@inthehands @GottaLaff gonna have to invoke Poe's Law on this one

@mekkaokereke didn't Amazon try this - and immediately shut it down for the same reason - like a decade ago?

@jenniferplusplus @wakame

Yeah, I totally get the idea of "let's create a framework that lets people create their own ontologies and share information using them". Unfortunately, by being totally unopinionated about any of those ontologies you create a situation in which you have not actually created a standard, but rather a platform on which competing, subtly- (or grossly-) incompatible standards can fight, forever.

On one hand, having a cartel of two or three megacorps handling all retail in the US is bad.

On the other hand, replacing a bunch of people driving to Wal-Mart in their gas-guzzling SUVs with a handful of electric delivery vans is kinda good.

Chevy’s BrightDrop electric vans will be in Walmart’s fleet by the end of the year

Walmart is rolling out its first Chevy Brightdrop 400 vehicles into its in-home delivery fleet after piloting the electric delivery vans.

The Verge (www.theverge.com)

@jenniferplusplus actually, cleaning up AP sounds like kind of a fun* project

* in a certain masochistic sense, anyway

It's me.

Hi.

I'm the solution, it's me.

When I described the meme I intended to create, my wife pointed out that my code still generates the boilerplate, but deterministically, in the compiler.

Which I am 100% okay with.

Posted without comment.

This isn't at all concerning:

WordPress demands conf organizers share social media logins

One told to take down posts that said nice things about WP Engine

(www.theregister.com)

@jsit for various reasons, no, I can't

(don't assume what people can or can't do)

Dropped my last hundo in Harris's jar for the election. Voted last week; nothing to do now but pray.

@Raccoon it will be a gut check for the country

@Raccoon no shit; I voted for harris and gave her a bunch of money.

but scared people vote for fascists, and the right and the media have done a very good job of scaring people

at this point I'm not sure the country is governable, at least until and unless trumpism is burned completely out of our political process

I do not see an outcome in which there is no political violence.

I give the USA about a 50/50 chance of still existing in its current form in ten years.

20% trump wins outright (unrest ensues)

15% a GOP-controlled state legislature throws EVs to trump regardless of popular vote (constitutional crisis ensues)

25% vote counting is slow; Trump declares victory; there is widespread unrest (constitutional crisis ensues)

20% harris wins outright; trump declares victory anyway; several states publicly recognize him as president (constitutional crisis ensues)

20% same as above but no states recognize him (unrest ensues)

@mcc I tried looking up the man pages for that command and I swear none of those words were in the Bible

I honestly *still* don't understand what it does.

@mcc could a client implement this on its own?

Oh thank the gods

https://apnews.com/article/texas-execution-shaken-baby-syndrome-1ef99c052cc1630785ac5d6e2edfc9cb

@skinnylatte and this is after everyone admitted that shoplifting wasn't actually that bad and numbers that show that it actually costs them money to put stuff in jail

Look, I love the fediverse but I am realistic in that for the forseeable future it will 100% be the Linux of social networks, with everything that implies.

And the reason I am here and not on bsky or threads is not because I think it's somehow better or more virtuous (in many ways, it's worse!) or because I think this place is any less likely to collapse or turn to shit than any other social network I've ever been on.

It's because all the other platforms are really bad for my mental health ‍️