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boost with CW: food used as a metaphor to make a really important point about AI and image descriptions

mastodon.eternalaugust.com/@pe

re: meta, communication styles 

@farhaven I mean, it's not quite that simple - it depends a lot on who's talking to who. There are some clearly identifiable differences between this pattern and mansplaining, but... they may not be so clearly identifiable to people unfamiliar with the pattern, and that's usually where conflict happens.

Basically what I'm describing is a form of miscommunication, rather than people genuinely believing on a moral level that these two are equivalent (at least as far as I can tell).

(The issue gets complicated further by people who *themselves* both use this pattern *and* also mansplain, which also happens, but is avoidable if you try.)

re: meta, communication styles 

@silvermoon82@strangeobject.space I don't think classifying it as 'neurotypicals being neurotypicals' really covers it, to be honest; I've seen the same conflict happen in communication with other neurospicy folks (who just don't happen to share this particular communication pattern).

Like, to some degree it's a matter of "you can always block the people you don't like", sure, but IMO there should always be an attempt to reconcile different expectations and communication styles - and sometimes that will turn out impossible and that's okay, but I don't want to be assuming that prima facie.

we have to kill capitalism so the internet can be good again

meta, communication styles 

I've noticed that the (autistic?) practice of "repeat in different words what was said to explicitly acknowledge it and incrementally add onto it at the same time" often gets interpreted as "mansplaining" on here and I'm not sure what to do about that

pol- 

You know how everyone votes for a politician for their populist progressive promises and is all surprisedpikachu when the politician fails to achieve any of them?
Just once I would love to instead see a politician get elected on their safe corporate moderate platform and then shock everyone by implementing surprise socialism

Het is weer zover.

Den Aha levert diepvriesspul.
In een tas.
Die in de tas babyromaines zit. Bevroren dus, 5 stuks.
Winterwortel: deels bevroren.
Bleekselderij: idem.
Prei: idem.

Dan nog groente in stukken.
Een fles kapot.
Op de kokosnoot 'zit iets raar nats'.

Ik snap dat gewoon niet. Ze vergoeden het maar ja: te laag bedrag voor bezorging dus ik moet naar winkel die ver weg is, dus met tram.

Soms, soms gaat het goed.
Meestal niet.
Vandaag dus weer niet.

@pascaline Bij mij blijft er gelukkig meestal meer heel, maar ik krijg wel sterk de indruk dat de inpakmethode in het distributiecentrum wat weg heeft van "donder het er maar bij".

Zware dingen bovenop lichte dingen, vaatwasblokjes (geeft lekker veel geur af!) naast voedsel, veel te zwaar beladen papieren tasjes met potjes en blikjes...

Als de bezorgers hier niet zo voorzichtig waren, zou het denk ik een stuk slechter gaan.

Wat een nuance in een programma voor kinderen, iets om als volwassenen van te leren:

Indonesië in de oorlog, Klokhuis

"Honderden jaren was Nederland de baas in grote delen van wat we nu kennen als Indonesië. Janouk gaat vierhonderd jaar terug in de tijd en ziet hoe Nederland delen van het eilandenrijk met geweld veroverde. Veel Indonesiërs wilden een eigen land. In augustus 1945, kort na het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, riep Indonesië de onafhankelijkheid uit. Janouk ziet wat voor oorlogen er nodig waren voordat Indonesië eindelijk een eigen land werd, en hoe deze tijd hier in Nederland wordt herdacht. In de sketch zien we hoe Nederlandse kolonisten zichzelf heel erg beschaafd vinden, maar zijn ze dat ook…"

hetklokhuis.nl/tv-uitzending/5

#Klokhuis #OnafhankelijkIndonesië

Whenever you see a headline or an editorial piece which is wildly at odds with the evidence of your eyes and ears, just ask yourself, "How would the public accepting this as fact benefit/empower/enrich the billionaire who owns this megaphone?"

re: microsoft 

@eldaking With my (probably justified in the case of Microsoft...) conspiracy theory hat on for a moment, they are entirely too insistent about having a TPM for it to (just) be about security of the user.

I bet this is related to DRM in some way.

microsoft 

So, Microsoft decided to break lots of people's computers:

xda-developers.com/microsoft-c

Any "security improvements" that require people to buy a new computer (or phone) is a security upgrade that poor people and/or people in the third world don't benefit from.

It is worse than useless, it is discriminatory, it is obscene. It throws people under the bus, causes us great economic duress, for the sake of other people's security. It erects a walled community and keeps us out, and pretends things are safer by removing us from the statistics.

@jon @bohwaz@mamot.fr ... wait, so what are people supposed to do who don't *have* a surname?

Eckartsberga. Het station lijkt haast bevroren in de tijd, er zit zelfs een vuilniszak in de afvalbak #Pepermuntje

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I have managed to create a table style that I am quite proud of

this is all done with CSS

Is there a name for this philosophy around projects (of any kind)?

"Never discourage someone (or yourself) from attempting a project based on whether you think it is achievable, but you do have a moral obligation to discourage someone from attempting a project if it would be unethical for them to do so."

this is your irregular reminder to

* be gay
* do crime
* post about being gay
* not post about doing crime

Edit: wow, my best performing post ever. guess what: it's #SettlerSaturday, so your job is now to find an Indigenous person's #MutualAid post and throw them $2/$5/$20/$100.

if you boosted this post and you're white this is not optional! if you truly have no money to give then you can credit yourself 50c for every #IndigenousMutualAid post you boost, until you reach one of those thresholds (take your pick).

have money but no spoons to read through a hashtag? here's one for ya: Evel needs accessories for xens new wheelchair. throne.com/evel/collections/wh

or you can give money to xens indie studio co-op here: ko-fi.com/aldercone/

Choose your phone!

Your options are:
- company that seeks rent on every transaction that happens through the phone
- company that tracks your location, habits and usage to build detailed profiles on you to inform advertising
- custom ROMs that can’t run your banking app

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