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It’s strongly suspected that Russia had some influence on Brexit, if not a whole heap of other things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_Brexit_referendum

Nonetheless, that result weakened both the UK and Europe, which is the sort of thing Putin would have been very much interested in.

I mean, it could all be a massive coincidence, or it could be a massive coincidence like all those people falling out of windows.

You might find this 10-month-old Vlogbrothers video interesting.

A friend of mine got fired from his old job by telling his boss that Babylon 5 was a big pile of sh*te.

And if you’re a nerd, you’ll know that that wasn’t actually a friend of mine, but Tim Biseley, one of the protagonists of turn of the century TV show Spaced, played by Simon Pegg.

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Yeah, they’re trying new things again. Gotta squeeze that stone for all the blood that’s in it.

One of my accounts has been getting a long delay before the video starts. Pre-roll ads are trying to load and play but the add-ons I have installed are still stopping them from completely succeeding. For now.

I also have auto-play turned off, and I wonder if that has anything to do with it.

Pretty sure the systems at their side think that I’m seeing the ads because I’ve had pop-ups during the delay offering free Premium.

Thanks for finding him. I’ve amended my comment with better details.

Journalists for RFA aren’t being sentenced to 3 generations of there family being out into concentration camps for disagreeing with the US govt.

Careful. If Trump could read, he’d think that was a brilliant idea.

My brain makes some dumb connections. This is basically Dom Joly with his enormous mobile phone, shouting INCREDIBLY LOUDLY into it.

Reminds me of that SCP Buddhist monk who has been in deep meditation for over 200 years, except he doesn’t troll people, and he can be roused if absolutely necessary. The hardest part is communicating because Japanese has evolved beyond the language he speaks.

Edits: … As a reply points out, he’s SCP-1520 and he’s apparently more aware of his surroundings and more interacted with than I remembered. Still mostly meditating though.

So, has Musk straight up admitted to being a white supremacist or has he only dropped anvil-sized hints so far?

Dude’s already there. What’s he supposed to do, crawl back up the oviduct?

(… Oof. I don’t even have those and I’m having sympathy pains for it.)

I wonder what would happen if someone else threw a similar tantrum with the topic “people who throw tantrums (like that other guy) shouldn’t get what they want”.

I mean, I know what would happen, you’d get permanently trespassed and the other guy would get a comped meal, but you know, it’d be funny for five minutes.

They either can’t see it or they see it perfectly well and they like what they see.

You may find either or both of these disgusting.

This logic can also be applied to elections.

I can only speak to the topics I followed on another account, but it provided plenty of reading for those topics. Whether it covered all possible posts and whether it works well for all topics, I couldn’t say.

It does kind of rely on people tagging things properly, which people might not do if they’re on a Mastodon instance specific to that topic. But then, they ought to know that those posts wouldn’t Federate well, and indeed, might not want them to.

Mastodon is microblogging. As others have said, it’s similar to Twitter. Lemmy is a link aggregator with a comments/conversation section per link, like Slashdot, Digg or Reddit.

I think the thing that people forget to do with Mastodon is to follow hashtags. The feature wasn’t there early on but it’s been there for probably a year or more now. Then you block or mute the accounts you don’t want to see that post under those tags.

It’s a useful substitute for following accounts when you have no idea which accounts to follow. You can then curate and actually follow accounts whose content outside those hashtags also catches your eye.

On the link aggregators there are the groups which don’t exist on Mastodon, but that’s what hashtags are for, right? Marking the topic.

The only hard part about it for me is feeling bad about blocking innocent accounts.

Also worth mentioning is that Mbin instances exist, and that software is basically both Lemmy and Mastodon rolled into one site. The posts aren’t fully integrated though. You have to click something to view the microblog side of things and click something to go back.

I’ve seen that picture online before, and pointed out (in whatever forum I was on) that it looks a lot like a cricket sweater, which doesn’t fit with his image at all, and I doubt he’s ever worn, let alone owned one.

At the time, someone suggested that it might have been a “portrait in search of a head” (my paraphrase) and Trump commissioned the artist to put his face on it. I reckon the artist might have been hoping to sell to someone like Shane Warne, but Donny bought it instead.

Indeed. We should be suspicious of this doctor’s diagnostic ability, if that’s not another leap of logic too far.

It is if you count your profit in terms of percentage of global profit, and then, should that break down, in terms of global wealth.

Similar to how it’s impossible to reach the speed of light, it’s not possible to reach 100% of global wealth unless you’re the only sentient being left alive, but you can get arbitrarily close. And getting closer requires more and more human suffering, as reaching light speed requires more and more energy.

Only time will tell whether the rich will (publicly) switch to this metric because so far, “Newtonian” measurements of profit have been sufficient, and fractions of global wealth generation look piddly by comparison.

There’s a famous quote attributed to Charles Babbage with regard to his difference engine (or some other calculation machine of his invention) which goes: “On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”

Apprehension is right, Mr. Babbage. You were lucky to find yourself talking to those who, in some unconscious way, suspected that something might be wrong in their thinking, leading them to at least enquire. There are those whose ideas are so confused, or even so completely lacking, that they will assume that no matter what is put into the machine, the right answers will come out.