What? I’m really not into us politics and also it’s pretty clear that the two party system is shit, but I never got the feeling that the two parties are similar in any way?

Offenders aren’t victims of changed rules.

I’d say they are, if the rules are shit. In this case though the rules are fine imo.

How tf is a comment like this one which is basically on some ISIS-like kill everyone level beeing upvoted?

Wait, I thought the decentralized version of Twitter was Mastodon

The good old “we were first, so we’re the only ones who belong here”, which always brings up the question, how far we want to go back in time to determine who really was first. There is no answer to this question, hence it’s the reason for so many conflicts across the globe and through history.

95 definitely had those

Dass Regierungen die Plattform nutzen, legitimiert sie als offizielle Informationsquelle

Sehe ich anders. Nach der Logik dürfte die Regierung überhaupt kein Social Media nutzen. Ich kenne jedenfalls keine Social-Media-Seite, die man auch nur im entferntesten als "offizielle Informationsquelle ansehen sollte.

X ist eine Plattform, auf der sie viele Leute erreichen. Klar, ich find Mastodon auch besser, aber wenn die Regierung von X auf Mastodon wechselt, würde sie nur noch einen Bruchteil der Menschen erreichen und das kann irgendwie auch nicht das Ziel sein.

That’s standpoint is way to reasonable. People want black and white.

I don’t think it’s about laziness, but rather about having deadlines set by management that you can only possible meet by reusing stuff as much as possible - even if you only actually need 5 % of this stuff but got to package everything of it in your application for it to work.

Wir wissen: Krieg gibt’s nur weil man an Waffen viel Geld verdient. Lösung: verbieten.

Wie stellst du dir das denn vor? Wo verbieten? In der EU? Der Nato? Putin lacht sich kaputt. Oder willst du sie weltweit verbieten? Dafür müsstest du erst mal die ganze Welt unter deine Kontrolle kriegen - vermutlich mit Waffengewalt.

… Ich denke nicht, dass der Kommentar ernst gemeint war…

Skin: Make it so I can endure the harshest of elements. Or be impenetrable.

Good look getting a vaccine

Kann ich null bestätigen deine Beobachtung

Sounds as great as the last software called Pegasus which was completely unproblematic und only used for good.

There are too many users on the right side though

I might be wrong but as far as I understand Google’s topics API only gives websites access to information like “here is a user who likes the topics IT and gardening”, which is a LOT less than what is possible with cookies. With cookies a website can get information like “here is a user who visited your website yesterday and two times last week. Also they recently visited websites A, B and C, and frequently visits website D. On website D they are logged in as X.” They make all your visits to a website and, with third-party cookies, also to other websites connectable. Google’s topics do not.

Are you American by any chance?

Yes, usually when in meetings. It’s 99% a society/conventional thing, but looking and typing on your phone while talking to someone will often be perceived as rude. Taking notes in your paper notebook though usually will come off as being attentive and interested.

Except people at one point realized that IE is shit and switched to better alternatives. I don’t see this happening with WhatsApp - everyone and their great grandfather uses it and all other messengers are niche occurrences

Classic “this is why we can’t have nice things” moment