Sven Slootweg @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
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In more amusing news, yesterday a bunch of tractors blocked a supermarket's distribution center, and in response the supermarket blocked the tractors with a truck
https://www.noordhollandsdagblad.nl/cnt/dmf20220704_86845024
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Apparently cops have now graduated directly to "shooting at tractors" - no people seem to have been hit, clops claim they were "warning shots", video clearly shows otherwise
This is definitely all going very well
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Zorgpersoneel met #LongCovid uit de eerste golf wordt aan hun lot overgelaten. Zij verliezen hun bestaanszekerheid.
Toch weigert de coalitie om hen te compenseren, en te onderzoeken welke andere beroepsgroepen hierdoor worden geraakt.
Over #onbeschaafd gesproken.
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"recognizing trans people diminishes women" is the same shit as "recognizing LGBT marriages diminishes straight marriages" and hearing it isn't any more convincing this time. Just trying to stoke a fake-ass rivalry between people bigots are terrified of facing as a united front
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scrolling to the bottom of the repology repository list only to find out that the codename of the current yiffOS release is Knot
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Hello, @EU_Commission…
EC: Is something troubling you ?
Me: Are you a bot?
EC: Would you prefer if I weren't a bot ?
Me: Yes.
EC: I see.
Me: So…?
EC: Do you feel strongly about discussing such things ?
Me: I do.
EC: You say you do ?
Me: Yes.
EC: I understand.
Me: And about my question?
EC: Your question ?
Me: Yes… are you a bot?
EC: What if I were a bot?
Me: Then you should be labelled as such.
EC: We were discussing you -- not me.
Me: *sigh*
EC: But your question.
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Cops are doing nothing again btw
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Farmers are now blocking food distribution infrastructure, leading to empty shelves in stores
https://nos.nl/artikel/2435317-boerenblokkades-leiden-nu-al-tot-lege-schappen-in-de-supermarkt
So I guess the PrivacyGuides (Matrix) community is now definitively a lost cause. It's just endless privacybros yelling absolutist opinions at each other now without any nuance or good faith assumption, pretty much exactly as predicted, with several of the most toxic people holding mod positions.
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@wim_v12e @gargron @EU_Commission
I live in Brexit island (I didn't support or vote for it) so no longer can contact MEPs etc; but the way the Commission have set this up with 0 replies to the public comes across almost like a 1980s propaganda operation (even though I agree with and support a lot of what they are saying and doing!)
It was a perception of Brussels being "unaccountable" and "untouchable" which in part led to Brexit in my country..
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"Child-rearing doesn't have to be authoritarian and oppressive. We can help guide our children, and develop their capacity to advocate for and assert themselves without being coercive. The best way to protect young people is to protect them FROM the institutions that were supposedly set up to protect them, but ended up hurting them the most."
This is an excellent video that expresses what I think better than I could.
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@aeva @efi Unix Express: All passenger bring a piece of the aeroplane and a box of tools with them to the airport. They gather on the tarmac, arguing constantly about what kind of plane they want to build and how to put it together. Eventually, the passengers split into groups and build several different aircraft, but give them all the same name. Some passengers actually reach their destinations. All passengers believe they got there.
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Ecology without class struggle is just gardening - Chico Mendes
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And lawful good, when they inevitably fail to handle chaotic evil, throw a wobbly if anyone else tries anything to fight chaotic evil, because by their yardstick, if you don't follow the rules, you're evil.
Lawful good will side with lawful evil before they side with chaotic good.
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Thinking about how chaotic good is objectively the best real life alignment and how lawful evil is obviously the worst.
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"Calling someone a piece of shit for expressing an opinion is a little harsh, don't you think?"
Look, if your opinion is that a movie is bad or the color red is a poor clothing choice or that tuna fish is yucky, yeah, that'd be harsh.
If your opinion is that LGBTQ+ people are lesser people who should never be seen in the world, piece of shit is the polite end of the scale and you can fucking take it as such or I'll drop the filter.
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@EU_Commission These claims go entirely against the consensus in the field.
The projected growth in AI, blockchain, IoT will lead to a massive rise in emissions, not a reduction. And contrary to your claim, none of these technologies is essential in reducing emissions.
Quantum Computing is unlikely to be mainstream by 2050 and has currently no promise of energy efficiency. There are much more promising compute technologies. Space-based services cause emissions in the upper atmosphere which leads to additional warming of those layers, making global warming worse.
Please check with experts before posting things like this.(fwiw, I am an expert in low-carbon and sustainable computing so green & digital transition is my area)
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Select all images with
crumbling American infrastructure
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"This page looks better in our app."
It's funny how some sites try to present their failures as a good thing.
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Talked to a lady who works for the tax authority yesterday. Based on her job experience, her take on the welfare state is something like this:
"Of course there will always be freeloaders. So what?! This is about dignity. Everyone has a right to a good life and to be supported when they're struggling. If you want that, you've got to live with the freeloaders. Leave them be. That's the price you pay for a society where everyone is taken care of. It's not like they're doing any damage in the big picture - I've run those numbers more than once. You'll always get more out of it for society at large when you're incentivising good performance than when you're punishing people."
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
