Our missile strike in Syria could have fed ~25,000 hungry children for a year.
~59 missiles @ 1mil each
$200/mo for food
= 24583 children could have food reliably for an entire year.
War is the biggest waste of our wealth we have.
@jax thank you. I needed that
Even though I don't love the news these days, I do love that I hear about things first here!
This has been the LONGEST week in history 😖
Based on Copenhagen Interpretation, I believe if we turn off the Livestream she will finally have her baby. https://octodon.social/media/FGWLdJNoI9rtGg0eieo
Freeze the nazis.
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I'm not convinced that a small-group discussion model necessarily leads to an echo chamber. With big social media the threat of mobs and brigades creates a bigger chilling effect than moderation. Meanwhile, the incentive systems baked into big media favors aggression and snark.
Conversations happen in family living rooms, church basements, and around water coolers that big social media, with its absence of empathy and compassion, just can't support.
Please do not share this image of Putin, as it's illegal in Russia. https://mastodon.cloud/media/x7W1eWGrdgpSLrIUwaA
OK, Devs: just because you CAN put a bunch of logic on one line, doesn't mean you should. You're not being "clever" you're writing unreadable, difficult to maintain code!
@thurloat Cool. Plus I like the :flag_ca: focus. I'm not a Ruby dev, but I am an expat Canadian living in the US :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
@shivian love the daily photo! I hope you're going to continue posting them. Can you include a little info about the photo? I like to learn where, when, camera info, etc. Thanks!
@thurloat what are your goals for the project?
@chr thanks for the info. One question... How do you find ppl on other instances of not through the feed TL?
@VilaWolf got a source for that image? I'd like to learn more
@dean You're not alone
cleaning up some legacy #php code with mastodon open in another window. Needless to say, not getting as much done as I'd like :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
@grainne What do the green check marks mean?
Um... Way to add columns, a' la TweetDeck or Hootsuite? Got a lot of unused screen real estate.
@Rasgueado Me too. Looks like #mastodon is written in #ruby, which is outside my comfort zone. I'm a #nodejs developer these days; I'm thinking bot development is more up my alley...
