DecaturNature

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[–] DecaturNature@yall.theatl.social 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I suspect the 'affirmative action' trend also reflects the difference in ambition/drive between the low-income high achievers and the >70% high achievers. The low income group is smaller than the >70% group (look at the size of the 'above average odds' regios and the 'below average odds' regions). This is because most of the people in the low income group will never even apply for a private college -- only the strongest applicants apply. But from the >70% group, basically every kid applies to college, and they are much more comfortable applying for 'reach' colleges (even if it costs their parents a few hundred extra dollars). They've also gamed their test scores.

[–] DecaturNature@yall.theatl.social 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Rich folk are also good at gaming all the other criteria (varsity sports, extracurricular achievements). "opportunity hoarding" I think is the term that's been used, or resume padding. It's also about being able to pay full tuition.

[–] DecaturNature@yall.theatl.social 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's apparently based on this painting (with apollo at the table, and bachus in the foreground) https://musee-magnin.fr/en/node/19

But more importantly, even if it were based on the Last Supper, I don't think this performance would necessarily be mocking Christianity.

 

cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/3357080

Fixed that for you

 
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[–] DecaturNature@yall.theatl.social 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Flesh-toned shirts always bother me

 

cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/3356775

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I think that violates the 8th amendment.

 

time and place man, time and place

[–] DecaturNature@yall.theatl.social 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
 

Fixed that for you

 

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Privacy Badger has recently started blocking Twitter embedding for me (in the past few days). Does anyone know specifically what Twitter is doing to prompt this? For instance, see this thread on the Ukraine war on Daily Kos, which includes a lot of embedded Twitter posts https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/9/2204752/-Ukraine-Invasion-Day-625-RU-may-experience-redeployment-issues

 

I understand the big picture for how mastodon works, but I am constantly running into edge cases where I don't know what to expect. Has anyone made a decision tree diagram (or flow chart) to show how Mastodon decides whether to show me someone's post, and where to show it?

A complete decision tree would cover at least the following settings:

  1. Post settings: Public; unlisted; etc.
  2. Individual connections: Individual follow, mute, block, etc.
  3. Boosts and replies
  4. Instance-level moderation (same server, suspended, silenced)
  5. timelines (home, local, federated), hashtag search, thread-view