I’m a little bit of that type of stoner, I just try not to be a cruel asshole who’s wrong about everything all the time.

None of the really bad ones, I’d say.

It’s just the Democratic presidents. No W, Bush I, etc.

Yep. “He just makes sense to me” or something similar is what he said. Hilarious.

“He’s the only one who makes sense to me”

Ahahaha! Oh wait, you’re serious, let me laugh even harder.

The first time I heard an aviation ceo spruiking this BS on NPR it was so clear that it was a complete lie. There was no serious attempt by a scientist to quantity emission reductions, just a lot of feel good marketing nonsense.

SAFs are just a cynical ploy by an industry that remains a climate disaster.

Ah, dang. Yeah I was there before 2013 and it was so noticably delicious. The friend I was visiting said it was the first thing her mother had said when visiting as well, how good the tap water was.

Bummer to hear that’s changed!

TBH, I just don’t think something better is possible - I suspect that there are no valid shortcuts to trust.

Unless something is just obviously bullshit, it will always take some time to develop a sense of how the different sources are treating a new story. Even a trusted source can prove unreliable on a particular topic.

It’s uncomfortable living with that uncertainty until you’ve seen a story from enough angles that you can judge for yourself. But either the story is important enough to me to spend that time, or I just accept that I can’t really know.

The tap water in Canberra, Australia is the tastiest I’ve tried out of the ~20-50 municipalities I’ve sampled in Australia, Western and Southern Europe, the US, China, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Also the US is not a third world nation, it’s a developing nation. Or under-developed would be more accurate, but that’s not a popular term. The US is a first world nation by definition, since first world just means the US global empire and it’s allies.

I don’t think they need to make the enforcement of rules ultimately arbitrary to prevent explosives. You already can’t bring explosives. The molecules involved are not relevant.

Ah yes, the “rules only apply when I say they do” rule. Much legitimate.

Just block it and move on already. Your disagreement is hardly worth this crusade.

That’s not sufficient.

A private trust assessing company shouldn’t be given free space in an open public forum as though it’s assessments we’re something the general public should be aware of. If you trust it you can go seek it’s assessment off site. But this company shouldn’t be allowed to spam the fediverse of all places.

I downvoted then blocked it because:

• I don’t trust its specific analysis of sites. Others detail some examples.

• I don’t think whole-site analysis is very useful in combatting misinformation. The reliability and fullness of facts presented by any single site varies a lot depending on the topic or type of story.

• Other than identifying blatant disinformation sites I don’t see what useful information it provides. But even that’s rare here and rarely needs a bot to spot.

• Why is an open-source, de-centralized platform giving free space to a private company?

• Giving permission for a private trust-assesing company to be operating in an open public forum makes it look as if these assessments reflect a neutral reality that most or all readers would agree on or want to be aware of. It’s a service that people can seek out of they decide they trust it.

Presenting this company’s assessment on each or most articles gives them undue authority that is especially inappropriate on the fediverse.

They’re the only kind.

One of the reasons Hitler was never assassinated was that the allies wanted him alive so he could continue making terrible, self-defeating decisions.

Appreciated!

We can all tell that he’s in cognitive decline. If experts speculating on the cause based on limited evidence hurts trump’s electoral chances and helps to protect our democracy for another few years I’d call it responsible.

Anyone else getting webpage not available?

More like hurricane Charlie.

It would be so sweet to see Peter Thiel before a firing squad with his assets seized and nationalized by the same brutal and incompetent hate-machine that he helped birth. I wonder if his last request would be one last hit from his blood boy.

It would be sweeter still if none of that comes to pass, of course.

I could definitely believe that he’s wearing platforms and a girdle, and that those contribute most to his weird posture.

But I don’t think you can listen to him speak without realizing he’s in cognitive decline. He’s noticably less coherent than he was in previous campaigns.