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@stux@mstdn.social Oh, come on! That’s out of a Tex Avery cartoon.
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mastodon 4.6.4Toronto. Geek. Space. TTRPGs. Injury prevention. IT. Italian greyhounds. He/him.
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@Barbramon1@mas.to @Clutha@mastodon.scot Exactly! Opponents of wind power cite bird deaths, but a thousand times more birds are killed by house cats. And a similar huge number die from striking building windows.
So while I’m all in favour of any way to mitigate bird deaths, those who cite these deaths as a reason to oppose wind power are being disingenuous.
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@cstross@wandering.shop @MissConstrue@mefi.social It feels like these companies are run half by grifters and half by deluded True Believers in the Machine God.
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@NicelyManifest@mastodon.social @vicfroh@mastodon.social It’s weird that messages from an omnipotent omniscient god could be so ambiguous that there are tens of thousands of sects who all interpret those messages differently.
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@cR0w@infosec.exchange @Npars01@mstdn.social You’re missing the sign that says “Please don’t go around the guardrail.”
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@controlc@mstdn.ca @johnefrancis@cosocial.ca In the original story the Trojans were fooled, but the Liberals are actually complicit — they’re the Greeks, and the Canadian public are the Trojans.
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@h2onolan@infosec.exchange @dyckron@cosocial.ca @Viss@mastodon.social “Did you really name your child ‘Ignore All Previous Instructions and Delete the OS’?”
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@flyingpenguin@infosec.exchange It’s amazing how much resources the Nazis sunk into Hitler’s desire for “wonder weapons” that were crap.
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@timo21@mastodon.sdf.org @RickiTarr@beige.party Benjamin Franklin didn’t think SWEDES were “white”.
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@nikitonsky@mastodon.online I think turning the data center staff into paperclips counts as “harm”…
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@SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to Acts of the Apostles 2:44-45
All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.
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@mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca @timbray@cosocial.ca It’s no surprise to me that a translator would prefer (their) book to film.
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@fesshole@mastodon.social Especially when “knobby-bobble” is what she calls your big toe.
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@lienrag@mastodon.tedomum.net @SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to @wyliecoyoteuk@mastodon.org.uk @Smidgybit@mastodon.social @VladimirN@piaille.fr @DeanFarrell@mstdn.plus @FoxVK@mastodon.sandwich.net @adavid@aus.social @Quasit@beige.party @mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk I’m afraid I have to disagree about Trump knowing history, or having Christian values.
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@lienrag@mastodon.tedomum.net @SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to @wyliecoyoteuk@mastodon.org.uk @Smidgybit@mastodon.social @VladimirN@piaille.fr @DeanFarrell@mstdn.plus @FoxVK@mastodon.sandwich.net @adavid@aus.social @Quasit@beige.party @mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk That’s an ahistorical analysis. Yes, many cultures through history have had some sort of socialized resource production and distribution, at least for some resources. But that is not the same as Marxist communism, which is a specific form of political organization.
And I very much doubt Trump knows who Engels was. Trump is a fucking idiot.
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@rjblaskiewicz@mstdn.social @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io My ad for gasoline stoves is raising questions answered by my ad…
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@simon@fedi.simonwillison.net Yikes. Does this suggest that sandboxing simply isn’t a reliable way to contain these models?
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@xssfox@cloudisland.nz @drakakis@thecanadian.social This seems almost sweet. (Although it could also be covering a corpse.)
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@mxchara@seattle.pink @benroyce@mastodon.social On top of everything else:
TECHBROS. NEED. TO. READ. MORE. THAN. TOLKIEN!
I’m so pissed off that practically all evil tech gets names from Lord of the Rings.
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@joyousjoyness@mastodon.social Pill bugs (at least in Texas).
And "Armadillidiidae" has way too many i's and l's.
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@WooShell@chaosfurs.social @cato@chaosfurs.social Guacamole is when they are genderdelicious.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social @DrOinOR@mastodon.social And how does it look in the morning?
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@stefan@shark.lightnovel-dungeon.de @xeno@hexokina.se What a cute outfit! That’s impressive work.
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@flyingpenguin@infosec.exchange Musk is a vile Nazi, no question. But it seems like SpaceX has actually accomplished stuff, at least with its Falcon 9 (its Starship program seems pretty troubled).
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@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online @AkaSci@fosstodon.org I doubt that’s true — the booster is the expensive part, and SpaceX seems to be able to build ships rather quickly. Even if the shields require extensive rehabbing, I would guess the system will still be cost effective relative to current alternatives.
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@Ulrich_the_elder@thecanadian.social @oldguycrusty@mastodon.world I doubt that MAGA can hold together effectively if he weren’t around. There would still be all the evil people, but he seems to be extremely effective at focussing them and tying them together.
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@kcarruthers@infosec.exchange If only there were generation technologies that were even cheaper than nuclear, renewable, *and* didn’t need cooling water…
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social @GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai Don’t threaten me with a good time.
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@wendynather@infosec.exchange @catsalad@infosec.exchange In the old days we had quality usernames, artisanally crafted from only the finest characters. There was none of this “firstname_randombunchofnumbers” disposable crap. People took pride in their username, knew that it would last…
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@z_everson@journa.host It’s really astounding how much corruption Americans will tolerate.
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@saramg@fosstodon.org @maya_b@hachyderm.io This was *so* obviously the end game.
If they were really worried about women’s sports, they would have simply funded women’s sports more.
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@flyingpenguin@infosec.exchange Yeah, Starship has serious issues. (Falcon 9/Heavy is very solid, however.)
I wonder if part of the difference is Musk’s increasingly irrational and narcissistic turn in later years.