Partly. Except the time different Mastodon instances were not federated much or at all. If you wanted to go follow someone on Mastodon you had to know the exact server they were on. In an environment like Reddit and Lemmy where you’re there for the communities instead of the people that isn’t an issue. But if you want to go follow some specific podcaster you need to know the instance because there’s no guarantee that whatever instance you happen upon is going to be joined up with the one there on.

Everyone was busy running their own servers and not trying to tie everything together. It was a thing that could be done but a thing not enough were doing.

I’m on Bluesky. I have seen a drama increase in followers in the last few days since Twitter let blocked people see content that were blocked from.

It’s a big blow to Twitter that people are finding someplace, anyplace , else to go.

I had to decide if I was going to Mastodon or Bluesky. I picked Bluesky because after reading Mastodon’s integration problems with itself I wanted nothing to do with it. It couldn’t scale unless each instance played nice and in the years since it went live they had refused to do that and showed no signs of even moving in that direction.

Who else has that kind of range? Mike Patton.

When I lived in the Tidewater area I practically made a hobby of going to places with okay food and entertainingly bad service. We were always on a mission to find the worst food. We found it at one of the “Steak Seafood Pasta” places on the Blvd. Everything came from a microwave and the freezer section of some supply company.

Came here to mention this was three and a half years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. There is zero doubt this is a result of that.

No lies detected.

One of the more popular arguments from preppers during covid was that these hyper-independent minded people were suddenly demanding the ability to go out to stores and meet up with people in large groups.

After years of “I don’t need nobody” they went hard core “people need interaction!”. It was a beautiful thing that not one of them will admit.

I’ve been doing this since before the orange blight. The people haven’t changed. They are just more obviously hypocrites. They went from “keep government out of my life, I want personal freedom” to “only through government can we maintain control over anyone that makes us feel icky.”

The rest of this is splitting hairs.

I agree that the motivation portion is entirely different. But the actions are the same.

There is fine line between farming with guns and prepping.

I have chickens, ducks and geese, raised beds, just built a solar battery charger, can my own food, dehydrate food, cook everything from scratch, etc etc. I go through all the same steps. My friends refer to me as a prepper despite me saying I’m a homesteader. They keep saying they are going to show up at my place if everything collapses. I started shutting this down by saying they need to be pre-approved, pay a $150 non-refundable deposit and $50 a month so that I can make sure I have food and other essentials for when they show up. Because it’s really annoying to hear someone say “I’m totally not doing anything about my fears so I’m going to impose on you when the time comes.”

I’m just trying to reduce the amount it takes for me to survive. It happens that if you are ready to be unemployed for a few months that a lot of the same prepa come in handy for a collapse of the economy. The same things needed to hunt squirrels are helpful against zombies.

I’m a person that most people would consider a prepper. What am I prepping for? Unemployment. Being able to survive with as few possible inputs as possible.

I’m a hard core skeptical nerd that doesn’t believe a single conspiracy theory. I’m like an anti doomsday prepper. Making life easier even if things don’t go bad.

A black sheriff?

This kills the human

This implies that they care about the homeless issue. 23 billion is a rounding error in the budget. They just don’t want to fix it.

An average sized amount to think about.

I misread the headline. I thought 3D printers were evolving into crabs.

Also Mozart dropped a new single just weeks ago.

Only two weeks until we find out what’s in Trump’s healthcare plan.

Well in some cases that’s complicated. Dominionists will support anyone that either will bring in the end times or the destruction of Israel because that’s part of their end time beliefs. They also support anyone that claims to be Christian. Supporting Israel until it is destroyed is all part of their convoluted fantasy life.

Caught, as in the system detected them and they didn’t get in.