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In what way do you have to 'go out of your way' to interact with ml or hex?

Are... they not federated with your instance?

If yes, they're not federated, then you did that to yourself, by joining an instance that doesn't show their posts and communities to you.

If no, they are federated... then just sort set your feed from local to global, and you'll see their posts in their communities pop up.

... The entire point of the federation model is to allow each user to determine ... basically how much of a bubble they want to be in.

You may determine a whole instance is full of nutcases in a bubble, and avoid them... or you may not think that, and retain the ability to interact with them.

Generally speaking... you can pretty much join whatever instance you want, and in so doing, you are accepting the instances that are federated with your own instance, and rejecting the instances your instance admins have defederated from.

You realize that is a textbook 'whataboutism', right?

When the news about that came out, around a decade ago now, I deleted my Facebook profile and tried to tell all my friends/family using FB that ... this is pure fucking evil and they should also get off FB.

They all gaslit me, pretended that news wasn't real, and acted like I was a paranoid delusional maniac.

Nowadays we have basically the same kind of conclusions regarding TikTok and other platforms that focus on short form video content... well, actually even worse conclusions... and they come from actual peer reviewed scientific journals...

But you'll still get people saying 'brainrot isn't real'... when uh, yes thats a clumsy term, but it is basically confirmed at this point that TikTok is as addictive as a drug, ruins your motivation and attention span, fills your with mis and disinformatiin, ruins and warps your self image and self esteem, promotes wildly irresponsible and often illegal financial mindsets/strategies... etc etc...

Above post has good info, and also, apologies for broken alpha layer, I'm literally using a... now 3 year old phone I bought at a gas station.

... I have not had problems with the achievements themselves registering, but dear holy god would that be frustrating.

I mean like... guides for them exist now, but holy shit when those first appeared... and/or if you didn't use guides or have the internet... very time consuming to figure out how to do.

o7 to your dedication!

Yay, validation lol!

Oh sure, here, buy our aircraft carriers and aircraft that even we can barely understand our own logistics and and maintenance supply lines and procedures for, that will all nearly mmediately break if they stop getting software updates.

Like, I hear you lol, but its kinda like saying 'sell your literally custom made hyper car that will depreiciate by 80% in value and the parts manufacturer will go out of business when you buy the car.'

I am saying you'd have to be an idiot at this point to buy one, we wouldn't be able to sell them at this point.

Now I am all for downsizing the military in general, have been for basically all my life since middle school... but uh yeah, that would look more like decommissioning and downsizing.

But uh also also, the military industrial complex are basically the only domestic manufacturing jobs we really have, aside of our shitty overpriced domestically assembled but internationally owned and sourced consumer cars... and the Trumpublican party is, you know, in charge, what with the fascist coup and all that.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fear-and-greed-index.asp

The Fear & Greed Index is not just some bullshit chart, with arbitrary values, it is an index of 7 different indicators, all based on real data, all indexed together, that is to say, blended by a another formula that determines how much weight to give to each of the 7 constituent indicators.

It is presented as a speedometer... because 95% of people's eyes glaze over when they see complicated but very technically information dense graphs and graphics.

I have a decade of work experience in data analysis and reporting, making things like quarterly and annual reports for a department or entire corp or non profit, making realtime views that update based on realtime or regularly reported data...

You have to dumb things down and simplify things ... and often present data in a narrative structure, as a story, even for C Suite, upper management, the Board... because they almost always have a very low attention span.

I cannot tell you the number of times a younger, brighter eyed, bushier tailed me was... fairly politely and earnestly told by VPs or Board members that... its clear that I have a broad and deep understanding of statistics and data... but you've got to dumb these reports down to the point someone with a hangover can understand the most important information in 30 seconds.

Only other data nerds, stats nerds and accounting tend to possess the actual ability to read more complex charts without their eyes glazing over.

This speedometer presentation by CNN is pretty much the same logic used in good UI or video game design:

If some complex measurement is important and should be easily understood by the user at a glance, present that info in a simplified way that makes use of a visual metaphor or motif is rooted in something most people would have tangible experience with.

They are presenting this for the average American reader.

The average American has the literacy level of a 5th or 6th grader.

Also, it would be innacurate to describe this index as just measuring volatility.

Volatility is a component of the measurement, but there are many other components as well.... that is what an indexed metric is, a single overall 'score' produced by combining a bunch of indicators according to a set formula for how to do that.

Yeeeeuuup.

This is certainly going to improve the prospects of assembled in US cars getting exported...

Oh well, fuck it all I guess, burn it all down.

I'm sure Elon will try suing the EU to force them to buy his cars next.

That is how the free market works: When people don't wanna buy what you are selling, threaten to sue them for not volunarily agreeing to purchase your service or product.

Aha, good on you =D

... Have you gotten all the unique radio transmissions?

You should play Portal next, see if you can find the cake.

accidentally drops my latkes on the floor

Wait, what ever could you mean?