As a smart person said several years ago, “Context is everything and everything without context is a lie.”

On the surface, yes. Look up Gail Slater and then decide if you really think she’s going to do anything about monopolies. Her career since leaving the FTC has been spent defending them.

Imagine staying onboard with someone promoting nearly every horrible thing in our world just so you can have easier email access.

Ohy god it took me a full minute to realize that I wasn’t looking at three stylized vaginas.

To be fair, I have seen several neolithic Venus figurines lately.

Yeah, that’s a possibility. However, as some Mastodon folks said recently, no platform is forever. Signal’s prospects seem reasonable to me, right now. If they co corporate and enshittify next week, I won’t feel my time and investment with them was a waste, nor my financial support (which hasn’t been much, tbh).

ha. That site is fun. I’m also clueless about some of it. Do you know what the “Come and find it” shirt references? I have a couple of guesses, but I really don’t know.

This is some good info about Matrix, thanks. I’ve been considering it as a Discord alternative.

This comment right here is going to make somebody $50. From me.

The lack of a Scottish American heritage month is a serious injustice.

The tories can go cry in a corner, though. Fucking white house burners.

(OK, mostly being a dick for lols, but honestly don’t feel bad that the former colonial power we rebelled against to even have a nation doesn’t have a special holiday)

Purely informational question: to me this seems to say “she started using!” Later the title clarifies that she’s using a FOSS tool of some kind. Is there a word missing? Or is “!” (just an exclamation point) a FOSS app? I get the overall gist of the message, but I’m confused about a detail.

1080p less than content?

Holy shit. How does that have a positive value? Still, Pittsburgh… hm…

Has that “absentee owner” law (or whatever the name is) taken effect yet? Do you think it will help?

Well, there goes my dream retirement plan.

Definitely under 50K (USD), but that’s because I live in the sticks.

At this point nobody can convince me she wasn’t murdered by a Ryan Walters, the guy running the OK Dept of Education.

With that argument, any employer can pay any employee less than minimum wage by arguing that they don’t do “minimum wage work.” The point of minimum wage is that subminimum-wage jobs should not exist at all.

Even Muad’Dib started out small.

IDF member

As someone who’s been hearing impaired my whole life, yes. The urge to punch the person in the face right at that moment sometimes seems irresistible.