Notices by Zalasur 🐸🇺🇦 (zalasur@mastodon.surazal.net)

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116607455389757472

I think a very important point is being brought up here. I can already hear people making the counterargument that Google could simply just mask its agent string, and its reach on the web would mean they could effectively evade any sort of IP blacklist trivially.

But it would be a *message*. And that message is: Google is a servant of the web, not the other way around.

I just want to point out that before search engines became slop engines in the mid-nineties, the internet didn't die. Search engines died.

@Fragglemuppet No cheese on fish? This is a rule I'm unaware of, though admittedly I've only put cheese on breaded fish.

@edsudden The good news is Minnesota is not backing off on ICE either

I just heard Greg Bovino referred to as the One-Third Reich and oh my God it's been too long since I laughed that hard 🤣

#Minnesota #USPolitics

@Fragglemuppet It took me a hot second to realize you were taking about the text-to-speech software, not the ticker symbol for nvidia 😅

I vote Democratic (I'm not registered, but I vote pretty much party-line and have done so for decades). I know a *lot* of Democratic voters personally. I *follow* a lot of influential Democratic people on the interwebs.

And based on all of that, Trump going after Clinton for his supposed ties to Epstein is quite possibly the *most* weaksauce threat he could have come up with, because every Democrat is pretty much like, "Yeah, he's probably guilty too. Go for it."

#USPolitics

@cwebber I don't know who's saying that, and if someone is saying that, to hell with them. They are the ones going to be left behind when that whole bubble pops.

Is it just me or are people suddenly growing a pair and standing up to Donald Trump this week? Did the image of the dude in an inflatable frog costume finally flip a switch in everyone all at once? Did the absurd imagery of the frog standing up to ICE finally convince everyone that the Emperor did not, in fact, wear any clothes?

#USPolitics #PortlandFrog

@Alice What a terrible time to be literate 🤣

D'awwwww it's a hedgehog!

https://peertube.zalasur.media/w/xsATTAQ85Kue4C6xjVGFWb

@Mrfunkedude Yeah, as much as I'd like to see Peertube be a solid choice for this type of situation, the biggest problem is you have to pay for your infrastructure. Commercial platforms get away with providing their services for "free" with the help of advertising revenue.

The attack on our elected officials #Minnesota that resulted in the assassination of one of our representatives is clearly a targeted attack to coincide with the #NoKings protests scheduled to occur across the state today.

We're headed to the Saint Paul march today and we won't be intimidated.

#USPolitics

@cwebber Reznor also released a track for the Black Sabbath tribute album We Sold Our Soul for Rock and Roll under "1000 H*mo DJs" (they did a cover for Sweet Leaf which was really good but yeah that whole thing was really cringey).

@cwebber it was the blurst of times

@lunareclipse @cwebber I just wanted to chime in to say that at the very least it was an informative answer. 👍

@ChrisWere @The_Icarian Lots of drafted servicemen died in that war. They didn't have Trump's privilege of claiming a made-up medical condition to get out of the draft.

Trying to claim that you were simply criticizing the Vietnam War is disingenuous at best and displays profound ignorance of the sacrifices many of an entire generation of American men and women had to make. You can claim that the War was unjust (it was), but praising Trump in the same breath is beyond tone-deaf.

@ChrisWere @The_Icarian No. It was not.

Him dodging the draft meant that someone else, almost definitely lower income, had to go in his place.

I don't know if a recent update broke things on #PeerTube but it looks like my markdown for my support pop-up window isn't working.for any of my channels. I narrowed it down to the image not loading but it's only emerged as a problem in the past few weeks since I did check it a couple of months ago. Did PeerTube decide to no longer render image links in markdown anymore?

Stole this from X (ugh) from a post by the Stephen Colbert Tonight Show account there.

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