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This is the most sensible take I've heard re: the gas stove thing tl, dr: Reactionaries acting like jackboots are going to come rip a stove out of your wall are dumb as hell, gas stoves probably are bad for your health to some degree. It's almost certainly not so bad that it's worth replacing a gas stove in good working order, but induction will get cheaper over time and induction is better than gas and way better than old coil electric, which is what most people are imagining when they have a conniption about this.

Ah geez Rick, ah man, ah geez

Methinks there's gonna be a new addition to the roster

There was a special election for a VA state senate seat today and it looks like Dems have flipped it

Maybe he meant 1.000%

I never had reason to watch any of this before today, and I didn't realize how much purely symbolic stuff they do after everybody is sworn in. They pass a resolution to agree to let the president know that a speaker got chosen.

So I'm still not totally sure what just happened. I haven't really been following this today until this vote. There was a lot of applause when Gaetz voted Present, and then we got... that whole thing when McCarthy came over after the vote ended. Did they not realize that the math still wasn't enough for a majority at first?

McCarthy is talking to Gaetz now and Gaetz is doing a lot of vigorous pointing. ????

This whole bit where people applaud raucously every time one of the nominees for speakers gets up to vote for themselves is deeply silly

I had no idea who this dude was until yesterday

I'm seeing videos on Twitter of people standing in big lines in Russia, purporting to show that there's a run on Russian banks happening right now. Is there anything to this?

Pretty grim! US life expectancy falls to lowest levels since 1996 due to COVID, drug overdoses: CDC - ABC News ABCNEWS.GO.COM Two new CDC studies published Thursday found life expectancy fell to 76.4 years in 2021, the lowest recorded since 1996 -- mostly due to COVID and drug overdose deaths.

Also, they just added total number of views to the stats at the bottom of tweets, I'm assuming as some kind of half-baked attempt to convince advertisers that they're not losing engagement, and they put first in the row, so the reply button is now shifted over from where it was. If you click where you're used to clicking you get a pop up that just says "Views: Times this tweet was seen." Another triumph for Elon.

With today's losses, Tesla has had a worse return than Bitcoin year-to-date Kai Ryssdal: "RT @julianfeeld Holy shit he did it, he managed t…" - Mastodon MASTODON.SOCIAL Attached: 2 images RT @julianfeeld Holy shit he did it, he managed to make Tesla lose more value than Bitcoin this year, -68.66% versus -64.78%

Tesla will currently sell you a preorder for a truck that doesn't exist yet and take $10k from you for a self-driving feature that doesn't work yet. This dude is not going to have qualms about charging an $11 subscription to people before all the features are rolled out.

The ban on cross-promoted other sites has been completely scrubbed of the site now. This man simply does not have the Mod mentality. Folds like a house of cards at the slightest pushback.

Just imagine the immense privilege it represents to be able to take a private jet halfway across the earth to attend one of the best sporting events in recent memory, and instead of just taking in moment you spend the entire rest of the night accelerating the utter collapse of the website that you spent $44 billion on.

There's some more in the pipeline from the sound of it, but right now the two big ones people are migrating to are Post and Mastodon. I don't know as much about Post. It's in kind of a closed beta right now and you need to get on a wait-list to join. Mastodon you can just sign up right away. The look and feel of Mastodon is very similar to Twitter, but what's turning some people off is they have this weird philosophy where they seem to want to try and be Discord and Twitter at the same time. Basically you don't just sign up for Mastodon, you pick one of a bunch of different decentralized servers. Some are very general--like you can just sign up for mastodon.social which is the closest thing to a "main" Mastodon site, but you can also pick a specialized one based around a certain topic. You can still follow people from different servers and view everyone's posts in a single timeline, but there's basically one annoying extra step in following someone on a different server unless you download some browser extensions.

Man, you wanna talk about Streisand Effect. If I Google "mastodon" now, the four subpage links I get underneath the main link are, Sign In About Sign Up Elon Musk's Jet @elonjet

The play by play guy used the term "NFL obligations" when they switched over to FS1, which leads me to believe that they would've had to switch even if they were in the middle of PKs, which would have been wild

This is me on Mastodon if anybody cares to follow me. Haven't actually really posted anything yet. Doctor Acula (@DoctorAculaRF@mastodon.social) - Mastodon MASTODON.SOCIAL 2 Posts, 14 Following, 2 Followers ·

Elon's new idea tonight is that Twitter Blue subscribers get to downvote people.

It's basically the same as Twitter with one annoying extra step, which is that if you want to follow someone on a different network you have to go back to your own page and put their name in the search bar instead of just clicking follow.

Jesus, I forgot about that