2026-05-07T21:21:22Z https://yabu.me dragonfrog https://yabu.me/npub1q8qwtdykgl95rxnaa5xgm06hn7zwrysjn5ygy9m7ugenj8dqu7rqcp8cqh https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/accounts/avatars/109/281/386/687/696/284/original/b269753e5b970931.jpg https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/accounts/avatars/109/281/386/687/696/284/original/b269753e5b970931.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0l6u436yuvkq6pwv2mayaz39k7z48dcnc8h927k77a2zjussw7uczyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvwwqph3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstr4ukqss9de7p6t225c3hzsgd7twq7scst8wstd2zg6d7qlqywgst8ku38'>nevent1q…ku38</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>AI *as a thing that makes sense to push huge tax incentives and bypassing environmental laws for* is going to go away. There are already *today* more AI data centres than a stabilized market will support - most of the ones existing *today* will shortly be stranded assets that need demolition and land remediation at taxpayer expense because the shell companies that own them have gone bankrupt and vanished into thin air.<br/><br/>Encouraging the construction of more will only make things worse. 2026-04-11T19:13:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp3cttqm3886gj7ght7r2u3mnlseed8gvzwfh5q7rcy3vn69kwxtqzyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvmsfx80 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqls024kqmhq0x9g9qcewt8v9pmccrqwdyhmacgeg7v82hfx9d65g4jqmhn'>nevent1q…qmhn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>yeah, a bubble bursting doesn&#39;t (necessarily) mean the product ceases to exist. <br/><br/>When a real estate bubble bursts, the land doesn&#39;t sink into the sea - a lot of land speculators go broke. 2026-04-11T19:03:19Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw7gu8twxnl7z9ms2xwypcs6k43yj59a2z96549733q8wyswwm2xqzyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvg4yh06 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszgwh4yels6q9sn9j3atg9la23r93vzhpdfc6epy4e6rude92ktvg5ezmw9'>nevent1q…zmw9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>smart appliances didn&#39;t result in huge new appliance factories being built that could supply 50x the world&#39;s actual need for new appliances. If they had, those factories would inevitably have been abandoned a few years later - just as 98% of &#34;AI&#34; data centres will be abandoned when the post-bubble market settles down to providing the AI demand that exists.<br/><br/>They just changed slightly which features were added to appliances in the same factories that already existed. 2026-04-11T18:59:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdnumun6rlzzjkkln98uyzqc87vs2e7tpa7knpf7zq0l2lre6escqzyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvumyl9n In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspp47zf4cntjsg6g53frgyjccv3x3u6kd0swks568u4tsh5naxmzspmpu22'>nevent1q…pu22</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m gonna guess - because that&#39;s what they wrote on the census form. They&#39;re as Muslim as the census &#34;Christians&#34; who go to church at Christmas and Easter if even that often, and who own a Bible but could blow a layer of dust off it, so seldom do they pick it up. 2026-04-03T21:49:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqspvef7z0xrjww0n4ska8w5cwg2fpexy2dgz9r4fhf5cshwglc6gzyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncv56dx4z In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdyqjpaze8n5z85ca06tzq7h2y6n8257e8ezmcn6murgeu542wa7chml5qs'>nevent1q…l5qs</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>percentage who answer &#34;I would leave&#34; in a survey is not the same as percentage who would leave. Moving is complicated and expensive. You need to find work, housing, a school for your kids.<br/><br/>58% seems realistic as the percentage who would take at least one step - ask about a work transfer, book an apartment viewing, get an estimate from a moving company - not the percentage who would make it through all the obstacles and finish all the steps. 2026-02-13T19:06:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrqzycwamwdjzqzr58et8qlz9lq6srm3nw23ufue7xed8n6mdlkmczyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvkmdef7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgd9h4xf4eqzd06fp8flcqkwsc9wyyfed52ac4384jn9fx5mgmcnsmg97p8'>nevent1q…97p8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Kind of seems like the perfect example of Wilhoit&#39;s definition of conservatism - regardless of what party the Sheriff in question supported.<br/><br/>And also, there&#39;s no way that Sheriff wasn&#39;t a conservative in the commonly understood Democrats vs Republicans sense. If that guy is a Democrat, I&#39;ll eat an entire 15 x 20 foot tarp from Home Depot. 2026-01-29T22:07:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw0572z9ml6lvf5mtzzlxzxe0sph7jdzr852fr9x7n26mqpkvgv8szyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncv834n5q In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdxge50ag5zq36yz7yy0h8mrpfs3gqgm8753e3jfrx4ug5g07d9xshaus39'>nevent1q…us39</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>One reason it won&#39;t happen, at least not easily, is that while the tariffs were put in place under US pressure, their current effect is to protect the Ontario auto industry, which mostly manufactures big bloated un-innovative gasoline SUVs that can&#39;t compete on value for money with Chinese EVs. 2026-01-13T22:41:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswnpr0f5sfhsw6uedcqjx536j9dxuwa3xyrwhrttatyxy8jj2hstszyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncv30r8u4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst72xppaq9875yephpuuavdqc48dkefrqszm9k4yttqwhluzyvgtqhcuql6'>nevent1q…uql6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I hate that. Truly hate how cats in distress are used as a joke. 2025-12-27T22:35:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvxnztnjna786d3nahz3p0qwalsmkyngslcezyhuz74d7g3evdqegzyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncv059egv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspdryn87lvjdn028wgyfvy5rx2vrh20qahm378gjlcsntnce20hncnm6quu'>nevent1q…6quu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I feel like at the very least banning the use of &#34;liberal&#34;, &#34;conservative&#34;, and &#34;communist&#34; in party names is like banning the words &#34;pizza&#34; &#34;donair&#34; and &#34;sandwich&#34; in restaurant names. 2025-12-04T23:44:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyx7a6y4gy356h6ycs7w36r9wr708ra5ku53fl900ms6y7zyu9vkszyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvx2yzyk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswzfdflecz3cu96stavae77krm89056yg7nspxw07vsk58hzxjk0cy95aw0'>nevent1q…5aw0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>An oldy but a goody - HAL 9000 as performed by Amazon Alexa circa 2018.<br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JepKVUym9Fg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JepKVUym9Fg</a> 2025-11-20T22:05:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr9slmxpr29m69np5yyrk8dvzyr58harcu5m8rx4r7srlennpty7czyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvwzhauh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2z3mcj94ywwfxgdhjnehj8yamqj0c27akmhuh5t668zgqtlryvggldpfwk'>nevent1q…pfwk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>problem is all the conservatives have to do is keep getting crazier so that two year old conservative agenda planks seems tame and sensible by comparison to whatever they&#39;re spouting now, and the liberals will just enact the conservatives&#39; agenda for them on a two year delay. 2025-10-22T16:03:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy8kweldx390lgzhxawr3qajy3kdudzn5xxfmt2zjzrlgy3lfggygzyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvhl2uf7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0lqym2t9k795mte62syqr990nkk2zxz65ezu4wj44u220gt02qgc7u6a9u'>nevent1q…6a9u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I read it that way at first, now I&#39;m guessing &#34;I drink milk because I like to... You catch my drift?&#34; 2025-10-05T16:06:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz5u9udkq6cawgywu6ljp6arycdpntjevv6zcy99hg8kwdt49qqwqzyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvgue5tu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgzvmg0v4pt7dyhm0xasdfjwg5x9vga7yf5mes3grkh2ks2z8s9sq57dds8'>nevent1q…dds8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I agree. But I&#39;m not going to deny the existence of an opinion or dismiss everyone who holds it as irrational just because I don&#39;t hold it.<br/><br/>FWIW I don&#39;t think the retribution will be much worse than if this hadn&#39;t happened - fascists do violence because of present opportunity not prior pretext. They were going to escalate anyway, and this is the excuse they got so they&#39;ll use it but it won&#39;t meaningfully change what they do. 2025-09-11T13:34:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2kxe9dekt2hlw8qnr66ap8je6n0ndcdpgqetw376njadl8ehkvrgzyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncv3xv2av In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxj2ev75suu9uakuuzc9f6qje7sh99h7kjm4kv0ny7vq6q803k2aqzvfz2h'>nevent1q…fz2h</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m 100% confident that Clymer is not just wrong but very wrong when she writes &#34;there isn’t a rational adult in this country who thinks you’re a hero.&#34;<br/><br/>It&#39;s like asserting nobody rational thinks Luigi Mangione is a hero. 2025-09-10T23:09:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2szkjtplmzaunx8z4kpptyufd6x3r2lxp2u5qmph5u8mkwggflxqzyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvau3gkl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2wy2sm7xwc33znkxp0r8scsvssar4jqvggrehuq7hquwumrumumq334a7d'>nevent1q…4a7d</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>NDP voters who voted CPC, or who voted LPC?<br/><br/>I thought the phenomenon was mostly NDP voters temporarily switching support to the LPC to keep the CPC / Poilievre out... 2025-09-02T16:30:18Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfmjjpg9wnaq6cdq9c8lu6x07mhxlt72lm5y4cvgxzyjf65097y8gzyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvhtwp5h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfl5073rpe4xatlltp5g3z0sxcwfw0klq53fhr4nlzh97wvlwr3vsv7k0na'>nevent1q…k0na</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Or maybe, just maybe, it&#39;s you who don&#39;t understand what advantages Jess sees for being able to control aspects of one&#39;s posts. 2025-08-11T18:01:59Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvl7w43n9ftw23jlpzn69csnmwtvedk3qr9k70vvva2t5hgujnwjqzyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvhfn5au Sentence bit from a random article stuck out for me<br/><br/>&#34;As the adoption of AI continues to accelerate (...)&#34;<br/><br/>If someone kicks in my door, goes into the kitchen, and starts eating all my food and calling me dad - that&#39;s still a home invasion not an adoption. 2025-08-06T20:54:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0lgs42c5vphhv0hjnp46lwn9v95apcnh3rh8qe4y643afwa4tgqszyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvp97uh4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqyyd9lgqf7ktefyf2wpzt47an68hmyn0r9jwtp3yf2gqgekyjmdc4et8ja'>nevent1q…t8ja</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;So why, exactly, do we provide use of the roads free to people who have the money to have their own vehicle, but NOT to the people who *don&#39;t* have that money&#34;<br/><br/>That&#39;s why. That&#39;s exactly why.<br/><br/>We&#39;re deathly afraid of poor people. We charge money and put up fare gates and hire police to check fare payment, even when it costs much more than any fare they recover - because we&#39;re afraid if we don&#39;t, poor and homeless people will ride around on transit. 2025-07-24T23:38:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqwlffge4h9sx6vwktj5zaw7jy8wd4md09wrvqa8wv7pkzeu6d63gzyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncv5r4rut In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswl4jkdw25pxz6qmj3e5wsa3xwn894sp5g6jdekq8n6swgj5png2g3h3s5v'>nevent1q…3s5v</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>pretty remarkable for a survey that didn&#39;t even offer an option to say your were opposed - you had to write it in yourself in the comments. 2025-06-19T01:00:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv44wt3x3sr8xhpxfkuhjx94gn0jmchf9qepc7et6t7a7v9svfznszyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvqp5tlx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspdeh5ksq2ss5pl0u56hq3m56tj47t4glew87am0d6wulsjwu9cfck6s6l2'>nevent1q…s6l2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The social newt works where you got the most replies being established, I&#39;d be curious to know if you saw any notable differences between what people on different platforms thought. Were LinkedIn users notably interested in processes of consultation, Bluesky users particularly into public transit, etc? 2025-06-13T21:03:55Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf2xpkvy2s8e6lyde996ajhlqle3rfug2h48pvl2ww4fmk8qvgazqzyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvhn87zq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg3umk7w4dkku424rkm8nvjusue43amc72mg4d2mk6pqd98eppr4shhasah'>nevent1q…asah</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Years ago I had a two day gig as an extra in a TV show(it was pretty interesting seeing some of the process of making TV). A fellow extra had worked at BioWare and gotten so burned out he&#39;d quit and deliberately taken a job without any promotion prospects, so he could spend a few years just going home at the end of his shift with a clear mind.<br/><br/>He said he&#39;d made enough money that the low pay didn&#39;t bother him, it was more important to be fully done thinking about work at 5:01 PM. 2025-06-11T22:00:46Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp4dkg4gwte3ru4vdzszz6uxc5788wthtn0p53cpj4k05tvt8w22czyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvaey30n In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqyzesgv8ueqyflxhdtfngfyzq8faef6hgvgphat9mh3ghjlxq2tcqadclm'>nevent1q…dclm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Wikipedia informs me that the CPC(ML) are &#34;anti-revisionist&#34; communists, i.e. opposed to the modest reforms and liberalizations introduced by Nikita Kruschev in the 1950s. Unlike, I guess, those dirty heterodox CPC-ists who are spitting on Stalin&#39;s memory by diverging from the path he set forth, or something. 2025-04-07T22:44:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0gadtdd9gtdy29uttvgumsdnyjm8l2p56tng6ukn63rm6wrxrh0qzyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvnz2vtx Imagine the rivalry there must be between the Communist Party of Canada and the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist) - they&#39;re fighting over about 0.06% of the vote, and they still they haven&#39;t merged. What drama keeps them separate, both running candidates in the same ridings?<br/>#cdnpoli 2025-04-07T22:15:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx8ak5zydtchfvd4snjjtnc0rsq7fzv7hmw2esnjcgal37384j3fqzyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvdzkqmr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs25jxha87tcesr8fq2f0e8t3f4ehljys5rr0x7tn74mzc6aunyljs9em4cz'>nevent1q…m4cz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>interesting / depressing that gender is as good or better predictor than region - men overall show 19% support, as high as Albertans overall, and women 7%, as low as Atlantic Canadians overall. 2025-03-14T18:40:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs25jxha87tcesr8fq2f0e8t3f4ehljys5rr0x7tn74mzc6aunyljszyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvqzl29m In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvfpmuycf8086ufugs3cc7kzd2y0pyvj9fyy5mcan9ezwtxhqjanswk9v6h'>nevent1q…9v6h</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Alberta unsurprisingly had the highest percentage of traitors, but not by nearly the margin you might think<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/162/197/775/745/951/original/6c9c5c1eb639d363.jpg"> <br/> 2025-03-14T18:32:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvh0tq00p4lpjc5hvqrl5ycpu0mvu0uyt5d5rwd894uh54yly0mgszyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvcyvr43 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspcx3u92nqqwr8mrqydfj60szm0dt2tltzz2kkp6czjcuk226hrrqzap99v'>nevent1q…p99v</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It may be the case that even people who&#39;ve murdered people in the past, still make more death threats that they don&#39;t follow through on, than threats they do. Still you&#39;d be an awfully weird person to receive a death threat from a known murderer and shrug it off because &#34;there isn&#39;t strong evidence he&#39;s going to actually try to kill me&#34;. 2025-03-13T16:27:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs82d4wtawqg3u66epzlpnhx2lk96d649a0nwzsu5fk7gp69mlrnaqzyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvkflfst Can anyone help identifying a novel?<br/><br/>There&#39;s a #scifi novel I read long ago, that I had figured must be Anne McCaffrey&#39;s &#39;Decision at Doona&#39; - but now I&#39;m reading that one it&#39;s apparent it&#39;s not.<br/><br/>It had humans arriving at a planet inhabited by big humanoid cats, like Doona does. But in this one, the female cats live in town &amp; the males live alone in the woods except once a year, when the females go into heat &amp; go out to meet a man, bringing gifts of industry to trade for pelts &amp; such. 2024-12-25T22:10:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy8yqds5eq5pchnt23p6f3d8yxs86p5cyc3kxrnugmz3jw844m88czyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvv2z7s6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr99nr9jr67k8cwn96tzvwvwk83f8pkl56zmvusaj7rvt6wh5f9wcnzln2f'>nevent1q…ln2f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Anyway his office had two doors for some reason, and one year a bunch of students came in overnight and framed in a small room inside his office behind the door he usually used. They filled it with cleaning supplies and packages of toilet paper and whatnot, so when he came to work the next day and opened his office door he found a janitor&#39;s closet instead of the expected office. This happened years before I was a student but he was still telling this story in class.<br/><br/>2/2 2024-11-27T22:51:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr99nr9jr67k8cwn96tzvwvwk83f8pkl56zmvusaj7rvt6wh5f9wczyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvj0amud In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgtgsycsz5493dsy2n58js4jll2hda640jdyqcm466xmcx2wr095s3n8pp8'>nevent1q…8pp8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>At my university there was a particularly eccentric prof - for a taste of his style, on the first day of his first year classes he brought in a $100 bill and offered it to anyone who could give him a beer without leaving the room to fetch it. He taught computer science, but had not personally used a computer in years, after he lost a finger in a farming accident and just never relearned to type with one less finger. He didn&#39;t even read his email.<br/><br/>1/2 2024-11-27T22:47:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswfjxz7m84r8mk52l44ryqttmr9745vwgm43mwu8gylpk7dlqgmmszyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvljtcct Sharing because this is a good article, but not sharing via simple boost because I wish to focus on something that would have been entirely off topic in that thread<br/><br/><a href="https://mstdn.ca/@ChrisH_Prog/113248724444650935">https://mstdn.ca/@ChrisH_Prog/113248724444650935</a><br/><br/>What kind of demented URL scheme is that for a datestamped blog? DD/MM/YYYY?<br/><br/>And it really works that way: <br/><a href="https://www.fairvote.ca/03/10">https://www.fairvote.ca/03/10</a> is a list of all their blog posts on the third of October OF ANY YEAR. <a href="https://www.fairvote.ca/03/">https://www.fairvote.ca/03/</a> is all posts from the third of ANY month in any year. Madness! 2024-10-04T18:41:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgtjjdfkspdt4lc9plvsjkjapmdee77cgfpjrhc5ycakwpz8qsprgzyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvv6w7ze In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswm0nfyev8jg7jzzyxn8h8y78c4n0y8c5f4w69ajwm32ts3r3pxcs24qkry'>nevent1q…qkry</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s kind of hard to escape having public sector workers in one&#39;s social circle, when something like 15% of all jobs in the province are in the public sector. 2024-10-02T18:08:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgj6hm209nr23300am444d3pge29qkxfh785mrr6cnnnv5ja8yf8gzyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvysn5pq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqa4nwgzdldvqty2d7wpcn302e0ljlape38f770wn4mfcf5d8js2sjuafz0'>nevent1q…afz0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t think the general population really does dislike public servants.<br/><br/>The newspapers always print the letters to the editor from the dozen cranks in town who each write in once a month to complain about public servants. Facebook et al always put those weird engagement bait posts complaining about public servants into our feeds.<br/><br/>But I think it&#39;s far more of a manufactured impression of consensus than a true consensus. 2024-10-02T17:29:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrdtw9gyrc4d6ce7ud5xcgpc08u9v22648fr0t3tkkdw7u85vuwjgzyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncv8cq3pl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr6m7nzku45xkjr359xh64ta796t3u5uxkxyhd9rvnq7kv56eqxtg225zhn'>nevent1q…5zhn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That wouldn&#39;t be useful to me. I&#39;ll either write a text file with the text editor on my phone so I can delete lines as I finish the thing, or I&#39;ll write with a pen on paper so I can cross out lines as I finish them.<br/><br/>A photo on my phone of pen on paper isn&#39;t editable with either tool. 2024-09-18T17:36:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf57rzz4s2avytgj8e6p7v9gm8h4t4jp8s6jcvhetzav9tafqlsnqzyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncv4p9ehv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqcm3e9zcpqf0rve3ahmms3fytjvpg04s98xj9l7pks7zl2l82hdgul3zae'>nevent1q…3zae</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>this assumes nonviolence is inherently a leftist principle. I am not convinced that is the case. There are very conservative very pacifist religions, and conversely the Spanish civil war was a war because there were two sides both willing to fight it. 2024-09-18T04:59:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw8gvxdppef5zt82kcp5867wq9yzxjl93cz9czqjjp4ltynmh82nczyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvx4xv8v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr5r0sqw5sv33uynq3vtp3p2sq8z653ta4nmdl0t9ffs2slug22ncj35c07'>nevent1q…5c07</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>in Tusky you can tap the ... under a post, copy the link, paste it into your own post to make a quote post. When reading a quote post like that, Tusky will show a preview of the post and clicking on it will keep you in your own instance so you can reply to the original. 2024-08-15T17:39:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfs59hmucsy7xykrrdfyqy2asc4xuxcrlhquweyyz2r873pmp0fkszyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvlfjgdj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0zz5ghqalzu8h5khva3ujeapafxu0knhgqal6w59zura2yggyf7q4yehnx'>nevent1q…ehnx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m imagining something like &#34;dragonfrog did a really good job explaining this in (link to thread&#34;<br/><br/>I avoid this becoming an issue by generally doing a bad job explaining things. 2024-08-09T19:14:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspn5c8m5aurer3ek6rk0jcdw5rqhr5wwn5lqel8sfvadljc4nxudczyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncv9450al In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqavrl939npmz5kywz2qr2kdukzu4pp9dwe8w2sfc2lpuphln5ruq4csjjd'>nevent1q…sjjd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>oh wow that&#39;s a whole extra layer of bad! I didn&#39;t realise the software did that. 2024-07-28T21:59:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgwevvpzlaspfhmwxt4nle5yj5zatz85xlx3h9c5qsk4473mlprrszyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncve95wh0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszlchcdcf5kw6nqa5h3c0tczrqqqkmla0jkqg0ecw5afdkwj5v9hckraenx'>nevent1q…aenx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>... And it can be visually very non-obvious that someone has replied with privacy settings such that others aren&#39;t seeing the abusive post. So then you get the experience that someone has posted abuse at you, and nobody is pushing back, and it&#39;s not clear why. Unfortunately I don&#39;t have a solution to that flaw but it seems like it ought to be solvable. 2024-07-28T21:37:59Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswwhjz84s5fu024v67xhzrepz3kw25sye039mewjxg5x4mahl645szyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvyftpte In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8mpzq3kq56qk38gjzkn7llhpcxrz9srayt9vqh8ld29xeelk0mmcuy28jp'>nevent1q…28jp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>kind of like how I&#39;d pay for a newspaper subscription where they just sent me the crossword in an envelope every day... 2024-06-30T19:47:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvr22hfzqa8w0y0a7c2etq5w4txe9qht9wm7qafkuknj9qx3c2jeczyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncv4pqk7z In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst4eslmz8d44058uq4lyfntd0gms6eu9k334pyd40m99cly9r0yqc9ezdua'>nevent1q…zdua</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That&#39;s roughly the story with figure skating.<br/><br/>In 1902 the world figure skating championship had no gender restriction; Madge Syers entered and won silver (there was commentary suggesting many thought she should have won gold - including Ulrich Salchow, the gold medalist, who offered her his medal).<br/><br/>In 1903 women were barred from competing in Worlds. Syers won the British championship (her husband Edgar got silver).<br/><br/>In 1905 the separate women&#39;s category was created. 2024-06-17T22:33:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrqtt7d4at8m22p6megs47x45qtghzlsyw37dpmzjg63rekqmqwhqzyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvcxmhw8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdddhdfyewkmferrt77nts5sd2fpfj3u5wy9dmn3dr03p2e72ykyqj5z3wz'>nevent1q…z3wz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The only thing this law achieves, as near as I can tell from your description, is to give prosecutors and judges the ability to punish people more harshly for identical crimes, the more downtrodden they already are - i.e. the harder it&#39;s going to be for the convicted person to reintegrate and avoid reoffending, the more the system can stack onto the sentence, even further increasing their recidivism likelihood. 2024-06-13T16:50:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdddhdfyewkmferrt77nts5sd2fpfj3u5wy9dmn3dr03p2e72ykyqzyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvp0rcca In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf2cyuzsrynry0zc5t24lasajr46p3f4qtn79qq8a7nqjcen5055g0c0jjp'>nevent1q…0jjp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I didn&#39;t say they &#34;just&#34; need addiction treatment.<br/><br/>I did however mean that at the point they&#39;re using a gun either to support their addiction or while they&#39;re actively intoxicated, the one thing that very much won&#39;t dissuade them is the length of the sentence they&#39;re likely to face.<br/><br/>The thing that&#39;s still gone entirely undefended AFAICT is, how does the fact they were suffering an addiction at the time they bought it make the subsequent crime itself worse? 2024-06-13T16:48:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2hwfq5wcg36qsfetumgk58300xwaq5d58m3v7ukd6asma46z66fqzyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvq3fj0m In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstqxzvlrh00zeqrdvzmxwgqcfnm4hxdcfewpc4uphwh5pczwleyksajtd62'>nevent1q…td62</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So it&#39;s useful for needlessly stacking carceral punishment onto the sentence of someone who&#39;s already done harm with a gun and who needs addiction treatment the prison system doesn&#39;t offer, but no use in reducing crime.<br/><br/>Sounds very much like the kind of thing a stereotypical 2A advocate would love, yup. 2024-06-13T16:40:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswjpug3sks5jjm6rtf4qrp3zymf9ep5llt04tptky3zn29ukt02nczyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncv04qfcs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9vgy998h7ggk0t7zvv58h0ctscpcpk8assehfwra6y56a0jx9rncjwf6f3'>nevent1q…f6f3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I mean, ironically the law that does nothing ever to actually reduce addicts&#39; ownership of guns, is probably better than a law that did anything. 2024-06-13T16:23:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrhwq8rgyet7ezv6dwlrae7qx7v8nrrrraw9ycrwctuezpfm2ca6szyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvcxqz7r In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqmyt6hhwdy7ptqspnjkuwaugnu6jqyd3zxtytm8wu97n3dtgtkjcgzdgkd'>nevent1q…dgkd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>all that does is make sure no one in America&#39;s large gun obsessed demographic never seeks treatment for their substance use problems. 2024-06-13T14:38:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyy5h0gpqq2zpkdgeqhcljaghkrr3u497yhnz30sq83u5la89czkqzyqquped5jeruksv60hkserdl270cfcvjz2ws3qsh0m3rxwga5rncvdg7nmr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdp0eucqq748c959jhrg8eclfj0zj7r96xj8ny2t0slfsxq976nag3kyl7y'>nevent1q…yl7y</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Can you get a bottle of milk from the store please? And if the avocados are ripe, get 4.<br/><br/>(returns from store with 4 bottles of milk) The avocados are ripe. 2024-05-21T16:30:04Z