@PugJesus Alternatively, Anglo-Norman aristocrats after King John lost Normandy in 1204, and they had give up their cross-channel estates and stay in England all the time:
Merde, I guess it's time to learn some of this silly local language, but there's no way I'm eating "pig" or "ox.". Can we still call it "porc" and "boeuf" when it's on the table, au moins? 🙏
@PugJesus Also, the U.S. is already looking more like a full monarchy than the British were in 1776.
George III wasn't yet purely ceremonial like his granddaughter Victoria would be, but he was much of the way there, with an elected Parliament already wielding the real power. It was a 1782 Parliamentary vote, not a royal decree, that ended the American War.
@sab I think the concern is more about tens/hundreds of thousands of toxic bros from Threads jumping into conversations on the fedi. We'll know enough not to follow them, but they'll be able to find us.
The fedi already has every kind of hate and -phobia and -ism present, of course, but if the wrong people from Threads get involved, that could go up by an order of magnitude and push us past a tipping point where our network of volunteer moderators just can't keep up.
@sab If Threads plays by the rules, they're welcome, but if they fail to meet our moderation standards (as they likely will), we shouldn't give them any special treatment.
Also, federating with Threads might not be as big a prospect as we originally thought. Daily active users had fallen by 80% last summer when Meta stopped releasing official numbers. It could be that the numbers have improved since, but then why not make a big deal over it?
@FaeDrifter@Smatt I read Tolkein's books more in the light of his experience serving on the front in WW1. There's this terrible thing that you have to leave your cozy, safe home to do, and it damages you so much that even after "victory", you can never really go back.
@ajsadauskas@technology The one thing I don't sympathise with in that list is the taxi services — at least here in #Ottawa, they were even more exploitative than Uber or Lyft, with a small number of plate holders acting as feudal lords for the drivers, and extracting rent from their vassals even on a bad shift with few fares.
The city could have fixed that by issuing more plates, but the plate-owner lobby was too powerful.
@PugJesus Alternatively, Anglo-Norman aristocrats after King John lost Normandy in 1204, and they had give up their cross-channel estates and stay in England all the time:
#language #history #english #MiddleAges
@PugJesus Also, the U.S. is already looking more like a full monarchy than the British were in 1776.
George III wasn't yet purely ceremonial like his granddaughter Victoria would be, but he was much of the way there, with an elected Parliament already wielding the real power. It was a 1782 Parliamentary vote, not a royal decree, that ended the American War.
@sab I think the concern is more about tens/hundreds of thousands of toxic bros from Threads jumping into conversations on the fedi. We'll know enough not to follow them, but they'll be able to find us.
The fedi already has every kind of hate and -phobia and -ism present, of course, but if the wrong people from Threads get involved, that could go up by an order of magnitude and push us past a tipping point where our network of volunteer moderators just can't keep up.
#Threads #fediverse
@sab If Threads plays by the rules, they're welcome, but if they fail to meet our moderation standards (as they likely will), we shouldn't give them any special treatment.
Also, federating with Threads might not be as big a prospect as we originally thought. Daily active users had fallen by 80% last summer when Meta stopped releasing official numbers. It could be that the numbers have improved since, but then why not make a big deal over it?
@FaeDrifter @Smatt I read Tolkein's books more in the light of his experience serving on the front in WW1. There's this terrible thing that you have to leave your cozy, safe home to do, and it damages you so much that even after "victory", you can never really go back.
@ajsadauskas @technology The one thing I don't sympathise with in that list is the taxi services — at least here in #Ottawa, they were even more exploitative than Uber or Lyft, with a small number of plate holders acting as feudal lords for the drivers, and extracting rent from their vassals even on a bad shift with few fares.
The city could have fixed that by issuing more plates, but the plate-owner lobby was too powerful.