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I still can't wrap my head around the fact that weapons, violence and gore can be shown and discussed freely basically anywhere, but god forbid you see a nipple or merely discuss the concept of sex

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@Byte Yeah, already fired off a report to that effect

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How difficult is it to not pollute a tag you don't care for, jesus christ

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And another Fediblock polluter goes into the blocklist

"I was given some advice before making it into Parliament - to not take anything personally or it'll eat you up."

"In only a couple of weeks, in only 14 days, this Government has attacked my whole world from every corner."

"Health, taiao (environment), wai (water), whenua (land), natural resources, Māori wards, reo, tamariki. How can I not take anything personally when it feels like these policies were made about me?"

"I am not fearful of this place, or this debating chamber."

"I was perfectly fine growing my kūmara and learning maramataka (Māori lunar calendar), but this House kept tampering with things they shouldn't be touching, and that's why I left the māra (garden) to come here."

-- Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke (NZ MP for Hauraki-Waikato, and the youngest NZ MP to serve in 130 years)

#Maori #NewZealand #Aoteroa #Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation

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for the last few months i've been giving out the fake email "fuckzuck@fb.com" to marketing databases when required to enter something on a wlan captive portal

International ticket planning is like "well, if you go in the direction of Austria for 30 minutes, you're gonna be in Poland one hour earlier"

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@Rairii it's so weird watching obscenely rich people compete to do something others have already done for free with no money

@elilla Do you have an example? (I'm a Dutch speaker, but I have no clue what the linguistic terms mean :p)

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@karinlag No studies to hand, unfortunately, but this matches my experience - also for computerized tasks more generally, not just research, and even including software development itself.

A related concept seems to be Conway's Law, which is almost the inverse relationship as it relates to infrastructure *development* - and taking those two together, I've ended up at "organizations reinforce their own structure externally, through the infrastructure they construct".

(I suspect that anthropology might have some useful things to say on this topic, but have not had the time to really look into it yet)

what is especially frustrating is that we literally, across languages and cultures, have this saying that the least trustworthy people are politicians

so why do people just regurgitate politicians' words like they're fact!?

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the place where this becomes extra relevant is in things like press releases, where people take folks' words for things way more often since there's this inherent trust to something being said in person, which, does not actually exist

it often manifests in this sort of "clearly the (president/politician/corporate executive) wouldn't tell an obvious lie" and uh,

yes, they would actually, and rather often too

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honestly the biggest failing of modern society is convincing people that the internet is where people lie

people lie in real life, actually. and way more often, since on the internet there are way more people to see and scrutinise your words

re: subtooty grumbling 

(If you are reading this toot then it is probably not about you)

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Like, "is it worth the overhead to do community governance for this project" is a legitimate point of discussion, but also when that discussion *has already been had and concluded* years ago, and you don't even make an attempt to improve the governance process...

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subtooty grumbling 

"Community governance costs energy, so let's just make top-down decisions instead!"

I swear to $deity...

Advent of Code is not healthy for me.

A look at how it taps into my negative traits and why I must stop participating.

CW: Mental health

zoeaubert.me/blog/advent-of-co

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