hell, taking a picture of the screen with a phone would have been better. this is literally the only way to have fucked this up that i can come up with. like maybe if they used too thin of a sharpie on physical paper, but even that probably would have blocked parts of the text.

that said, i can see the average technologically inept person making this mistake. if it wasn’t on purpose, it would have to be someone that didn’t grow up with computers. either someone trump’s age, or someone who grew up with only smart phones. Iwould bet the latter knowing trump and his cheapness. this can’t have been done by an existing professional in the system, they’re too experienced normally. I know this is a lot of assumptions, but i bet it would have had to be a young intern from trump’s camp. and i do bet that over intentional malice towards trump. anyone that did this on purpose would be smart enough to see far enough ahead to predict themselves get arrested or killed as soon as people figured it out. also, hanlon’s razor.

i think i actually made almost this exact mistake once. difference is mine was for an assignment in high school 20 years ago and the consequence was getting snickered at by my peers. it’s a genuinely easy thing to overlook if you’re not used to using tools in a word editor or most other software. it’s also entirely unsurprising that trump’s camp would botch a project. he doesn’t pay people and is a menace to his employees. no one compitent wants to work for him unless they’re true believers.

so yeah, jumping to conclusions about this being intentional is conspiracy nut thinking. if someone’s reasoning includes bits like “it just makes too much sense” and “think about how much they have to gain/lose” they’re just jumping to conclusions without evidence. remember that correlation does not imply causation. just because something happened near a powerful person that affects the world or that person significantly doesn’t mean there’s a conspiracy. just because the motive for an action exists or makes sense that doesn’t mean it happened. i have a motive to want to kill Trump, but if he dies while I’m near d.c. that doesn’t make me a suspect. 90% of the people near d.c. at any given moment have motive to kill trump.

yeah, $500 is tough to get into astro with.

plenty for general photography, but astro can get gear heavy fast. astro landscapes are becoming more accessible as more fast lenses get cheaper, but the kind of astro that needs a tracker is just pricy.

and even then the problem isn’t the individuals so much as the systems that allow them to accumulate wealth.

ah yes, the most nuanced of political takes: the west is the devil and the cause of all evil.

how is this take any different than the u.s. propoganda that would say very similar shit about communism. it’s all the same team sports bullshit. politics is way more complicated than that. there is no great boogeyman that you can point a finger at as “the bad guy”.

every problem is more nuanced than side vs side. anyone that tells you otherwise is just being divisive and wants to push you to hate. not to support their ideas and solutions. you’ll notice that takes like this never offer a solution or a goal other than blame. it’s OK to just ignore the finger pointers. they never accomplish anything and are usually pushing hate.

so basically, bring anything other than hate and blame and I’ll listen. otherwise fuck off with your propoganda.

aah, but it didn’t say steam, it said boiling water.

smaller gas generators based on internal combustion engines don’t boil water though, right?

i need to switch but am being lazy. i joined world because when i first joined every other instance had major uptime issues. after like 2 weeks of jumping around and only getting it to load half the time i decided to say screw it and just join the biggest one.

I’m sure it’s better now.

the promoun discussion blew up on that community because of a user that many accused of being a troll.

they (drag) said that they(drag) had no personal pronouns and should be referred to as dragon (technically they [drag] wanted to be called dragonrider because their [drag’s] partner was a dragon.) this meant that saying words like “you” or “they” or “your” was incorrect. to address them (drag) one would need to talk like “what is drag’s opinion on dragselve’s pronouns?”. instead of “what are your pronouns?”

i genuinely can’t tell if they’re (drag is) a troll, i just think that’s too much to ask of people. it’s legitimately hard to talk without using personal pronouns at all. that said, I’ll still try when addressing drag or anyone else. i just think drag is setting dragself up for disappointment if that’s how drag wants others to address drag.

i can’t get the ada post to open right now, and can’t actually remember what their final stance was. i just remember when that all blew up. i had no real skin in the game, it wasn’t terribly relevant or important to me, but i did try to talk it through with drag and see if i could understand it all better. the conclusion i came to was that drag and i should probably just hang in different circles haha. you don’t have to get on well with everyone. I’m not trans or anything like that. my opinions shouldn’t matter for the rules of trans focused community. i just found the whole situation interesting to see unfold.

(case and point: i just went through to try and re-proofread this to make sure i didn’t misgrender drag and realized that i still had on my 4th sweep. then i realized that to change all of the personal pronouns in this comment that should be drag into drag would make it unreadable to anyone who doesn’t already know the situation. i put those in brackets to maintain readability)

I’ve only ever known Christians to think fish aren’t animals. I’m pretty sure that’s something random that the Vatican decided for bending lent rules or some shit.

at least in my life most people do not have a “reasonably underseood line” where they arbitrarily stop considering animals as animals due to their perceived lack of communication. they have a line where they stop caring about them, but that’s usually about how cute they are, not about how they communicate. if more people understood koalas better they’d be way less popular. they barely have a brain, can’t communicate much, sound absolutely awful…

most people just don’t actually think that much about it. trivia is for the people that do think about things. and it certainly should at least have its answers checked on google.

yes lol, look at any conservative influencer on American tv. they all have degrees.

i don’t think this law would actualy change much here in the states. almost every dangerous spreader of misinfo i can think of did in fact graduate college in some way.

i can’t possibly see this law s anything but a tool to control online speech rather than a tool to fight disinformation.

if the goal of to reduce disinformation then this law will be ineffective.

sure, but that’s not what this is doing. it doesn’t say they’ll be held accountable. it just places a high barrier to entry.

i understand the sentiment behind it, but I don’t think this will be effective at curtailing disinformation. it would, however, be a very useful tool for controlling online speech. especially with a government that has so much control over its universities.

yeah, it could be the liar guard’s desire or prime directive to send you down the deadly path. to him that could be interpretated as the correct path. especially if these are automatons working off of some machine logic. like, they don’t even need to be out to get you, that’s totally something that bad code could do on accident.

there’s nothing about negatively affecting others lives?

so successful sociopaths and narcissists don’t have a disorder?

i don’t think that’s quite right.

ok, did you read the body of the post?

did you try clicking the link? titles aren’t meant to convey all relevant info.

in Wisconsin there used to be a popular morning radio segment called “who’s more sheboygan” making fun of how backwards and redneck the area was. sheboygan has always had a reputation as the Florida of Wisconsin.

so yes, fair. America bad. but also here’s a little nugget of context to go with that.

haha, we have the exact same phrase in the states. not even just similar, it’s literally called an elephant race here too.

makes me wonder what country started it. or maybe they just look so much like elephants racing that multiple languages have like convergent linguistics.

like carcinification but for the phrase “elephant race”

show a map of the land area it takes up and you might actuality convince some people it’s not lol.

it could be like milk lovers trying to call almond milk bad for the environment due to water usage. despite cow milk being infinitely worse. the propaganda machine did its job well. if you bring up non dairy milks to an American conservative in 2025, nine times out of ten they’ll feel the need to smugly tell you how terrible almond milk is and how we shouldn’t be allowed to waste all that water on it. if you try to tell them that cow milk is worse they’ll just tell you you’re wrong and that the data is lying.

i straight to showed one of them the hard numbers on how much cows are putting out greenhouse gasses and she just said “that can’t be right”. it didn’t FEEL right to her so she just didn’t believe it…

no no, it just needs your location data every second to make sure it’s set to the correct time zone. Microsoft and their 1.8 million partners decided that the clock can’t work without your location data.

(I’m joking, for the inevitable person that’s going to try to disagree)

sure, but they also don’t call eating an apple “eating trees”. it would still be fair to call applewood based products “beaver food” or “cardboard” if someone told you to eat it.