Notices by Inertial Invites (intransitivelie@beige.party)

Everything happens for a reason, it's just that the reasons are usually garbage.

@timberwraith
In fairness, Trump only really exposes how horrible about 20ish% of the population of the US is (and only about 30ish% of eligible voters, if you'd like to be more pessimistic, though hang on, I'll get there). Israel is doing a decent job of bringing up those numbers though, as are a few other things I'm sure you could name. I'm not sure what the actual percentage of the population that's horrible is, but I suspect it trends to unity as one increases one's standards to even a fairly low level. I'll throw my own hat into the ring of people who should be eaten by aliens, frankly.

I think I'm going to start ending everything I say with, "There's your fucking hillbilly elegy." I'll be like a really strange version of Cato the Elder.

There's your fucking hillbilly elegy.

Stocks aren't real. Money isn't real. Frankly, I'm beginning to have my doubts about civilization being real.

In case you're wondering why my production has fallen off, I'm in tech week and my place of employment is closed for HVAC repairs so I don't have energy or time.

You weren't wondering. I get that.

They had both houses for two motherfucking years and did fuck all to keep this shit from happening. I don't want Trump as much as the next rational person, but let's not get all rose-colored glasses about this. #subtoot

Biden and the Democrats were clearly elected in 2020 with a mandate, and that mandate was to stop fascism. They interpreted this mandate as proof that people wanted weak-willed liberal centrism and attempts to unify the country. Hence, our current fucking situation.

Has Biden been as disastrous as a second Trump term? Not at all. But he and the Democratic establishment patently refuse to acknowledge the crisis we're currently in, or to treat anything as serious. It's not good enough to do some okay things. It's not fucking good enough.

Scolding people for purity politics when they are deeply concerned that the opposition to fascism doesn't actually believe that they're the opposition to fascism is a bad idea. Scolding people for being concerned about all the fascism-lite that the current administration keeps doing is not a good idea. Telling people they're better off now than they were four years ago when the bar for "better" is buried a mile deep is not a good idea.

I am begging, pleading with you to do better. I don't want Trump to win. I want the Democrats to do better.

The Democrats could be flushing corruption out of the Supreme Court right now though. That seems like a winning proposition. As they aren't, it makes you wonder. #subtoot

I mean, I don't care, Mastodon can continue to refuse to provide QT functionality, but it's important to recognize that they're not refusing out of an abundance of caution. I'm not interested in Mastodon being like Twitter. It just seems... foolish at best, and dangerous at worst, to ignore the many people who have brought up this issue.

But also, people who are complaining about the lack of QT need to realize that you've got the ability to do it now, it's just not perfect. Everyone wants either Twitter or the exact opposite of Twitter, and neither of them is reasonable to expect. QT already exists and the choice is whether to make it better or not. That's not not making Mastodon more like Twitter, it's just improving a feature. It's the same thing that Twitter did when they implemented QT. People were already doing it.

@FlashMobOfOne
Yes, point being that if someone wants to harass you, they can do so without you knowing. If you bake QT into the platform, then the people who get QTed get a notification when you do it, which doesn't make QT any less available or more prone to harassment than the current situation. Plus it's more accessible to screen readers and it preserves the current state of the toot you're quoting.

You can quote-toot now, you just can't tell when it happens to you. How is that safer than baking it into the platform? #subtoot

@thylacoleo
I'm not sure I want robots to do *everything*, but certainly to do everything necessary for our survival to allow everyone to do whatever they want.

What I wanted from AI: hundreds of robot servants to automate away all my stupid, repetitive tasks, leaving me free to pursue the life of the mind.

What I expected from AI: self-driving cars maybe, at some point.

What I got from AI: a wrong-answer machine which steals money from me and is powered by burning the rainforest.

More fashy dipshits need to get hit in the face with pies. That's all I'm saying. I'm not encouraging anyone to build a complicated machine which, through a series of cunning steps, lures fashy dipshits into a target area, prepares a pie, then hits the target fashy dipshit with said pie. You shouldn't do that. What are we, made of Rube Goldberg devices? Make the pie yourself, and given the current climate, you're unlikely to need to lure a fascist anywhere.

And don't waste good pie on bad rubbish. Store-bought crust and Cool Whip filling will do. For extra points, mix some Jello powder into the filling to give it that pop of color.

You'll want to get pretty close to your target, which may be difficult. Pies have lousy aerodynamics, so throwing them really doesn't work all that well. You'll want to basically slap a fashy dipshit in the face with a pie. I'm not recommending this. I'm just hypothetically supposing that one wanted to make sure a fashy dipshit got all the pie they deserve.

Look, some folks are black bloc, and that's great. I'm not them. I'm red nose bloc. I'm called by my religion to bonk the legions of Thud, and fashy dipshits are some of the Thuddiest legions I know.

@atatassault @jlsigman @martin_piper @ben
"useful brain analogues" is doing a heck of a lot of heavy lifting there. I'd almost say it's a load-bearing error.

If property damage is violence, oil spills are mass violence and should be prosecuted as such. Flint, Michigan is violence. Wrongfully evicting homeowners is violence. Failing to maintain our infrastructure until it collapses is violence. Destroying homeless encampments is violence. Strip mining is violence.

But they're not. After all, if they were, we'd have to do something about it. Since we're not a violent people.

@Crystal_Fish_Caves
Oh, I'm sorry, the Fozz as orc thing was brilliant too and I didn't say that before. The mass battle scenes of hordes of Fozz Es are *chef kiss*.

What about maybe Big Bird as Legolas and Mr. Snuffleupagus as Gimli?

I was thinking the newscaster Muppet as Elrond, or maybe the vain pig whose name I can't remember? I'm scraping the bottom of the Muppet barrel, I know.

And then we've got Janice as Eowyn, whom I can't believe I forgot.

Since we're going Sesame Street for the Hobbits, what about Grover as Sam and Elmo as Frodo? Then we can shift Honeydew and Beaker to Boromir and Faramir. The concept of Faramir only ever saying "Mee" amuses me, but maybe it's a cheap shot on the Captain of Gondor.

@Crystal_Fish_Caves
I like Swedish Saruman and can already picture that.

But what about the Hobbitses? Gonzo as Frodo? Or perhaps as Pippin? If the latter, Rizzo as Merry, or maybe switch the two? Who's least responsible of Gonzo and Rizzo? And who else can fill those giant hairy feet with them?

Sam the Eagle as Denethor? But who to play Boromir and Faramir?

Uncle Deadly as Grima Wormtongue, I think. Which then I guess means that Theodin has to be Rowlf?

And Crazy Harry as the one orc who blows up the outer ring wall of Helm's Deep.

I'm missing so many others. I worry there aren't enough Muppets to do it justice.

But Swedish Chef has to be Saruman. As befits your brilliance, I hereby present this humble rendering of what I see in my mind's eye as tribute.

Okay, here's your fun #question for the day: what movie should be made into a Muppet movie, with every single character being played by a Muppet except one, which will be played by Timothée Chalamet? Show your work. #BoostsWelcome

Don't jump headfirst into my mentions to tell me that liberals are actually really progressive and then accuse me of trolling. It's unlikely to end with me agreeing with you. It's very likely to end with this GIF, which I show you now as a service because you won't be able to see it when I block you for being an irredeemable dipshit.

Seriously, I get that liberals are butthurt that people don't think they're the good guys anymore. And I get that you grew up with the idea that "liberal" and "left" were synonymous. But pull your head out because it's no longer 1963 and the world has changed slightly.