Decentralization is a bit like showing people “Here’s how to make friends. I won’t actually introduce you to anyone, though.” I kind of want to at least get a starting point off a general topic.

Down the street, a guy’s house burned down. Of course, we all blame him for it - and his failure to find a message that resonated with the firefighters, to motivate them to come save the building.

Excuse me. They’re called bats.

“Imagined” is perhaps the right word considering he wanted to raise taxes for low income people, and lower taxes for rich people.

Picked one of your random article links. Here’s a quote.

To be clear, the Kremlin’s claims that Ukraine is a hornets’ nest of fascists are false: far-right parties performed poorly in Ukraine’s last parliamentary elections, and Ukrainians reacted with alarm to the National Militia’s demonstration in Kiev. But connections between law enforcement agencies and extremists give Ukraine’s Western allies ample reason for concern. C14 and Kiev’s city government recently signed an agreement allowing C14 to establish a “municipal guard” to patrol the streets; three such militia-run guard forces are already registered in Kiev, and at least 21 operate in other cities.

“I love the scent of freshly cut grass. Reminds me of the smell of napalm in the morning.”

Many people insisting on digging out, others on peroxide. You’re both right.

Use earwax softener in your ears to make the job easier. Then, a day or two later, use a disposable ear cleaning stick, using rotary, not pushing motions. The wax will still be soft and come out much more easily.

That’s gotten huge quantities out for me, saving me from the feeling that I’m underwater.

My view has always been that: “The most popular OS in the works will always need security updates frequently”. That’s true of Linux as well, if it ever broke Windows’ numbers.

That said, Windows has also fucked that argument by forcing unnecessary search additions and browser defaults in those updates.

My understanding is that it’s driven by Tiktok, which, being a Chinese company, lives and breathes censorship and forced societal norms.

Say “shit”, not “sh*t”.

Say “pussy”, not “p**sy”.

Say “gay”, not “”.

I know it’s a cringe trend now, but: Downvoted for censorship. Do not keep your memes safe for TikTok!

Not to mention, the low reliability of checked bags. I’m sure many people have had their bags lost, and can’t deal with the hassle even if they’re lucky enough to have an AirTag in it.

With low pay going to baggage handlers, I don’t see them improving anytime soon.

HR departments aren’t that lazy…

Is there any organization out there that could actually promote an “Acceptable ad standard”? Like, maybe even something within web specs?

A long time ago, ads were slightly irritating, rarely useful, and considered a necessary evil for gently monetizing the web. We’ve had this slow evolution to draconian tracking nightmares that are genuinely dangerous and often written by malicious untraceable actors. I almost feel like we could pressure back towards decent ads if there was some standard by which they only received basic info about the user, showed basic info about a product, didn’t pollute the experience or ruin accessibility, and were registered to businesses by physical address with legal accountability for things like false advertising.

That is…perhaps a vain hope though. It’s just hard to picture futures where all websites run off of donations or subscriptions, because advertising is fucking hell now.