Lol. We need to advertise “The Bender Gambit” more aggressively in our welcome materials. It really is part of what makes this place(s) great.
I’ll be sure to do that when I make my own instance, with blackjack and hookers.
And you know what?! Forget the instance .
Well, we can fix that.
The comedy series “Black Jesus” has some of that vibe, if I recall.
And yeah, it’s great.
I could skip my next union meeting, I guess…
Yeah. That’s the part that billionaires and health CEOs should be thinking more about. Plumbers with exceptional jumping ability are being created at a rate that should alarm them, in exchange for amounts of difference on the billionaire’s net worth that they’ll never even notice.
Social safety nets make everyone win, even the billionaires. We just have an exceptionally stupid crop of billionaires.
Turns out its really easy to get stupid people to hate things.
That’s going to be the byline of this entire era of history. Oof.
I want to protest, but if I miss work then I might lose my job
Great point.
A better option is to find and join your local union. You can do it quietly, and it might save your job someday. Even if it doesn’t, it’ll absolutely get you paid and treated better.
Yeah… Citizens United was a big coup for billionaires to put their thumb harder on the scales of injustice. I’m not sure any of this gets better while the billionaires aren’t terrified for their lives.
When I had that, I solved it by changing jobs. I loved my job, but everyone was stupid about work live balance and stress management. I realized after I changed that I really should have changed jobs sooner.
Russian gravity does seem unusually politically motivated…
The one redeeming aspect of how Putin constantly makes enemies is that he’ll never ever get to truly relax again.
Humans aren’t capable of keeping track of the number of people he’s harmed badly enough that they may someday do him violence.
He can never let his guard down, and will never be able to trust anyone.
If that man somehow dies peacefully, I’ll buy a lottery ticket the same day, because that would be a whale of a black swan event.
The ones old enough to be aware of him are aware of the standard “we don’t take money from, or give money to billionaires” advice - for their own protection.
In addition, I’ve encouraged my kids not to stand too close to anyone who spends too much time doing “fuck around”, just in case that’s the day that person reaches “find out”, and there’s collateral damage.
TL;DR: 10 pounds of crazy pressed into a 5 pound sack.
“It was a lousy conversation anyway. Chewie, we’re gonna have company!”
All swearwords, all the time. Generally puns on the servers purpose.
“Images of historically significant military achievements or personnel, such as the Tuskegee Airmen and the first female Marine Corps infantry graduates, have been flagged for removal.”
Wow. That’s pretty blatant.
That’s what resonates for me.
We don’t have email instances, and email providers similarly block un-desired content, but there’s not a big fuss about missing out on specific types of spam. Lol.
Similarly Internet service providers actually also block big blocks of malware providing domains, and accidentally sometimes block some great piracy resources. People who care learn to use a VPN or switch providers. Everyone else doesn’t have to think about it.
I’ll argue that The Fediverse also carries extremely similar switching cost as an email or Internet provider. For an average user, “Let folks you care to inform know where you moved, and maybe copy over some favorite bookmarks.”
Sure, different providers do try to bring different lenses on the same federated content, but most people aren’t served well by thinking about it on day one.
I think shifting to the term provider is a lot more honest to the user about what to expect.
That’s fantastic. Provider avoids the mostly baseless FOMO (fear of missing out) that instance can invoke.
I think provider more clearly communicates that the majority of the desirable content is going to be available the same through any provider.
That’s good!
Another thing I do is to make plans for Sunday night. Then when I look ahead to the end of the weekend, I have my Sunday night plans to look forward to, and not just work on Monday ahead.