n2burns

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[โ€“] n2burns@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

Nope, I don't usually even see the word Mastodon written 3-4 times in a week. My best guessing this is because Meta-exodus has created a buzz around the fediverse, so I'm seeing more references to Mastodon, and those users are more likely to be new to the service.

[โ€“] n2burns@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago

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[โ€“] n2burns@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 months ago (4 children)

What's with people recently spelling it "mastadon"? This must be the third or fourth post in the last week I've seen with that typo.

[โ€“] n2burns@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He also studied at Queen's University for 2 years.

[โ€“] n2burns@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 months ago (4 children)

The United States says it was one of three countries to vote against a U.N. resolution condemning the glorification of Nazism over freedom of speech issues and concerns that Russia was using it to carry out political attacks against its neighbors.

Ukraine and Palau were the other no votes.

I mean, maybe the Russia concern is honest, but I do wonder about Ukraine. They seem to have some neo-Nazi's in their midst (see the Azov Brigade) and being unable to support this, or even abstain is disappointing.

[โ€“] n2burns@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't FEMA funded out of the Federal budget? Meaning if they cut FEMA, that money will just go elsewhere, not "just stay with the states".

EDIT added clarification.

[โ€“] n2burns@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

Thanks for confirming that. Yeah, I'm also interested to see how this is used. Other comments don't seem to get that politicians in charge give messages to pass to employees and the top bureaucrats just make it happen, so this seems completely unnecessary. Maybe they're being paranoid that their controversial messages would be censored?

[โ€“] n2burns@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago

While this is subjective, IMHO there's no way 2024 was the first influencer election. It was definitely 2020 and that was turbocharged by COVID.

[โ€“] n2burns@lemmy.ca 21 points 6 months ago (7 children)

I don't understand why they even needed this.

I assume the US Federal Government works like other jurisdiction where the message is passed to all the departments/agencies who then send it to their employees from someone on high (Deputy Minister/Secretary) or a dedicated internal email address.

While this may seem like duplicating work dozens or hundreds of times, it's not that much work and it's not used that often. Plus, it has the advantage of not coming from an external email address.

[โ€“] n2burns@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well that's new. Thanks!

[โ€“] n2burns@lemmy.ca 23 points 6 months ago (10 children)

Sup hasn't been released yet, so that's probably why you haven't heard of it. Dan says beta testing launches early 2025.

[โ€“] n2burns@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

What keeps you away from PeerTube?

The app not being on F-Droid. Once it's there, I'll at least try it out. Bonus if there's an Android TV app too. I'll watch stuff on PeerTube if I'm given a direct link, and I tried playing around with NewPipe but the experience feels bolted on to the rest of the app.

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