Teams doesn’t work well for me on Linux w/Firefox (it doesn’t detect my headset properly) but it works great in Edge.

Are we sure that pic actually shows a women’s washroom? It looks far too clean.

Yes, well, you voted him in. I wonder what the Harris vs. Trump ratio was among service members?

Last time I went out for ice cream it was like $6.

TBH the only thing that caused me grief with that old beast of an i7 (other that the fact it would have bottlenecked my new GPU) was playing Stellaris.

So you’re telling me that milking my 4770k until this year when I built a new rig with AMD was in fact a genius move?

What an extraordinarily stupid argument.

Gee, thanks. We need people to actually do something tangible and useful, not teenage histrionics directed at completely irrelevant things. For example, I volunteer with a group that recently obtained protection for a large wetland in my area. That’s something that directly impacts climate change and biodiversity. I also volunteer with my local green party which has successfully passed several pieces of environmental protection legislation. What have you personally done to help other than whine online and throw paint at inanimate objects?

Edit: phew a lot of folks here get really mad when told that crying online won’t fix things.

You’re right, that’s why thanks to those brave protesters, climate change is now a thing of the past! Oh, wait…

She’s right, but outbursts like this are the equivalent of activists throwing paint at the Mona Lisa. It makes that side look petulant and doesn’t effect change. If she really wants land and reparations, did she really think this grandstanding was the way to accomplish that goal?

Even the Oxford comma couldn’t save that one.

I hope you’re right.

Yes, that’s the catch. Maybe we can encourage ridicule directed only at “society-level” behaviours and make it clear that individual quirks are off-limits.

How would you rate the odds of all those things happening in order for your scenario to come true?

You obliquely touched on a pet theory of mine. We s a society have for decades now rallied against public shaming and bullying and that kind of thing, but I wonder if we’ve gone too far with it —antisocial behaviours are left to run unchecked, whereas 100 years ago these people would have been mercilessly mocked to their face every day. Without the fear of that public mockery and ridicule, we get this.

I like Jason but he completely missed the boat on this one.

The active migration away from social media networks that are owned, controlled by, and distorted by the richest men and most powerful companies in the world to a decentralized platform that is not owned and controlled by billionaires is one of the more hopeful things to happen in what has largely been a bleak year for the human internet as AI slop infects everything and billionaires put their thumbs on the scale of what we see on social media.

He says this and yet jumps to Bluesky, a platform created by Jack Dorsey and now owned and managed by a crypto bro? You don’t need powers of prophecy to see where Bluesky is headed.

That’s great in theory. How are you going to force foreign actors to do it?

“Russia, stop spamming Facebook with all that manipulative fake garbage”

“Oh OK you only had to ask. Sorry about that”

This all highlights how many loopholes and deficiencies there are in a system that prides itself so much on checks and balances.

I don’t think it’s practical or even really possible to remove all fake content. The safer and far more effective solution IMO is to digitally sign authentic content instead, and assume that anything unsigned is fake.

I often wonder what the world would look like if Sufism were the dominant doctrine.

I had to look up the vaguely Kurdistan-looking flag in the background — for anyone else wondering, it’s this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Êzîdxan_Protection_Force

And the other flag is of course the pre-revolution flag of Iran (which always reminds me of St. Mark’s Lion on the flag of the Venetian Republic)