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funny image i think y'all would enjoy
(i didn't censor the author, this is from a random telegram channel and I couldn't find the original post unfortunately)

hot take all those people who say "utopias are paradoxes you cant make a perfect world" ok bro we cant make the perfect pizza either but chefs are always trying and people are enjoying better slices because of it asshat maybe something doesnt have to be obtainable to be worth trying

Uh oh guys, I blocked out a big chunk on my calendar tomorrow morning, but now I have no memory of WHAT I blocked it for. Just three hours that I wrote "NO" on

“Basically, men need to start mansplaining sexism to other men.”

@Saupreiss @jon This is exactly it (and this has really always been the reason, border checks have never been effective)

@clacksee@wandering.shop (Which often do keyword matching)

@clacksee@wandering.shop Perhaps it's an attempt to get past the automated review filters that a lot of places use now?

capitalism 

*wet eyes, trembling lip* i-if i'm such a good girl, why are my basic needs constantly under implicit threat?

What I send: Flirting
What they see: Could not decrypt mesaage

Today I learned that there is a theme park in the US specifically tailored towards disabled folks: youtube.com/watch?v=27pkOKYBpt

Dear authors, and if Netflix or whoever is listening, you too:

If you're out of fun ideas for historical drama, alternate history or the like, how about this: an all-female gang in a European capital, renowned for coming up on top against male gangs and taking good care of their members, and one which may have endured for generations. You don't even need to invent most of it if you don't want to. This gang really existed and they were known as the 40 thieves or the 40 elephants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_Elephants

Please write something in this setting. Please!

@rail_ Oh yeah it's not *super* common here either for them to be split, but that seems to mostly be because it doesn't provide much advantage planning-wise (which would make sense on a rail network this dense...) because the actual process is very fast, usually only takes a minute or so

@rail_ It's *technically* two trains but it's very very common for short EMUs in NL to be run in connected pairs, and somewhat common for them to split/pair at different points in the route

Why are the battery controllers in my Thinkpad such absolute garbage...?

Can anyone recommend small independent sources of information/news, either about tech, world facts, or both, that are in a similar ballpark as kottke and 404media, but they're not US-centric?

Anything interesting in Europe or elsewhere?

Stoppen zeg, met politici 'onnozel' of 'naief' noemen. Jemig, echt, dat zijn ze niet. Dat maakt het juist zo erg.

The greater point being made here was that voting is not synonymous with or inevitable in democracy, and in fact majoritarian (voting) democracy is an anomalous institution that purports to be a democracy while imposing coercive control backed by violence, unlike democracies by consensus like the Iroquois Confederation or Berbers that Western scholars refuse to call democracies. Per Graeber:

"Majority democracy, we might say, can only emerge when two factors coincide:

"a feeling that people should have equal say in making group decisions, and

"a coercive apparatus capable of enforcing those decisions.

"For most of human history, it has been extremely unusual to have both at the same time. Where egalitarian societies exist, it is also usually considered wrong to impose systematic coercion. Where a machinery of coercion did exist, it did not even occur to those wielding it that they were enforcing any sort of popular will."

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