level. But not only is that absolutely not how social media operates, and second it really doesn’t matter if a sucessor also goes down in 10+ years. People won’t be able to care any less if a successor lasts that long, and considering how quickly Mastodon has turned into a semi-ghost-town once Bluesky got big, I kinda know what I’d put my money onto.

Of course all of this ignores a central problem with the entire category of services: They don’t conduct conversations well, even stuff like Misskey or Mastodon.

Same. It overly corrects sometimes and can be a bit laggy, but in mixed language sentences it’s unmatched by a wide margin IMO.

Trump will close his own shit down again or rebrand it to Truth X? 🤣

Caveat: Neither do most web pages.

It’s possible to criticize both Mastodon and Bluesky for their respective issues

Sure, they’re both Twitter-like and hence inherently unsuited to having a discussion for starters.

I mean, as long as Twitter goes down, who exactly gets to do the killing blow among all the individual blows doesn’t truly matter now, does it?

Yeah but if you think about to, from a law perspective that’s an implementation detail. Sure, from our perspective it’s a really important one, but from the perspective of a lawmaker it’s about whether it should be done, not how it’ll be done in execution (different branches of state, basically).

I mean, yeah. But also, this isn’t really any different from kids not being allowed to drink alcohol before a specific age, movies and video games having age minima, etc etc.

And I would surmise the same reasoning applies: On average, someone so young has neither the mental development nor the life experience to be able to judge well what they are doing with their own information and how to judge/process the information they get shown.

Of course, this should happen in conjunction with actual education, like I at least had for alcohol and stuff. But it’s an entirely normal thing if it happens as part of a multi-step process (and I am not australian enough to judge how well those things work out in australia in general).

Yeah I immediately looked around, too. And this seems to be entirely made up. And of course nowadays while there is a linked video, no one can easily know whether that has not been generated and then spliced so that the easy-tell artifacts aren’t visible.

🤷

But yeah if things had actually happened as described I would at least find a few German news sources about this, especially because I can find dozens and dozens of news about the demo itself being planned for that date. So there’d be enough pages who would be posting an update about something this easily clicks-drawing.

not a replacement for actual hardwork and talent

But… it is*?

*: From the perspective of upper management and higher.

Don’t worry, he just made a type in “crypto grift studio”.

Are you hiding your engagement metrics? 😱

Yeah that’s the thing. It’s one thing to rail about immigrants, the elderly, the homeless, whatever. The same people who do that think quite differently after a year of civil service in a refugee shelter camp, caring in a geriatric station for people with ~no family or providing food for the homeless. It changes you. In a good way, you get to see a wholly different perspective of society, and this perspective is sorely missing with so many people. 😢

My biggest issue is thermals and build quality.

Feels like macbooks need every square mm of aluminium surface area hence less ports, as they barely manage to not reach autoignition temperature. Likewise plenty laptops with metal shells seem to use them as their ground, being too cheap for one tiny wire, and hence the case will slowly retain charge over a long day and you get this weird scratchy/jittery feeling when touching the case. Because ground is haaaaard.

And such shit in laptops costing thousands of euros. Fuck.

Authoritarianism

As someone from a country where I was the last year to do that… eh. I dunno. The military service, sure, fuck that. But the alternative if you didn’t want to do that was 1 year of working as a helper in the medical or caretaking field, and those people are missing. It’d be better if everyone just had to do a year of caregiving. It gives you a lot of perspective and is a really good experience, anyways.

So from now on, news about Info Wars aren’t allowed here, right? Since that’s quite literally The Onion now!

You’re looking at the wrong conclusions tbh. That Trump has not lost 50%-90% of voters really tells you all you need to know. America is fucked if these people are genuinely allowed to vote…

Isolating yourself in an echo chamber and refusing to have anything to do with those who disagree with you isn’t healthy

Of course, but despite people saying this for years, 50%+ voted for Trump. Clearly the majority of US voters thinks it is healthy behavior to do this. After all, “Hate, the Echo Chamber” is essentially the Republican agenda nowadays.