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alexhammy, to random
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mcc, to random
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I wish I had a kitchen sink with a foot pedal so when I am washing hands or dishes I could make the water come out only when a thing being cleaned/filled is physically underneath the water

alexhammy,
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@mhoye @mcc super clever tbh

SergKoren, to writing
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Happy National Proofreading Day

alexhammy,
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@SergKoren @skribe same was expecting Natural Proofreading Day or National Poofeating Day or some other humorous corruption

GottaLaff, to random
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Pharmacies, now this—

“ Paralyzes the Largest U.S. Health Care Payment System

The hacking shut down the nation’s biggest health care payment system, causing financial chaos that affected a broad spectrum ranging from large hospitals to single-doctor practices.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/health/cyberattack-healthcare-cash.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

alexhammy,
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@GottaLaff @samhainnight gift article isn't working for me either but that's about as funny as "it has no price tag so it's free right?"

elrohir, to random Galician
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I just saw a toot explaining a useful "youtube fixer" firefox add on that removes "for you..." and "people also search..." from search results.

This made me realize how far we have come the wrong way: we are now in THE AGE OF ADVERSARIAL FEATURE DESIGN. Product creators introduce anti-features to attempt to divert user attention AWAY from what they want. Users are captive to the ecosystem because the software USED TO BE useful, and they actively have to block against new features to keep it so.

alexhammy,
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@skiles @elrohir @pluralistic welcome to garbagetown is amazing!

lucy, to random
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Hey chooms, we've uploaded some new emotes on CORTEX IMPLANT and NIGHT CITY BAR. With the new emotes, you can express how you want your post to be treated.

Actually, the emotes are self-explanatory, but we're happy to give you some information on them :lucy:

:boost_ok: Can be used when you want a boost.
:boost_request: You definitely want it to be boosted.
:boost_discouraged: No boost desired.

:reply_ok: Replies to the post are allowed.
:reply_request: Replies to the post are desired and welcome.
:reply_discouraged: No replies to your post desired.

As it goes on the Internet, of course, there will be people who won't adhere to the request. Therefore, see it more as a recommendation for your posts.

alexhammy,
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@revengeday @holsta @lucy @oliphant also is green mean you want to be boosted/replied? Or blue?

alexhammy,
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@revengeday @holsta @lucy @oliphant can we do red/yellow/green like traffic 🚦 lights?

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to climate
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If you care about the planet, please make sure you sit down before you start reading this post about ExxonMobil.

So.

The CEO of ExxonMobil just said this in an interview: "We’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions."

https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/

Who's the most influential voice on climate change? Who's to blame for inaction on climate change?

According to the CEO of ExxonMobil, it's environmental activists.

No, really:

"Frankly, society, and the activist—the dominant voice in this discussion—has tried to exclude the industry that has the most capacity and the highest potential for helping with some of the technologies."

Oh, and the CEO of ExxonMobil also apparently thinks consumers are to blame for climate inaction:

"Today we have opportunities to make fuels with lower carbon, but people aren’t willing to spend the money to do that."

Gets better.

He thinks unnamed 'people who generate emissions' should pay for it. (Rather than, say, major transnational oil companies.)

"People who are generating the emissions need to be aware of [it] and pay the price. That’s ultimately how you solve the problem."

https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/

Worth including a quick reminder here that Exxon-Mobil made a US$36 billion profit in 2023: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-beats-estimates-ends-2023-with-36-billion-profit-2024-02-02/#:~:text=HOUSTON%2C%20Feb%202%20(Reuters),higher%20oil%20and%20gas%20production.

Not gross revenue.

Profit.

So, remind me again. Who knew about climate change before most of the public?

"Exxon was aware of climate change, as early as 1977, 11 years before it became a public issue... This knowledge did not prevent the company (now ExxonMobil and the world’s largest oil and gas company) from spending decades refusing to publicly acknowledge climate change and even promoting climate misinformation."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/

And just who, exactly, stood in the way reducing emissions all these years?

"ExxonMobil executives privately sought to undermine climate science even after the oil and gas giant publicly acknowledged the link between fossil fuel emissions and climate change, according to previously unreported documents...

"The new revelations are based on previously unreported documents subpoenaed by New York’s attorney general as part of an investigation into the company announced in 2015. They add to a slew of documents that record a decades-long misinformation campaign waged by Exxon, which are cited in a growing number of state and municipal lawsuits against big oil."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/14/exxonmobil-documents-wall-street-journal-climate-science

#oil #BigOil @fuck_cars #Urbanism #UrbanPlanning #ClimateChange #environment #ExxonMobil #Exxon #business #economy #politics #capitalism #ClimateCrisis

alexhammy,
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@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars it's like the herd immunity argument 🤢

karlauerbach, to random
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I just discovered that one can register to vote when filing the California tax forms.

California has a qualitatively different voting policy than those retrograde states. Here one can vote during a period of weeks, postage is free on mail ballots, you can register and vote (provisionally) at the same time, you can drop a ballot at any precinct in the state, there are mobile voting centers that will come to you, and there is a state law that promotes voting by every person who is eligible to vote.

And you can bring food and water to people waiting to vote.

alexhammy,
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@karlauerbach also the state sends a 100+ page workbook for each voter to prepare

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alexhammy,
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@petrescatraian @publius @OGjester give us dat toothbrush comrade

Binder, to random
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The lead singer of No Doubt took her name from Saint Efani, the patron saint of walking in spider webs.

alexhammy,
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@Binder *gave her name to

b0rk, to random
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    alexhammy,
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    @b0rk does it work to copy a link to the post into your server's search bar? that's how i comment on toots i see in the wild.

    andymoose, to random
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    I walked out. No N95s and they weren’t even aware of my notes which specifically stated N95s and my high risk for COVID infection. I kicked up a stink (in a very British way) and now have an 8:30am appointment on a Monday and N95s will be worn. I will take some with me just in case. I’m sure the dentist will have an anecdote to tell his partner this evening. A tale of a no-fucks-left-to-give COVID cautious rebel with great dental insurance.

    alexhammy,
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    @andymoose what kills me is five years ago dentists would always wear masks to prevent saliva and stuff splashing out of the patient into their face. Now they're just too cool for that or something.

    AnOldGuy, to random
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    US vetoes call for immediate Gaza ceasefire at UN. BBC News app.

    alexhammy,
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    @SteveThompson @AnOldGuy @FrankFrank the oil that iran and ksa are so greedily keeping in the ground

    hazelweakly, to random
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    One thing that's wild to me is that we've gotten fairly solid at building distributed systems that are resilient, workable, and fairly decently designed... As soon as they hit a certain amount of scale, and only then.

    So much shit out there just gets slapped together with every single cloud scale mega-cluster service and tool like its a limited edition box of candies that's going out of stock

    alexhammy,
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    @glyph @hazelweakly @reverius42 the goal is not to improve performance, it's to make scale possible that would not otherwise be possible.

    alexhammy,
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    @glyph @hazelweakly @reverius42 🤣 just because it's been poorly implemented where you've seen it doesn't make it inherently bad.

    Call is coming from inside the house on that one.

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    @glyph @hazelweakly @reverius42 I mean if you've never worked on anything at that kind of scale it's a reasonable stance to take

    RL_Dane, (edited ) to random
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    Dear @mozilla
    Please, please, please put the RSS indicator back in Firefox.

    People need to know about this technology which empowers users over greedy, controlling corporations.

    Update: As many have pointed out, you can use @thunderbird as an RSS feed reader, and there are many #firefox add-ons to restore the RSS indicator (one of which I'm already using). But my point is that Firefox needs to lean into RSS as an answer to all the crap that is the modern web, and help educate users about it

    alexhammy,
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    @RL_Dane @mozilla sorry i think mozilla has lived long enough to become the greedy, controlling corporation

    DrALJONES, (edited ) to Israel
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    alexhammy,
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    @iampytest1 🤣 @DrALJONES

    alexhammy,
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    @iampytest1 @DrALJONES no it's what you said. Hard to believe anyone could be so dense.

    alexhammy,
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    @DrALJONES do you really think they are equally venomous. really.

    because i don't think you're that dense.

    do you really think, if Trump were president, his response would be equally venomous. really, i want to see you type it out if you believe that

    rekiwi, to random
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    I've placed 2 online orders with our supermarket website, items I couldn't find on shelves. Both have been fails.
    Order #1: 2 cases of instant ramen, 48 packs (survival rations for my daughter at uni).
    Result #1: 2 individual ramen packs.
    Order #2: 1 case of decaf black tea bags (6 packs)
    Result #2: 1 pack of tea.

    Learnings: Never order from the supermarket website.

    alexhammy,
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    @goodthinking @rekiwi @Binder in our area the union run grocers are pretty accurate, everything else is a crap shoot

    skykiss, (edited ) to Ukraine
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    Johnson needs to explain to the American people why he does not want to let lawmakers vote on a new bill on aid.

    please boost 🙏🏻

    alexhammy,
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    @annietime @skykiss ok but that's not what happened, what happened is he made a schedule and left it out.

    There exists a mechanism for reps to force an issue to the floor, but it changes the threshold for passage.

    atomicpoet, to random

    So many people are bemoaning the declining birthrate.

    Here’s a crazy thought: build more housing for families and maybe people will fill them up with babies.

    And while we’re at it, maybe do something about those out of control food prices.

    alexhammy,
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    @atomicpoet those people are racist, without exception. They aren't concerned with declining birth rates in general, just declining birth rates in the "master race".

    stefan, to accessibility
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    Huge thanks to @a_mento for providing a Basque/Euskara translation of https://alttexthalloffame.org!

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    @stefan Basque is quite a get, congrats!

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