As someone who would have preferred Mastodon become the more popular service, I completely agree.

Look at mastodon.social and bluesky.app without logging in. Which site seems more interesting to the general public?

Now make an account. If you don’t have a bunch of specific people you want to follow, which has the better new user experience for the general public?

Mastodon looks like it was made by nerds, for nerds, and is populated exclusively by nerds. It’s not nearly as welcoming.

How will kids be able to look up to Mike Tyson after this??

What? It’s totally normal to put your index and pinky finger on the outside of a mug handle. It’s not uncomfortable at all!

Talking about dignity when it’s a sport where adult men punching each other in the face for entertainment

I think the guy who asked for a source was asking in earnest at least. Personally, I thought that was common knowledge…but then again, maybe it’s only common knowledge if you’re old enough to remember Tyson biting off Holyfield’s ear.

Yeah it’s not flawless by any means but they have been receptive to fan “demands” and are being uncharacteristically transparent about it. Like making everything cross-faction is a huge project and they were upfront about the initial jankiness and the inevitable slow rollout. Right now the only things that haven’t been made cross-faction/realm are LFG/LFR and mail.

You can really feel that Kotick is gone and that the devs are actually excited to work on stuff. It’s very telling that so many old players who swore it off are back for TWW and loving it - including my friend who quit for FF14.

My only real gripes with the game are with the engine and I imagine they’re a lot harder to fix…but I would be smitten if shit like trees and awnings would stop blocking my camera in dungeons. And if ground effects didn’t clip into the terrain.

WoW jumped the shark 2-3 expansions ago but now that Kotick is gone, it’s been coming back. The devs are actually allowed to work on things they and the players want.

I was a hater but I actually love the current expansion and am looking forward to this. They stole skyriding from Guild Wars and we’ve been asking them to keep going - a ground mount upgrade to make it worthwhile over flying sounds awesome to me.

You’re right, no 13 year old autistic boy has ever made a serious threat! It’s always totally obvious if threatening words from a stranger should be taken seriously or not. Teachers are also always given the full background on every kid in their classroom without exceptions so they should have ignored protocol when hearing a kid say their backpack is going to blow up.

How could I forget that every single kid with malice in their heart fits the brooding edgelord mold from Columbine and that having autism totally precludes violent intentions?

Teachers DO NOT GET PAID ENOUGH for that. And even if they were paid fairly, their job isn’t to assess and handle bomb threats.

The teacher was 100% right to call the administrators. The administrators were 100% wrong to do anything more than gently educate him on his word choice.

I’ve got an idea as to why.

I went to mastodon.social and see a Linux meme, some heavy political commentary, and a bunch of posts about mastodon being better than Twitter.

I then went to bluesky.app and see some political riffing, cute animals, a comic, some jokes, a company, and even Don Lemon.

The average person checking them both out for the first time, mastodon is nerd shit and Bluesky is normal shit.

The irony is palpable lol

Machine learning is absolutely not artificial intelligence is ng the pre-existing definition of the word.

You can’t invent your own meaning for existing established terms.

Another user who thinks this is asklemmy

Where’s the deep part?

That fight is in my top 10 gaming experiences for sure

Do not leave letters in the neighbors’ mailboxes informing them that a neo Nazi lives by them. Do not elaborate on his history of violent rhetoric. Do not do anything that would make him feel like an outcast in his neighborhood.

Do not print this information along with his name, address, and photo and give it to every store, restaurant, and fast food place in a 20 mile radius. Especially avoid letting the underpaid staff know about any of this. We DO NOT want him to receive poor service wherever he goes. It would be BAD if he was scared to leave the house. It would be EVEN WORSE if his GrubHub driver crushed or shook his meal. I would HATE to hear that his address got blacklisted for delivery.

Do not go to his house in Berwyn, IL. You will not be able to find it on Google maps because it’s the only house on the block that’s blurred out.

Absolutely do not go to his house at all hours of the day and night. Do not look out for cops when you dont go to his house. Do not legally knock on his door.

And most of all, DO NOT make him feel the same fear that his words have brought to so many women.

I am saying the admins acted poorly but the teacher was justifiably scared.

The teacher, who had only known Ty for one day, called a school administrator

Every generation thinks they invented the things they appropriated

Sure but it wasn’t his autism that sparked fear

No, dad, I need to kill Raphael!

His autism didn’t spark fear…saying the school would blow up if anyone looked in his backpack sparked fear. He should not have been arrested but c’mon, if a kid I just met said that to me I’d call the front office, too.

he told his teacher he didn’t want anyone to look in his backpack […] When the teacher asked why, Ty responded, “Because the whole school will blow up,”

Arresting him was overreacting. Perceiving his words as a threat was not