The situation is that we should always link to the source, not to another aggregator. This decreases the odds of it becoming a dead link. And that’s before even dealing with the issue that people here are typically explicitly avoiding Reddit.

Then add in that the linked video is a full 3 hours of a Joe Rogan video and no time stamp was provided to tell us what we should be looking for. I’d downnvote a second time just for that if I could.

The problem isn’t me, it’s a lack of awareness on your part.

Downvoting because this is a link to Reddit instead of the original source.

/s

The World Health Organization needs to stay in their lane and deal with health issues, not building reactors.

Never make it without a ton of subsidies…

Read the room

I’m hoping that the important assets get sold to the Knowledge Fight podcast. They’d be the ones able to do the most good with them.

Except in this case, much like with Trump, His business and his person were deeply intertwined. So the account is a business asset. And as such, it is subject to being an asset of the company. Maybe he should have separated them at some point.

Egypt didn’t use slaves to build the pyramids. They used paid skilled workers. We have their living areas and pay receipts. You are working with outdated information. Cathedrals cover a 1700 year period and multiple labor strategies. I’m sure some were built with slaves but the majority weren’t and slavery was all but absent for the majority of the period unless you count serfdom, but serfs didn’t have the skills to build them so they don’t count.

Literally true.

Socrates -> Plato -> Aristotle -> Alexander

Sagan -> NDT -> ?

Fortunately we are alive to see the original and the successor. Unfortunately NDT has become a greatest hits jukebox and hasn’t produced anything new and noteworthy in a long time. I’m looking forward to the next generation. I’m definitely cautious of what the generation after that does.

A calculator for RFM

It’s not doctors that need to know. It’s the insurance companies. They wrote the policies that pay doctors based on the BMI metric. Until those policy changes happen nothing will change.

Insurance companies quietly control so much and most people don’t realize it.

Can’t wait for all the people that complained about the interview of Harris on 60 Minutes being edited to make her look less rambling to share this story.

I can’t wait because that would take forever. They probably won’t even know this ever happened. So they can’t post about it.

They aren’t holding the same policies. Not one Republican has said anything like “If Harris changes her position on X I’ll support her.” Instead they have said things along the lines of “Donald Trump is a danger to our country. I’ll vote with my enemies before I vote for this guy who has literally said the Constitution should be suspended.”

Just a reminder that almost everyone is a curry lover. It’s tasty stuff. Using it as an insult shows that one hasn’t thought about what they are saying and is de facto proof that they are an idiot.

I started a Facebook group called New Music Only. Nothing older than a fortnight is allowed. It allows others to share brand new music they haye found and it forced me to go to YouTube and start hunting for recently uploaded music so I can supply material for the group.

Are instances federated or rag-tag islands?

I’m leaving the drama typo. You made it too good to take away

Partly. Except the time different Mastodon instances were not federated much or at all. If you wanted to go follow someone on Mastodon you had to know the exact server they were on. In an environment like Reddit and Lemmy where you’re there for the communities instead of the people that isn’t an issue. But if you want to go follow some specific podcaster you need to know the instance because there’s no guarantee that whatever instance you happen upon is going to be joined up with the one there on.

Everyone was busy running their own servers and not trying to tie everything together. It was a thing that could be done but a thing not enough were doing.

I’m on Bluesky. I have seen a drama increase in followers in the last few days since Twitter let blocked people see content that were blocked from.

It’s a big blow to Twitter that people are finding someplace, anyplace , else to go.

I had to decide if I was going to Mastodon or Bluesky. I picked Bluesky because after reading Mastodon’s integration problems with itself I wanted nothing to do with it. It couldn’t scale unless each instance played nice and in the years since it went live they had refused to do that and showed no signs of even moving in that direction.