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Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)

meta, call-outs, quote toot 

I don't normally do quote toots, but this is an exception, because I think this post makes an important point, *but* I only partly agree with it, and it is a very touchy topic.

furry.engineer/@silvereagle/11

This is a very real problem, and definitely something that not enough mind is paid to. And I mean in general, and also outside of fedi(!) - not just with recent events, which is what I suspect this post is referring to.

However, there is another side of that coin. Because while there are legitimate reasons to not be aware of things like this, the really important thing is how you respond when you *are* made aware of it.

When someone straight-up tells you "that is not okay, because <consequences and context>", do you take a step back, re-evaluate, and correct and apologize where necessary? Or do you double down on "I could not have known that!" as if that relieves you from any obligation to do anything about it?

Because there is a responsibility here on both parties. Yes, people should not assume that the social implications of actions are obvious to everybody, and be prepared to communicate directly and clearly about them.

But conversely, those people for whom they are not, need to accept that this means their actions are sometimes going to have unintended consequences, and be open to correcting course promptly when that happens.

With that having been said, yes, this is a very widespread problem, and I would say that it's a good example of how in the wrong circumstances, genuinely protective behaviour in leftist communities can turn into ableist lateral violence.

(Note: if you're thinking of responding to this by going "yeah, so-and-so is an asshole, aren't they": don't. This is not an invitation for harassing people, and I *will* block you for it. This is a much more general problem that's been bouncing around on fedi for a while. Likewise, this is *not* an invitation to complain about defederation. Defederation is a legitimate and necessary mechanism.)

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Melon Tusk

Some people are expressing concern that there's a disproportionate number of instances ran by transfeminine folk on The Bad Space's list.

What they are leaving out (in some cases maliciously) is that there's also a disproportionate number of instances ran by transfeminine folk on its sources (and more ran by other trans people).

There is a disproportionate number of instances ran by transfeminine folk on the Fedi, because there is a disproportionate number of transfeminine folk here.

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AJ Sadauskas

Right now, could you prepare a slice of toast with zero embodied carbon emissions?

Since at least the 2000s, big polluters have tried to frame carbon emissions as an issue to be solved through the purchasing choices of individual consumers.

Solving climate change, we've been told, is not a matter of public policy or infrastructure. Instead, it's about convincing individual consumers to reduce their "carbon footprint" (a term coined by BP: amp.theguardian.com/commentisf).

Yet, right now, millions of people couldn't prepare a slice of toast without causing carbon emissions, even if they wanted to.

In many low-density single-use-zoned suburbs, the only realistic option for getting to the store to get a loaf of bread is to drive. The power coming out of the mains includes energy from coal or gas.

But.

Even if they invested in solar panels, and an inverter, and a battery system, and only used an electric toaster, and baked the loaf themselves in an electric oven, and walked/cycled/drove an EV to the store to get flour and yeast, there are still embodied carbon emissions in that loaf of bread.

Just think about the diesel powered trucks used to transport the grains and packaging to the flour factory, the energy used to power the milling equipment, and the diesel fuel used to transport that flour to the store.

Basically, unless you go completely off grid and grow your own organic wheat, your zero emissions toast just ain't happening.

And that's for the most basic of food products!

Unless we get the infrastructure in place to move to a 100% renewables and storage grid, and use it to power fully electric freight rail and zero emissions passenger transport, pretty much all of our decarbonisation efforts are non-starters.

This is fundamentally an infrastructure and public policy problem, not a problem of individual consumer choice.

#ClimateChange #urbanism #infrastructure #energy #grid #politics #power @green

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Tak!

This is amazing.
I'm a few days behind, but basically all of Copenhagen found out this weekend that laws currently in force allow bicycles to park in all city car parking spots, when a representative of the "Socialist" party made a public proposal to put up informative signage to that effect.

The Technical and Environment Commission would like you to be aware, however, that it could have unforeseen consequences to inform people that bikes can be parked in the same spots as motor vehicles

I fully expect this law to be reversed at the earliest opportunity, but until then: Let the hilarity ensue!

kobenhavnliv.dk/amager/frygter (danish)

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Kay Lousberg 🎨

140+ Low-poly 3D models in a cooking theme!

These are available early for supporters here : patreon.com/posts/restaurant-b

Will be released in 2 weeks time on itch, for free (CC0) licensed :)

#gameassets #gamedev #godot

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:baba_maddie: Maddie :patsMaddie: :verifiedtrans:

download progress bars be like 

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Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)

I wish more people remembered that it's possible for multiple parties in a dispute to be in the wrong.

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juurd

“Wie het systeem precies gebruikte, wat eruit werd gehaald en naar wie deze informatie werd gestuurd, werd niet bijgehouden. Medewerkers konden opgevraagde informatie zonder controle exporteren naar Excel-sheets en meenemen op eigen schijven of usb-sticks.”
nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/09/14/exter

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Aby

Some of you all have never read about cointelpro and it shows.

Snitchjacketing, fashjacketing, badjacketing, agent provocateur, character assassination - some of the terms you may want to start googling.

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Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)

A heuristic: if someone conflates "what capitalism is" and "what trade/economics are", then they probably do not understand capitalism well enough to be speaking authoritatively about it, regardless of whether they think it is good or bad

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tillian 🦊 :antifa: ACAB

how it started: "string theory is this and that"

how is it going: "why capitalism is good"

like how did we even get here
did she become a grifter

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Colossal

Brief bouts of mischief: David Zinn’s chalk drawings imbue everyday street scenes with playful character.

thisiscolossal.com/2023/08/dav

#art

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Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)

Like, I find it hard to explain, but they've somehow managed to make the UI feel more cluttered despite containing about the same amount of stuff that was there before

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Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)

Well. I was hoping that Thunderbird would get a redesign one day, and it did, but... I don't think this new design is very good :|

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tillian 🦊 :antifa: ACAB

sabine hosselfender is the prime example of why people who are experts in one field should not delude themselves with thinking it automatically grants them knowledge in other areas, especially if they barely know anything about them

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kat

@mekkaokereke there’s seriously a massive bloc of trans folks who came straight out of 4chan, and many of them didn’t bother shedding the horribleness in the process

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Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)

Once again thinking about the concept of lateral violence

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clar fon

kinda subposty, on the use of proprietary tools 

I honestly have substantially less sympathy for folks who get shafted for corporate decisions, like Unity's, when the disaster scenarios they're describing are already just like, par for the course for folks like me

a lot of the stuff I make is incredibly slow to make because I don't use all the proprietary tools. yeah, it feels awful. but the solution isn't to crawl back to companies and ask them to take back their actions, but to sit down and realise where we are and why companies are the issue

like, my life would be a lot simpler if I just paid AWS to host a billion services and chain them together myself, or if I got loads of fancy editing software to make videos, or used proprietary game engines and other tools

but I don't. not only do I not have the starting cash to invest in that nonsense, but the fact that it prevents so many people from using what I've made (because I need to charge big bucks to afford it) is also a non-starter

like, sure, I have made a lot of money (most of which has gone into rent or food or other necessities) by working with these tools for companies. yes, it feels easier. no, I do not want it.

the solution is solidarity, not crawling back to companies and asking for their support instead

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clar fon

statistical fallacies in capitalism 

one thing that gets thrown out a lot in discussions of packages getting lost, food never being delivered, etc. is this idea that these kinds of errors are just associated with the scale of businesses nowadays

and, I actively reject this notion. sure, if there's a static probability of failure, increasing the number of chances for failure will increase the amount of failures you encounter

but like, that's not what we see. let me maybe give you an example.

imagine the simple scenario of delivering mail. we have been delivering mail for decades, and while it's not impossible for things to get lost in the mail, nowadays, it's rather rare for a letter or document to get lost in the post. however, it's extremely common for a package or food delivery to get lost. why?

it's not that error is inevitable at scale. it's that greedy executives, at a certain scale, like skipping all the necessary parts that make things actually reliable. if we hired enough people to deliver food instead of rushing a fleet of underpaid, gig-economy workers, people would actually spend the time to make sure that everything is done properly

instead, companies expect a large number of things to go wrong and take an enormous cut out of the money sloshing around to ensure that they're still on top despite wasting so many resources and people's time. Amazon offers painless returns not because they're so kind, but because they pay their workers so little and mistakes are so common that people would actually stop buying from them if they just told people to fuck off.

it's not scale that's the problem. it's greed

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LibKleinesFilmroellchen

That Day I Inlined Two Functions And Performance Went Up By 10% I'm Not Even Kidding

github.com/SerenityOS/serenity

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