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I've never been on mastadon, is there actually a difference in functionality? or is it just that they call it "favorite" ? (presumably since Twitter's
"like" used to be called "favorite" and I'm still a bit mad they changed it to be more Facebook-sounding)

go to your profile and then click "boosts"

It was a way to view multiple lists at once, your home feed, various accounts, hashtags, your mentions, notifications, DMs, etc. Super useful. I stopped using Twitter altogether when they updated it earlier this year and made it significantly clunkier UX + promised to make it paid.

I just, can't imagine running out of tv shows????? I have probably 8 or so on my to-be-watched list, and the list only gets longer. I've watched 1 season each of 2 shows (Foundation S1 & Golden Compass S3) this YEAR. Oh and maybe Rings of Power was this year, too.

Am I dumb or is this not saying what anyone here thinks it's saying?

Basically, it's not just that 50% have no regret / good satisfaction, but in fact that for this 50% there is not even a hint of dissatisfaction or regret. That's the news. The median isn't 4 or 1, it's 5. So 50% of people are absolute ends of the scale.

But this abstract legit says NOTHING about the tail. So it could actually be that 20% of people have complete regret. Median without average is not that convincing in a case like this.

I tried to read the full article but I think it's too recent to be on scihub. And like hell I'm paying for this.

Absolutely

Sure thing!

so I totally get your point. For example, a therapy group that says, "this is a free speech area" and has 8 members who are all queer, would probably not mean it as a dogwhistle, and in that case, it also probably would not be one. But also, they wouldn't be saying it to anyone other than those 8 members.

The thing is, in this case it legit does not matter the intent, they are saying it on a public chat forum. That makes it a dogwhistle regardless of intentionality, and it will be recognized as such, because if you say that on a public platform on the internet, guess who will hear it.

And now no matter what their intention is, if they didn't want it to be a dogwhistle, it was one, and now their moderation is 10000x as difficult, because look who they've attracted the attention of now - and chased away.

I'd argue, it's always a dogwhistle. You might not realize you're using a dogwhistle, but you definitely are.

In other words, "free speech platform" is not actually "free speech platform," rather it is a dogwhistle.

I'll take this at face value and assume u are asking "why is the EPA involved in this and why did they need to do anything, why is the world stupid"

The answer is that corporations who sell vehicles want more profit (obviously) and so they decided to interpret a clause in the Clean Air Act, which says, "vehicles must be repaired to follow the Act" to mean that, "vehicles must be repaired [by the parent company] to follow the Act [because consumers cannot be trusted to do so themselves]"

So the EPA issued a letter saying "corporations you're totally fucking wrong and being assholes, this is NOT the intent of the law. it just says the Clean Air Act can't have a 'haha i repaired it lol' loophole"

I'm so confused, I thought Salesforce bought them, but I guess I'm confusing shitty companies. Anyway yeah I also thought the deal went through already, HN was really depressed for a day.