This is good precedence for Imane Khelif

Make love not war!

Phone verification? In 2010? Only 20% of US citizens had a smartphone in 2010. That kind of verification was extremely rare at the time. Privacy was still very much a thing, sites that requested personal data like that was regarded with suspicion.

Slashdot is still kicking around too. Remember the Slashdot effect?

Yeah, I’m actively shopping for an EV and Tesla is not on the list. Not just because of Elmo though. I need physical buttons for the AC and radio and I like my cars to be pretty. But Elmo is definitely another reason why I’m not even looking at a Tesla.

AI wrote this response:

Consumed by AI? More like ‘AI-dentified’! At this point, even my toaster is getting in on the indexing action. 🍞🤖

Not really, as X refused to argue it in court, the place where this argument should have taken place.

Whatever we Lemmings think about this ruling is unimportant to the actual rulers. We can argue about that till we’re blue in the face, but it won’t change a thing. So it’s pointless.

X had a chance to assount legal representation. They refused, and as a consequence, the entire website got blocked. It’s their own fault.

The censorship you’re talking about, was about 6 or 7 accounts that were instrumental in instigating a January 6 style coup attempt in favour of the previous president who lost the election. Those accounts were causing unrest among the population, and were calling for violence in the streets.

Brazil doesn’t look too kindly to that, given its history. They wanted those accounts banned. And instead of arguing the legality of banning those accounts in court, musk decided to get all of Twitter/X banned in Brazil.

In other words, it’s Twitter/X’s own fault. They could’ve appointed legal representation and tried to argue that banning those accounts amounted to illegal censorship, but instead of trying that they stuck their head in the sand, like an ostrich, hoping it would blow over, by closing the offices in Brazil and refusing to appoint such legal representation. Leaving the courts no choice but to ban all of Twitter/X.

Had X wanted to argue this in court, they should’ve appointed legal representation, instead of closing all of their Brazil offices.

And musk is idiot for refusing to appoint legal representation.

If musk and X wanted to argue that in court, they could’ve appointed legal representation in Brazil. Instead, ol’ musky closed down the Brazil offices of X, like the braindead weirdo that he is.

As we say in my country, the person who burns his own butt, has to sit on the blisters.

It’s not a valuable post, a service like Club Sub will add nothing good to the Fediverse. My downvote should be seen as a deterrence for potential wannabe fulltime content creators. Stay on your YouTube, your Twitter, Insta, Reddit, Patreon and X.

Stay away from my Fediverse!

Also, it’s an article on The Verge. Which is by default low quality.

It’s Bouquet! B-U-C-K-E-T!

Because people keep asking stupid questions

Does critical role count? Though, I now subscribe to their Beacon streaming service instead of their Twitch account

Debates are stupid. They are never about actual policy nor are they ever about the truth, but merely who can score the most points against their opponent.

If people after all this time still think that trump has valid points that they need a fucking debate to determine their vote, I weep for your nation.

When I still used Twitter, I followed people and that was the only content I wanted to read. I didn’t care about content from people I wasn’t following.

That’s why I’m now on Masto. No algorithm to decide that I should also get the very much not valuable opinions of xXx_nOnwoke_1488 in my timeline.

Start following hashtags of things you’re interested in. And interact with people in those threads.

Is there a list of all scientists that made the move to Masto?

You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into. “They’re hiding the true shape of the ball, because they don’t like god” isn’t a reasonable argument. And yet for a lot of Flat Earthers, that’s exactly the reason why a lot of them believe the earth is flat “cuz muh bibble sez so”.

Believe you me, I have tried the socratic method, but they’re much more comfortable with the lies from Eric Dubay’s monotonous drone zone, Flatzoid’s Perspective’s selective editing, Nathan Oakley’s daily shouting hour than any real facts. We live in a post fact world, it’s all “a matter of opinion” to these flat earth weirdos.