Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Wanneer je vanuit de overheid statements ziet als "achter Israel staan" of "onze bondgenoot steunen", realiseer je dan dat dat om dit land gaat:

https://forward.com/fast-forward/565699/dozens-of-arrested-for-posts-defending-gaza/

Dit is niet eens een beetje vergelijkbaar met Oekraine. Israel is een openlijk fascistische en kolonialistische staat, en is dat al heel lang - en onder andere de Nederlandse staat heeft daar actief aan bijgedragen en steun aan verleend.

Uiteraard is het onwenselijk dat er burgers om het leven komen. Maar realiseer je wel dat de verantwoordelijkheid daarvoor primair bij de koloniserende staat ligt, en dat er aan de Palestijnse kant door de jaren heen *heel veel* meer slachtoffers gevallen zijn waar je nauwelijks iets over hoort.

De oorlog is helemaal niet net begonnen; die is al decennia bezig, met de Israelische staat als primaire aggressor.

Dus als iemand verklaart achter Israel te staan en die persoon zich nooit over het lot van Palestijnen uitgesproken heeft, dan zou ik toch ernstige vraagtekens zetten bij dies prioriteiten en onderliggende politiek.

"Ziekenhuizen beginnen alvast met onderzoek naar ontstaan postcovidsyndroom"

Alvast? 🙄

Finding the WHATWG specifications to be extremely well-written, so far

What bothers me about Cities Skylines is that it initially was much better than existing city builders, and then it just... banked off that success, instead of continuing to improve.

The zoning system was slightly better than that of SimCity and the like. And then it never improved, and just always *stayed* slightly-better-but-still-pretty-terrible. And it's still there in the sequel, and still can't deal properly with non-grid city designs.

Same deal with traffic planning; the whole thing *continues* to be car-centric, as far as I can tell. Even in the sequel, a car-free city apparently completely breaks the internal game logic. Building roads is made trivial, but every other type of transport requires much more work (even though that doesn't match the reality of infrastructure construction!).

And like, a lot of the new stuff in the sequel basically just seems to be stuff that mods already fixed in the first one?

To me, Cities Skylines feels like a great example of something that stopped innovating as soon as it saw success.

Coffee is a type of soup

#AskFedi: Spotted a flag that's one white band and one blue band and nothing else, equally-sized. Don't remember the order. Which flag might this be?

(Inspired by a post I boosted... yesterday?)

If you're calling for a 'revolution' and to 'violently overthrow the system', have you thought about:
- Where (chronic) medication is going to come from?
- Who is going to provide services for disabled folks that are currently provided by the government?
- How you're going to replace food assistance programs?
- And so on, and so forth.

If you haven't, then how is your call for revolution any materially different from, say, people promoting eugenics? And I don't mean *intention*, I mean in practical outcomes.

This is why, despite being an anarchist, and despite not being *fundamentally* opposed to violence in activism, you don't see me constantly shouting about overthrowing the system.

Step one is building up, alternative support networks specifically; tearing down only comes *after* that. If you don't get the order right, the most vulnerable people will die.