Miserable moaning old people are not really miserable moaning old people. It's just in most cases, they've had 60 to 70 years of putting up with PITA morons. It drains you after a bit.
If ever I became Prime Minister, the first thing I would do is move Parliament and the whole government apparatus to Lindley Hall Farm, Fenny Drayton, Leicestershire, because that is the centre of the UK according to Ordnance Survey.
Of course, the second thing I would do is increase my government's tenure from 5 to 10 years with a further 5-year extension option. 😉
Seven years down the line, I still like the idea of creating a podcast episode out of Tweets or Toots. We just couldn't work out how it was achievable in a LIVE context, plus there was always going to be some moron tweeting, "Do Guppies have bollocks?" #tdtrs
It was borne of our love of "Free fall conversation" whereby our discussions would run down myriad paths and ultimately ending a million miles off the original topic. The point being that we would have no idea where the episode would go. #HappyTimes
Jesus. Is that all that former Twitter users can bring to the party? "Moderation" that's all I see in Toots. I just saw someone claiming that "The patchy Moderation" was a problem! No, it is not. We've been perfectly capable of behaving ourselves long before you came along; you can stop right there encroaching on my freedom and trying to control what I say and think, which is ultimately your goal hidden behind a thin veil of concern for safety.
I think "Management" wholesale is, umm? You definitely have to keep your eye on the ball. The times the wife has spoken to me while playing, and within two seconds, the enemy has destroyed half my beautiful town..... #ShakesFist
@Shredni Vashtar well it's more than that: simple keybindings for selecting, say: "all fighters" or all of a class. When the fighters and the workers are all off gathering and the bad guys roll in and I suddenly have get all the fighters on deck but send the workers to hiding. Dayum. Doesn't work. Maybe I've just been spoiled by games like CnC3 where it is so much easier to organise and rally my forces.
The washing machine needs to be put on spin. There's a bit of dusting that needs doing, or I'll be in trouble. The dog has the hump because he wants to go on the windowsill. I wouldn't mind a couple more pieces of toast and marmite.
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Why is anyone surprised by this? Autumn Statement Live: Jeremy Hunt announces £55bn of tax rises and spending cuts Did you not think this would happen? Did you think the magic money fairy would continue to dish out money left, right, and centre? Did you honestly think the Furlough money was free money? Or the Money spent on COVID was there to be poured out like water? It was obvious to anyone with half a brain cell halfway through COVID that the money would need to be paid back.
I'm trying to wean myself off Amazon for books. I bought Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut using Hive instead. Its taking a while to get here but I'm feeling much better about my purchases #dystopianstories
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Watched The Young Ones' "Boring" on the TV last night.
Shocking Police IQ levels
Copper 1 "Well, I said something about the Pope, didn't I." Copper 2 "That's a bit stupid; you know she's Catholic." Copper 1 "Yeah, I didn't know the Pope was, though."
I have done, yes. TBH, I earn (IMO) a decent amount of points because of my delegation, so a boost at 250 points only takes me four or five days to recoup. I like the points more than HP HBD, mainly because I actually GET POINTS. I get them for staying logged in (Heartbeat) for commenting for delegating, and I can also win them on Discord
I earn HP from manual and automated curation. Also earning from a few games plus pools and stuff. All adds up. I get some ecency points too, so got a few thousand.
I don't do the games. TBH, I had an idea for three separate posts but to be honest with you, and I know we've been over this time and again. I really don't have the inclination to devote the time to it because, to be honest with you, there are only so many times a person can take $2.60 until they become disheartened. I get far more emotional reward out of the Fediverse. 🤷♂️
Well keep taking the $0.00 from other platforms :) I thought it wasn't about the money. I can get a load of responses on Hive, which is more than I get elsewhere.
For me, it's the other way around. I can get loads of comments on the Fediverse and just you commenting on Hive. I can see why so many get disheartened. I don't have 10 years left to break into the top 20 circles of adulation. If five years is not enough for Hive then maybe it's time to devote my energy elsewhere where I'm more appreciated. As for the so-called money and taking $0.00 elsewhere, I'm taking feck all on Hive so what's the difference?
Just shows you have made more connections here than there. Not really a refection of the qualities of either platform. I've not been on Masto long enough to get much engagement apart from a few people I already know.
pfft just read the Toots man, I see ten to fifteen Toots a day enthusing how welcoming Mastodon is and how they wished they'd found it sooner. There's no "Working at it" on the Fediverse like you keep telling me it is on Hive. I guarantee you drop out a couple of eye-catching Toots, and they'll all want to rub your legs. On Hive, either your face fits, or you have to churn out puerile sycophantic bilge. You're liked, and that's good. I've worked hard to be liked, I'm fairly popular (I believe) on Discord, but that still doesn't seem to have benefited me much. Oh well, enough bitching I think. #LeSigh
That's not everyone's experience on #Hive. It is a fairly small community with cliques though. I want it to grow and be more diverse. Funny how you stuck with it so long when you don't seem to like it much. I enjoy your posts anyway. Do you think Youtubers go from nothing to earning without putting in work? You can potter around on Hive making pennies or build communities and do better. Your choice.
Dunno, I'm on Youtube, but I'm not looking to be the next influencer on there.
See, I have said, "I'm not in it for the money." and that's partly true. I'd be happy to accept the embarrassingly low rewards if I had at least seven or eight conversations, but as I said, the only one that makes an effort is you, so the fact is if nobody wants to engage with me, fine, reward me instead. But no, it's a double whammy. Piss poor rewards and a fooking leper gets more interaction than me. I'll give you an example seeing as you think I'm talking bollocks. Your mate slobberchops. Pretty much every post of his I see (Usually on Twitter); not only do I vote on it, but I also comment on it too. I believe (But I could be wrong) he has only commented on three of my posts. Now I'm not picking on him the point I'm desperately trying to make is; I am putting the work in for feck all in return. How much longer does one bang one's head against the wall? It's why I hardly post I say to myself. "What's the point?"
Mr Chops is not the most social fella, but for some reason big accounts like his posts, perhaps because he invested big. There's a mix of people on there with some really active areas. But you feel free to do whatever makes you happy. I just 'led the horse to water'. I just want #Hive to be better known and for others to give it a go. You certainly did that. I don't bother with some platforms like Insta and Tiktok. Can't spread myself too thin.
I've tried to help you out with votes, advice and referrals. I don't have the magic formula that makes it work. I just do what is fun for me. I have made 20x as many comments as you, so that may be a factor for my success.
I know, and I appreciate it. I don't know how I can word it any other way? "It is mainly only you that interacts or votes on my account. You and I just don't have the same opinion of Hive. Like most things in life, if something is enjoyable and fun, people are going to enthuse about it, but if it's not fun and not enjoyable, they're going to complain. Have you noticed how it's always the successful ones in life that respond: "I dunno what they're talking about? It all seems fine to me. 🤷♂️ ".
we each have a different experience of any platform with lots of factors involved. I've probably connected with a lot more people than you have. I was considering a post about this topic as you're not the only one to wonder if #Hive is worth your time. Time is valuable.
Ordinarily, I would say you should; however, I'm not sure you could handle the topic objectively, given that you are totally committed to the platform. 🤷♂️
I can try to see it from other points of view and I've spoken to a fair few people about it. You've seen how I try to help new people. Nothing is perfect and we should be looking for ways to improve matters.
You're taking it personally again, and it's not aimed at you! It's aimed at the whole concept/structure. TBH with you, it's been going downhill since the split from STEEM. Every hard fork seems designed to fuck the little guy; the problem is, the developers have little choice because if they don't make the rewards harder to obtain, then the big accounts that already earn 5, 6, 7, maybe even ten times what the smaller accounts earn will see their rewards increase to an extent that sees the gap between Rich and Poor 🤣 grow even further and that leaves them open to accusations such as I'm making only impossible to refute.
I was thinking about this last night, and Hive is so hypocritical it's untrue. "You don't earn anything for posting on Twitter." but (Potentially) if I post in the style of Twitter (say 200 characters) on Hive, either of two things happens. The post will be hidden because there's little to no content in it, or HW is all over it like a rash for "Poor content." like I keep moaning: "Why should I spend two hours or more of my valuable time creating a post that doesn't even break the $10 barrier let alone the heady rewards I see of $75 for posts I wouldn't even wipe my backside on.
I think it's very unfair to give a response of: "Well, leave then!" that just demonstrates that Hive doesn't have the answer or just doesn't care. 🤷♂️
You know, that Martin "Money saving" twonk does give some crap advice. He keeps banging on about using a hot water bottle. He himself states it costs 35p to boil a kettle, and yet a 100W electric blanket at the 34p per kWh rate would cost 3.4p to run at full power for an hour!
I think the guy is trying to help. Not that I tend to watch or read him. A lot of people don't know how to economise. Hence those waiting to pick up at the station with their engines running.
Mmm? He bangs on about switching cards; he tells you how "It won't cost a penny", and then you find the card issuer charges a transfer fee. His shitty program has caused my wife and daughters so much grief with the MIL, who thinks he's the font of all wisdom. I've no time for the bloke.
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Air Fryers are clearly the new "Thing" in this drive to lower household bills. When I got home last night, the wife berated me that from the comfort of our double-glazed home sofa, she had spent nearly two hours on her iPad tracking one down because "Everywhere is out of stock!"
The dipshit of Highways Cannock thinks it is a good idea to effectively close and bring to a standstill all major routes between Walsall and Cannock. This morning I saw an elderly woman in a Peugeot get side-rammed from a car which exited a side road as they desperately tried to avoid the five-mile traffic jams. The poor woman was physically shaking and had to be consoled by a road worker. Image, having waited your turn to go through (Supposedly safely) some roadworks and out of nowhere BANG!
So I've just been to Costa Coffee to see my grandson, and the place is rammed! And that place ain't cheap. (Obviously, I can't take a picture behind me.) #HeatOrEat
I wonder what would happen if #birdsite was to link to #ActivityPub, making twitter.com one of the biggest instances connected to the #fediverse just like that.
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Twelve years ago (I'm sure it was longer than 12 years?), this man held us captive in a cellar in Liverpool. It's not The Cavern, but it did look like the sort of place Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb might hang out. @methoddan
When someone leaves the company and people phone to speak to them, one of my favourite pastimes is to say to callers: "I'm afraid [insert name] no longer works for the company."
The four-second silence is brilliant. You can literally sense them thinking: "Oh! What happened there?" "Were they sacked?" "Did they get another job?" "Are they still in IT?" "Where are they now?"
The vast majority of repressed Brits, although desperate to know, will be too tight-lipped to ask. 🤣
I just realised that if the Woke community has flooded to Mastodon because they believe Elon Musk intends to reinstate right-wing accounts, they're going to have a massive shock when they find out cancel culture doesn't work on Federated services. You can block and mute them, but you can't silence them. ✊
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Heard a noise outside my office window that, seriously, sounded like a cat had been run over. Goddam seagull is flying in a circle overhead, screaming its arse off!
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What I find so hysterical about the mass Twitter exodus to Mastodon is that the very people and attitudes Twitter leavers will cite as their reason for moving have been on Federated services for a long time. If anything, Far-Right groups are bigger on Mastodon.
Today's events demonstrate that you really need your own instance on the #Fediverse.
My biggest mistake was using my dick_turpin@mastodon.org.uk account, which then put that instance owner in a difficult position which made me very concerned for them, TBH.
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I posted a comment on someone's post about how their pictures were really good and that they should create an account on Hive so they could earn money for their work. It was a genuine attempt to show them somewhere they could earn some money. I don't even think I mentioned Crypto? The individual just told me to "FUCK OFF", and then the next thing I know; their weenie friends started reporting me to Sem. I was a bit worried for an hour or so.
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Groan. I take it I have to delve into the db to delete the username of an account I deleted on my #friendca instance if I want to use the username again?
And its gone dark again with a hint of rain. It's like when we were kids and flipped the light switch on and off like a poor man's disco strobe light. #Ukrain
I watched the weather with the Missus this morning; the radar picture they displayed showed it all going up through Wales to Scotland. I was like: "Oh well, they both used to rain.
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