@greg That sounds like the ever-popular "if you hate [insert any aspect of computing technology] so much, you should get rid of all your computing devices" argument.

@somecat ...and, like, where do you put it?

(...referencing, uhhh, Steven Wright, I think?)

@somecat I keep hoping to discover caves on our property (...and this applies to 2 different properties I've lived on, one of which did have some interesting igneous-lookin' rock formations and a suspicious sinkhole or two).

Arrrrr, shivver me fridge an' blowww me airrr conditionerrr, lads... ☠️

#lowQualityPost

Making valid points in the worst way possible so that nobody will take them seriously is a right-wing tactic.

...but I still can't blame people for not taking them seriously, when presented that way.

@blogdiva The goal of the big money behind the Dem establishment is clearly not about winning, but about advancing a right-wing ideology.

(Apologies for stating the probably-obvious.)

@rnd ...or they misunderstood the question, or they didn't actually know...

I have some stuff I need to write about this.

@datum @artemis

This is why we need range-voting, or at least IRV.

@OkieSpaceQueen I absolutely made a point of not using the same techniques my parents did; I consider that to have been a success.

Kayacat
#caturday

@troublewithwords I tried Calibre for awhile, but it had issues; much prefer Foliate.

@artemis There are bound to be authoritarians (especially the "follower" type) even on the more anti-authorian side of things. My partner's mom, despite having some very authoritarian core beliefs, was a staunch Dem -- just because she was surrounded by other Dems, whom she copied; they became her authorities.

Attitudes and platitudes...

@artemis I have to think it's the Dem establishment speaking, whenever anyone says that. ...and yeah, it's bogus.

@macacator

The first part: I totally agree. (Of interest: there's a company making a-la-carte electric vehicles where you basically choose all the elements you want -- including, as far as I can tell, the dashboard electronics)

The second part is more of a problem. It's comparing disparate things:

• mining for consumption (you mine a ton of stuff, then set it on fire to go some number of miles) vs. capacity (you mine a ton of stuff, and that lets you store enough energy to go some number of miles -- over and over again)
• a very large amount of material mined per year, on an ongoing basis, for as long as we're still using the technology (internal combustion engines) vs. a much smaller amount of material, mined just while we're making batteries in that particular way (and there are several new battery technologies under development which don't use any conflict minerals)

I can't quickly find a single chart which shows them both together (though I did see one recently), but these two charts combined give a pretty good idea of the scale:

• crude oil vs. top 10 metals (lithium is not in the top 10 metals)
• all the metals we mined, which does show lithium (2nd-to-last row)

I apologize if I'm coming across like a know-it-all, but I've been fighting this disinformation since the Dubya era -- it's one of those zombie memes that keeps popping back up (e.g.) no matter how many times or how thoroughly it is debunked.

@mcnado

@macacator

I hope this is a parody of right-wing intentional-misunderstanding...

@mcnado

But @cwebber, have you not heard the Good News about our Savior, The ActivityPub? 🌄 'Tis the One True Protocol, forsaking all others -- you should really look into it! :blobcathalo:

@mnl

@artemis That's the kind of correspondence I'd be publishing on Issuepedia (...after I get it migrated to a decent server...) -- for the record, if nothing else. ^.^

@juliewebgirl @rgulick

I never noticed it had gone... I certainly heard a lot about it, but I don't think I was ever super-clear on what it was all about.

@juliewebgirl ...but did he actually write it? ...and the web site policy stuff?

@rgulick