Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

@jonny I'm certainly growing tired of the endless "experiments" with basic income that all show basically the same outcome, with those calling for them seemingly having no intention to ever do anything with it.

Like, it's a good thing by itself that some folks have been helped out of poverty, but as far as I can tell, these "experiments" are really just the government equivalent of 'concerntrolling' about how "we can't adopt an unproven policy like this, need experiments first" until people stop paying attention to the topic again.

@mynameistillian Please let me know (DM or so) if that happens? We can probably figure out some way forward

@mynameistillian I guess the bottom line is: you can't change the past anyway, you can only learn from it, so there's no purpose in getting angry at yourself over it, and learning from it is easiest when calm and doing it at your own pace

@mynameistillian Please keep in mind that a lot of these symptoms are 'generic' symptoms, in that they can occur for a lot of different things, ranging from "no big deal" to "serious issue" (and usually it's the former).

It's a good idea to get it tested, but I wouldn't worry unless there's concrete reason to do so (ie. actual data), because it's unlikely to be serious (and even if it is, a lot of things are very treatable).

When I got evaluated for my kidney issues, there was also briefly a suspicion of diabetes because of my symptoms + frequent co-occurrence with kidney issues, but it turned out to not be that at all.

(Also, with the kidney issues, I decided to just let things come at me and figure things out at my own speed, and this has helped *a lot* in dealing with it in the long term)

@elilla Ah yes, the Forbidden Sockets

@jon ... this is a combination museum, burger restaurant, and tobacco shop?

@freakazoid I intended to add it in the original post, but upon re-reading it just now realized that I forgot :)

@freakazoid Late addition: to clarify, I think it's actually a good thing when loopholes are used to fuck with and sabotage capitalists' plans, including copyleft - repurposing the system is a useful tactic!

My objection is specifically to relying on it as *the* solution in the long term (like people try to do with copyleft); legal loopholes will only ever work briefly at best, and they should be used as long as they work and then replaced with something new.

@freakazoid The answer to "why it isn't happening already" is actually pretty simple, IMO, and it is the same answer as for the rest of society: because kyriarchy is the norm.

This is true in FOSS circles too; FOSS absolutely is not progressive, despite the nominally ideological roots of it. There's no understanding of intersectionality, of the broader issues with kyriarchy, how non-tech politics relate to it... the vast majority of FOSS folks see it as 'just a technical choice' or at best a very restrictive notion of 'freedom', including in copyleft circles.

As for "what do we need to jumpstart it": create explicitly inclusive environments for developing projects. Rust has done this to some degree (but had the disadvantage of being the first really high-profile attempt to do so, and got a lot of abuse for it).

It needs to be clear *from the start* that marginalized perspectives are prioritized, that development choices center around people's diverse needs, and that the price of admission to the project is to accept those principles, and they are not negotiable.

Very few projects do this (Lix comes to mind as one of the few). Most projects are scared to take such a step, believing it will 'drive away contributors' (due to those same internalized toxic beliefs that marginalized folks cannot be competent and thus the privileged and bigoted folks are needed), and so instead adopt a much more superficial or pseudo-neutral stance, which doesn't address the problem. And that's how the problem perpetuates itself.

In summary: create an environment that is safe for marginalized folks (note: this requires having solid conflict resolution mechanisms, not just banning people!), and provide people with the resources they need to make things happen. That's probably going to include funding.

@smveerman Ah, I've used those with Beat Saber every once in a while; my limbs always feel weirdly lightweight afterwards, it's odd how quickly one's body adapts to such a weight change 😅