Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@social.cleverlibre.org

@JohnShirley2023 Every company should advertise their ratio of spending and staffing on trying to attract customers vs trying to keep them happy.

Right now 1000:1 seems pretty typical. And I'm not even being cynical or hyperbolic there.

@incitatus @LauraKT "it did happen but it was a one-off" is "legally contextualised"?

@SteelFolk @freemo Morbier is cheese that tried igniting its farts and burned its house down.

@crowguy Let's just call it The Kushner Effect

@tomlevenson It's only a problem if they can't get your attention after that except for that one time when you stroll by and sling a perfunctory "how we doin' over here?" their way.

A sleeping computer should discard the keystroke that woke it up:

@freemo Yeah, it's hobson's choice, really: join an instance that doesn't block, and be blocked, or join one that does and have your decisions made for you invisibly. The former is the only tolerable choice and this seems the only significant instance that does the right thing: moderate the utterly indefensible but otherwise treat your users like rational adults.

@freemo Yeah, as to that last I did suppose that any list would have a heavy preponderance of tiny instances. (I'm always reminded of what someone once said about jabber: "the ratio of server operators to users is nearly 1:1") Still a list of non-trivial, non-crazy instances would be useful; it's be nice to know if there are large, nonswampy continents of users whom I won't see or vice-versa.

@freemo In the thread you mention a number, around 160, of instances blocking qoto. I'm curious how such a list is obtained; are you doing it the hard way, finding out by various means and adding to it by hand?

@ottocrat @kentindell
I'd expect the pieces to be carved from of the same stone as the original.

@Popehat The look you get at Walgreens when all you're buying is a 5L box of Franzia and a 12-pack of condoms

@djw @elizabethward That would be the current head of the BBC who was appointed by the PM shortly after helping to arrange a £800K loan to that same PM?

There needs to be a village called Riddles which has a hall you can book for speaking engagements; so whenever anyone says to me "you speak in riddles", I can reply, yes, next week; free admission!

@tomlevenson There's al dente and then there's cemente dente, where it's so underdone it fuses your molars together and you can't get your jaw open

Any suggestions for solid, thoughtful #Ukraine #UkraineWar news follows that aren't just bots automatically tooting everything in a particular feed?

@SwiftOnSecurity Response codes are all about the intensity.

@ceoln I'm just sad that she doesn't get more credit for that line. I mean these days that's half of what passes for human civilization summed up right there.

Okay, call me a troll, but I think a perfectly acceptable reason for pretty much anything on social media was provided by Kathleen Turner's character in the Steve Martin film "The Man With Two Brains":

"I like to watch the veins BULGE in your forehead."

I mean really, what better reason is there?