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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- 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
@lilithium@eldritch.cafe Not that I know of. I tried my best to make a nice community out of PG back when I still was a mod, but with someone "higher up in the hierarchy" (dngray) suddenly deciding to involve themselves in it and Exercise Their Authority, that job was very quickly made impossible...
So I guess the PrivacyGuides (Matrix) community is now definitively a lost cause. It's just endless privacybros yelling absolutist opinions at each other now without any nuance or good faith assumption, pretty much exactly as predicted, with several of the most toxic people holding mod positions.
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@wim_v12e @gargron @EU_Commission
I live in Brexit island (I didn't support or vote for it) so no longer can contact MEPs etc; but the way the Commission have set this up with 0 replies to the public comes across almost like a 1980s propaganda operation (even though I agree with and support a lot of what they are saying and doing!)
It was a perception of Brussels being "unaccountable" and "untouchable" which in part led to Brexit in my country..
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"Child-rearing doesn't have to be authoritarian and oppressive. We can help guide our children, and develop their capacity to advocate for and assert themselves without being coercive. The best way to protect young people is to protect them FROM the institutions that were supposedly set up to protect them, but ended up hurting them the most."
This is an excellent video that expresses what I think better than I could.
@aeva@mastodon.social The distro packager: "sigh, *another* cake?"
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@aeva @efi Unix Express: All passenger bring a piece of the aeroplane and a box of tools with them to the airport. They gather on the tarmac, arguing constantly about what kind of plane they want to build and how to put it together. Eventually, the passengers split into groups and build several different aircraft, but give them all the same name. Some passengers actually reach their destinations. All passengers believe they got there.
@Dee I don't know, it's tasted off for quite a few years already
@Dee but... the cap lists my date of birth
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Ecology without class struggle is just gardening - Chico Mendes
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And lawful good, when they inevitably fail to handle chaotic evil, throw a wobbly if anyone else tries anything to fight chaotic evil, because by their yardstick, if you don't follow the rules, you're evil.
Lawful good will side with lawful evil before they side with chaotic good.
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Thinking about how chaotic good is objectively the best real life alignment and how lawful evil is obviously the worst.
@alex The world really needs more tool libraries...
pain scale
@julialuna@chaos.social So I have a very high pain sensitivity, and levels 1-3 just straight up do not exist for me... :/
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"Calling someone a piece of shit for expressing an opinion is a little harsh, don't you think?"
Look, if your opinion is that a movie is bad or the color red is a poor clothing choice or that tuna fish is yucky, yeah, that'd be harsh.
If your opinion is that LGBTQ+ people are lesser people who should never be seen in the world, piece of shit is the polite end of the scale and you can fucking take it as such or I'll drop the filter.
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@EU_Commission These claims go entirely against the consensus in the field.
The projected growth in AI, blockchain, IoT will lead to a massive rise in emissions, not a reduction. And contrary to your claim, none of these technologies is essential in reducing emissions.
Quantum Computing is unlikely to be mainstream by 2050 and has currently no promise of energy efficiency. There are much more promising compute technologies. Space-based services cause emissions in the upper atmosphere which leads to additional warming of those layers, making global warming worse.
Please check with experts before posting things like this.(fwiw, I am an expert in low-carbon and sustainable computing so green & digital transition is my area)
lewdy, meta
@vultureculture@toot.site I have, in fact, been accused of this just today
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Select all images with
crumbling American infrastructure
don't open
@kescher What can I say, I'm an anarchist
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"This page looks better in our app."
It's funny how some sites try to present their failures as a good thing.
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Talked to a lady who works for the tax authority yesterday. Based on her job experience, her take on the welfare state is something like this:
"Of course there will always be freeloaders. So what?! This is about dignity. Everyone has a right to a good life and to be supported when they're struggling. If you want that, you've got to live with the freeloaders. Leave them be. That's the price you pay for a society where everyone is taken care of. It's not like they're doing any damage in the big picture - I've run those numbers more than once. You'll always get more out of it for society at large when you're incentivising good performance than when you're punishing people."
- 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
