@therightarticle There is, but it's just one part of the resistance in general. The zone is flooded; we're already bailing as fast as we can.

It's spelt "chatbot", but it's pronounced "shah-BOW".

@MAKS23 I would like to see world leaders change their tactics by observing that there's absolutely no point in meeting with Tr#mp or any of his misadministration because they can't be trusted to keep a promise for even 5 seconds, and therefore they will only negotiate with the US once it is under different leadership.

Alternatively, they could offer to negotiate with the military, some of whom may not have lost the plot.

@JulieSqveakaroo
I was thinking very much along the same lines as #2, just about a year and a half ago now:

• Dear_Red_America/2024-11-15: make America have trolleys again?
• Dear_Red_America/2024-12-08: make America have healthcare again?

(Of course I knew dingetty-danged well that P2025 was against both of these things, but I wanted to see if actual Tr#mpers were. Answer came there none; I got the greatest crickets ever. 🇺🇸🎆🦗)

@blogdiva I like the way you think.

Asymmetrical nonviolent disruption FTW!

@BigShellEvent Well, at least whatever I did wrong isn't so obvious that it survives the language-barrier! 😅

@ablueview Are they next going to claim that Iran was historically American territory, and the US has a right to reclaim it to restore our national glory?

I truly would not put it past them...

@tiago Classic "it's okay when we do it", aka "conservatism" in a nutshell: laws exist solely to protect the powerful from everyone else.

@thefunnypages How about half the year we have a DST system and the other half we don't.

(This works out best if the half-year when it's in place is also the half-year when we're on Standard Time.)

@ObsidianUrbex

Ooh yes, I need more PeerTube watching! Moar PT, less YT!

(Minor gripe: just wishing PeerTube were better integrated with the more textual side of ActivityPub -- I did manage to subscribe, but it felt like hoops were being jumped through :blobcatthinkingportal: Maybe they're working on it.)

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RE: https://toot.cat/@woozle/116194942036562908

Apparently this came across as condescending, though I absolutely did not intend it that way. (I thought I was just contributing to the discussion.)

I'm open for suggestions on why it might have come across the way it seems to have done.

@grimalkina I'm awfully sorry! I honestly did not mean to condescend.

I'll have to think this over and figure out what I did wrong. Again, my apologies.

😼

@grimalkina What I see is... a little more complicated, I think, than either of those options:

• Many people clearly do have a decent grasp of what's going on, and are at least withdrawing their participation to whatever extent they can. (Many are actively working to fight it.)
• Many people do not really understand what's going on, and would be horrified if they did; they're more the victims of misinformation-structures than they are participants.
• A very few people, typically those operating from positions of power (often not the most visible, though) know exactly what they're doing. Some of those may honestly believe they're doing what's right, but many (most?) of them suffer from an inability to look much beyond their own near-term gratification.

...and since I've rambled this far: my focus lately has been on "how can we help the first group to be most effective at maximally reducing the harm done by the last group?" ...or something along those lines.

TLDR: Good exists. Find it, and help it to prevail.

@faithisleaping Actually it's a data format, it stands for "comma-value separation". >.>

Some women's day reading for techies:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191130180008/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/magazine/women-coding-computer-programming.html

(archived version of this NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/magazine/women-coding-computer-programming.html)

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

@hacks4pancakes The other shoe was actually under the bed the whole time, no need to wait. >.<