Not when the community notes will be written by AI, and voted on by bots.

Whomever has the most AI and bots to swamp the notes with their text and generate votes wins.

Does that sound like a good way to get facts?

Did anyone ever think of think tanks as anything other than thin veils of credibility for whatever they were advocating for?

The Heritage Foundation, and the Hoover Institution, for example.

Sure, I’ll bite:

In 2024 up to week 50, there have been 45,447 deaths involving COVID-19. This is compared to 159,940 deaths involving flu or pneumonia and 2,892,661 deaths from all causes in the same time frame.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

For comparisons sake, traffic accident deaths in the first three quarters of 2024 were 29,135.

I think the government has a good handle on COVID-19 now with more-or-less mass vaccination, so it’s not going to cause mass deaths and disabilities.

I’m more worried about H5N1 bird flu, more currently the affect it’s having on milk and egg prices (over USD$12/doz. yikes!) and the potential to mutate to direct human-to-human transmission.

From https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22401-bird-flu dated 12/5/2024

What’s the mortality rate of bird flu?

Overall, the mortality (death) rate for bird flu in humans is high — historically, about half of all people with known infections have died. But most recent cases in the U.S. have been mild.

My apologies, I assumed that you lived in the United States, where 40% sewer coverage for a city would not be good.

Only 40% sewers in your city?!?

What state is that in, may I ask, so I can never go there.

Good point.

Justice is swift when it’s money ruling authority on the line.

FTFY

When can we expect Mar-a-Lago to be swallowed up by the earth?

It was a killer burrito.

You did what you had to.

Obligatory ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

Great timing now that Trump will soon have unlimited pardon power…

Coming soon, wooden props to keep McConnell upright, followed by a starring role in the Weekend At Bernie’s movie franchise.

So someone can start sculpting a statue to honor him?

According to MBFC, it’s right-center

On the plus side, his roommate will get all A’s this quarter.

1. Mastodon’s recommendation algorithm isn’t sufficiently addicting
2. Mastodon lacks venture capital to fund an army of PR flacks to plant stories in EVERY FUCKING NEWS WEBSITE IN THE UNIVERSE.

That is historically true, unfortunately the conservative artificial supermajority Supreme Court doesn’t respect its own precedents and historical facts.

Don’t forget they’re also criminal murderer drug dealers. They take all the jobs, and steal everything, sell everyone drugs, then kill them all, but they’re lazy about it. /s

Also trying out Bluesky, and it is a lot like Twitter used to be, but it has the potential to turn out like Xitter is today, because at the end of the day Bluesky is a for-profit startup corporation.

Sooner or later, Bluesky is going to want to make money for its shareholders, and that means any of: 1) Selling advertisements, 2) Selling your personal data, and/or 3) In a classic tech startup play, selling itself to the highest bidder like: Android, YouTube, and yes, Twitter.

And with commercialization, or in Xitter’s case a fool with too much money, comes enshittification.

Lemmy is nothing like a for-profit startup company, as far as I know, but that doesn’t make it enshittification-proof, but at least it won’t take the commercialization route.