Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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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
@molecat@tech.lgbt I'd draw an important distinction here; lecturing specific individuals is usually not a good thing, but that's very different from making a general PSA within a community that people are expected to CW certain things if they care about others' well-being.
"Annoying" is also rather understating the problem here. These are traumatic experiences, not something to make light of.
@miramarco@octodon.social Oops, realized I forgot the conclusion: so I think the general desire could exist in people generally, it's just 'safer' to express freely in queer circles
@miramarco@octodon.social My kneejerk suspicion would be that it relates to patriarchal social norms; such a living arrangement would be liberatory when compared to the much more common dynamic in cishet-allo circles of a mono relationship where the man of the house decides what happens, and their wife is essentially subject to their approval.
(A lot of people aren't that explicit about this dynamic anymore, but it still very much exists in many cishet-allo relationships in more subtle forms, like the insufferable "ball and chain" jokes)
So cishet-allo folks are more likely to live in a patriarchal environment where collective living would break apart the power structures, whereas queer folks are (given their circumstances more generally) more likely to be interested in liberatory forms of living, and so are more likely to feel comfortable expressing such desires because it fits into the broader culture that they exist in.
All of this is conjecture of course, based on my own observations - I may well be off the mark here
@whatanerd Oof. I've definitely noticed them rotating out a lot of products for new ones, but overall they've remained fairly well-stocked here. This seems to be a branch with particularly good inventory management though.
@molecat@tech.lgbt @ghost_bird Indeed it causes upset among the trans community, which makes it *all the more fucking important* that people use CWs to not make that problem worse
@rune @retr0id @dysfun@treehouse.systems I'm not sure this one can be explained entirely as capitalism.
Lidl has been rather atypical in general in how they've responded to the massive food price increases here - they're lagging behind on price hikes by sometimes *months*, and they seem to be trying much harder to avoid price hikes than every other supermarket.
Which *sounds* like it could be explained by capitalism and competition... except the price gap is so high that they could 100% get away with just being *slightly* cheaper than others instead of *significantly* cheaper.
So there definitely seems to be something going on here beyond a simple cost/benefit analysis. I'm hesitant to attribute good intentions to a corporation, but it certainly *looks* like there's some amount of "trying to do the right thing" involved.
(This is a pattern that I've also been seeing in a few other industries here, where one particular company in an industry has completely atypical pricing and seems to be trying to actively soften the blow for folks)
@dysfun@treehouse.systems @retr0id Still feels odd that they wouldn't take the opportunity to market it as 'vegan', even if that wasn't the original goal.
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@Rubz @notjustbikes it's still easier to live here without using a car all the time than is the case in most other countries (I've written about that as well, see below) but we're not heading in a good direction.
https://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2019/08/the-car-free-myth-netherlands-is-great.html?m=1
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@Rubz @notjustbikes Unfortunately we Dutch are not only buying and using cars more and more, but at the same time our bicycle sales are falling off a cliff. This is the inevitable outcome of our right wing politics. We have policies which reward car usage while we've done little over the last two decades to encourage people to travel by other modes, and this is very bad for our country.
http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2022/03/the-challenge-of-declining-bicycle.html
@retr0id @dysfun@treehouse.systems Possibly? But I haven't noticed any quality degradations related to it, so that makes me wonder why they didn't do it before.
@dysfun@treehouse.systems Yeah, I've definitely noticed the increase in vegetarian/vegan stuff. But the odd thing is that they now also have a lot of products that *used* to be animal-derived, but no longer are, but... it doesn't actually say 'vegan' anywhere on the packaging either! Like they're just quietly reworking the ingredients.
Am I imagining things, or has Lidl been removing animal-derived ingredients from a lot of their products lately?
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@ebel Relatedly (and largely overlapping): people who ask questions not to understand anything, but just to look for the nearest 'in' they can find to disagree with, even if it requires misinterpreting the answer
@silvermoon82@tech.lgbt Unfortunate to see that it's getting framed in terms of "more profit" again, with well-being being an afterthought, but good to see that it's catching on at least.
@kdzwinel I know that there have been several studies, but I don't have the spoons right now to dig them up, unfortunately. I do recall most of them being internal studies by advertisers and publishers (who were trying to figure out whether there was actually a point to personalized ads)
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Microsoft folks: we’re not evil.
Also Microsoft folks: …
(Hey @EU_Commission, mind forwarding this to @EC_Commissioner_Vestager for me? She doesn’t seem to be active here but something tells me this might interest her.)
#competition #antitrust #eu #microsoft #edge #bing #mozilla #firefox
re: debts, poverty is expensive
To clarify, I am no longer in debt, and I'm doing okay now, at least financially (mentally is a different story - also partly because of poverty).
I'm just sharing this to show, with a first-hand example, just how much poor people get fucked over.
debts, poverty is expensive
About a decade ago, I was in poverty and, more importantly, deeply in debt. Here's an excerpt from just one of the many, *many* letters I got from debt collectors at the time.
The original debt was 750.25 EUR, racked up because I couldn't afford the (legally mandated!) private health insurance.
(Which, by the way, results in additionally getting fined by the government, but that's a whole separate story.)
After adding debt collection charges, the total came out to owing the health insurer 1971.46 EUR, almost three times(!) as much as the original debt.
Poverty is expensive. 
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Kacey
Next time someone complains about singular "they" I'll point them to this 17th century rant against singular "you"
- 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
