Notices by Dave (daveosaurus@mastodon.nz)

@weekendspy ... so that's what G'nort looks like when he's lost all his fluff. A bunch of "Green Lantern" villains might want to start being wary of the supposed comic relief...

@steve A few years back there was an infographic about totalitarianism doing the rounds, citing Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance.

Karl Popper survived World War II by getting a job in New Zealand, where he wrote "The Open Society and its Enemies" while working at Canterbury University (then the Canterbury University College).

@taylan @Rasta Trans women are not a "class of men".

@SusannahWrites I grew up long enough ago that thanking people for doing what they should do (or are paid to do) anyway is just something you do. Everything from buying chips at the night-and-day to going through road works. But the throwing of a big toddler tantrum if someone is too busy or forgetful to be polite is never acceptable.

@mekkaokereke @juneb I bought my now 30-year-old Legacy back when it was six years old based on how well a similar model Legacy work vehicle I had been using behaved on gravel roads. Haven't regretted it at all - the only way it could be improved is to have been fitted with manual window winders as well as electric ones.

As for its carrying capacity... it's amazing what a furniture salesman can do if told that they'll sell a big dining table if they can get it into the back of a car...

@smitty @ra I think there would be less confusion about Mastodon if more people remembered Usenet.

(and wouldn't it be good if there was a Mastodon client that could handle multiple Mastodon server logins as easily as a Usenet client could handle multiple newsgroups...)