That’s an awkwardly worded title…

Isn’t that pretty much all of their behaviour?

It seems like evidence that at least trump is not an outright russian asset though, right? He’s just an idiot (and they probably have some dirt on him)

It’s a feature, not a bug.

Last comment is gold. Neeeeeeaaaarly there…

Out of interest, were US Panamanians (?) Part of the more general Latin swing toward trump?

Not trying to say it’s good, but I do wonder how those people are feeling/thinking now.

Australia.

I would argue that global wages and conditions should be better, in which case Aus (and even more so the US) could more easily compete.

Maybe we should do a bit more of our own manufacturing anyway. Globalised supply chains are a fucking stupid idea, considering climate change.

True! Thanks for the learning opportunity :)

Ah, that explains it, thanks! It’s a cool looking script!

Hrm, I guess… But it’s the 23rd most spoken language globally… Nearly 90 million speakers, and I don’t think I’ve even seen the alphabet until now. I feel like I’ve seen lots of posts from less populous languages…

How TF is this the first time I’ve ever seen a Tagalog post on the internet? And also why is there no good translator?

No amount of protectionism will ever dent our dominance of the spider market.

Because scientists are normal people, and probably a higher proportion of them than normal are tech nerds.

People don’t have only one interest. The board members of fediscience.org are biosystems scientists and forensic linguists.

Right, but why would a scientist set up a mastodon server within their work place? If I were to do it (and I did set up a diaspora instance back in the day), it would be off my own bat, not on work machines.

If I wanted my workplace to do it, that would be a different story, and I’d argue for it to be done by the IT team…

My question was about the “scientists are not allowed to” part. I’ve never heard to such restrictions, and been in the field for more than a decade.

It’s a problem for the same reason twitter dying sucks… The network effect is important, and maintaining yours during a slow, piecemeal mass migration is hard. Which is why I’m sticking with mastodon now, despite more of my relevant network being on BS.

It’s important because, along with the ability to migrate accounts, it prevents/deters enshittification. In betting Bluesky will hit that wall in the next few years (I’m guessing they’ll never properly implement federation).

It’s not that it’s less annoying, it’s that it was in the right place at the right time to capture sufficient network effect…