Notices by Bruce Elrick (virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca), page 2

@evan @Chigaze The act itself misses an opportunity for nuanced reflection.

@evan @Chigaze Is there not something between avowing and disavowing? Or, in other words, does removing an existing day qualify as disavowing? Or is it something like just-not-avowing? What if we just stop doing special things on a day that in some list has that special meaning?

Left-wing populists of today be like: Let's scoop out some of this scummy bathwater while filling the tub with clean water, and let's mind that baby.

Right-wing populists be like: Let's throw that baby out with the bathwater.

Abundance centrists be like: Oooh we need more bathwater, scummy or not, don't mind that flailing baby.

Actually the left-wing populists can't agree on the size of the scoop and whether to scoop out or in first, and just argue about it.

@evan
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@evan My Gramma woulda said 'keep yo mouth shut!'.

@evan I said often but really it is always, but often only after they ask me to repeat my name. That is, they often do not hear my name the first time. Maybe I pronounce my own name ambiguously?

@evan I would think they'd seek a more compliant local puppet regime that has good support from the local thuggery, when military, police, or gangster.

@evan <Manuel Noriega has entered the chat>

@hub
(a non-topical comment on your post... I refreshed my feed in phanpy.cosocial.ca and this post happened to be at the top and rendered with "Musc" which then morphed into "Music" almost right away. I'm supposing that there was a typo and you edited it and, since I've never seen anything around edits that was not a notification that someone I replied to or liked had edited there post, I found it interesting to have seen. Curious if this what actually happened or if I was imagining things)

@hub Yeah.

I knew the edits were recorded/visible, I just found it interesting to see one played back "live". Up until now, I've only seen it update slowly like replies etc come in.

I'd be interesting in knowing how it happens (does the client stay connected to my server and the server offers up edited updates when such a connection is maintained?).

@hub Maybe @evan or @cheeaun can comment on what I observed? I love learning about these things.

@evan Waiting for any 'No' explanations.

@evan @jscalzi
It seems like there is widespread belief that we are heading into uncertain and unstable times.

@evan Early in my career it was insurance companies that had token ring. The oil & gas companies used Ethernet.

@evan Yes, but not religiously.

@evan TIL Mastodon multi-selection polls do not allow choosing none of the entries.

@evan Yes, but democracy, if it has markets, also requires markets to be competitive, lest powerful actors get so powerful that democracy itself is functionally lost.

@evan I made some peanut-butter cookies before we started doing the Christmas baking

@evan Yes, but it's really the system that allows them to form.

@evan I share the need for taking comfort in the signs ... it's very human.

I'm ok with it and I encourage you to be ok with it along with all of us who do.