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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This has been annoying me as well, so many city services got used to just using twitter and then Elon took over and now you just can’t find out about things unless you have an X account. Shortly after the change to X I drove hours to use a hiking trail that was closed - I checked the conditions, but the top post was “trail is open, come on in!” because it had been changed to show the top post of all time instead of the newest post.

  There should be some non-profit funded by cities that’s basically just a webpage where cities can post important info, or maybe they can have their own mastodon node.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Many of the food couriers I worked alongside were young international students struggling to earn an income while they make their way through school. Others were refugees or undocumented workers, navigating precarious lives.

  I honestly wonder if pretty much all of the surge in illegal immigration over the last 5 or 6 years comes down to Uber Eats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My favorite⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Olive Garden is Nickelback for pasta restaurants.

  Never Again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bird flu⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that how these diseases are generated in the first place?

  No, livestock diseases were a problem long before vaccination. In fact it’s been hypothesized that the reason Europeans killed off Native Americans with disease instead of the other way around is that European livestock spread so much disease that it meant Europeans carried and were immune to a wide variety of diseases.

  As for why livestock diseases are so common, it’s probably due to the obvious - the cramped conditions, often in close contact with other animals. Think of the classic Chinese wet market with animals from many different places stacked in cages on top of each other with fluids flying all over. That’s the real bio weapons lab.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because there’s no opposing corporate interest to building nuclear weapons. The way the world works is: profitable shit happens, no matter what the hippies think about it. See: every other environmental issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t matter. They’re not doing it to get people to see their ads, they’re doing it to bribe Elon since he has actual political power now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Habits of Insects⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The world just keeps getting more and more efficient at being dumb. Let’s just count all the appallingly stupid things crammed into this small meme with 2 million views:

  1. "Insurrection Barbie"
  2. Celebrating the defunding of useful scientific research by a new government efficiency agency
  3. This new agency is named after a cryptocurrency
  4. The cryptocurrency in question was created as a joke to satirize cryptocurrencies, but became a top prominent cryptocurrency itself.
  5. The “Department of Government Efficiency Agency” has 2 heads, both of whom have other primary jobs and were chosen in return for political support.
  6. There is also already an existing government agency that does the exact same thing, called the “Government Accountability Office”. But most people seem to be unaware of it, likely because it’s not named after a cryptocurrency/dog meme.
  7. This whole scheme was the idea of the richest person in the world.

  Idiocracy didn’t happen because of unnatural selection, it happened because social media unlocked a runaway chain reaction of stupidity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not utopia