Fascinating.
Tell me again when it's done and released...
it_depends_man
joined 6 months ago
Damit dürfte twitter jetzt wirklich langsam aus dem mainstream verschwinden. Gut!
Digital frankieren funktioniert jetzt mit praktisch allen Bezahlmethoden. Kann ich nur empfehlen.
We don't know what an eventual outcome will be right now and it would be... weird to talk about help financing "defense" for years and then actually negotiate for concessions.
It's an open secret that if all Russian nukes would disappear over night, the other members of the UN security council would probably party for a week. The US (and the EU) is supporting Ukraine because that's the right thing to do AND it is in their interest because who knows what a bigger Russia will do next. But they're also doing it because it's weakening Russia and that's also in their interest, even though they would never publicly say it or not with the intensity that they actually think that way.
Long story short, if the absolute optimal (for Ukraine and "the west") thing happens:
- the war exhausts Russia more than Ukraine + supporters
- the timing for negotiations is chosen in a way that is extremely bad for Russia, to the effect that Russia doesn't have to just apologize, return territory, pay reparations, and all that, but ALSO give up other things.
- like UN observers and limits to their military.
- nuclear disarmament
- ???
It would look extremely badly if politicians, actual leaders of nations, were to talk about "defense" for years and then actually ask those things in the end. Which they want to.
So (imo, it's all speculation) it's preemptive PR management that leaves room for that asking for more things than would be justifiable with "defense".
One of the events that comes to mind was a "open" conference at a university that "actively encouraged" "low class" participation. (They didn't say this).
What I mean by that is that it happened during normal work hours and you had to send an email to sign up, but they did allow you to come.
Over the course of the event it became clear that it was a joint PR thing for the sponsors and the university to appear to be "doing something about [issue]", so they had 2 talks, an audience participation thing, where it was very clear that the thing needed most was more funding for people and work material and tools (think PPE, it wasn't that or that critical). ...and a panel discussion between [company] and [5 politicians] that in absolutely no way addressed the issues that were brought up in the audience participation part.
There was very nice, expensive catering.
Pretty surreal experience and something that solidified my belief that some very important parts of our society are utterly broken beyond repair.
- the world doesn't owe you at least one morally correct choice. They can also just all be morally bad choices. (hello classical greek drama btw)
- morals depend on your point of view what correct behavior is and on the social group you want to be respected and accepted by.
- because of that, morals are subjective, made up, and can be whatever anyone wants.
So xyz being "morally correct" and saying that, is just that person's point of view, and if you have a different point of view, it's just a difference of opinion.
Klingt schon cooll, aber ich wette die klammern sich alle an den überteuerten Preisen fest die sie selbst bezahlt haben, deswegen fallen die nicht auf das Niveau was es bräuchte um das attraktiv zu machen.
Außerdem kann man nicht wissen wie die Qualität der Gebäude ist...
Easy, join the cult of linux and bow to the power of the cult leaders: "doing math very fast". BEHOLD.
Depends, it's been a bit disappointing to see virtually no change since I started using it, particularly in terms of QoL. It is open source, so that's on everyone, including me, but I had hoped for more speed, etc..
Mastodon is way better when it comes to filtering.
Having the option of a reddit clone is pretty good though and I will stick with it. Who knows when and where it will get that critical bit of momentum.
It's already superior to regular forums, in my opinion, so now the question is what kind of format you want to have discussions in, instead of having to default to forums. That choice is a definite upside and I'm glad it exists.
In a different time, under different assumptions, meritocracy can happen. Working and working a lot in that kind of environment, enriches yourself, your company and society, without a downside.
Overtime you put in, may be more work, but it's temporary, necessary, because you in your job doing the overtime, helps orders of magnitude more, in critical situations, than other people can, or maybe there is actually nobody else to do the job and the job doesn't get done. E.g. specialized surgeons saving lives. And that effort and overtime would be recognized and rewarded under those assumptions as well.
Somebody who has worked extraordinary amounts, would have put in extraordinary effort. They would be community champions.
It's important to recognize that clash of assumptions.
seek so much escapism to be away from dealing with the bleak, always-gloomy mentality of work.
His words, or yours?
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Here is one of my favorite exceptions:
https://www.oglaf.com/assorted-fruits/