Icecat3 @Icecat3@theres.life

The concept of libraries "lending" out ebooks is beyond ridiculous. There is no greater example of artificial scarcity. It's not even really artificial scarcity, it's beyond that, it's "contrived scarcity", there is no scarcity, you have to go out of your way to pretend like there is and then build an entire infrastructure to try to enforce this nonexistent scarcity.

My wife's grandmother (87) was taken to the hospital at 1:30am. A brain tumor that was thought to be benign and not growing has been found to be malignant and is growing. She hates to be alone, and due to COVID restrictions, can only have visitors from 8am-8pm. Please pray for my our family today. Thanks. That's all we know for now.

the fact that, for most american pro sports, the only way in is through high school and/or college sports, is bad for both pro american sports and american education

If every single google, microsoft, and amazon datacenter were simultaneously firebombed overnight, how drastically would your everyday computer activities be affected?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI

Watch "The CIA is a terrorist organization", a video which is being censored and suppressed by YouTube and which caused the producer to be deliberately intimidated by the Department of Homeland Security for their "anti-american" sentiments

Challenge:
I'd like to ask you people to boost this post to see how long it'd take for it to reach someone else from my town (Westervoort, The Netherlands).
Of course, that implies that I'm not the only one here that uses Mastodon, but hey, part of the challenge :)

Starting on the 18th of August 2020 :)

GO!

Lightning has enough electricity to toast 100,000 slices of bread.

"To help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same. Add #introductions to the post."

#Jesus #Christ
#Christianity
#Programming
#Computers
#GNU / #Linux
#freesw

Good luck newcomers. And thanks @freemo