Notices by Azuaron (azuaron@hachyderm.io)

@inthehands Look, I'm not saying I want to commit insurance fraud. I'm just saying that the insurance policy on my house is worth more than the house, and I bought a Tesla and put it in the attached garage.

@mekkaokereke As a nerd, I can't tell you how quickly I went from full defensive, "No, that's not true, that can't be true!" to "He's totally correct, it's not even close. Why did I even have that initial reaction?"

I suspect my reaction was caused by my own experience of jocks in high school, but that's not misogyny.

As an adult, I've literally had to make HR complaints against male coworkers for things like implying a female coworker's value was in being pregnant. And my company is considered better-than-most for this kind of thing.

@mekkaokereke It seems like what he was trying to do was juxtapose what Musk wants to cut vs what's actually causing problems, which makes the "Elon Musk is right" a premise that he's redirecting.

It's a traditional debate tactic. But Twitter is not a debate stage, and he did not develop the argument.

A better opening would have been, "Elon Musk wants to cut the government budget." Then have what he says about the Pentagon. Then end with, "Why isn't Musk talking about the Pentagon budget?"

@molly0xfff I mean... how many people have played Assassin's Creed?

Can't believe the weirdest stuff they have on him is backs, backpacks, and Among Us.

@mekkaokereke Holy shit. I've never been in a Tesla, so TIL that they don't just have door handles.

Truly, we are building the stupidest dystopia.

@hrefna This is just not the place for this conversation. You're responding to what I can fit in a mastodon post with, "That's just vibes! Really, what happened is my vibes!" We're not going to get anywhere.

@hrefna I don't know what you're talking about. Harris ran to the right on everything.

Biden promised not to build "another foot of [border] wall constructed on my administration."

"If I'm elected president, we're going to immediately end Trump's assault on the dignity of immigrant communities. We're going to restore our moral standing in the world and our historic role as a safe haven for refugees and asylum-seekers."

He was not engaged in an active genocide.

@hrefna @hrefna @hrefna I'm not going to say there aren't racist/sexist people that didn't vote for Harris.

But also, Harris was doing everything she could to look like a Republican in an attempt to win unicorn "moderate Republicans", supporting a genocide, and promising to militarize the border. She lost the people she needed to win, while trying to win people who never were going to vote for her.

@hrefna 10 million people who voted Biden in 2020 did not vote in 2024.

Really seems like those people were reachable.

@aral No, it did, I was just adding some recent specific news I saw to it.

@aral @futurebird @mistergibson @wa7iut @wmd I do believe there was literally a big criminal bust in Brazil regarding a carbon offsets company that was using the money dedicated to carbon offsets to log the rainforest.

@AnthonyJK Something tells me Musk has a vested interest in convincing people that laundering money through various accounts to pay hush money to cover up affairs is a trivial thing.

@emilygorcenski Didn't these fuckers promise not to do this anymore after Charlottesville?

I really, REALLY want to support the ACLU, but goddamn.

@godofbiscuits @aral This post is not about voting.

@aral You know it's bad when the SECURITY UPDATES are paywalled.

"Get more security updates through Ubuntu Pro"

After 8 years, next Linux install I do will NOT be Ubuntu.

@aral Were you looking for additional options, or is there a downside to ngrok?

@futurebird This appears to be one of a series of "I'M THE GUY" pins from 1910s cigarette advertisements. If you google "I'M THE GUY 1910s pins", you can see a bunch of cheesy, and often nonsensical ("put the air in hairpins"?) wordplay like this.

My best guess: ants are small, giants are big, by taking the "ants out the giants" you're the guy that took the small out of the giants, and that's why they're big. Of course, it could also just be nonsense.

@jferg @simplenomad @pluralistic Is this the new "Become Ungovernable"?

@AnarchoNinaWrites Totally confused, logically inconsistent teenager philosophy. This is in a single sentence:

"the antifascists who tolerate misogyny... harm reduction activists who ghost friends who said something uncomfortable"

Which is it? Do I stop tolerating misogyny, or do I stand by misogynists who say "uncomfortable" things?

@AnarchoNinaWrites I really hate that capitalists have convinced almost everyone that "capitalism" and "commerce" are synonyms.