@mrsaturday@p@rvcx If he didn't ask permission to run them there first, that does make a difference, sure. And I suggested to him that he should just self-host them, which he wouldn't do. So yeah, kind of an unserious person. Depends on your definition of "spam" I guess; I wouldn't consider them spam.
@p@rvcx They aren't spambots; they were providing a useful service (useful to me anyway). I know I have alternate ways to get it (it's one of the functions of my watch) but I liked getting it from the bot, which is why I followed the bot. If you didn't want to see it, all you had to do was not follow the bot.
@rvcx Yeah, it doesn't take much to trigger people to instance-block you. It sucks, federation doesn't work if people intentionally break it.
And yeah that commenter is an asshole. Well, if the bots go to bluesky, I'm guessing somewhy.net is blocked there so I won't see them any more. Bummer!
@sickburnbro The media does this with damn near everything. They'll get the idea of a narrative and selectively-report to push their agenda. It happens most obviously with guns; every so often they'll decide to push for gun bans and suddenly every day there's something horrible about guns in the news.
I am a conservative. If you are not, then we can still be friends! But if you post or boost things attacking conservatives or republicans then I will block you. I don't post hate speech about others, and I expect the same courtesy.
So I'm watching 2010. The scene where he's reactivating HAL 9000. And I think, "that's stupid, there's no way a computer like that would have a keyboard that looked like that."
@sun@Hyolobrika Every time I've tried to talk to some crypto-bro about whether crypto is a good idea, all they fall back on is that the USD is inflationary and a bad store of value.
Sure. It is. But that isn't in itself an argument why cryptocurrencies are a good idea.
So I've given up. Let people dump their money into the scams, doesn't matter to me.
@Hyolobrika I don't think they've thought it through. Their idea is that as early adopters, they'll be trillionaires when all of society moves to the libertarian-fun-bux standard, and everyone who didn't buy btc will be peasants. But why would anyone move to a different currency where they'll be a peasant? What's gonna motivate everyone to ascend these basement-dwellers to godhood?
@Diceynes I didn't believe you so I did look it up and the first result is that they're not illegal. Even if they require the equivalent of a prescription, that's not the same as illegal, and it's also not keeping people from getting them since, as I said, enough Israeli customers to keep my former company afloat...
@Diceynes That law apparently dates to when all DNA tests were done with court approval, before the cost lowered enough that things like 23andMe / FamilyTreeDNA existed. And people apparently ignore it.