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by pwinnski 4y ago
> submit a pull request then. Thanks for this! I now have a go-to example of why mastodon is not a viable replacement for twitter, one literally everybody should understand.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Not allowing new signups.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I said I only speak English, and the first page of results includes several servers with names and descriptions not in English. If I spoke German or Japanese, I'd have said so. If a server technically allows English but is mostly for D
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The key phrase in your statement is "on a friends invite server." Okay, so if you don't already have a friend on Mastodon, then what? Have you actually looked at the list on https://joinmastodon.org/servers r
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I am not sure I can express this enough: the onboarding experience is overwhelmingly confusing. I've already ended up dumped on a page with a long list of servers, and it's not clear whether this choice matters or not. Half the co
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by pwinnski 4y ago
People "pick" an ISP based on price. They pick an email provider based on UI, or features, or price, or cachet. How should I pick an entry node? I go to https://mastodon.social/ because that's where people sa
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Okay, I know that to see content about X, I connect to the X discord server, and to see content about Y, I connect to the Y discord server, and so on. But to message someone, I don't need to know or care what server they're on, or
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by pwinnski 4y ago
People keep using email as the prime example of federation, but email is pretty terrible! I can't communicate with anyone whose address I don't already know. There's no real "discoverability." Many people have multi
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by pwinnski 4y ago
In a car crash, that is, per crash, women are much more likely than men to die or be seriously injured. Men are involved in many, many more crashes overall, but in a car crash, cars are currently designed to protect men better than wome
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Amazingly, most Asian cultures have some experience with noodles. ;) Growing up in the USA, I do love the visceral thrill of twirling a fork to wind up spaghetti. It's like a childhood memory! But I have also eaten spaghetti (yes, spag
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by pwinnski 4y ago
In my experience in China, steaks or chops aren't served uncut. In cooking at home, I usually slice meat when serving it, rather than forcing each diner to slice it themselves. That said, I've also eaten uncut steak with chopstick
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The exterior clearly does, but yeah, the interior doesn't seem particularly familiar. Fortunately, the letter in question lists the element IKEA finds objectionable: "Your game uses a blue and yellow sign with a Scandinavian name
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by pwinnski 4y ago
In theory, I agree with you. In practice, it is mind-bogglingly rare how often high-level executives are fired for any reason, whether their fault or not.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I agree that "short attention span" doesn't seem like it belongs on Musk's very long list of negative qualities, but a reminder: he was not an initial founder of Tesla, he bought in a year later and claimed to be a found
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by pwinnski 4y ago
If I post a comment suggesting that xeromal's distaste for downvoting is because they have a tendency to post low-effort comments and generally not contribute to healthy conversation, would you just let that be, too? Perhaps you would,
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by pwinnski 4y ago
As the recent announcements showed, they're including at least eight weeks of pay, so that complies with the CA-WARN law in question.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Most companies approach mass layoffs pretty carefully, announcing the terms up-front, as evidences by the Stripe and Lyft examples this week. Twitter is the only company doing mass layoffs that's owned by Musk, to answer your last ques
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Instead of phrasing it that way, think of it has companies being required to give you 60 days notice, just like they want you to give them two weeks notice. Every time I've ever been at a company doing layoffs, they paid salaries (and
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by pwinnski 4y ago
This seems like a troll comment, given how disastrously Musk has handled the Twitter acquisition so far, and how many times he's been in trouble over mishandling things at Tesla and SpaceX.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Tell me you're bad at using chopsticks by praising training chopsticks.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Forks aren't great at scooping. My Asian family members require only chopsticks and a spoon (large) to eat anything, and spoons are much better for scooping.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Because people hit the flag button.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
You seem to be using terms like "brigading" and "shadow ban" without any understanding of what they actually mean. It could be that this sloppy communication leads to many of your downvotes, more than some nefarious caba
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Brigaded? Or downvoted by a number of people who saw it and recognized that it contained an specious accusation? As I understand brigading, it involves calls from outside for people to come in, which I don't think it happening here at
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Except that the financing he used to buy Twitter require him to double net revenue immediately[0]. It's not clear he can cut expenses by more than 50% without negatively impacting revenue. And that's before a massive drop[1] c
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Two days instead of 180--and certain deportation.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
His behavior as a person is not admirable in the slightest[0]. I would be ashamed if one of my children had acted like Musk. So you have a man who is personally a train wreck but professionally accomplished, and he has many people who compl
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by pwinnski 4y ago
He accused people of brigading, rather than expressing their honest opinion. I'd downvote such an unsubstantiated (and false, at least in my case) statement if it weren't already so downvoted. I don't want to pile on, but the
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Yeah, I've gone years at a time with no soda, although in my teens I drank so much I'll likely never be able to kick it completely. When I go years without, it does seem super-super-sweet. But also very familiar, and tastes &quo
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I drank non-diet soda semi-regularly before deciding that I had put on too much weight, so I started a very austere diet. The only reason I've been able to stick to the diet as long as I have is the sweetness of Pepsi Zero Sugar Mang

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