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Almost all coal plants in Alberta have been shut down and it's a small minority of net generation now. Natural gas has taken up most of the slack, but there's actually quite a lot …

17.577 million hectares have burned so far this year. If 2023 were on that graph it would be a skyscraper towering over every big fire year in the 80s and 90s. This year is unprece…

I think that's true, though I also think the fediverse (but not necessarily Mastodon specifically) will outlive threads. But I think the really big question will be: in 3-6 months …

The Mastodon corner of the fediverse is also ridiculously more well run and diverse than xmpp outside the big players ever was. Like, when threads joins it's far far more likely to…

Threads has 100m total users (that number is based on userid badges on Instagram afaik). The fediverse has somewhere around 10-13m total users, about 8-10m of those are on the main…

I'm sure all the script kiddies who loved to take over channels in netsplits are gonna be disappointed that they never actually did that now. More seriously, this is the second tim…

> And perhaps you need to reverse your thinking and realize that huge success without hard work work, intelligence is very unlikely even if some luck is also involved. I said none …

> buying only like 10 tickets in their whole life Did he reset his wealth, connections, etc. between each of those 'tickets'? No. Each one was built off the previous success. Witho…

Winning the lottery once increases your ability to win it in the future because you can (if you want) buy more tickets. Success creates conditions for more success in pretty mundan…

If someone wins the lottery, does that mean "they're a genius at picking numbers?" How many people with musk's starting wealth have started businesses? Do you think every single on…

Go check out Mixer and Facebook's game streaming if you want to see how well buying influencers onto your platform works. It doesn't. No one's ever made it work. You need users and…

In Canada Disney+ is where most of the stuff on Hulu or FX eventually ends up, among some other things, and at this point I think it's actually probably the streaming service with …

I wouldn't be surprised to see that come into existence now honestly.

This is also my perception. There's a cynicism that permeates this industry about what people are capable of understanding or using if given a little time and some motivation, to t…

You can just put that full name in the search bar on your own instance and follow them from it. You don't have to go to their instance at all. I mean, I'm not saying that mastodon …

The topic is playing games "legally." I think you can assume people who are talking about that are aware of the concept of getting them "illegally" as well.

Yeah and for Nike I think that'd be true here too. But for, say, Wired? Probably more active/useful. That's the biggest corporate comms use of Twitter anyways, outside "Twitter as …

The fixed selection of games on them means that if your goal is to play the games legally, the cost is either very reasonable or effectively infinity, depending on what you want to…

I really don't know what in my post made you feel like I was giving the GP any credit at all. This is a weirdly combative reply for a vehement agreement?

Companies wouldn't have open registration. They'd run it like any other corporate resource, integrated into their ldap/ad/sso solution and with a corporate policy for what their em…

> having my data "read" by a non-sentient advertising model, while irritating, is nowhere near the same as having it read by a human being. that is a false equivalence. I agree the…

I believe there have been studies where they've transplanted hair from and to different parts of the body and found that they largely continue to grow the way they did at their ori…

Go look at that PR and read the details and ask yourself who you have to trust with a list of device keys you're encrypting your dm for. You might be surprised to discover that you…

Eh, if you don't trust your masto instance admin to not read your DMs do you really trust them to not break the "your password never leaves the client" guarantees that protonmail f…