People don’t want the Fediverse. They want Twitter before Elon. They don’t care that Meta owns Threads.
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zhunk@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•Matt Gaetz Is the Best Possible Outcome for Attorney General3·7 months agoProject 2025 from the Heritage Foundation and the America First Transition Project from the America First Policy Institute. Same shit, different toilet, even more organized freaks.
zhunk@beehaw.orgto City Life@beehaw.org•Opinion: Our Loneliness Epidemic Reveals America’s Failed Urban Planning3·8 months agoCoffee is only a few bucks at a coffee shop, a few cents at home, and free at work. Now, getting some daily overcomplicated concoction, on the other hand…
zhunk@beehaw.orgto World News@beehaw.org•Russian government confirms report about secret gift to Putin that former U.S. President Trump dismissed as 'made up'17·8 months agoWhat is Russia’s motivation for confirming this?
zhunk@beehaw.orgto U.S. News@beehaw.org•DeSantis threatens local TV stations for airing abortion rights campaign ads6·8 months agoDoesn’t he have some natural disasters that he should be focusing on?
Is the downside that quote posts make it easier for people to dog pile? That seems like it should be less of an issue because of defederating instances with that proclivity.
zhunk@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•Trump pledges to deport Haitians in Ohio city if elected4·9 months agoYup, I always tell people I’m biased about WI because I left. I’m sure OH has a lot of similar reasons.
zhunk@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•Liz Cheney says Dick Cheney will vote for Kamala Harris, and she will support Democrat Colin Allred in Texas Senate race12·9 months agoWelcome to the resistance… Dick Cheney?
Hubris. They were up in the polls at the time and didn’t think they needed to expand their appeal, so they caved and took Thiel’s guy.
zhunk@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac3·10 months agoThere are private/paywalled Discord servers and forums out there, too, so this could replace some of those. I think the Reddit format is better than a lot of alternatives, so I don’t actually hate this idea.
zhunk@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•US Email Providers - Other then Google, MS, Apple, ...3·11 months agoI’m not really into the idea of moving everything to a baby Google, even if they’re currently good about privacy. They just added an AI tool to email and a crypto wallet, which could be either awful or great signs depending on your perspective.
zhunk@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•Trump Tells Christians They Won't Have to Vote in Future: 'We'll Have It Fixed'3·11 months agoRon Desantis’s “Weekend at Bernie’s president” joke at the RNC, like every other accusation from the GOP, was just more projection.
zhunk@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•Associated Press - Joe Biden Ends 2024 Campaign for President18·11 months agoA DA will be a nice foil to the convicted felon.
zhunk@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•Biden endorses Harris as Democratic nominee after ending his candidacy8·11 months agoRegarding ballot eligibility- I think part of timing for this is that the Dems are about to have their “roll call” in the next week or two to officially nominate a candidate to get on ballots before the official full convention.
zhunk@beehaw.orgto U.S. News@beehaw.org•US health care now unaffordable for nearly half of Americans7·11 months agoThe US healthcare system is completely broken unless you’re rich.
Multiple things can be true at the same time, though: people don’t take care of themselves and live very unhealthy sedentary lifestyles with awful diets.
zhunk@beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs9·11 months agoSo does Valve?
zhunk@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Elon Musk's SpaceX contracted to destroy retired space station - BBC News2·1 year agoI was kind of hoping for Impulse Space, but they’re probably too unproven.
zhunk@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Elon Musk's SpaceX contracted to destroy retired space station - BBC News4·1 year agoOne of Starship’s engines on the lowest setting would tear the station apart. Regardless of whether they make this based on Starship instead of something more reasonably sized like a Dragon or Falcon 2nd stage, it’ll still need either a new engine design or a big cluster of Dracos. It’ll be something custom.
Regarding their Artemis work- the payments are milestone based, so they get money as they pass milestones. Engine relights and ship to ship prop transfer are some of the next ones.
Regarding their other customers- the Starship manifest includes another moon cruise, several satellite launches, and a lot of Starlinks.
I have a friend who won’t put his kids in the back of his Tesla because of this.