It’s now “Do the right thing” (for the shareholders).

He’s a white male, so yep!

You’re right, better to ignore the problem until it’s too late to do anything.

this is good

I wouldn’t be so sure, he’s pretty far down the libertarian rabbit hole and this was just a move to ensure continued support of Trump from libertarian voters.

Not yet. Their AT protocol, similar to the Fediverse’s ActivityPub protocol, is open source and is supposedly working towards the goal of enabling federation, but presently Bluesky is centrally-hosted and run. In theory, one could use the existing AT protocol and spin up their own Bluesky alternative, but it would just make another “center” given that current lack of federation.

The optimist in me is hoping that this is just a temporary thing, to show users that the platform works before enabling federation, versus what has happened to the Fediverse early on where a lot of poorly-implemented/poorly-run instances that couldn’t handle any significant user load ended up buckling and gave early adopters a negative impression.

But the cynic in me (and the commonly-accepted conclusion others appear to have drawn) considers the possibility that Bluesky no longer cares about decentralization and would prefer to remain a centrally-hosted Twitter 2.0. But there is a push to transfer the governance of the AT protocol to a nonprofit to ensure that its original purpose is protected, so hopefully that or some other initiative like it ends up accomplishing their mission.

I mean, you were a super flamboyant Renaissance guy

Well you just described half of Italy there!

But how much do you really know about Driving Mode?

At this point, the line between business and government in the US is almost non-existent, so definitely still a government using your data for the propaganda machine.

Reminds me of the quote from The Hobbit:

“What do you mean?” he said. “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”

You can’t copy our JPEGs! That’s stealing! If you want to look at these JPEGs whenever you want, you need to register for an account and tag your favorites so we can monitor your viewing habits and sell your personality profile to advertisers and government entities!

I think it depends on intent and what one’s native language is. Basically, why would someone opt to pronounce a word a certain way if they know there’s differing standards.

No one can help accents, so if for example I was natively Spanish speaking and, while speaking English, I pronounced some Spanish-derived loanwords with the occasional rolled R, no one should be faulted for that.

But if I grew up speaking English natively, learned Spanish after the fact, and then I opt to use the Spanish pronunciation of Spanish-derived terms while speaking English, that comes across as pretentious. I used to pronounce these words one way, but then I gained knowledge, and now I self-correct because I (consciously or subconsciously) want to signal to others that I know more about a language than they do. That act of self-correcting would be an implicit declaration that there is a more correct way to pronounce these words that people who know the difference should use, and pushes back on the idea that the pronunciation of a loanword in the destination language can be equally valid.

Castilian and Catalan are two different things, I think the previous poster may have just misinterpreted the top level post which was not wrong about C being pronounced as the English TH.

I mean, I get it to an extent. I’m much more in favor of linguistic descriptivism rather than prescriptivism, so I acknowledge that terms and pronunciations can develop over time and are not wrong.

If someone pronounces “Beijing” in English with a softened J/G sound (like “beige”) and someone else corrects them with “Oh do you mean bei-JING”, truthfully neither are wrong. The correct pronunciation is whatever people understand and accept.

On the other hand, suggesting that there is a single correct/more authentic pronunciation (particularly in cases where it may not even conform to standard English phonemes) veers into prescriptivism and has problematic connotations.

Castilian Spanish is the dominant dialect of Spanish in Spain.

Edit: A helpful map:

He sent dick pics to an underaged girl, held a charity drive and used the proceeds to buy himself a fancier drawing tablet, and he treats his fans like garbage.

Not to mention Loss, which is now a meme of its own, because what better way to express the severity of a situation as traumatic as miscarriage than through a silly webcomic?

Fuck Tim Buckley.

Indoctrinated parents indoctrinate kids.

See also: religion.

Switching away from Chrome is something that is always worth repeating, but just FYI this happened last September and isn’t “new”. If you’re on Chrome and are only just now realizing this, it’s been your reality for the last 5 months.