Notices by Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)

@Gargron The best part of this is part of the way through I moved my mouse to the right

and then the cat's head turns towards it at that *exact* moment.

I guess fun coincidences do still exist.

@inthehands (I was agreeing with you...)

@inthehands You definitely can't ignore the religious aspect of it because they very intentionally, willingly, and knowingly use religion and the way people treat it against them. And I want to be clear: most of these people telling people that they should hate minorities and women due to religious reasons are about as religious as your average brick. That's why it's not a coincidence that so many are evangelists or working together with evangelists.

@tomkindlon @mecfs @longcovid As more and more people believe that COVID-19 magically went away when it became too inconvenient and our societies continue to try to pretend it away, I have a feeling that we're building a society where those symptoms will be eventually considered to be just totally normal things that all humans experience for whatever reason.

@MCDuncanLab Plus you just know Trump will find a way out of paying people the amount he promises if they do take the deal...

@msbellows @MCDuncanLab I think we should start saying Project 2025 though. They're the ones behind this and practically everything else he's doing. As a rule, if it wasn't written in sharpie, they wrote it.

@fizzlebah @msbellows @MCDuncanLab I think it's time for people to start realizing it. If they draw a blank, tell them. Because this is where it's coming from and they will be doing very very bad things very fast.

@msbellows @fizzlebah @MCDuncanLab I'm not so sure about that. Remember, when it comes to the way it has been in the past as the GOP enacted more and more horrible policies, people let it get shrugged off as "just a difference of political opinions." If we remind them this goes beyond even that it might just have further meaning. It's part of how Republicans managed to sneak in worse and worse things over time.

Though I'm not really sure if anything can get through to people anymore.

@msbellows @fizzlebah @MCDuncanLab It is and it isn't. The nazis at work here are somewhat separate, but at the same time the GOP is also openly supporting them and more and more becoming openly nazi as well, so I expect them to integrate as they become more and more the party of Trump and Project 2025.

Which is to say both are horrible and both need to be banned the way nazis used to be in Germany.

@msbellows @fizzlebah @MCDuncanLab I no expert on communications and messaging. If anything I'm the opposite. So if you or someone else here is an actual expert, feel free to come out with more details, but what you're highlighting is exactly why I think we need to emphasize that this is different. This is no longer just a difference of opinion. This is rule of law, justice, and democracy all being throw out the window as we watch.

@msbellows @fizzlebah @MCDuncanLab (And to be clear, yes, it hasn't been "just a difference of opinion" in... perhaps ever. But people have been able to shrug it off that way by just filing it under Democrats vs Republicans in their minds.)

@fizzlebah @msbellows @MCDuncanLab When I just want a couple of syllables, I use the term nazi for them. It is, after all, correct.

@msbellows @fizzlebah @MCDuncanLab I have no idea what you're saying there.

@jardo The really funny thing is that the only jobs that could be viably replaced with what they're calling AI are... why, they're CEO jobs...

Of course, you could also replace them with a coin flipping machine with still better results, so I guess that's not a very high bar to clear.

@cwebber Bluesky is already owned by bad people. It doesn't even need to be a target. It's going to go hard right willingly and a lot of people are going to be very very surprised for some reason.

@broadwaybabyto "First they came for the trans people and I did not speak out because I was not trans" will be the first line in a poem people read 80 years from now.

At least I hope people will be able to read such a thing by then.

@AlSweigart It sort of reminds me of one of the things that really freaked me out watching an old show where it wasn't even intended to be a bad or scary thing.

They could arrest someone solely for "having no visible means of support."

I don't know if that's still a thing. I haven't heard of it in anything remotely recent, but I can absolutely see this sort of line of thinking coming back.

@jamiemccarthy @inthehands @violetblue Again, I really don't understand what that means, hence asking. But even trying to take this as meaning something other than it being based +/- on last year's levels it still sounds like something dangerously at risk of minimizing the levels in people's minds.

@jamiemccarthy @inthehands @violetblue I'm not really clear on what this means, but I can't help but to notice in the screenshot it saying "for site and method combinations (as listed above) with over six months of data, baselines are recalculated every six calendar months (January 1st and July 1st) using the past 12 months of data."

That seems to be saying that the baseline will indeed be calculated comparing to the previous year.

I apologize if I'm misunderstanding. Can you explain better?

@inthehands I managed to avoid the accident, but a short while later I see police lights behind me. It's the same vehicle. He pulls me over and says "why did you flash your lights at me?" He was completely unaware he had pulled out in front of me (despite the brakes and horn and all!) Then he threatens to give me a ticket for "having my brights on." (We both knew that he didn't want this to go into a courtroom, but still, geez.)

(This isn't even my worst incident with police.)

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