Notices by Bob Wyman (bobwyman@mastodon.social)

@aral There is nothing "progressive" about either Hamas or the Palestinian National Authority. It is entirely rational and consistent for "progressives" to oppose Israel's actions in Gaza or Palestine while not also supporting the ruling parties of either.

@aral
If markets were competitive and taxes were fair, we'd still have a few people with extraordinary wealth, but we would have no billionaires.

@aral Why is "instance-of-one" different from instances-for-many?

- If you are hosting Kitten instances, will you host avowed Nazis?
- How will you respond if you find that you're hosting a Kitten instance that publishes child porn?
- How would a Kitten hosting service with 100 million instance-of-one's be better than a single instance serving 100 million accounts?
- An instance-for-many can efficiently share storage, operations, etc. in ways that an instance-for-one cannot. Does that matter?

@Gargron Success can be much harder than failure. When you are successful, a million people will want you to do more or to do what you do differently. When you fail, folk just walk away and let you rest.

Mastodon has grown tremendously. It has been successful. You should be proud of what you've built. But, the price of success can be very high.

Take a day off. Relax. We'll all still be here when you get back.

@aral In the example below, the <if> tag has three children, the third child is an <else> tag. Do you simply assume "First Child is for True, Second is for False?" or do you actually look for the <else> tag?
```
<if ${False}>
<span>Foo</span>
<span>Bar</span>
<else>
this is else
</else>
</if>
```

@aral Why do you have a <then> tag? Does it have any semantics? (Note: I see that it would reduce the number of children of the <if> tag and thus might slightly increase processing speed, but compiler sugar like this also tends to increase the size and apparent complexity of files.)

Also, will you be supporting<else-if>?