Doâ(TM)s effing flightless birds

I was following you on Twitter and then I jumped ship when Trump was allowed back on and moved over to Mastodon.social. I'm still trying to figure out what to do there as "my people" have not moved over there and I've been finding it hard to find like-minded people. My main approach has been looking at the global feed and trying to see if there is anything of interest. It's a SLOW process. Occasionally (once a month or so) there is a single post of interest and someone I can follow.

I've also tried searching hashtags, but most of my interests come up empty, so I haven't gotten much out of that either. The other approach has been to look at who my follows follow. I keep hoping that the Fediverse takes off and some of the bigger names come over. (Thankfully George Takei is someone who did) Still, I have to say, having Twitter off my rotation has been instructive in how it feels to remove the pressure to post from a social media platform. Which brings me to the last point... So far, the things I've posted on my on Mastodon.social have not garnered any responses. I think I just don't have any visibility. I'm a whimper in the sea of toots, so people who would find my toots interesting don't see me.

Anyway... I get you and understand your reasoning. I wish you the best and will continue to look for your toots as time allows. I miss the old days. But every social media platform I've been on since 1988 has always gone the same route: fun --> noisy --> commercial --> spammy --> leadership change to less competent leaders --> implosion --> gone. Maybe the Fediverse will move to the fun stage in the next few years.

I don't know about the other items in your list, but in Bernie Sanders' Medicare For All plan, the Medicare expansion was never promised to be free. There was going to be a 4% payroll tax increase to pay for it.

Thanks for the link.

> The overwhelming majority of reporters and press outlets are Democrats, and they are the
> party's propaganda wing. [...] This basically means political coverage at a majority of
> news outlets is directly run by the DNC.

While this may or may not be true (I haven't checked), actual viewers - which is all that really matters - is very different. Fox news viewership is much higher than CNN and MSNBC. Believe it or not, it's actually almost as much as CNN and MSNBC combined.

Fox: 3,978,000
CNN: 2,510,000
MSNBC: 2,266,000

Source: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.statista.com%2Fstati...

The guy wasn't complaining about yards vs metres, he was complaining about using things that aren't actually units of measure, like "football fields" and "any building on the mainland of Western Europe."

Got it, thank you

> Seriously now, you can't make comparisons with a dissimile. Leave that to Douglas Adams.

What's an example of Douglas Adams making a comparison with a dissimile? I have read those books so long ago I can't remember what you are describing.

Is there anything special about 30 percent, or is that just the next milestone?

> My mental well being is more important to me than covering for an incompentent project management team, thank you very much.

I'm not sure how what I said relates to you personally. My point was that with very few exceptions, software is pretty much always late, and always behind schedule. And if it's on time, it typically happens by dropping features/functionality (which you refer to as adjusting scope). And this is including at the giant corporations with unlimited budgets and the means to hire the best talent.

All software development is like this. From operating systems to games.

Well this is annoying, I actually like CentOS. I have been using RedHat since the 90s, and I know where everything is. What do people recommend as an alternative for production servers?

Hello fellow six digit slashdotter

Why was it a waste of money?

I was pretty young when Reagan was around, can you give some examples?