Notices by Pino Carafa (rozeboosje@masto.ai)

@benroyce @CStamp @Pineywoozle There is a balance to be struck. Ultimately even those with the vilest possible opinions should be able to express them, but that is why it is even more important that those who do not wish to be exposed to them need effective, easily accessible ways to shield themselves from them. If protecting oneself from trolls, fascists and other scum becomes an exercise in mopping the floor while the tap's still running moderation is not good enough. It seems better here.

@CStamp @benroyce @Pineywoozle absolutely. Agree 100%.

Donald "Three Sphincter Face" Trump decides to boycott G20 because of a bullshit claim of a "white genocide" in South Africa. Not sure what is more ridiculous, the claim itself or his expectation that people must buy the bullshit because he's spreading it like a hippo with diarrhoea.

@GossiTheDog @campuscodi Of course, but the reply was about changing a home WiFi name, as if that would foil an employer's attempt to enforce a "return to office" mandate. So it's not unreasonable to then point out that they already have a LOT of other ways they can keep tabs on where their employees actually are as opposed to where they claim to be.

Don't get me wrong, it's still yet another shitty Microsoft "feature" that deserves to be sabotaged.

@GossiTheDog @campuscodi I trust you do more on your machine than use Teams.

@GossiTheDog @campuscodi LOL @ Lumon reference. That aside though, your bigger problem would be that your traffic would not be going through your office's external IP address(es)....

If #Trump can use AI, so can I.

Grok lies about No Kings images. BBC Verify proves Grok wrong. Grok forced to eat humble pie.

I'm so glad some people still care about what is really important.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq8735exn80o

I have heard some people argue that #Russia is justified in attacking #Ukraine because the West agreed with #Gorbachev that it would not expand #NATO into the Iron Curtain territory and Ukraine is "the final straw" after all the others already joined NATO.

So?

When Yeltzin took Russia out of the #USSR, the USSR ceased to exist and any agreements with that entity were rendered null and void.

I just wish #Putin would accept that fact.

Let's make one thing very clear here.

The bad person with a gun wasn't stopped by a good person with a gun. The violence stopped when the bad person with the gun stopped the bad person with the gun by turning the gun on themselves.

As Lord Dampnut antagonises literally every trading partner in the world, nobody could possibly have foreseen that it would lead to the other 7.9 billion of us looking for better relationships elsewhere, right? 🫩

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyrwv0egzro

Sorry, Muhrika, but there's a BIG world out there. Have fun navel gazing while we get on with living and working together on this planet.

Idiots.

A school yard bully remains "successful" as long as each victim keeps to themselves.

Such a bully often feels hard done by, and proclaims loudly how UNFAIR the world is when the people he's bullying suddenly get together and gang up on him.

But calling it a "conspiracy" is a new level of hilarious.

Having said that, between Xi, Putin and Kim you got quite the shower of bastards there "conspiring" against Lord Dampnut

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dxd9eyy71o

@aral exactly. The EU needs to mandate that

1. Every browser needs to, by default, be set to allow "strictly necessary cookies" only.
2. Every site that wants to serve EU users must honour this setting.
3. Impose massive fines on sites that don't do this or that choose to interpret "strictly necessary only" in "creative" ways.

So that anybody who does not want other cookies has to do exactly nothing to achieve that.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74dzdddvmjo

Time for the #eu to step in. #mRNA #vaccines are too important to allow this arsehole to derail their development

@dcoderlt well in fairness even Germany was eventually welcomed back to "the world". After an unconditional surrender, the Nuremberg trial and 44 years of being split in two.

In Russia's case they should leave Ukraine. ALL of Ukraine, including Crimea. And then make reparations for the damage and hurt they caused. And that's barely enough for starters.

But after something like that, sure. We can't hold a grudge forever.

@dandylover1 I always try to add Alt Text ... and I just discovered that on Pixelfed you can switch on a setting that forces you to add Alt Text. Great idea so I've turned it on on my Pixelfed account.

Yeah I'm an #ignostic and as such I'd have no problem with anyone calling me an #atheist but I reject any #ideology even if it's based on or if it embraces an atheistic or non religious world view.

Ideology is the problem. ANY ideology. Ideology is the rejection of the way the world really is in favour of how you believe the world should be.

Yes, of course, embrace points of view based on empathy and compassion but NEVER reject reality. That way lies madness.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4q4eny2do

@Radical_EgoCom they combine some aspects of socialism with a form of capitalism that is fettered by regulations and laws to avoid their worst excesses.

I'm not suggesting throwing the "socialism" baby out with the bathwater. I always vote socialist because it's the best that's on offer. But I am hoping we can think of something even better.

@Radical_EgoCom Nordic Countries are a good example as to why purely ideological socialism isn't enough. On top of that, Norway has the luxury of sitting on an enormous store of natural resources that it, as opposed to many other places, has exploited carefully.

I would consider Cuba and Venezuela and the likes "failed states" but I accept that a lot of that is due to USA led sabotage.