It is very difficult to motivate people to move to a different platform.

Meta continues to do shitty things. I deleted all my accounts 10 years ago because of said shitty things. The list of shitty things keeps growing.

I can try to be optimistic about the Streisand effect. But it would have to be towards positive experience with pixelfed. Enough people would need to move for it to not feel empty. Sort of like BlueSky during the election. Enough people frustrated with twitter, and (most importantly) see enough people, including celebrities, politicians and other influencers migrate to make it worth checking out.

Edit to add: I very much would love to witness the downfall of meta and twitter. We need these alternatives. And as much as people hate commercialization, all of these alternative spaces need some marketing to make them viable.

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Yooooooo! I love that. I’ll admit, if Subaru releases a “Baja” like car again, I’d be the first one to buy it.

Thanks for sharing!

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It does make sense. China can monitor the account for intel to squash any non-desirable gatherings.

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It actually doesn’t. China is a very diverse and beautiful country. CCP is an ugly government.

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That means it’s working!

My CISO at the time once said, given a choice, he would never give a laptop/pc/tablet to a lawyer. Pretty sure this is why.

As a computer scientist, I totally understand the reluctance to publish certain information. I am admittedly not “smart” on biology or other science topics, which is why I’ll never claim to have an understanding.

And it’s why I take headlines with a grain of salt. Basically, until death is what I’d consider forever. And I’d imagine they’d be transferred to whatever decomposes us. Like how mercury is very prevalent in large fish. But that’s an assumption.

My sarcastic comment is Isn’t that implied in the designator “forever chemical”?

But my real response is: The article doesn’t say. And I’m all for a healthy dose of skepticism. Does forever really mean forever? Or do the people studying this just not actually know yet? I’m fairly ignorant on the actual research on this.

I’d love to read a study explains it. I’ve only read stories like this. They outline we have a problem, and the more articles I read on PFAS, they seem pretty unavoidable. I was reading one that basically said it’s in our rain as well, so even the paper straws you get at restaurants contain them.

And the patient had no idea if they have to pay for a chatbot response. Hopefully this will fall under price transparency as this matures.

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This is a big deal and we (the public) need ways to fight back. Without competition, horrible companies can continue to get worse.

My area thankfully has municipal internet. It’s more expensive, but it’s better.

The city I came from, it was banned because of Comcast’s bribery and lobbying efforts.

Hard to take this review seriously if they didn’t test Polar. The gold standard of HRM and excellent Garmin competitor.