Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

I'm really not a fan of filtered posts showing in my timeline as just "Filtered".

Either they shouldn't show at all, or they should say why they were filtered and have an option I can click to reveal the post.

By telling me it's filtered, but not telling me why, it just piques my curiosity, for content that almost certainly holds nothing of interest for me.

@casastorta That's a particularly strange flavor of bigotry there... 🤨

@casastorta Sure I do. But an official language isn't worth jack squat if nobody speaks it. You need people to speak the language before making it official, not the other way around.

@casastorta For the reasons I outlined above. To be useful as a language, you need good coverage in the population, but you can't attain that coverage without utility and you don't get utility unless its a primary language somewhere you want to go.

In other words, what is a European's incentive to learn Esperanto over, say, French or Spanish?

It sure is nice of Elon to label all his worst failures with an "X" for us.

@casastorta Nothing. I was answering your question. Esperanto won't take off as a secondary language without being native somewhere.

Learning a language is a difficult, tedious process. If someone's going to learn a language, they're going to learn one with utility in mind, i.e. something they know they can use in a certain place.

There is no such place for Esperanto, so it remains in obscurity.

@casastorta Because a language needs native speakers to popularize it. Without native speakers, Esperanto will remain obscure.

@NPR Reason #5: Long-term rentals are being taken off the market so their owners can claw and scrape more money out of them as short-term rentals (i.e. airbnb).

My brother & dad got me hooked on Forensic Files as a good series to have on in the background, which is what I was doing while working today... only to recognize the location in the episode where the body was found. It was where I went to camp as a boy scout when I was younger.

Man, we could have had some *great* ghost stories if I knew the campground was a literal murder graveyard!

Took a flight test this morning, ever closer to my first solo flight. Got three safe landings in all by myself, despite a few small mistakes, so I'm pretty happy.

@maxkennerly I feel like that was always true, but now we've been properly informed of how fucked the system is.

@tzimmer_history You sure about that? The decision seemed pretty narrowly tailored to prevent compelled speech. Banning trans people from a salon is about banning people, not speech. Seems to me that the 303 precedent doesn't cover these folks at all and they are ripe for a civil rights act suit.

@feld No, not ATMs. Cash back at the register. You can request specific amounts there.

@feld I assume it's the exact same as the "Would you like cash back" prompt at gas stations when using debit cards... just operated by a clerk to do the right amount.