Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

"The Hyatt does not measure carbon dioxide levels. And, Yes, their system run at its maximum can do 6 air exchanges per hour with outside air."

Despite not being a multi-billion-dollar hotel chain, i can measure carbon dioxide levels and will. I'll have extra masks also although again the offer to sponsor free masks—which our tiny web development agency could actually afford—has not been accepted.

You can get a pack of 20 expired FFP2 masks for 99 cents (euros). They're safe, but the elastic band adhesive may fail, so keep a pack in your backpack just in case. I've gone through 125 with @scremlin since November last year and have only had the string adhesive fail on 2 of them. Both failed right out of the pack, so I put them in a separate baggy and will just reglue them on another occasion. Highly recommend if you live in the EU.

https://www.mondkapjes.nl/en/

#covid #masks #masking #mondkapje #monkapjes #CovidIsNotOver

@nora it boggles the mind that people still think capitalism is efficient when it's very clear that's a lie. capitalism encourages non-cooperation which is almost the exact opposite of an efficient system.
capitalism encourages convergence to the Nash equalibrium, a concept that is notable for very often being suboptimal or even the worst solution. capitalism looks at the prisoners' dilemma - a game whose whole point is that it's extremely easy to optimise if the two players can cooperate - and asks us to reject cooperation.
capitalism is why you get maximisation of externalities. capitalism is why you get the Peter principle. capitalism detests delayed gratification and essentially fails the Stanford marshmallow test every time.¹

capitalism is NOT efficient. that is, and always has been, a lie.

¹ yeah i know that was a bad experiment that since failed replication. but it's a good metaphor.

Trump signs executive order saying all independent agencies are directed by him, must be loyal to him, all relevant laws affecting them are interpreted by him, and have spies embedded in them which report to him https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensuring-accountability-for-all-agencies/

Folks, here it is. This is totalitarianism. US friends, if you're looking for your signal of whether or not you should start making other plans, this is the one.

https://mastodon.social/@NotoriousDLJ/114030474723842863

It is so darkly funny to me that folks who participated in notorious fascist acts of violence like J6 or this guy showing up at the pizza place who are later set free keep dying at the hands of police bc we still live in a police state.

I mean, largely symbolic acts of the government removing consequences from their actions and deceiving them into believing they're invincible, only for them to turn around and get killed by the armed enforcers of that same government very quickly bc they're still not the ruling class? And are still very much at risk like the rest of us?

If that ain't the perfect example of whiteness in a nutshell idk what is!

how dare you write something like this on the website of a university

"efficient, well-ordered" 🤣

I cleaned my keyboard and accidentally swapped the B and V keycaps.

This has caused me to discover that for writing words I touch type as I have no problem using the board like this... but when I try to copy and paste text? I *do* look at the keys and the swap fools me every time.

Experimental design!

I use a 40% keyboard with three layers at home. I do not know why I bother to do this it's very annoying but the keyboard is so handsome looking...

Maybe this is a sign to move on.

Content warnings for politics people, I beg you

DHH going full mask off racist is a good time for a reminder that him and his wee pal wrote all that organisational management 💩thought leadership💩 based on running a company with *a few dozen employees* and is basically the manager of your local supermarket posting on facebook about how you can't say anything these days

Ik heb me aangemeld als luisterend schrijver. Er zijn er veel meer nodig. Dus als je goed kunt luisteren, zonder zelf te oordelen, wees welkom denk ik dan. #gelijkwaardigherstel #toeslagenaffaire

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QphzO3JLM0k

I'm so excited to grow more corn this year. Last year was my first time.

Last season I learned that the seed packets aren't joking about not planting corn varieties within 80 feet from each other.

I accidentally cross pollinated my glass gem corn and blue indigo corn and it turned out beautiful and I saved the seeds because it's so fun for decoration. I think giving my friends cute little corn bundles would be well received.

I'll make sure to actually follow instructions for all the sweet corn I'm hoping to grow though lol.