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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • “I know there’s a ton of skepticism about Meta entering the fediverse — it’s completely understandable,” Cottle says. “I do want to kind of make a plea that I think everyone on the team has really good intentions. We really want to be a good member of the community and give people the ability to experience what the fediverse is.”

    If I wanted Facebook shitposts and forwards from KlanMa, I’d’ve joined Facebook. And I don’t believe Meta has good intentions, I believe they want to overwhelm the fediverse, and I believe they want to make money. Middle-manager Cottle and their team may have good intentions, but corporate certainly doesn’t, and I certainly don’t trust their users.

















  • I had a package like that a couple years ago during the winter holidays. It was ordered a couple days before Thanksgiving but got caught up in Black Friday / Cyber Monday - and, of course, there was the pandemic. My package spent several days heading toward the East Coast, then Chicago, then Pittsburgh, then Indianapolis, then Philly, then Denver for some reason, St Louis, Pittsburgh, New York, Virginia, then finally to me.

    Supposedly at the time (DeJoy was fucking around with the Post Office, not sure if this is still true), they’d been running metrics on the various transfer centers and if your center had a certain percentage of packages not moving for a certain amount of time, they’d target that center for “improvements”, not accepting that (1) it was the holidays so parcels were up, (2) it was the pandemic so workers were sick and dying, and (3) it was the pandemic so massive amounts of people were ordering online. [Remember this?]

    Anyway, in order to avoid being targeted by DeJoy’s “improvements”, some stations were reportedly taking delayed packages that were about to impact their metrics and shipping then out of station wherever they had room on a truck (though they’d at least try to send it in the right direction, that wasn’t anyways possible).

    Also, a reminder that fucker DeJoy is still the postmaster, and a staunch Republican. I fully expect him to pull more bullshit moves for next year’s elections.