on many communities and instances

Bingo!

We have no ambition of being more lenient than Reddit, it’s just less centralized. If people want to be bigots they can find themselves an instance and a community for that, and other people can choose not to be exposed to their bullshit. That’s the whole point.

Also, the UKSC judgment is a pseudo-scientific piece of junk. Agreeing with it is a big-ass red flag.

What is it like?

For me, it’s my favourite thing in the world. I feel more at home when I’m in the middle of the mountains not having seen people for days than when I’m in any building I’ve ever lived in. We evolved for these conditions, and at least for some of us it resonates with our souls - much like the ocean calls to others.

The experience of hiking is a bit like running, just dragged out over days. In the beginning you have energy. At some point you get tired, and you might want to stop for a while and you’re worried if you’re going to make it. And then you push through, and suddenly your body is in walking mode. So don’t get too worried if you start feeling tired early in the hike.

As for the tent, the experience varies a lot. Is it raining? Are there lots of mosquitoes or midges? Is it cold? Are you walking until sunset, or do you have time at the camp site? What is the terrain you put your tent on?

You generally don’t have the answer to those questions. I have had a wide variety of experiences in tents - crazy tent pole-breaking winds, thunderstorms beyond anything I believed was possible, floods, cows trying to graze underneath the tent in the middle of the night. Most of the time though the biggest event is waking up to the view, or going out to take a leak at night and enjoying the night sky.

The important thing is to always be flexible and open to improvise. When you’re in up there you’re at the mercy of the mountain, and you adjust your plans accordingly. Many mountain folks believe that the mountain has a will of its own that needs to be respected, and I don’t hink it’s too far from reality. Following from that is that the experience is never completely predictable, which is part of what makes its appeal infinite.

Enjoy!

Also looking at the projects he has created, saying that he has not delivered anything seems a bit… Imprecise.

Every project I know of on the Fediverse is a work in progress, and it’s always a question of prioritization. But Dansup has created, and continues to create, some amazing stuff. Even if he sometimes gets a bit ahead of himself in advertising stuff.

It, uhm, predicts tokens?

If calling it a word predictor is oversimplifying, I mean.

Steal a little, and they put you in jail. Steal a lot, and they make you king.

My bet would be tax evasion and money laundering. ;)

It’s hard to wrap one’s head around just how freaking rich the mega wealthy are. The 1% is not even the enemy at this point, they are closer to most of us than they are to the billionaire class.

I think it must be seen not in light of the monetary blow, but in light of the fact that the EU is pushing hard for these actors to change directions and to end some of their abusive behaviour.

Traffic fines are made to bankrupt drivers or to finance the state, but to encourage people to drive safely.

How do you do, fellow humans 🤖🛹

I feel like it’s increasingly a test applicable to humans rather than to machines. Are you original enough that you couldn’t be replaced by a language model?

I’m not sure I like to think about it.

Come to think of it, being frequently wrong but nevertheless overly confident is key to passing the Turing test.

We have finally created machines that can replicate human stupidity.

The story of how Zappa and the Mothers got a contract is amazing. Basically a label guy walked into a gig as they played Trouble Every Day, their only song ever with conventional commercial potential, and signed them on the spot.

Once they got to the studio and started playing some tremendously weird stuff it was too late to stop them.

Nice four seconds video, I guess? Very smooth how it cuts off mid-sentence, not weird at all.

I like how we can feel completely confident that no valuable context is lost, and that it allows us to quickly reach our conclusions and move on with our lives. Whoever has an attention span greater than four seconds these days anyway.

The Android keyboard always worked well for me, but I don’t trust them one bit. So I changed my phone keyboard into something that is worse at guessing what I’m trying to say, but I’m somewhat confident I am not being surveilled through it.

I started using it a month or two ago, and ever since I have started making a billion typos when writing on mobile.

Also, I guess the demography of the communities you’re in matters. I think quite a few of us over here are not native speakers. Sometimes I’ll also write with my keyboard set to the wrong language by accident, “leasing to all mines” of freaky autocorrects.

Ready for a quick summer campaign, wearing boots with iron heels. These men are perfectly equipped to freeze to death in a few months.

Their commanders knew full well that the Russians did not hesitate to sack Moscow when Napoleon came marching in, and they had no reason to believe things would be any easier this time around.

At first glance, this looks like a picture of soldiers advancing rapidly and successfully. In reality it shows the beginning of the end of the Third Reich.

Especially if they don’t take themselves oversly seriously.

Be your goofy self, if people are turned off by that you would never be happy with them anyway.

Edit: That said, this logic only applies if you do it for yourselves because it’s fun. If it’s something you do as a dating strategy it is, indeed, doomed.

Anyone who could make this news break would be in a position to steal unfathomable amounts of money in broad daylight, and get away with it.

I think we should always suspect bad actors in cases like this, and investigate thoroughly. It’s too easy of a scam with too much money to be made.

Maybe there is nobody to blame. But assuming so just seems incredibly naive to me considering the amount of bad actors and the ease of pulling a stunt like this.

Yeah. Money is not lost in finance markets, it is redistributed. Reading any of this as random and/or unintentional is beyond naive.

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He doesn’t even give a shit about any of this, and he probably couldn’t place Turkey on a map. He’s just giving in to pressure from the regime at the slightest hint that X might be made unavailable should he not comply.

It’s not about anything except profits. He would gladly kiss the ring of any dictator willing to pay him for it.

It would almost be less terrifying if he had some sort of fucked up ideology at the core of this. But nah - it’s just unhinged capitalism.

Nevertheless, I believe that detaining European journalists for simply showing up indicates that the regime is more nervous now than it has ever been.