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Meta Launches Threads, And It’s Important For Reasons That Most People Won’t Care About by Mike MasnickMike Masnick

As you may have heard, yesterday Meta finally launched Threads, its Twitter-like microblogging service, built on ActivityPub, but using Instagram account credentials for login. The reaction from across the internet has been fascinating. I’ve seen everything from people insisting that this will clearly finally be the one single “Twitter killer” everyone’s been waiting for, to […]

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Saw someone talking about the edit button on here and I shamefully have to admit that I was one of those people who believed Twitter should never have one, because “what if I like a post and then a guy changes it to nazi shit” and “how am I gonna prove what that nazi said to me to make me go off like that in the reply, otherwise?”

Two things I learned when coming here, and I learned them very quickly

A) about 80% of my worries are covered by Mastodon giving me a notification that the post I liked or boosted, has changed – I just read it again and if it’s a problem, I unlike/boost.

B) the remaining 20% of my problem is more or less solved by having a server admin who is on MY side against, well, literal fucking nazis, and doesn’t want me to spend all of my time building airtight cases to prove nazis are harassing me beyond the shadow of even unreasonable doubts, before they’ll do anything.

The edit feature is fine. The problem was Twitter.

—@AnarchoNinaWrites

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@stavvers So, I did some rough math based off the initial post mentioning a 4000 mile fart-powered dick travel distance.

A projectile travelling 4000 miles on a ballistic curve with no additional propulsion needs to be launched at a velocity of 198 miles/s, or 318.6km/s.

Assuming the dick is erect (makes for a more optimal projectile), an average human penis length of 13.2cm and average circumference of 11.66cm (source: wikipedia) we can calculate the weight of the dick by using the average density of the human body (0.98g/cm3) to get the a mass of 139.9g.

An object with a mass of 139.9g travelling at 318600m/s has a kinetic energy of roughly 7.12GJ, which (again according to wikipedia) is somewhere between a Boeing 767 and and Airbus A380 at cruising speed.

It is therefore safe to say that any animal impacted by the dick shortly after launch, would suffer complete destruction.

—@esther