ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

@valleyforge Never mind. I just figured out that the trending list seems to vary from server to server, and while the current tag is "deathtoamerica" on linuxrocks.online, it's something else entirely on mstdn.io, so something else is going on here...

I take it not having a trending list on Qoto was a conscious design choice. Looking at the trending now, it seems to have been a good one.

I finally announced my parting from Twitter. With the help of my mother I shall do so; in return I am helping her quit Facebook, Twitter, CNN, and the coronavirus tracker site she has determined she consults too often.

My parting shot on Twitter was posting this meme on 40 trending tweets tagged #nomasks and #wecantbreathe (I chose the ones about masks and ignored the unrelated BLM ones). I am not looking back.

@joey_zozo
@freemo
Outside of New York City, we're actually okay

@freemo You might be. People younger than 60 years are unlikely to die of COVID if they get it. They still can get really damn sick and have "lovely" after-effects like fibrosis...

On the other hand, my father has a patient with COVID who probably won't survive.

@freemo I hope you are right. My parents are medical doctors and they are not optimistic about this.

@freemo The main issue with the South is an explosion of new cases among young people. The deaths aren't expected to increase until later.

@freemo New York State overall is doing well, but that's because we reopened slowly and based on science. Other states outside of the northeast are not doing well at all at the moment, especially in the south and the west.

@freemo Interesting take.
I'd say Sweden's neighbors have handled COVID well, the US mostly badly except in some states, and Sweden horribly.

Why are about half the Swedes I talk to on the Internet convinced their government's handling COVID-19 well, despite having more deaths per million than each of Sweden's neighbors *and* the United States?!?!

@icedquinn @11112011 Of course not! 😆

In all seriousness, my family has some weird genetics, so despite having happy, fulfilling lives everyone in my family is on psychotherapeutics for something.

@11112011 Given the COVID-iots in red states and the absolute emotions running rampant everywhere, I think lacing the waters with Prozac wouldn't be the worst idea.

@joey_zozo The only one I've found is a weekly show by omegon.

Because the US military would totally go out of its way to hunt down and shoot any person who made a mean Twitter comment about them, especially one that nobody noticed written by a random, anonymous US citizen wearing bunny ears in his profile pic and quite possibly living long-term in his mother's basement. /s

This is the most paranoid take on criticising the US military I've ever seen. Does the Guinness Book of World Records take submissions for this category? If so I suspect this submission ... would not even be in the competition because there's probably a hundred dumber ones out there already.

https://twitter.com/mockferret/status/1278020984570884102

So #YouTube removed a massive animated passion project
for unspecified TOS violations. The uploader cannot appeal, and reuploading gives a TOS violation midway.
This is just a nightmare from a #Kafka novel at this point.

https://www.youtube.com/post/UgwBeG4NXOgwU0zSQdF4AaABCQ

Goatse

@roka Because that is the dumbest take on echo chambers I have ever seen. There is nothing awesome about reinforcing predetermined beliefs to the point of delusion.

@roka Are people really this foolish‽‽