Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲

Primarily interested in #news, #politics, the #environment, #biodiversity, #climate, #science, #nature

I don't boost RT's from Twitter & I don't refer to Twitter on here as the bird site 🙄

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Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲foo@ohai.social
2023-01-08

Color-changing cars have #PublicSafety implications

cnbc.com/2023/01/08/check-out-

Imagine a #police #alert to be on the lookout for a thief/arsonist/rapist/murderer fleeing in a purple #car, then the car changes to green

It's easier to see the #color of #cars than #LicensePlates when things are #moving quickly

Should this #technology be banned specifically for #automobiles for the #PublicGood?

Seems like #capitalism pursuing the wrong goal again

#LawEnforcement #crime #criminals #transportation

Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲foo@ohai.social
2023-01-04

@georgetakei Ohh myyy

Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲foo@ohai.social
2022-12-31

Imagine if #Mastodon was like #Wikipedia and you could edit the #factual errors in someone else's post

Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲foo@ohai.social
2022-12-30

@elizkolbert this is why #federalism is BAD

Allowing #Earth's fate to be decided in myriad little localities filled w/ NIMBY's, #science deniers, #ConspiracyTheory / #Misinformation peddlers & idiots is only recipe for disaster

Don't want your view "ruined" by wind farms? Check yourself & your shallow, malignant #narcissism, you should be stripped of all #voting rights

#Democracy definitely has its limits regarding #ClimateEmergency

#Nationalize all #farm lands, #resouces are too important

Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲foo@ohai.social
2022-12-27

In the US alone, what happens to #climate haven states once the #ClimateEmergency is over & reversed, & normal climate is restored, after those states spent lots of money & effort in prep for a mass influx of #ClimateMigrants from, e.g., the desert southwest & disappearing coastal areas?

Will people just then return to, e.g., AZ from MI, saying "hey thanks for letting me crash on your couch"?

#ClimateMigration # ClimateHaven #ClimateHavens
#ClimateAction #ClimateChange

msn.com/en-us/weather/topstori

Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲foo@ohai.social
2022-12-27

#Christianity didn't reach consensus on when to celebrate birth of JC until centuries after his alleged life, so how hard would it be NOW to adjust #Christmas date to fall outside of deadly #blizzard season (in both northern & southern hemispheres), so people don't feel a need to undertake #holiday #travel when it can impede the movement of snow plows & emergency responders, w/ abandoned cars & cadavers, during driving bans no less?

#Religion #Freedumb #Cooperation #HumanEvolution #CommonSense

Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲foo@ohai.social
2022-12-27

@james #Nostradamus predicted that every #Mastodon user will eventually have their own instance

So the same toot will have 2 billion different ID strings

#winning

Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲foo@ohai.social
2022-12-27

@jaredzimmerman interesting, I just installed it, look forward to seeing how it works

If all this can actually be accomplished by a browser addon, I wonder why it can't just be done directly by Mastodon / the Fediverse themselves

Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲foo@ohai.social
2022-12-25

How long will it be before #LucidMotors, #Rivian, maybe even a post-#Musk version of #Tesla form a #merger, as now they're just another automaker competing with the likes of #GM, #Stellantis, #Toyota et al. to make & sell #electric cars, no longer being unique in that space?

We've already seen #ICE brands disappear as the #automotive industry has consolidated over the last century, so now that #EV's are no longer an exception, but becoming the regulated norm, will all the startups merge soon?

Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲 boosted:
Rod Hiltonrodhilton
2022-12-25

He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.

Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲foo@ohai.social
2022-12-24
Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲foo@ohai.social
2022-12-24

Counterintuitively, #Mastodon "advanced" UI seems to be best way to keep the "regular" THREE column layout —
why's it called TWO cols in docs?
— when zooming page to +170% AND using #Firefox sidebar

W/O using advanced mode the #responsive compose / search left col disappears, while search lacks right nav col menu entry

On 1920x1080 res laptop the default #font is tiny for ppl w/ #PoorEyesight

Wish default option was more like this screenshot or a TRUE 2-col layout @Gargron

#accessibility #UX

Screenshot of Mastodon open in Firefox, with the Firefox sidebar open, using the "advanced" layout mode of Mastodon
Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲foo@ohai.social
2022-12-24

Would be amazing if #Earth had only one #human #language & #alphabet, to eliminate any needless #barriers to clear, #frictionless #global #communication, so that w/ this problem gone, we could get on w/ everything ELSE it delays

#Culture is an artificial, #irrational construct holding #humanity back for no #benefit at times

Language is foremost for #essential, #utilitarian comms, not for validating #emotional #tribal #identity via #division

Seek #diversity in #nonessential realms instead

Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲foo@ohai.social
2022-12-24

@godpod with all due respect, were kids even #born believing in you in the first place, prior to their #parents #indoctrinating them with the #myth of you? 🤔

Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲foo@ohai.social
2022-12-24

Sometimes I notice on #Mastodon that if you #reply or #mention another account, these are not consistently hyperlinked, regardless of whether those accounts are on another instance or whether the fully-qualified account name (including instance) is used

What am I doing wrong?
@Gargron
@Mastodon
@feditips

Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲foo@ohai.social
2022-12-24

@elonjet, meet @SantaSleigh

@georgetakei

Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲foo@ohai.social
2022-12-24

@MeanwhileinCanada Ermagherd, #Socialism!! 😂 😂

Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲foo@ohai.social
2022-12-24

Funny circle:

Begin #blogging w/ #database-backed #CMS like #WordPress

Have epiphany that #blogs can be generated w/ #StaticSiteGenerator like #Zola (#Rust) / #Hugo / #Slick (#Haskell)

Realize repetitive data like #tags & hierarchical data like #categories lend selves to #rdbms

Try to find ways to improve on #SSG that can use #SQLite (for #taxonomies, posts or both) e.g. #DjangoDistill

But #JavaScript-dependent #ClientSideSearch on #StaticSites still seems lacking vs. #ServerSide #Search

Foo 🌹🌻🌊🌲 boosted:
Ed Bottedbott
2022-12-24

I would really like to quote-tweet this, adding my 2 cents and amplifying Taylor's words.

But I can't. And that's unfortunate.

Screenshot of a post by Taylor Lorenz advocating for a Mastodon equivbalent to quote tweets.

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