I agree with this political stunt to point out the Trump Courts illegitimacy.

The words of the constitution currently have no value to the Trump Court. They just invented Total Criminal Immunity for official acts, and anything said to a government employee isn’t admissible in court. In a country founded on the idea no one is above the law.

This court is worse than the Dredd Scott court, they’ll just rule up is down and any amendment meant to undermine their decision actually affirms it.

For those arguing that Biden couldn’t do the funniest thing ever, I disagree. It truely doesn’t matter if they rule it an unofficial act. The purpose of this ruling is to get Trump out of his 34 felonies he’s already been convicted of because they used a lot of testimony from administration employees. So as long as that part of the ruling stands, Biden can still get away with anything. How do you convict with no witnesses.

Becoming incoherent because of a illness, that doesn’t hospitalize you, isn’t a great trait for a president.

We lost to Trump in 2016 because we ignored how relentlessly unpopular Hilary Clinton was, Republicans spent decades smearing her every chance they got.

Biden just proved their claims about his mental fitness, if we ignore that by calling it optics, we’ll lose.

Hinge was okay 2.5 years ago when I met my gf on it. It’s since been purchased by match.com and is likely ruined now.

I’m concerned too much more salt may lead to salting of land, but I may be worried over nothing.

I also don’t fully trust our ability to predict negative outcomes if it’s profitable to ignore them.

It’s all good. I can see that point, but it’s unfortunately a bandaid (semi-short term cooling strategy) on a sucking wound (too much CO2 in the atmosphere), and if I trusted the world powers to continue solving the issue (Atmospheric Carbon Capture) before sepsis set (salting the earth from aeroslizing sea water) in, I’d be less opposed.

I never said burn more oil?

Also I’m not a huge fan of the idea of seeding the atmosphere with salt water, that salt has to come down eventually.

It is the Sulfer thing. Sulfer Dioxide was shading the planet and making clouds more reflective, cooling the earth and we’re fairly uncertain by how much.

Even though the article doesn’t say it outright, the obvious conclusion is that we should have stopped using fossil fuels decades ago. And even if stop now we don’t know how much more warming we’d do without the sulfer dioxide. Which shouldn’t be added to the atmosphere because it would kill an outrageous amount of people.

Sure, but zero costs changed for me, insurance premium was the same, taxes were the same, interest rate was the same (fixed interest loan). And yet somehow they low balled it and now it’s my job to fix it.

I’ve got Knob and Tube wiring in part of my home, so only the state of Ohio is willing to insure me, and my insurance premiums stayed the same. So at least I have that going for me. My bank still raised my mortgage by 20% because apparently they can’t set up an escrow properly and apparently that’s my problem now.

I see where you’re at, but everything I mentioned is in the first paragraph of the article. It’s not like it’s buried.

There’s far more nuance than the headline suggests. He said he’d stop commencement specifically if the cops came to arrest people. He also asked no one shout down the president.

He did not request zero protest.

Why on earth would running a service that actually costs money be a good idea for company so deep in a hole on a webservice that’s comparatively free to run.

Yes, truth social is completely impossible without trump. Nobody could possibly spin up a mastodon instance without a former president backing you. Just absolutely unheard of.

This seems like a conspiracy for targeted harassment, with a strong case of doxxing.

With an email account I created 10 minutes ago and no registered church within the app, I’ve been able to pull the names and addresses of myself, my neighbors, and the names of people whose address I’ve checked.

This is a privacy nightmare.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/tire-dust-makes-up-the-majority-of-ocean-microplastics-study-finds

Majority of microplastics in the environment are specifically tire dust. And the particles are so fine they get into our blood through our lungs.

I’m all for blocking Threads as an instance or user, but blocking instances that choose to federate with threads is going to leave a lot users who when Threads breaks its compatibility with Activity Pub with no social graph to keep them tethered to ActivityPub.

Threads can’t get the data we’re worried about it collecting from federation, they can only get it from you installing/using their site or their app. So don’t do that.

I think the difference between this EEE and say XMPPs EEE is Meta/facebook is widely seen as a cancerous entity that people who are already here aren’t going to want to use, and when they break compatibility few people are going to want to switch to their service as long as there’s still enough people here to talk to.

Not to downplay the threat of EEE, we need to remain vigilant. Our best defenses are preemptive defederation or shitposting how we never see ads.