Bets on this being directly related to back doors that US spy agencies demand be installed?

eh. if it evolves, it’s alive.

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Also, we’re surrounded by utter morons who are also disinterested in correcting or recalibrating their world views.

Yep. 15 years in the trade. I even put together some cute python code to make bar plots where the bars were in the pattern of Vanilla vines with leaves in them. I just literally do not have the time to get back into it because I’m either writing or analyzing on 5 other papers at once and I’ve got two teams of analysts on other projects that I have to provide leadership for. It’s just not something I can justify spending my free time on.

It’s important to me that my hobbies don’t become burdensome so I’m more than happy to just let it sit for a time where I have a couple free cycles to write it up and publish. Well probably just get it out as a note in a local ag journal. We took the data with the intention of building a growing degree day model for Vanilla.

Bumping this because it’s a worthwhile read. This thread is a time capsule.

Well I had the call right. We swapped out the candidate and we instantly got ten points back in the board. More even at the midpoint of the convention.

Had it been Biden EC would have gone 400 to Trump. At least that’s what his internal polling at the time of this comment had him at.

Sure I’ll go. I grow vanilla as a side project to many other things. I’ve done some controlled backyard experiments with replication between my vineyard and another in my community to look at the impact of temperature on growth rates.

We plan on publishing but I’ve got enough day job publications going at once right now that a hobby paper is something I have a hard time justifying the time for, but the data is done and collected. We just used one and paper.

planking

So how would this work if say, people were streaming over to Mastadon instead of bluesky? Like its not clear to me that even the larger fediverse instances would have the money/ access to lawyers to support something like this.

Something to spew vapid ambiguous but generally positive bullshit, I guess they found the right place, both the bots and the corporate robots found a home.

Absolutely fuck this guy.

idk, seems like an idea that should be sent out to pasture.

Raw milk now getting “Bird Flued on Date”

What I find interesting is the seeming need to replace it with something similar. Why?

Oh yeah. Why? Yeah… yeah I could never imagine leaving one toxic social media and then trying to find a similar replacement…

Slightly worse? I can actually sort and the video player actually works, instead of whatever the FUCK was going on with the other place, for literally ever.

This is great! Very cool and it worked when I tried it. Is it foss?

I just… I could never comprehend twitter (or Mastadon, or bluesky for that matter).

The whole structure of the conversation feel like people shouting into an open auditorium. And everyone is shouting at once.

I just do not see the appeal.

one of the Lemmy developers is a hardcore communist,

To be clear, they roleplay as a “hardcore communist”, whatever that is. Its not any different than how billionaire sycophants with no access to capital make statements like “I’m a capitalist” while working minimum wage jobs.

Having a high-paying software engineering job while enjoying the social safety net that a liberal social-democracy provides, does not one a communist make.

lol wut

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