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@FediFollows @lubuntu@mastodon.technology @rnadness @codeberg@mastodon.technology @Matomo @Krita @kritafoundation @Krita_artists @monarobot please let the people on mastodon.technology and mastodon.art know that their admin has baselessly decided to censor their content from being accessible for following from my instance. (correspondingly they will not see this reply.)

@alex running "your own" instance on a giant cloud provider's vps is simply federation cosplay, except without the cool red jumpsuit

@davidoclubb @libreoffice so... not impressive?

> While H&M's physical stores in China remain, it is no longer possible to hail a taxi to the shops using an app and consumers can't shop online. Instead China is championing local brands.

this is coming soon to the USA.

@sim his first press conference and not a single journalist asked about the pandemic. 300 dead per hour and... crickets. talk about a farce

@thor i always just assumed all of norway was like svalbard

taxpayers pay for criminal cops legal bills in nyc:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/26/overfitness-factor/#heads-you-lose-tails-they-win

perhaps everyone who is talking about the EVER GIVEN could go to egypt and we could all push on it at the same time

@duponin i would like to, where is it?

@kura yeah i am pretty sure that red part at the bottom is supposed to be angled way up, it doesn't look right being parallel with the water

@stux i didn't know AWS was operating that long ago! what does Jungle do?

gee, i wonder who did it. definitely not the (lying) pig husband, his son (also a pig) says he'd never hurt a fly!

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/us/marie-petry-heiser-philadelphia-1977.html

at some point the term "exponential" entered the popular usage to refer to a single very large increase over a single previous value, an increase of which cannot by definition be exponential (because you can't define a curve with two points).

it's even in the nyt, which i believe is supposed to have people whose actual primary job it is to not let bullshit like that out the door.

i believe that there is an ongoing reduction in reading comprehension in the US, perhaps the world.

@shpuld the answer is what makes it

reminder: the US has $400 billion USD to pay defense contractors for a vaporware fighter plane (2.3x bezos' net worth, and more than bezos+musk's net worths put together), but doesn't have enough space (in texas, lol) to hold unaccompanied children, so they have decided to break the law and hold them beyond the legal limit in concentration camps.

https://mobile.twitter.com/SenatorLankford/status/1375459880723755014

tell me more about how everyone paying their fair share and voting will fix this

@zeh i don't agree. i think many decent people are simply busy/distracted.

i wonder what the cost/benefit would be for making a second parallel suez and/or panama canal, just in case