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ageedizzle

@ ageedizzle @piefed.ca

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    Look on the bright side

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  • That's a really cool idea. The internet has really done a number on local news, maybe a world where your social media infrastructure was run by your local municipality would change that. At minimum, it would give people an interesting way to interact with people in their community.

  • TIL: Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Was An Anti-Communist CIA Operative who Kept Feminism From Discussing Class

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  • Abstract expressionism (ie modern art) was actually pushed by the CIA as well (source), though the motivation in this case is murkier

  • LibreOffice Leave X/Twitter in favor of Mastodon

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  • These are good ideas. Hopefully something like that happens one day. In addition to events it would be nice if there were more in-person groups (eg for a class or local community group) that chose to connect online primarily through the Fediverse. You see that kind of thing happening with Discord. It would be good if we could do something similar here.

  • How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand?

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  • Well I think that would depend, right? If you’re from a region of the States where there’s more economic activity with Mexico, then sure it makes more sense to learn Spanish. But there are also areas in the States where you have comparatively more economic activity with Canada, then it makes more sense to learn French.

    Can we at least agree that it makes more sense for an American to learn French than Portuguese, contrary to what was suggested earlier in the conversation? 

  • How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand?

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  • Quebec is one of the most economically active regions in Canada. But we can out that aside for now because, again, Quebec is not the only francophone region in Canada. The province I’m from doesn’t even recognize French as an official language, yet there are people who live here who are born here, are educated here, and work here, and die here, all without ever achieving more that basic English proficiency because they are so immersed in the Francophone subculture here.

    So if what you are worried about is legal frameworks, then yes, you don’t need your lawyer to be bilingual to do business with Canada in some cases. But that doesn't diminish the fact that the people who you hope to do business with, and your potential customer base, might not know anything beyond broken English (if they know any English at all).

  • How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand?

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  • Quebec is in Canada, it’s also not the only Francophone region in Canada. There are also most certainly major economic zones in Canada where you would need to know French to conduct business. And I assume you could also hire a translator for Spanish, no?

  • How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand?

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  • Is Canada not economically relevant to the continent? French is an official language of Canada, on equal footing as English. By law anything sold in Canada must include both English and French labelling, software, instruction manuals etc. For parts of the US that trade a lot with Canada, French is at least as economically relevant as Spanish.

  • LibreOffice Leave X/Twitter in favor of Mastodon

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  • Stuff like this is why Bluesky is more popular than Mastodon. We need to find a way to fix these little quirks if we are serious about growing the fediverse 

  • LibreOffice Leave X/Twitter in favor of Mastodon

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  • I think a simple ‘popular’ or ‘trending’ feed wouldn’t need user tracking. Or if it was really needed to be customized maybe users could opt into share what topics they are interested in when they sign up 

  • LibreOffice Leave X/Twitter in favor of Mastodon

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  • How can we create something exclusive to the fediverse? 

  • How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand?

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  • There is really only one major language which is relevant to neighbors

    Spanish

    French Canadians would like to have a word with you

  • AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data

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  • Yeah. Then it destroys traditional search engines by overrunning them with slop

  • Key Witness Who Disputed ICE Account of Fatal Texas Shooting Dies in Car Accident

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  • Interesting advice. Thanks!

  • "Being vegan is unnatural"

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  • You could argue that our way of life in wealthy countries is impossible without the exploitation of the third-world. Does that mean we are a higher class of humans? No.

    Let’s just strive to be as harmless as possible and leave our grand philosophical ideas about who is better than who aside.

  • Key Witness Who Disputed ICE Account of Fatal Texas Shooting Dies in Car Accident

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  • Thats a good point. I really hope you’re right. Seems impossible to buy a new car these days if you’re at all privacy conscious 

  • Key Witness Who Disputed ICE Account of Fatal Texas Shooting Dies in Car Accident

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  • Even more reason to pushback against the excessive the digitization of cars  

  • "Being vegan is unnatural"

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  • Compare: it’s rape to have sex with someone underage, but two underage people can have sex with each other without it being rape. 

  • "Being vegan is unnatural"

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  • Not everything is black and white. You are painting a picture where we have two options: (1) cause as much harm as we please and not worry about the consequences, or (2) cause no harm at all by eradicating our species from the face of the Earth (which would actually cause a lot of harm to members of our species but we’ll sidestep that for now).  

    But this is of course a false dichotomy. Because there are degrees to this. A vegan diet is undoubtably less harmful, both in its carbon footprint and in the direct harm in causes to other species. So if someone wants to reduce the amount of harm they are causing it’s the way to go. So why try to diminish that with this ridiculous dichotomy between death to all humans or unmitigated animal torture? If someone wants to decrease of amount of harm they are causing shouldn’t we be encouraging this sort of prosocial mindset?