Notices by Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈⧖ (dgoldsmith@mastodon.social)

@dansup I’m so sorry.

@dansup I hope he feels better soon.

@inthehands @Lana @lisamelton You beat me to it!

@lisamelton @Lana My bottom surgery was on Leap Day—February 29, 2000. That kind of leap day only occurs once every 400 years. When I was offered the date I jumped at it.

Thanks to 47, the US is going to fade into a failed state with nuclear weapons, very much like his patron’s. I wonder if that was the goal all along.
https://mas.to/@carnage4life/113931357320717329

@muddyfields @dalias @wdlindsy The Milgram experiment has been thoroughly debunked: https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/2019-letexier.pdf

Musk's henchmen are a zombie virus currently infecting the entire executive branch.

@dansup What happens if someone picks a user ID that's the same as an existing shortcode?

@dansup How are you doing the transfer? If you have a Thunderbolt cable try connecting them that way (you don’t need to start over).

@darnell @laurenshof I guess I missed something? What's the problem with bookwyrm.social and kbin.social? The rest I'm familiar with how bad they are. I've been recommending bookwyrm as a replacement for GoodReads and I thought kbin was mostly dead.

They've always said they wanted to burn the federal government to the ground. Believe people when they tell you who they are.

The next time you hear someone say “the Constitution will keep that from happening,” remember, the Constitution is not going to leap from its display case at the National Archives and fly to the rescue. *People* who want to uphold the Constitution will try to keep it from happening. So when you hear that, make sure to ask: “Which people? Do they have enough power to do so?”

@dansup

@Gargron I deactivated FB/Instagram many years ago.

@dansup @pixelfed 😉

Still waiting for some cis ally to speak up with a “have you no sense of decency?” moment to the people persecuting the trans community. It feels like it’s going to be a very long wait.

@ChrisWere My answer would be, which societies have the lowest proportion of hungry or homeless people? “Great artists steal.” Have an idea to reduce homelessness/hunger even less? Try it on a small scale; if it works, try scaling it up.

And yes, people will try to sabotage it for selfish reasons. Are there societies where that kind of sabotage is less common? If so, learn from them. Ideas for reducing that problem? Trial them and see if they help.

Since human minds and human societies are some of the most complex systems we know, predicting how they work from first principles isn’t currently possible (and may never be).

So I'm *deeply* skeptical of utopian plans for society. If you want to convince me we should change society in some way, point me at an example of a society that tried it and had it work out well.

What societies/practices currently give the best outcomes for people? We should learn from those.

#NoUtopias

Welcome to the family's new arrival!

#Plushtodon

@quinn @futurebird @VaylLarkinPoet Mastodon isn't a monolith. The Mastodon team wants to be welcoming to everyone. That's also what I, and many others here want. So the people who don't want that are the problem. We shouldn't let them pretend they speak for Mastodon as a whole.