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Check yourself when criticizing Kamala Harris. There's lots of great criticism for her, though she seems like the absolute best candidate the left could have this year.
But check yourself, because a LOT of people are using anti-black and anti-woman tropes to criticize her, and it is REALLY easy to fall into those.
Friendly reminder to my fellow americans:
Perfect is the enemy of good, and perfection is impossible in any system where entropy exists - such as this universe we live in.
And, just maybe, consistently choosing to improve society somewhat - no matter how small the improvement - will lead to an improved society for everyone much faster than holding out for The Perfect Solution To All Problems.
And it's not like this will stop me from indexing the site (which doesn't seem to be their goal anyway - they have an explicit allow-all robots.txt), but really this only inconveniences *them* because now their server has to handle more requests due to me indexing category-by-category??
I do not understand what they are trying to achieve here
These are small calories (cal). The large or dietary calorie (Cal) is equal to one kilocalorie (kcal), and is gradually being replaced by the latter correct term.
I did not listen to myself.
The rise of ChatGPT-style "AI tools" is a climate change issue. Advertising them is, by extension, an attempt at disengaging our sense of alarm.
Therefore, "you need to adapt and learn these 'tools'" is an anti-climate stance. Companies that engage in marketing these tools *are* engaging in the politics of climate change, even if they don't know it yet.
can't believe i used to joke about mastodon needing discord-style now playing music statuses when #sharkey actually legiterally had those all along lmao
The liberated zone of #Sylt!
The Guardian: *German punks launch ‘invasion’ of holiday island favoured by elite*
"Leftwingers set up protest camp on Sylt to demonstrate against far right, economic exclusion and climate crisis"
Punks from across Germany have set up a summer-long protest camp on the North Sea holiday island of Sylt to demonstrate against economic exclusion, environmental degradation and the presence of the far right in one of the country’s most exclusive areas.
For the third consecutive year, the young leftwingers with mohawks, torn T-shirts and facial piercings began descending on Sylt at the weekend, mainly by train, to disrupt the seasonal repose of the elites.
The Aktion Sylt pressure group said it aimed to make “safe retreats for fascist subsidy collectors, tax-evading Nazi heirs and backward world destroyers things of the past!”
Their presence has been registered with the authorities, who have ordered the encampment’s residents to sleep in tents, use chemical toilets and dispose of their own litter until the site is dismantled by midday on 6 September, said Hans-Martin Slopianka, a district spokesperson for North Frisia. …"
@gsuberland when I had really bad internet at an old place I lived, I used it purely to watch videos without YT player's buffering algorithm going crazy (by downloading the whole thing and waiting)
Their algorithm throws fits and cannot deal if you have less than ~60 Mbit internet
Currently listening to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKQjHwVc8b0 #NowPlaying
Note: I will continue working on this (basically rewriting the whole thing to make it slightly faster and fix a few behaviours, like the canvas getting 'lost'), and so that page is unlikely to be functional when you look at it now
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.