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@ppatel Congratulations on your retirement.
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Twitter: I follow news and political giants, but all I see are bad people and arguments
Bluesky: I follow 10% of my old friends who were able to get out of twitter in time and sometimes it works
Threads: I follow my friends but I can’t see them through the algorithm of businesses
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“Piracy can’t be stealing if paying for it isn’t owning”
This is increasingly how it feels, when streaming shows disappear for tax reasons and things you “own” digitally become inaccessible.
Thank you @Illuminatus for this quote.
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@chris Yeah you definitely should.
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Threads, Twitter, and Bluesky: Our billionaire is better than your billionaire.
Mastodon: You actually don’t need a billionaire at all.
Threads, Twitter, and Bluesky: Hold on, we have to ask our billionaire if that’s true.
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That feeling when a tech dude simultaneously comes out against any attempt to regulate how US tech cos handle privacy, and uses the word “library” as a pejorative.
I mean… asshole jock vibes much?
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@frog67 @FreakyFwoof I like this name.
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@Tirial @stavvers Relativistic dickfarts will likely affect the launchperineum like a SpaceX superheavy test in a Texan nature reserve. Also, at relativistic speeds it’s going to compress the air in front of it so much in the first millimetre or two that it’ll induce fusion reactions between oxygen and nitrogen nuclei, never mind hydrogen (according to XKCD, who Know These Things).
Could be new underwear time!
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@FreakyFwoof @frog67 Yeah there's enough of us to start a cult or something.
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@jackiegardina I'm just waiting for the first motherfucker to try "I don't have to make my site accessible because muh expressiveness (TM)" Somebody's going to do it.
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I have finally read Justice Sotomayor’s powerful dissent in 303 Creative. In the end, she reaches for our better angels. “But that does not mean that we are powerless in the fact of the decision. The meaning of our Constitution is found not in any law volume, but in the spirit of the people who live under it.”
I do not have Justice Sotomayor’s optimism right now.
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New social corporate media apps will continue until morale improves
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@frog67 Yay pizza!
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@FreakyFwoof Nope Eloquence I just hate it and it sounds worse on phones.
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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.
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@ontheotherside As a blind person who's been on Mastodon for years now, this never gets old and it will always hit you like a ton of good bricks every time someone does it and/or helps others do it.
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I just want to say for my first post to the #Fediverse that I’ve already seen more #alttext in the last couple of days than I’ve literally seen in my entire life. I don’t know what it is, but as a blind user it’s making me emotional to be able to actually interact with content. Think I’ll write an introduction soon.
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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.