Notices by Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io), page 26

@wrenpile It's a mannerism of Dr. Evil, a character in the Austin Powers movies. A famous line has him dramatically demanding $1 million ransom as part of an evil plan, not knowing that after a few decades of inflation (which he'd slept through in suspended animation) it no longer sounded like such an impressive amount as he intended. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l91ISfcuzDw

@tomey Okay, but then wouldn't the number of connections be zero? I'm not sure exactly what counts as a "connection" - it may be that an attempt by someone on another instance to follow a non-federating instance's user gets counted even if no data is transferred because of non-federation. If that's how it works then it could explain a non-zero but unusually small count.

@tomey note the number of connections for that instance is remarkably low for its number of users. Whether bots, astroturfers, or something else, those are clearly not accounts behaving the same way that accounts on other instances do.

latest kanji, Grade Five: 師幹復徳承 others: 帀 http://tsukurimashou.osdn.jp

Urging unhappy people to Talk is worse than useless while you continue very visibly working to change the world so that they will be ignored and punished all the more. It's no wonder that many choose not to trust you.

@ninjawedding I ended up with a craving for corn dogs for similar reasons

@clacke Yes, but the fact that it's different owners is critical - because it means that worldwide there's not only one player in each of the spaces.

new kanji for today, grade five: 属墓妻均基 others: 匀属禹莫 http://tsukurimashou.osdn.jp/

@clacke I wonder how China fits into that. Google , Facebook, and Amazon are not dominant there, I can't see them becoming so, and because of population size and increasing wealth, China isn't going away.

"X doesn't justify Y."
"You don't believe that X is true? Here, I'll prove it to you!"
"It doesn't matter whether X is true because even if true it would not justify Y."
"You're refusing to face the fact of X!"
"You're deliberately ignoring the real issue of Y!"

Every fucking time.

@xj9 @luka @frankiesaxx of course further distinctions are possible because there are really four kinds imaginable: users silencing users, users silencing instances, instances silencing users, instances silencing instances. Not all of these necessarily have identical consequences.

@frankiesaxx @luka @xj9 User level silencing certainly has become more like blocking, but I was talking about instance level silencing.

@kamonabetengoku "buy get" --> "can get"