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People who aren't willing to put any effort into learning how computers and the internet work are free to stay on Xitter and Facebook. Not everything has to be for everyone.

I thought AI was supposed to get better and easier to use as time went on, so why should we bother to teach them now when it will be so easy to learn in the future?

To be fair, a lot of governments and pearl-clutchers actually are coming for your weed.

Thank you for volunteering to have a data center built in your neighborhood!

Isn't the simple option to just move time zones? If you're not allowed to swap to PDT year round, just change to MST instead.

> On a Mastodon instance, there are also no steps you can take. Your account is banned on the instance — your entire identity goes down with it.

> On atproto, it depend on whether you’re banned at hosting or app level.

> If you get banned at hosting level (usually something clearly illegal would trigger this), you’d have to find another hosting (assuming apps haven’t banned you too).

This isn't as different as you make it sound. Most people on AT Proto are using Bluesky, so "getting banned" is fundamentally the same for them as getting banned from a Mastodon instance. Conversely, you can just run your own Mastodon instance and the only thing you'd have to worry about is defederation (an "appview ban").

Yes, obviously.

If it's the son's fault, then AI companies need to stop acting like their products are genius machines. Can't have it both ways.

It's an even stupider assumption, then!

A few high-profile Muslims spoke out against Harris. This means every Muslim American voted for Trump. Obviously.

Bacteria have souls?

Are you agnostic about unicorns?

> In South Korea, turning 50 often marks a quiet but profound turning point for men—both native and foreign.

ChatGPT giveaway in the first sentence? I think that's a new record.

You have to care about something to DDOS it.

Apr 15 2026