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by toofy 4y ago
just in case anyone is wondering: imho, ivory by tapbots is by far the best client. i think it’s far and away the best ios client.
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by toofy 4y ago
so maybe it would be more appropriate to say, “other people disagree with this” rather than playing some strange kind of victim with “they won’t allow me to speak!” we’re allowed to disagree.
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by toofy 4y ago
> but you’re still not allowed to say that. you literally just said it.
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by toofy 4y ago
i’m confident that someday in the future we’ll look back at our insistence on profiting off housing as a huge miscalculation.
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by toofy 4y ago
> The focus is on the Urban water users because they are the ones that are facing the problem they are facing _the repercussions_ of a problem largely caused by someone else.
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by toofy 4y ago
> I hope I'm wrong, but in the absence of hardliner ideologues following the money is a very accurate predictor of how large sociopathic entities comprised of many humans who are "just doing their jobs" (e.g. states) act.
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by toofy 4y ago
> What new crops exactly can we replace those crops with? for a large number of them i don’t think we replace the crops with anything… why are we treating massive chunks of some of the dryest desert as if it “must” grow something?
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by toofy 4y ago
they’re indicating on the posted reddit thread that the “black only” mod prohibits research forcing the black characters to stay primitive…
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by toofy 4y ago
> Trying to making this a us vs them is pretty much meaningless as it’s completely ineffective in solving the problem. i don’t mean this as confrontational as it’s going to come across, but this is nonsense. it isn’t ineffective at all.
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by toofy 4y ago
never confuse the loud fringe for anything other than a loud fringe.
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by toofy 4y ago
i understand this is a drifting a bit, but to your grocery stores with milk on the back wall comment: we did a grocery store trip yesterday (full size grocery store) and i counted 7 different places they had salsa. different types of salsa
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by toofy 4y ago
i find it interesting that the study minimizes the “working with people” aspects of executive roles. working with people may be the most important piece of an executive yet they ignore the “working with people” aspects and try to shoehorn i
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by toofy 4y ago
i think you’re hitting the nail on the head emphasizing passion. so often people entirely disregard passion for the work when theorizing that no one would be a ceo for less than $40million. i haven’t ever seen studies done surrounding the i
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by toofy 4y ago
> It's a new culture of intolerance... from what i see, we (the US) have more tolerance than we've ever had. there is of course a very loud tiny number of people crying about that exact tolerance and doing their best to destro
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by toofy 4y ago
> You can't permanently silence/exclude random people's opinions at social events or a family dinner with the touch of a button. thats my point. we don't exist in bubbles. and while you didn't explicitly say t
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by toofy 4y ago
fair enough. > I have not decided yet, and the process of picking one seems somewhat fraught as someone who has been on mastodon for quite some time, i highly recommend one of the general servers and then not worrying about it from there
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by toofy 4y ago
> Nobody wants to maintain a generalist instance… i’m not sure what ya mean, the largest instance is generalist. almost all of the most populated instances are also generalist: mastodon.social mastodon.cloud mastodon.online mstdn.social
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by toofy 4y ago
> But when applied en masse it's just a mass collection of extremely segmented bubbles. We don’t exist in mastodon bubbles. we go out with friends. we visit families houses. we visit friends families. we visit dozens of other web
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by toofy 4y ago
you think it’s peculiar to not allow illegal content? even twitter will remove content if it violates netzDG.
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by toofy 4y ago
> De-federation prevents people who want to communicate from communicating. no, it doesn’t. in fact, it’s far better than any of the centralized private closed off social media liek fb or twitter. it absolutely does not stop you from jo
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by toofy 4y ago
> …was much rarer back then because people were less censorious. i wish this absurd idea would disappear. communities on the internet have _always_ banned people for all sorts of reasons. always. since bbs’, since irc, since forums, si
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by toofy 4y ago
forgive me if i’m wrong, but this comes across as if you’ve never used mastodon. i’ve been on there for a few years and i can’t for the life of me see how any of this is even a concern for using it. if you’re upset that some servers are mor
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by toofy 4y ago
this ignores the algorithm pushing stuff to you and it entirely ignores comments from randoms.
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by toofy 4y ago
i think all it does is show us two things. we now know for absolute certain that: 1) he recognizes that posts can have real world implications. 2) he thinks its ok to mitigate those implications through suspending accounts and deleting pos
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by toofy 4y ago
most of what you say is spot on, but lets be clear: twitter has never nor would it have ever been "a public town square" anything owned by a private company is the literal opposite of a "public" anything. and way more im
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by toofy 4y ago
astroturfed by who?
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by toofy 4y ago
appparently twitter took Spaces down immediately after this as well. elon said its down because of "a legacy bug." strange timing.
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by toofy 4y ago
what i keep hearing it called is "debate bro" culture. a few of the characteristics that really concern me are: 1) they either don't realize or they refuse to admit what they don't know. 2) they try to convince everyone
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by toofy 4y ago
there are quite a few tools to help find people you follow on twitter. for example, right now, when i run one called fedifinder[0], it finds 473 of the people i follow on twitter. when i import that list into mastodon, im now following all
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by toofy 4y ago
sure, this is pretty standard. how many apps has google shutdown? if google shuts down gmail tomorrow, you'll lose your email. theres an entire site memorializing hundreds of apps google has killed, some of them *very* popular[0] ho

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