| valorie | good grief the matrix is disturbed today | 00:06 |
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| ahoneybun | wxl: you have access to the mastodon right? | 19:33 |
| wxl | ahoneybun: yes, but as i said, i have no way of getting notifications except by logging in and i'm not going to be logged in all the time i'm sorry to say. | 19:34 |
| ahoneybun | good wanted to check | 19:35 |
| wxl | so i'm on call if someone wants something posted :) | 19:35 |
| ahoneybun | ah that might be mastodon limit | 19:35 |
| valorie | I basically only login to post to both twitter, fb and masto | 20:42 |
| valorie | -both | 20:42 |
| valorie | add G+ and reddit | 20:42 |
| valorie | so, we still need a social media lover! | 20:42 |
| * acheronuk considers social media a necessary evil | 20:44 | |
| valorie | for me that's true, but if other people like it, I'm ok with that | 20:45 |
| valorie | and we gotta reach out to where the people are | 20:46 |
| acheronuk | I quite like twitter. for it's simplicity | 20:46 |
| valorie | maybe I need to quit following accounts that bother me | 20:48 |
| valorie | but there are more and more ads and I hate every single one of 'em | 20:49 |
| acheronuk | oh, I adblock those | 20:49 |
| valorie | on twitter? | 20:53 |
| valorie | huh | 20:54 |
| valorie | well, I usually read it on my phone | 20:54 |
| valorie | not sure I can do that on my phone | 20:54 |
| acheronuk | I just stick to social media on laptop. There is never anything urgent enough or interesting enough, that I need to know about it on a phone :P | 20:55 |
| acheronuk | laptop/desktop/tablet | 20:56 |
| acheronuk | I am trying not to start on that slippery slope! | 20:58 |
| valorie | ah, for me what's on the phone is more frivolous | 21:08 |
| valorie | social media isn't serious unless there is horrible storms or other catastrophes where I need to check on people | 21:09 |
| valorie | because twitter used to be a bit more fun | 21:09 |
| valorie | now it all seems either deadly serious or plain old stupid | 21:10 |
| acheronuk | trump effect | 21:11 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> I'm a Twitter fanatic, let me post things :P | 21:11 |
| valorie | acheronuk: maybe | 21:17 |
| valorie | but trump is only a symptom, not the actual problem | 21:17 |
| acheronuk | yes, I was joking (mostly) | 21:18 |
| valorie | well, it shows up all kinds of places | 21:19 |
| valorie | I mean gosh, the number of drug overdoses in parts of the US are large enough to actually drag down the statistical life expectancy for the entire country | 21:19 |
| valorie | we have some problems here | 21:19 |
| acheronuk | yep. he is just the most high profile manifest ion | 21:19 |
| acheronuk | *manifestation | 21:20 |
| valorie | as I do my genealogy, I see poor folks in the 30s and 40s prospering later | 21:20 |
| valorie | and it seems partly because of the war | 21:21 |
| valorie | lots of guys in the military for awhile, and the economy picks up, there are more taxes so more services, better education, etc. | 21:21 |
| valorie | now we're doing the opposite -- cutting taxes, services, education and down goes everything | 21:22 |
| acheronuk | but he's a genius, and stable. it will surely work? | 21:23 |
| * acheronuk hides | 21:24 | |
| valorie | mmmm | 21:27 |
| valorie | yeah | 21:27 |
| valorie | watching to see how that goes | 21:27 |
| acheronuk | well, we in the UK have our own pending **** hole to plunge down, so not really any better off IMO | 21:28 |
| valorie | well, that's part of the bigger picture | 21:33 |
| valorie | it seems sort of a revolt against modernity and fear of all "outsiders" | 21:34 |
| valorie | not just Europe, not just "the west" | 21:34 |
| valorie | god, guns, and gold | 21:35 |
| valorie | it's pretty scary even if it doesn't upend the whole tea cart | 21:35 |
| tsimonq2 | oooh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqN1JkqsRvY | 22:03 |
| IrcsomeBot | <acheronuk> yesh, I saw that | 22:05 |
| valorie | thanks for the link, tsimonq2 | 22:11 |
| valorie | the leadup that I saw yesterday was ridiculously overblown and still great | 22:12 |
| valorie | ohmygosh, he's going to paddle the Nile | 22:19 |
| valorie | how cool | 22:19 |
| IrcsomeBot | <tsimonq2> :D | 22:19 |
| wxl | he ain't gonna get much packaging done like that >:( | 22:20 |
| valorie | not for a couple of weeks, yeah | 22:21 |
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