post your corniest joke or statement. i'll pick a winner in a few hours.

Oh, and Greg, GFY

When an overeducated person is losing an argument, they will often throw out the title of some obscure book, written by someone who did their thinking for them. It is implied (or even said) that if you haven't read that particular book, then you're too ignorant to have an opinion.

It's usually an effective way to shut people up in online forums (thus "winning" the argument), because there are so many books out there, the probability of an internet rando having read the one they picked is almost nil.

Dear Elon,

I am available this week from 5-9 PM to fix your federation-disabled Mastodon server.

I will bring my percussive maintenance tools.

In lieu of financial compensation, I would like to livestream my instrument-assisted maintenance of your datacenter.

Sincerely,

- Matt Hamilton

I don't care how awesome your reputation or your news story is. If you put the word "BREAKING" in front of a headline, you are doing propaganda, not a journalism.

News peddlers’ top priority seems to have shifted from telling the news accurately to telling the news quickly. Verification, fact-checking, and in many cases even spell- and grammar-checking take a back seat to publishing as fast as possible.

There is even an industry-standard warning label that they put right at the beginning of the headline: “BREAKING” (always in all-caps). If you see this, you know that the article is poorly researched. It almost certainly has some facts wrong, and may be entirely fake news. But at least you got it fast.

According to the fediblock search, 22 instances have blocked bemrose.social (23, if you count the one which blanket blocks *.social), and I briefly wondered why that might be.

I honestly don't think it's for that blanket catch-all category of "harassment" (one of the only reasons for censorship that has any rational arguments behind it, even if it is overly broad and far too subjective to be prescriptive). I don't recognize any of those instances, and I'm quite sure I haven't interacted with, let alone uncharacteristically attacked any of their members.

Some of the blocks give vague reasons like "misinformation" or "hate speech" or "fascism", all of which are vague catch-all categories used by the woke which all mean "I don't like what this person says". One even says "COVID misinformation" which, even if intellectually dishonest, is at least specific.

And so I must conclude that what search is actually giving me is a list of fedi instances whose admins are closed-minded ideological fools, and who happen to have noticed my nothing little instance amidst the tens of thousands out there, and whose cult teachings were sufficiently challlenged by what I had to say that they were forced to lash out and react the only way their ideologies will allow - by putting their heads in the sand and shutting out the wrongthink, so that they may feel safe in their corrupt moral superiority, as long as they pretend that contrary arguments and evidence doesn't exist.

This list is evidence that I must be closing in on the truth. I take it as a badge of honor.

Dat ass

#artstr #dinosaur #drawing

Dat ass

#artstr #dinosaur #drawing

Am I the only one that reverse-sears Broccoli?