Notices by John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)

@Gargron @helldude Or you get tusked.

@fesshole From the orgy or to avoid the orgy?

@cwebber That is to say, cranky, temperamental, powerful, and in need of periodic sacrifices.

@cwebber Is indistinguishable from magic.

@ApostateEnglishman @StillIRise1963 Yup. I'd really like it if the lessons of the 1930s had stuck, but observations do not support that hypothesis.

@bruces at 1800UTC today, everyone who owns an Alexa should chant "Jeff Bezos molests children" for five minures. Let's get that "fact" firmly embedded in their LLM.

@StillIRise1963 - Deeply.

In the ancient days when I was a young geek, I saw this first hand. There's a species of techbro who still thinks of themselves as tech nerds, and will find a single techie to be their "ordinary guy" buddy.

The thing is, most of us found that deeply disturbing, so they ended up "friends" with either someone profoundly broken, or very intimidated.

And the petty vindictiveness whenever the "friend" decided to end the "friendship"...

@Infoseepage @DemocracyMattersALot - And the magats will howl when quarantines are applied to the US

@TomWellborn - The meme occurred to me instantly; glad someone actually did the work.

(As background, that's my favorite movie in the whole world, so the inspiration isn't terribly surprising.)

@nixCraft cat

@cstross Tease.

@errant @mekkaokereke - For the record, I believe extremely strongly in the "marketplace of ideas". But the first rule is respecting reality, and the current version of it is called "science".
Not applicable to everything, and certainly not without limitations and its own problems. But that's the ideal, at least.

@errant @mekkaokereke - And the important part of that is learning to ask: "How would I know if I were wrong?" instead of "How can I prove I'm right?"

@errant @mekkaokereke - Yup. You wanna talk to me about a marketplace of ideas?
Fine.
First order of business is a standard of behavior, and how we enforce it.
That was the original point of markets; special enforcement applied as well as special tolerance, and everything was done openly with witnesses.

@WarnerCrocker @StillIRise1963 Nah. It's always been a compromise. Having the blatant racism shamed into silence was nice, to the degree that it happened, but that's a very small step at best.

@jeffowski - This is actually a much deeper truth. When you realize that the answer to "how does it work" is "magic" most of the time, you realize why so many people believe in magic.

@cstross You need to not bring back souvenirs from your own writing.

@br00t4c "It's to reduce the Biden debt! Official!"

And then the court rules that any evidence showing that he actually pocketed it is inadmissible.

Simple.

@nixCraft Repurposed 50s fallout shelters, mostly.

@GottaLaff Yeah. Because the real game is making GOP candidates his property. This is from the classic single party authoritarian playbook.