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lowqualityfacts, 1 year ago to random

Conservative parents are like "Yes my child is totally straight, I just need to shield their sensitive eyes from any books and/or rainbows because I know for a fact that will immediately turn them gay. The kid is straight as an arrow though."

feditips, 1 year ago to random

Some accounts use a "BOT" label. This doesn't mean anything bad, it just means the account is posting in an automated way.

Lots of bots are useful or entertaining. For example the bot @VoteChess runs chess games where people vote on the next move. You can find more useful bots listed by @FediFollows at https://fedi.directory/tag/bots/

If you run a bot account, here's how to label it:

1. Log in through your server's website
2. Click "Edit profile"
3. Tick "This is a bot account"
4. Click "Save changes"

Sheril, 1 year ago to space

Our sun is big. It’s 864,000 miles or 1,392,000 km in diameter. Or 109x wider than Earth. But it’s also an average sized star.

Some stars are much bigger.

Betelgeuse, in the constellation Orion, is a red supergiant star ~700x the size of the sun.

If we replaced our sun with Betelgeuse, it would stretch past Jupiter's orbit. https://universe.nasa.gov/news/237/what-is-betelgeuse-inside-the-strange-volatile-star/ #space #science

jeffjarvis, 1 year ago to random

Now maybe the WSJ can do a fancy feature on where a Black woman is sent to prison for, say, voting.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-prison-where-elizabeth-holmes-could-serve-her-sentence-a4e27ca?mod=hp_lead_pos8

esther, 1 year ago to random

How to make sure you don't get enough sleep:

Create a sci-fi universe with a somewhat reasonable explanation of FTL travel and then obsess about the details.

lowqualityfacts, 1 year ago to random

"You do not have to like the fires we started, but you can't say that we didn't put them out," the fire chief tells the townsfolk, many of whom are angry about the arson. "We set stuff on fire again and again and put them all out. Put a LOT of fires out. And that is our job."

forschungstorte, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

Hot Take: We are past the point where dystopian stories of terrible futures are a sufficient warning to prevent those things.

We need clear cut, productive ideas and positive imagination.

Everything else is imagination freezing misery porn.

#RefuseDystopia

Richard_Littler, 1 year ago to actuallyautistic

As an autistic person who doesn't particularly like conversing with people (or, rather, I don't really know how to comfortably interact with people), I don't particularly welcome AI chatbots/search engines that mimic human conversation. When they design the functionality of these AI chatbots, has anyone taken neurodivergent people/brains into consideration, or are they designed to mimic neurotypical interactions? I'm thinking long-term.
@actuallyautistic

PaulMurphy, 1 year ago to random

Working on a 4x game and I can never remember if that last “x” stands for “exsanguinate” or “exfoliate.”
#GameDesign #VideoGames

lowqualityfacts, 1 year ago to random

Trying to find people I relate to on Mastodon. Please boost if you:

-don't believe in palindromes.

-once saw a psychic who told you that you will die in a tragic mini golf accident.

-think that cops should give you one chance to rock, paper, scissors your way out of a speeding ticket.

-microdose bananas to keep your potassium levels stable.

-constantly say sorry whenever you're walking just in case you bump into a ghost.