Telegram has heavily participated in misinformation campaigns targeting actual private messaging apps with always enabled, properly implemented end-to-end encryption such as Signal. Should stop getting any advice from anyone who told you to use Telegram as a private messenger.

Telegram is capable of handing over all messages in every group and regular one-to-one chat to authorities in France or any other country. A real private messaging app like Signal isn't capable of turning over your messages and media. Telegram/Discord aren't private platforms.

@lnxw37j1 Big fan of workplace regulation, civil society disaster preparedness and/or meteorology?

@musicman

I was probably wrong in 2022, and the T10 I was remembering was 2018's Typhoon Mangkhut. When you're already at the highest rating, there's a difference between a T10 and a T10. In 2017, Hato was the strongest typhoon since 1983, but in 2018, Mangkhut was stronger. I believe Mangkhut was the one that wrecked the promenade.

#TyphoonMangkhut

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_…

@musicman It's the Hong Kong Observatory's own system, introduced in the early 20th century with several revisions until the 1970s.

There is an international rating, but I'm not familiar with how it works.

The HKO typhoon warning rating is directly tied to institutional responses:

T1 is triggered by the distance to a typhoon from Hong Kong and is a warning only, no particular operational response.

T3, T8 and T10 are tied to wind speeds and cause certain institutions and businesses to shut down, go into mobilization, etc.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kon…

It's called "polygonal Lesbian masonry" because the angles are not straight.

Otherwise it would be "rectangular Lesbian masonry".

Where was that post on tumblr or twitter or something that went along these lines:

"[My favorite Twitter interaction of all time was that person who claimed that you can change a person's mind if you have the facts on your side and you present studies and evidence, so I presented the studies and evidence that you can't, and they went 'well, I still believe you can']"

Yes, it's fb.

@evan @mafeesh
RE: hachyderm.io/users/tjcrowderte…

@steve The sister lecture to #xkcd123. 😊

@mcc

@mcc

@mcc This thread is the first time I heard this and I thank you for it. It sounds absolutely bonkers and I will watch that video this weekend.