@matigo As I posted on the birdsite and on Mastodon, Spicer should be forced to crawl on his hands and knees from one end of Auschwitz to the other until he repents.
Those shower heads in the "delousing" chambers weren't emitting water.
What an ignorant, morally bankrupt, servile, opportunistic, disgusting, pathetic little man.
(Edited to add more opprobrium)
@b123400 Congratulations to both of you! I'm just getting back into Duolingo after some time, which means I have to re-cover some previously covered material.
// @literary
@33mhz It's important…to an extent. That's why I blog on my own domain and pay for hosting. Silly crap that I post when I'm joking around on social media just doesn't matter that much to me. YMMV.
Meanwhile, each of my social networks--Pnut, 10C, Mastodon, and Twitter--serves a unique purpose for me. I'm not looking for the One True Network anymore.
@gtwilson I'm rather fond of inane chatter and car pics, as it turns out. :-)
// @33mhz
@33mhz Not at all. If someone on Twitter liked your tweet and took a screenshot, that still exists. And can be replicated. Or maybe it was crawled by archive.org before you deleted it. Or maybe someone reposted it, and it got crossposted to their Facebook page, or they used one of those services that creates an RSS feed from Twitter and it's now in someone's newsreader.
Meanwhile, on Mastodon, I can delete a post. Whether it's been propagated elsewhere is basically the same situation as with the tweet in the example--it lives on beyond my control. I can't be bothered to worry about that.
We can talk all day about how the world should be, and maybe someone somewhere is working on a way to change it, but for now, it's the world we live in, and I make my choices based on that.
@33mhz As a practical matter, once you post or upload something to the Internet, it can be endlessly replicated, downloaded, copied, and screenshotted. Yes, you own it legally, and can pursue action against illegal copying, but in the real world that's limited by your ability to pay the lawyers. It's an imperfect world we live in.
Yes, I can control my own copy, and I do back up my stuff where possible, but that doesn't mean I have any control over what someone else has done with pirated material.
As for the question about whether we all illegally torrent content, that's silly and insulting and hyperbolic. Just because I assert that as a practical matter, I can't control what happens to things I put on the Web, it does not logically follow that I steal/copy/borrow/liberate other people's stuff.
As always, your mileage may vary.
// @phoneboy @sumudu @indigo @hybotics
