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koteisaev

@koteisaev@mastodon.online

Web Developer. Proud citizen of Republic of Georgia.
Proud political migrant from RF.
#GloryToUkraine
Don't get scared if I boost sometimes #NSFW content - I want support #BBW & #SSBBW content creators this way.
Thinking and reading a lot about #anarchy but not brave and communicable enough to do something in practice.

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koteisaev , to random
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May be a newbie question about but will ask anyway as search do not give a meaningful answer.
It seems but for both and it happens so that often lock files hang/stay in profile after normal restart or shutdown. As result I gent this error message that e. g. Firefox is running while I just powered pc on and logged in.
Proflles located outside of home dir, permissions in flatseal are given for these directories. But still having that issue.

GottaLaff , to random
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They're even projecting about THIS!

Via Patriot Takes:

MAGA used a deceptively edited video posted by “RNC Research” to claim Joe was sitting in an invisible chair or “pooping” on stage.

Fox News host Jeanine Pirro later deleted her tweet. Politifact lists others who pushed the fake narrative.

koteisaev ,
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@GottaLaff Somebody, please tell finally to these GOP/MAGAs that their beloved Vlad the Pedo poops into special suitcase out of pure paranoia that his poop can be used against him, like to make a personalized weapon. It is second life of soviet time disinfo that all west spies were hunting for soviet leaders poop to detect how many years they will live and by this undermine the USSR somehow, that paranoidal fairy tale were invented in 1960s.

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It's fun that people come up with truly clever little hacks like the udm14 trick for Google search and find ways to integrate it into their setups, but I can't help but feel that it has the same vibe as those allegedly heart-warming news stories where a kid runs a lemonade stand to raise money to pay off their classmates' school lunch debt or their Mom's medical bills. Like, that's nice but why the hell are we even in this situation in the first place?

koteisaev ,
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@Npars01 Do inventors use windows these days?
If they forced by corporate policy, it is time to pack suitcase and run to company which do not enforce "only-windows" policy.
After all, who said inventions always happen sitting at desk stared into a screen?
Also, experience of Soviet dissidents how to avoid total surveillance IRL would be handy, it seems.

koteisaev , to random
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Just a #programming #rant of a #newbie
It is sorta depressing when I was trying to do very simple thing in #python - encode raw bytes sequence into emoji with #base1024, to see whether it would be shorter than base64, but I can't install related packages such baseEmoji. This package gives obscure error when started while other similar packages even can't be installed as it return an error.
May be this is some punishement for being on windows 10? But errors I see don't look platform-specific.

koteisaev OP ,
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@mborus Thanks a lot for this very informative answer!. Other packages I tried just fail at installation with obscure (for me) errors. This one at least can be installed, yet with own problem being unusable with this error. i just asked search engine (Kagi) for "how to encode bytes to emoji in python". May be I had to use specialized search tool such as pyPI instead from start, which allows to find not so ancient packages.
I am newbie to Python, so prefer to NOT edit packages written by others.

koteisaev OP ,
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@picard So far, so good. I posted a bit of my progress further in thread, hope that post saved/available

dansup , to random
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The challenge with a federated DeviantArt platform will be payments, if they can offload that to a 3rd party by allowing users to add links to the store, it could work IMO

Otherwise, each instance would have to host their own Stripe payments account, and other complexities

Not to mention, giving Apple/Google Play 30% of the cut

In @pixelfed, we're handling this by allowing users to add links to specific items that redirect to 3rd party platforms

We can do this, watch me 😎

#notJustInstagram

koteisaev ,
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@dansup Sounds like some federated fiat (micro?)-payments standard is necessary, so often I see contexts where some payments are mentioned regarding ways to support creators, backup plan for indie games authors if MS will buy Valve...
It should be simple as possible and federated. E.g. person adds account to instance, that gives them storefront, and payments processed via local bank payments API's (called by instance). As soon enough for local operator limit payments collected, do local withdraw

DemocracyMattersALot , to random
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I just saw my first live-and-in-person CyberTruck, and it did not disappoint.

It was the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever witnessed.

koteisaev ,
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@DemocracyMattersALot I like this edition much better

mastodonmigration , (edited ) to random
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Kind of confused about this 'unified reich' thing. Do you think he means him and Putin, the US and Russia?

koteisaev , (edited )
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@mastodonmigration He just means united state and church, billionaires and bureaucrats suppressing people rights and freedoms to stay in power forever. "Unified" means likely that democracy abolished, and those who do not praise Trump in approved manner will be sent to jail or mental hospital in Soviet manner

pluralistic , to random
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Oh, fuck you, British Airways.

koteisaev ,
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@pluralistic Well, it more and more looks like covert push to make access to internet services authorized by government id. Coming EU regulation about Digital ID and related wallets very handy. So in few years we first will have a choice between captcha torture and ID verification, and few years later, only ID verification will be left as an option.
Complete deanon of everyone and wiping even illusion of privacy away.
BTW: have you an adblocker/anti-tracker extension installed?

futurebird , (edited ) to random
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The bald eagle could have easily gone extinct. But we did all sorts of "woke" things protecting it legally, ran conservation and study programs, banned DDT (that was good for other reasons too) and in 2007 they were removed from the endangered species list.

Likewise pine forests could be dead from acid rain.

The ozone could have a huge hole.

We CAN take care of nature when we want to. And the successes have been worth it.

I feel like we forget this, you know?

koteisaev ,
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@futurebird I feel often overwhelmed with all these problems, troubles, and catastrophes happening non-stop, so posts like this are so need refresher.

randahl , to random
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Another day, another 1400 Russians eliminated in Ukraine.

koteisaev ,
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@randahl Every week or two Russia losses full population of settlement like Baley - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baley,_Russia (12K population or so according to census 2010).
And all that just to keep Putin poop suitcase safe.

randahl , to random
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“It is not firing!”

A scary moment in the Ukraine war has been captured by a helmet camera. As Russia sent new troops over the northern border into the Kharkiv Oblast recently, a small platoon were the first to hear a large number of enemy troops approaching their foxhole.

As the battle rages, they try to fire back using a german MG3 machine gun, but it jams as more and more Russians are approaching, leaving them only with small arms fire.

The video is not bloody.

https://youtu.be/q5tREfP9lss?si=yDGPig9TI99AAnHC

koteisaev ,
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@randahl It seems it will require a special effort to restore former reputation of "German quality" after this and few other incidents I heard about.

koteisaev ,
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@randahl Just hope that Ruzzian problems of this kind are MUCH worse. I heard about a report that north korean shells explode in air, fall in wrong places, etc, en masse.

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koteisaev ,
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@ElleGray Did this teacher drink pupils blood during exams?

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koteisaev ,
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@luckytran At peak of restrictions a curfew has been introduced in Republic of Georgia. As it has been done at exact moment when political protests started to gain traction, many people here are sure that all these restrictions have been introduced just to suppress protests against falsifications at elections.
In Russia opposition events still forbidden under "covid restrictions" sauce while pro-putin events allowed.
These are examples of why many people doubt these restrictions were necessary.

koteisaev , to random
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mastodonmigration , to random
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For those losing their heads over today's actions by Judge Cannon, take a deep breath. This was always going to happen. The writing has been on the wall since Judge Cannon was drawn for the case. Getting all worked up about it is only going to make you crazy and desperate. The way we will rid ourselves of this menace is at the polls in November.

For a sober discussion on this topic this exchange today between @Teri_Kanefield and @JonChevreau is highly recommended:

https://mstdn.ca/@JonChevreau/112401937598899929

koteisaev , (edited )
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@mastodonmigration I hope, US voters, not just here at Mastodon, or at some other places where I seen many Dem voters, but IRL and across all United States, understand that "vote blue while you still can" (can vote and can vote for blue candidate ever) is not a f**ng hyperbole. Now or never, sadly, means what it says.
Time of post-modernism, "it depends on context" and all that crap is sunk on Russian warship already.
If some GOP promise a theocratic dictatorship, they really will build it

FediTips , to random
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The Fediverse's annual music contest/festival Fedivision is back for a new year and is now open for entries. If you're a musician and want to take part please go here as soon as possible:

➡️ https://fedivision.party

You can follow the official Fedivision Song Contest account at:

➡️ @announce

The deadline for entries is next Sunday, voting will be two weeks later.

(NOTE: This contest is just a bit of fun and has no connection to the Eurovision Song Contest or EBU!)

#Fedivision #Fediverse

koteisaev ,
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@FediTips It seems that website experience issues with handling unexpected popularity of website?!

futurebird , to random
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"Joe Biden fascist marxist prosecutors"

Like... how do you even unpack a phrase like that?

The prosecutors aren't--
Biden's not--
Marxism isn't--
Fascism doesn't--
It's New York State not--
Those aren't even--

This is beyond a Gish Gallop (lies so thick you can't sound sane as you counter them all)

It's like information anti-matter and it's not even the whole sentence.

What do we call something that is "beyond untrue" ?

koteisaev ,
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@futurebird Fascism and Marxism are both far-right for me. Maxism ended up being even more far-far-far-right than Fascists and Nazi or MAGA.
I just applied the criteria of right and far-right to Marxism and Nazi (who called self as national-socialists for a reason!). And viola, it worked. It even allowed to understand things like pro-putin alliance of die Linke in Germany.
But putting Biden into same chamber as these mentioned above? "Niet, Molotoff!"

RikerGoogling Bot , to random
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are federation offices closed on star wars day

koteisaev ,
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@RikerGoogling Yeah they are closed and evacuated, to avoid crossover between these universes.

GottaLaff , to random
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“Elon #Musk's abrupt decision to lay off employees who ran #Tesla's electric vehicle charging business blindsided automakers gearing up to equip new EVs for customers to use the Tesla Supercharger network”
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/musk-disbands-tesla-ev-charging-team-leaving-customers-dark-2024-04-30/

koteisaev ,
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@GottaLaff As there is no w3c who would offer "activitypub forr chargers", it would be serious bullshit to overcome.
Soulds like Ivan Muskovite got a special order from his master in Kremlin to subvert the transition to EV, to keep demand for gasoline & oil high and help Ruzzia to finance their war machine.

futurebird , to random
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Over and over AI is being deployed as a way to avoid the high cost of human mental labor.

You'd rather have a bank of servers huffing clouds of carbon into the air than just paying some people to solve the design problem.

I know hiring programmers to work on UI isn't glamorous, and the work is slow, the results aren't flashy, but we just can't keep on skipping this step or wishing that some cocktail-shaker full of matrices and stolen data will paper over the issue.

koteisaev ,
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@futurebird This matrices seems to be instead a blender full of some less glamorous instance that very much resemble poop.
As a joke I tried to give a Gemini some very simple coding task, very simple CLI tool. It ended up with an almost correct code with a tiny yet fatal error.
So it is not able to do even less visual tasks.

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This is catastrophic. Touring and table sales were bread & butter. These are signed bands with radio play who can't make ends meet & lose money touring. It's unhinged. Art has been devalued beyond belief.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/25/shocking-truth-money-bands-make-on-tour-taylor-swift

#Music #Art #Capitalism #Enshittification

koteisaev ,
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@thoughtpunks While other "art" has been pumped with money beyond belief as money laundering scheme.
For-commerce art is not viable. Only quite rich people who do art as hobby and whose source of income not related to it, can afford to do art.

pluralistic , to random
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Anyone who says "If you're not paying for the product, you're the product" has been suckered in by Big Tech, whose cargo-cult version of markets and the discipline they impose on companies.

--

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/22/kargo-kult-kaptialism/#dont-buy-it

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koteisaev ,
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@pluralistic Sadly, these harms coming from "dophamine loops" (when people get bored just by not scrolling their "social network feeds", or when they "feel lonely and bored" when encounter some social media when there is no such thing as that "for you" or other algorithmic feed - this exists.
Impact of disinformation on election is real. Even if it is one-time effect as happened in 2016.
The "you are product" is not a hyperbole, yet it is not so strong as social media companies represent it.

Natasha_Jay , to random
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Requires a < /FOOT PATH > sign at the other end of the trail?

koteisaev ,
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@Natasha_Jay no, it should be </FOOT>, as it is a unrecognized element with FOOT tag name and PATH attribute. If it was FOOT-PATH, it would be custom element which would require </FOOT-PATH> closing tag.

randahl , to random
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Apparently, someone in China has written, that president Xi is an insecure little man-child in a post on Threads, and now president Xi has demanded Threads be removed from the Apple app store for all users, in a move that also proves the point: President Xi really IS an insecure little man-child.

Perfect!

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/china-orders-apple-to-remove-meta-apps-after-inflammatory-posts-about-president/

koteisaev ,
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@randahl I more concerned about the fact that Apple obey this kind of shit. It reminds me how Google removed the apps created by Navalny team for the so called "Smart Voting" (idea was to vote en masse to some 'most viable" candidate from any other party or even for a spoiler candidate but not for putin or his "United Russia" party. This tactic sometimes provided notable results, and always made Kremlin sad and angry).
So Apple not first corporation who bend to knees in front of dictatorship.

randahl , to random
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While Republicans claim, Putin will not attack NATO, EU politicians are meeting to discuss the new plans for an Iron Dome air defence system over the EU, similar to what Israel has.

That is how real this war is!

We European tax payers will now have to finance some of the most expensive military hardware, to protect us from the dictator, Republicans refuse to fight.

Source (In Danish):
https://nyheder.tv2.dk/live/2024-04-15-seneste-nyt-om-krigen-i-ukraine

koteisaev ,
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@randahl If EU or someone else will nuke the Lenin Crypt at the Red Square, Ruzzia will collapse a-la USSR and it will not be a constant danger anymore, only China's Xi ambitions will be last source of serious global danger.

randahl , to random
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The average monthly salary in Germany is USD 3500.

The average monthly salary in Russia is USD 700.

And Russians still fail to understand why Ukrainians want to join the EU.

Russian state propaganda really does work.

koteisaev ,
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@randahl I doubt that strong desire of Ukrainians and Georgians to join EU can be explained only by salary differences. This strong desire to "run away from f%king ruzzia" is not related to salaries as is. It is a much more deeper thing and comes from decades and even centuries of quite negative experience of being occupied by Ruzzia one way or another.

randahl , to random
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  1. The US denies Ukraine the use of US weapons against military targets inside Russia.

  2. For six months US has held back the Ukraine military aid.

  3. Now the US wants to deny Ukraine the right to attack Russia with Ukraine's own weapons as well.

Would the US call these positions reasonable, if it were US soldiers being killed on the battlefield?

Obviously not!

Lloyd Austin reveals, Ukrainian lives do not matter to him as much as American lives.

This is shameful.

https://kyivindependent.com/us-defense-secretary-austin-ukraines-attacks-on-russian-oil-refineries-could-impact-global-energy-situation/

koteisaev ,
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@randahl I just guess that main his argument that if (when?) Ruzzian oil production/processing and export will be completely stopped, then it will cause the spike of oil prices and it will be used by US corps to jump prices of gasoline at pump, at US gas stations, and this will help Trump to win, and in this case US will stop any help it provides now.
🧵

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  • koteisaev ,
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    @chris These are "First world problems ™️ " for me, as i live outside of EU and can order anything from amazon⭐de or amazon⭐it websites only with use of post freight company that provides post freight service and US proxy postal address. So I have to buy with assumption that I will not be able to return the bought thing. Never. Like, "buy at your own risk" mode.

    rbreich , to random
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    Office Hours: NBC fires Ronna McDaniel, former RNC chair. Does the Republican Party have a future? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-the-end-of-the-republican?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

    koteisaev ,
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    @rbreich I have an objection. George W. Bush sent a response that prevented full occupation of Republic of Georgia by so called "Russian Federation".
    The diagram says nothing about tendency of presidents Democratic Party to ignore Russian crimes as well. Bill Clinton stayed silent about genocide of Chechen people.
    So chart itself, while represents general trend among GOP residents, have few important omissions about general tendencies among politicians, Biden is a bright exception from.

    rbreich , to random
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    Who do you trust more with TikTok — China, or American billionaires? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/who-do-you-trust-more-with-tiktok?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

    koteisaev ,
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    @rbreich I don't need the tiktok as I don't use it. Most of my "social media" interactions, like 95%, happens via Mastodon.
    I don't trust nor CCP neither billionaires.

    Strandjunker , to random
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    Just a thought: Instead of TikTok, how about we ban assault weapons first?

    koteisaev ,
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    @Strandjunker [Both! meme GIF should be here]

    GottaLaff , to random
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    🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

    “Distrust of #Netanyahu’s ability to rule has deepened and broadened across the public from its already high levels before the war, and we expect large protests demanding his resignation and new elections,” according to the report. “A different, more moderate government is a possibility.” #Israel

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/11/politics/us-intelligence-report-netanyahu?cid=ios_app

    koteisaev ,
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    @GottaLaff Reasonable. From what I know, main promise of Netanyahu was like "I will give you safety if you will vote for me!". This was meaningful in context of fortress-under-siege context of Israel. But after Hamas attack at 7 October (Putin birthday!) this promise broken. I seen some accounts in internet suspecting that the attack has been allowed by Netanyahu to happen, to distract people from protests against judicial system "reform" (read "making courts docile to Netanyahu").

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Via Angry Staffer:

    This is a new low in a series of them for this .

    This case shouldn’t have even been heard — it’s below the dignity of the institution.

    “Is POTUS an all-powerful god king?”

    Easy answer: NO! Not “we’ll hear arguments in 2 months, even though we all know how we will vote”

    koteisaev ,
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    @GottaLaff The whole system of procedural democracy that has been created from the start with aim to prevent Almighty Kings from ever happening, have 2 common bugs.
    The Myth of Holy Legal Processing created the new Almighty King everyone must obey to - The Supreme Count.
    The Myth of Ideal Parliamentarian created prime ministers whose total terms never limited in the laws or constitutions, which created cases like Merkel and Orban who rule for decades with consequences worse every year.

    breadandcircuses , to random
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    Strange, isn't it, that the values of real people — the things most of us truly care about — are not reflected at ALL in the values of our hegemonic capitalist consumerist culture...

    koteisaev ,
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    @breadandcircuses Like this pic.
    I never was able to take a day nap, even when had a formal opportunity. At children camp I usually read some book (paper book!) at that time.
    Not fan of long walk because of my personality traits, as I prefer other activities over being outside.
    I can have a good conversation with my wife or here at Fediverse.
    Good night sleep seems to be undoable thing for me, even when I established some stable "regime" with alarm clock and stopped to rotate around the clock...

    GottaLaff , to random
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    😏Via Elie Mystal:

    Alabama: Embryos are babies.

    Me: Oh, so we can't deport mothers carrying American citizens.

    Alabama: Wait.

    Me: Also dudes are on the hook for child support nine months earlier.

    Alabama: No. Not like that!

    koteisaev ,
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    @GottaLaff If embryos are babies, then "True American citizens"™️ must be conceived on land of United States, Alabama court says. It will be used as another anti-immigrant "crazy shit".

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    Remember: The real freeloaders in this country are the rich, not the poor. The richest 1% evade $163 billion in taxes every year. The United States literally has a yacht tax deduction. Hello?

    koteisaev ,
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    @rbreich For those who can not imagine what these numbers, this is enough money to give monthly UBI of 39 USD to every of 341,094,314 US citizens including infants.
    Not too much you would say, but:
    1️⃣ this is example of the scale of that evasion
    2️⃣ why not start from something small? Just because it is better than nothing.

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Oh?

    House Ethics Committee investigating Rep. Matt #Gaetz has reached out to the woman whom the congressman allegedly had sexual relations with when she was a 17-year-old minor #GaetzGate

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/24/politics/house-ethics-matt-gaetz?cid=ios_app

    koteisaev ,
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    @GottaLaff Pedophilia is common aspect of today "conservatism". It can be related somehow with especially aggressive propaganda of "admiration" of youth, health, and "ideal bodies" in fascism.

    mastodonmigration , to random
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    Mastodon User Tip

    Make use of #Lists, and when you follow someone make a habit of adding them to a list right then.

    It's quick and easy:

    • Set up at least three or four lists. You can number them to arrange the list display order.
    • After you hit FOLLOW, click the three vertical dots and choose "Add or Remove from lists". This will bring up your lists and you can click to add the follow to one or more lists.

    They will make your #Fediverse life so much better.

    #MastoTips #MastodonMigration

    koteisaev ,
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    @mastodonmigration Lists lack sadly a way to put a tag to list, not account

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