Okay, so if nobody cared about it, and it didn’t affect Harris…why are you talking about it?

I guess you don’t listen to Democracy Now. They’ve been reporting on Palestine every day since the election. The Ralph Nader Radio Hour has been talking about it since the election, too.

You can

• Join the BDS movement
• Donate to groups like A Jewish Voice for Peace
• Protest in your home country, if your home country is supporting Israel
• Lobby your politicians

Not when you have a candidate who supports genocide and was trying to court billionaires, moderate Republicans, and the Cheneys. Towards the end there, I thought, “There really is nothing appealing about her now.”

Right at the beginning, there was so much hope and enthusiasm, but then the DNC and their consultants stepped in and ruined everything.

You have to energize your base to get them to go to the polls. Maybe the Democrats should try running a candidate who doesn’t suck.

I mean, you do that whether you vote or not. But when you try to tell people that they have to do more than vote, they don’t like it.

Naw, it’s gonna be “What did you do during the genocide in Gaza?”

Flip you, you’re a silly sausage!

I think Mastodon does fine, too, but I’ve often heard people complain about the lack of an algorithm. Like, they don’t know how to find things if they aren’t being shoveled into their feed

I don’t have any issues with mouse precision, so having to navigate that extra distance every time is a pain in the ass.

Man, they already said that they’re sick. Have some mercy!

Okay. Explain the global menu, then. Why would I want the menu at the top of the screen, always, instead of attached to the top of the window?

If somebody is being a bully, you should, in fact, confront them and let them know that you want their bullying behavior to stop. (In this case, not in person, though.) What they’re doing right now is only reinforcing the behavior.

That ain’t a conspiracy, though. They’re operating in the open.

Who is “they”?

Especially the ones where you would need the complicity and cooperation of thousands of people to pull it off.

Leave it to cryptos to make simple things stupidly difficult. This whole piece you quoted was hilarious, but this part especially stuck out for me:

The base protocol doesn’t use tokens, which lets people who don’t have interest in cryptocurrency (yet) use it for free

I didn’t see the word “blockchain” anywhere.

What happens if you click on that link? What’s the scam?

This is the straw man:

Way I see it, you have two competing overarching theories, “spontaneous order” and “orchestrated order”.

You’re assuming that there is order and working backwards.

Sometimes people try to explain the formation of these theories in terms of fulfillment of an emotional need (“they can’t accept this would just happen so they need to pretend someone is in control”), which is just inaccurate.

You didn’t explain how that was inaccurate. You just said they were using a “mental model”. Why are they using that mental model, though? It’s because they need somebody to be in control.

This has actually been studied. Sociologists have studied conspiracy theorists, and they are often people with control issues.