Seems to be le fixée now ^.^
Apparently it had something to do with this
Thanks once again to the indefatigable @meatballhat 🎉 for doing the right server-whispers.
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#TootCat Mission Control -- we are, uh, working on the "503" SSL error thingy, and will advise. :tootcat:
@smp I'm not seeing it on either one...
🔎 Going through the obvious:
@smp Are you seeing it even on... this post? Your post just now? (I'm not seeing it on yours, nor on longer ones such as this.)
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@umbeebmu I think part of it, for me, is that this is just the lastest in a long series of utterly horrendous actions initiated or at least condoned by him.
I guess it's by far the worst, at least in terms of lives lost and other value destroyed -- speaking only of the damage already done.
I kind of feel like I already went through a phase of "okay, they can't just ignore this, can they?", and then they did, several times -- so it's kind of like "oh, so now he's threatening to drop a super-nuke into the sun and make it go nova and destroy all life on Earth? The GOP will still let him get away with it, and the centrist Dems will once again write stern letters about it while staying carefully within the bounds of acceptable behavior so they can be seen 'taking the high ground', and will censure the progressives who try to actually do anything about it."
It's not that it isn't the worst thing he's ever done, and it's not that it isn't deadly serious; it's just that it's absolutely on the trajectory he was already on, and completely expectable, and why should we stop doing our best to satirically belittle and demean him now?
(I'm not actually disagreeing with you, though -- just reporting on a feeling. I do agree that everyone should be pounding the desks of their Congressbeasts for action on this, before anything that might come across as making light of the situation.)
Maybe I should do a satirical spam service. Every time your neurally-fried $relative forwards nonsense to you, you could fire a return salvo...
If you're in Illinois and you are arrested protesting Trump's illegal war and threats of genocide, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
RE: https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/116365586475959192
NASA FINALLY REVEALS REAL ACTUAL TRUTH ABOUT MOON
INTERNATOINAL SCEINTISTS SHOCKED -- "SECRET IS OUT!"
US DECLARES ASTROMONY A METNAL HEALTH ISSUE "WE CAN'T HAVE OUR INOCENNT KIDS BEING TAUGHT THESE LEIS ANYMORE!"
...okay, this is feeling too believable; I should probably stop now.
@michael_w_busch @amin @sundogplanets
I think we're talking about slightly different statistical issues, but maybe I'm just not reading carefully enough.
In any case, I do agree with the above: definitely want to find out what the cameras saw. 🔭
@umbeebmu I've been trying desperately to find the shutdown command, but they "improved" the UI last year and
@michael_w_busch @amin @sundogplanets
If they saw the flashes anywhere except the moon, that would point towards phosphenes; if they only ever saw them coming from the moon, and saw more than half a dozen or so, then that would point towards actual impacts.
(...just in case that wasn't obvious to the point of already having been pointed out a zillion times, which is also possible. >.>)
@rnd What if someone writes a SF novel with social commentary in it and then claims he hates social commentary and there isn't any in his novel.
@tzimmer_history The more I look at the utter sincerity of the Right's intense antipathy torwards egalitarian ideas, its emotional need for coercive control, the more I think we really cannot all live peaceably under the same government.
I guess what I'm still wondering is whether their ideas would still have as much support if more of the supporters understood what they were supporting, understood the truth of the lies on which that support is based.
....and if the answer is "no", is there any sustainable way to ensure that they do come to understand it, and do not forget it, so that the Right can never again get this close to achieving their sadistic dreams.
@wdlindsy "Idolatry" seems more like a within-religion term, and the others are not religion-specific. I'm thinking what's needed is a word that refers to where religion and propaganda intersect, and to serve as a reminder that some seemingly-religious ideas aren't really based in spirituality or even scripture but are really just powermongery / propaganda trying to look respectable.
