Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
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“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin
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@melsbells@tenforward.social Unfortunately not; it seems I haven't kept any bookmarks on this topic :( It's unfortunately also a difficult topic to find details on (in English anyway), considering how little attention there is for policy and communities in Africa in general...
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@melsbells@tenforward.social While that is true, decentralized authority structures are still authority structures (that people look up to and expect solutions from), just often less functional ones, therefore less effective.
AFAIK a lot of communities in Africa have fared *much* better with the pandemic despite having way less access to means, because local communities (often in the absence of authority structures) took the responsibility upon themselves to protect the entire community. There was no authority to look towards and expect to fix it.
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It's so bizarre that people assume so many things about autistic people and do weird studies on them like they're animals instead of just asking them questions. We are so dehumanized that they don't even trust our own perceptions of ourselves
@Dee I was promised an article and all I got was this blank space!
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hey if a tech person is ever explaining to you what the bug was that they fixed and it doesn't match the problem you saw tell them because odds are there's another bug that they have to fix
source: someone I was explaining what bug I fixed to like 15 seconds ago
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@melsbells@tenforward.social Had we as a society been (culturally) prepared to organize things like this ourselves, instead of relying pretty much entirely on some unreliable central authority, then I don't think things would have failed like this.
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@melsbells@tenforward.social Definitely not talking about the tragedy of the commons, no! Tragedy of the commons implies a public commons failing due to nobody taking responsibility; but the problem here is that the responsibility was explicitly *assigned* to somebody (the various governments), and most of said governments failed to do their job there, leading to exhaustion and hopelessness among those whose trust was breached by them.
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German goverment reduces taxes for the oil companies to buy gas.
Oil companies keep the additional profit.
Government is surprised.
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@melsbells@tenforward.social Honestly, my view of that hasn't really changed during the pandemic, though I can see why that's different for other people. In NL, I *did* notice people caring a lot about each other... up until the point they ran out of energy after constant pandemic mismanagement, and started feeling like nobody cared about *them* (which could be argued to be true if your worldview involves "the government" as the ultimate carer).
I'm seeing a lot of parallels to public commons appropriation. The general population's goodwill was exhausted by a small group of people who were refusing to take their responsibility, and instead chose to spread confusion and misinformation, leading to the population's goodwill falling apart over time.
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here's your irregular reminder that NPM can, in fact, do time-traveling installs:
👉🏻 `npm install foo --before 2021`
...will only install `foo` (and its dependencies) as they looked right before 2021-01-01 at midnight.
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Leiden: koloniale vuilnis ingepakt #beeldenstorm https://youtu.be/e1ngxUwWaaA via @YouTube@twitter.com
De gemeente maakte zelfs bekend dat er aangifte gedaan gaat worden van vandalisme. Aangifte voor het inpakken in vuilniszakken?
@alexispurslane I wonder how they'd respond to the research showing that people vote *completely* differently when asked to vote for parties vs. policy points, demonstrating that voting in practice happens by identity and not by policy views.
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It does raise one interesting question though - in cases where you really are one of the few minorities in a bigoted town, is anarchy actually any better for you than modern democracies with civil rights and whatnot? I think so, because there's no apparatus of power for the bigots to capture and use against you, they'd have to do the oppressing themselves, and if there are other minorities a mutual defense association would work as a deterrent. But, it's still a scary thought.
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I've been in a multi-day extended (friendly) discussion with a socdem. They keep saying pretty much the same three things:
1. People will somehow vote "more correctly" under "true" democracy whereas under anarchy people will automatically become bigoted conservatives bc of localism
2. Examples of the failure of democracy today are just "badly executed democracy."
3. We need a single reified entity to enforce a set of rules, so we can have a "society."
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@mia Unrealistic; there are at least several "loading.gif"s and "forget what you were doing and walk out of kitchen" missing there ._.
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cofe on a great day:
1. make cofe
cofe on a good day:
1. grind cofe
2. make cofe
3. cleanup
cofe on a bad day:
1. walk into kitchen
2. loading.gif
3. switch on espresso machine boiler
4. turn on scale
5. measure 18.2g of cofe
6. put cofe in grinder
7. grind cofe
8. clean bottom of grinder with brush
9. get portafilter
10. put cofe in portafilter
11. stir cofe
12. tamp cofe
13. attach portafilter
14. put scale on drip tray
15. put cup on scale
16. reset scale
17. slightly open steam valve
18. wait until boiler temp drops below threshold
19. switch on pump for preinfusion
20. wait until boiler gets up to temp
21. close valve and start timer
22. wait 30s for 27g of cofe
23. switch off pump and boiler
24. remove cup and scale from drip tray
25. turn off scale
26. sigh
27. leave portafilter attached
28. pick up cup, look for spoon
29. sigh
30. walk to drawer
31. open drawer, take spoon
32. give cofe a stir
33. sigh at dirty spoon
34. open dish washer
35. sigh at dish washer full of clean dishes
36. drop spoon in sink
37. leave kitchen
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I am a huge advocate for never speaking to your abusive family again. and never let anyone convince you that you’re going to regret not reconciling before they die. that is entirely up to them.
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
