Notices by Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io), page 21

@lain We can, and should, combat this by using highly diverse, but truthful and consistent, content warnings.

@bilbono Yes, it's like rain on your wedding day.

@luka ...and it's not responsible to cover the network as a whole without giving a lot of prominence to the Japanese side. The three top Japanese instances *alone* are currently about 51% of Mastodon's population (a smaller percentage of the larger network) and there are many more smaller Japanese-language instances.

@luka I'm not sure I understand that question. You were looking for description of the early history of Mastodon, right? This isn't the earliest but it's an important chapter because it covers much of the network's growth.

You mention having heard about "origins in queer/trans furry #poc circles" but it appears to me that that is mostly a fairy tale - there are some interesting minorities in English-speaking Mastodon but they cannot properly be called the originators or "progenitors" of it.

@luka I hope you are prepared for the possibility that the people you're supposed to credit today are not actually the ones responsible for building it. その上、日本語は分かればいいです。

@angristan

@thor Convert to Postscript or even SVG?

@jk also bees can't fly. scientific fact.

@hakui That "if conditions are such" is a heck of a big "if." Conditions are never like that. Another assumption, this one unstated, is that supply of labour is sufficient that the employers can get as much labour as they want without affecting the prices, in both places. (Failure of this one is the issue you raise.) *IF* those assumptions are true then the conclusion does seem to follow... but they aren't. It's an argument from false premises.

@clacke Actually, I was hoping that after the rocket trip he'd announce that he had, against his own expectations, proved to himself that the world is round after all. That would have been fun to watch.

@clacke He only became a Flat Earther when his crowdfunding was failing. And then it succeeded, and he got a whole lot more publicity, with the flat-Earth thing mentioned in every headline. I am not convinced of his complete commitment to Flat Earthism, and I *am* convinced that even if he is fully committed to that belief, it wasn't really a big part of his personal motivation for building a rocket.

@noyoushutthefuckupdad What happens if you include accidents and suicides?

@beadsland There are many in Japan. I'm not sure how they do discovery - at least some make use of existing locally well-known per-city domains, like mastodon.tokyo.

@icetsvu worst VA-11 Hall A sequels

@suetanvil Like a Medieval heresy. Hundreds of years from now, historians will piece together a wildly inaccurate picture of what it was, because only the anathemas against it will have survived.