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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • The ringleader, the guy who planned the whole thing, who planned to overthrow the government and assassinate members of congress. He got 18 years in prison. If you think that’s egregious then there’s something wrong with you. Frankly that’s not long enough. People died that day. They wanted to kill others. And you think that most people getting a couple months is too much?








  • If it is it’s close. Anything over 26,000 lbs is automatically CDL which this looks close to.

    Further anything over 9ft wide or 13’6” tall is automatically an oversized load. Oversized load drivers are required to have a permit for every trip and the requirements to get hired to get those permits are pretty high. No history of drug or alcohol addiction (even if recovered) 20/40 vision with a 70° field of view in both eyes. As well as being experienced in driving for several years at least already. The weight is iffy. But this looks pretty wide. I’m fairly certain either the height or weight puts this into oversized load territory.



  • I don’t feel like this is a 1-1 comparison with the XMPP issue.

    With XMPP users joined servers and then Google started working with the protocol allowing those users contact books to increase by hundreds overnight. Then when Google dropped, many people built work connections through those chats and still wanted to talk so they migrated to Google as it was the simpler platform.

    But fediverse isn’t about talking to individuals for the most part. Mastadon gets the closest, but even then it’s about following updates and quickly getting ideas out to large groups, not the 1-1 communication of a chat. Fediverse is mostly about talking in communities. When threads defederates after getting a bunch of users, those users will lose entire communities instead of just a couple individuals that can switch platforms. And asking a community of hundreds to move to your preferred social isn’t how it works. People go towards communities, not companies. When threads defederates (which will happen) they will lose members, many communities will drop in membership, but I think the fediverse will be in the same spot after that it would be in if threads never existed. Not the same as today. But if we ignore threads and try to project the growth out 5 years. That’s where I think we’ll be if threads defederates in 5 years.