There's a high amount of friction to get people to join the Fediverse. I had to put in more effort than I'd like to figure out how things worked.

My biggest worry was picking the wrong Mastodon instance and then having no easy way to migrate my stuff to another server. Even after you pick your instance, there's so much setup for things that you kinda just expect to work.

Stellantis and Nissan also announced layoffs recently too.

Competition is bad for shareholders.

Just started! It's been a minute since I played the Gameboy Color version, but the orchestra versions of the music are immediately familiar.

The Midwest in general. I feel we're getting lumped in with New England.

a long, bright water ice cloud stretching out over the Martian surface, extending over the planet's Arsia Mons volcano all the way to the volcano Olympus Mons, the tallest mountain in the solar system

Very cool. I knew about Olympus Mons, but TIL about Arsia Mons!

Been watching a bunch of discussion videos based on previews from game reviewers in the last few days. So excited for this.

Wonder what carbon monoxide can be used for

Hey, reduce, reuse, recycle, right?

Tempted to join just to help boost those numbers.

It's a retaliatory tactic. If the US is reducing the incentive to do trade with Mexico, why should Mexico continue to allow trade with the US without penalty?

The US isn't in the same economic position as it was 10-20 years ago, and countries have seen the crappy tactics Trump used last time he was in office. I'm sure they're more willing to respond in kind or even cut ties this time if their relationships becomes more abusive.

You know I was happy with my life not making that connection. Truly tarnished.