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@stux@mstdn.social they remind me of handfish, but they aren't closely related.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handfish
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@raganwald@social.bau-ha.us @brennen@federation.p1k3.com the Internet is changing again, now the US fascist state and its oligarchy are getting everything under control, and since you can't beat them, you may as well join them (?)
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@karlauerbach@sfba.social @vanzick@mastodon.social @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net theoretically the US could delete ".ir", '.cu". ".gl", or anybody else they didn't like this week, but that would be the end of the DNS system and the end of their control.
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@CIMB4 @notjustbikes they know that nuclear is such a tarpit that it would take decades to get any power out of it, and in the meantime they can carry on selling fossil fuels.
The religious mentality continues to mystify me. A man thanks God because he survived when his car crashed into a black cow on the highway. By why did God even make him crash? My partner suggests that it was the Devil that put the cow there, black things are a sign of his work, but this raises more questions. Isn't the Devil only an instrument in God's plan? Or was God only powerful enough to let the man survive, but not powerful enough to prevent the crash entirely?
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@divVerent@misskey.de @computer@facts.computer if you didn't write in FORTRAN, you were wasting cycles.
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@zenbeater@beige.party @GetCarter@mastodonapp.uk it could start by eating the grass it's standing on.
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@kamstrup@fosstodon.org Ed is the standard text editor.
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
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@raphaelmorgan@disabled.social @cy I don't think you hear so much about creepy women, possibly because men don't generally see women, even if they are strangers, as a threat.
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@avilewis@mstdn.ca take care, not every socialist/communist recommended by the right-wing press is actually a socialist/communist.
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@minmi@sfba.social @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange somebody has to look after it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_hoarding
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@gregeganSF Maybe for 5 minutes so that Vance can change the rule that the Pope has to be Catholic, since Trump previously indicated that he wants it for himself.
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@gregeganSF maybe get the Pope involved, didn't one of them divide the world between the Spanish and the Portuguese? Perhaps Iran could have the east end of the strait and the USA the west.
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@CanvasesByPeter@mementomori.social I think there's just enough material in the Bible, sometimes contradictory, to let people cherry-pick it for whatever they want to get people to believe.
I think if you are going to believe in an all-powerful all-knowing God then you also have to accept that God is creating people to fill a particular role in his plan, that they are inevitably going to do whatever he expects them to do, including going to hell if that is part of it. It's all predestination.
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@CanvasesByPeter@mementomori.social There is a branch of religious thought that says happy and/or rich people have been favoured by God and miserable/poor people are disfavoured. This is the prosperity gospel. It has some logic, if you are going to believe in an all-powerful God who is controlling everything, but then you have to wonder why God creates some people to make them happy and others to make them suffer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology
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@dramypsyd@ohai.social the cave is tempting, but I think they can get cold and damp in winter, and you still have to find food and get some new hobbies compatible with living in a cave. Cave painting is one obvious possibility.
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@annaleen@wandering.shop @simonbp@social.linux.pizza it's a lie, we just have different time zones.
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@passenger@kolektiva.social @OneInterestingFact@mastodon.ie I remember those days thanks to the 1981 Springbok tour of New Zealand, which almost caused a civil war.
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@prism@infosec.exchange @neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org @sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange too many people have figured out the algorithm and are now abusing it (MEOW, Mastodon engine optimisation something.)
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@raphaelmorgan@disabled.social @cy doesn't it come via the horror genre, the haunted house with spiders and bats is creepy, or scary, so they guy trying to lure you into his car is scary / creepy.
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@mho@social.heise.de @dataisbeautiful It's fine, I was just looking at the pictures without reading the title.
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@mho@social.heise.de @dataisbeautiful Australia had 8,110,501 immigrants in 2024? Am I misreading it somehow?
Edit: It's "immigrant stocks", not the number of people who immigrated in that year.
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@Bwee@meow.social "Oh come on, you knew what was coming. ;3"
Yes, on Fedi you really should do the joke the other way around.
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@ClaireH @kaiiak I thought there may be a video, and found this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1-IhEhXYQ
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@ErikUden@mastodon.de what about "I thought it was too complicated." But wait, they are adding features, that just makes it worse.
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@W6KME@mastodon.radio @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io that just sounds like Spider's man, and who is Spider?
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@North@chaos.social @brouhaha@mastodon.social @alice@lgbtqia.space what does that even mean? Maybe it has been lost in translation.
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@johleut@swiss.social @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io it could stay the same, or go down without reaching zero.
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@alice@lgbtqia.space @airshipper@cloudisland.nz @BenHM3@saint-paul.us it may be a cultural thing, but randomly complimenting strangers with something like "Your hair is amazing; I love that color blue 😊" seems rather intrusive to me.
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@mho@social.heise.de @dataisbeautiful I'm surprised how few immigrants there are in Brazil and Argentina.
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@PicardTips@mas.to just bear in mind that Picard has a scriptwriter who will bring help.
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@alice@lgbtqia.space @airshipper@cloudisland.nz @BenHM3@saint-paul.us and also is this some sort of gender role, men are supposed to make advances and women just sit around hoping to receive them? I'm not fond of gender roles in any case.
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@harrymccracken@mastodon.social I like the "human protoplasm", at least it's predicting that we'll be kept on as exhibits for the computers' amusement.
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@AaronDavid@mastodon.world I think the Death Star was sabotaged. What kind of engineer would build an unsabotaged Death Star?
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@alice@lgbtqia.space @airshipper@cloudisland.nz @BenHM3@saint-paul.us Hmm. I mentioned cultural, because of this article I saw a few months ago, and I was thinking "go up and flirt with random strangers, so creepy, who would do that?"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/16/australian-men-dont-do-flirting-why
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@Voline I can imagine an alternative history in which Hitler was assassinated, Nazi Germany didn't invade the Soviet Union, made peace with England and withdrew from France, deported German Jews to Israel and allied with it, became a stable state like Francoist Spain.
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@alice@lgbtqia.space @airshipper@cloudisland.nz @BenHM3@saint-paul.us On one hand, I never receive or give compliments (maybe because I'm just introverted and shabby) and on the other hand, my partner doesn't mind when strangers randomly compliment her clothing because of the colours or whatever, but it's pretty rare.
I'd like to ask certain Christians about what they see as Christ's most important contributions to the religion. Some of them seem to think that Christianity is basically the Old Testament, minus the dietary laws, with the Sabbath on Sunday, and celebrating Christmas and Easter.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/21/trump-bible-passage-oval-office
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@North@chaos.social @brouhaha@mastodon.social @alice@lgbtqia.space alternative translations:
https://biblehub.com/multi/2_kings/2-23.htm
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@richpuchalsky@mastodon.social like that Culture novel where the gender-fluid protagonist disguises themselves on a mission to the TERF Island of Xenophobia.
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@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social isn't recorded history about 5000 years, and 1% of that is 50 years?
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@Black_Flag@beige.party True names are a popular trope in fiction though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_name