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I see fences where there was no fence before.

Anarcho-Daoist, "cyber"-working towards-"solar"-punk. To Chaos.

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Long-Covid and Osteo-arthritis (possibly Covid-induced) sufferer. Dealing as best I can.

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neonsnake , to random
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Sitting outside a cafe having a nice shish sandwich whilst waiting for my car to be sorted.

Guy on table next to me (roughly 50 years old) trying to say that a Tesla self-driving car is fundamentally the same as Optimus Prime to an increasingly exasperated woman.

neonsnake , to random
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When was the last time you bought a piece of tech that genuinely excited you?

I used to be pretty techy. I'm not a coder or a Linux person, or such, but I used to get excited when new phones came out, or cameras, and so on. I like toys! I used to get really excited by this!

Chatting earlier, and seeing some other posts, I've realised that I've only actually upgraded my stuff when it's genuinely broken, since about 2018.

Last year, or the year before, I gave in and upgraded from my 2014 laptop. I'm still using the phone I got in 2018. My cameras are all at least 8 years old, or more.

Sure, some of this is due to money, but also (this is my point), I just don't feel the desire to do so.

Like, I've got a Samsung Note 9. Battery life aside, I see no good reason to upgrade. I don't see any phone that can do more?

I upgraded my Playstation from a 4 to a 5, and I got a new telly at some point since 2020 since my old one broke, but it was all "shit, I need a new one, what a pain" - none of it was "This looks amazing, I must buy this for this awesome new feature!"

I dunno, am I missing something? Not to be "Where's my fucking jetpack?" about it, but...well, where's the innovation in the last decade or so?

neonsnake OP ,
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@CedarTea 100% - like, almost, it's difficult for me to believe that there isn't exciting shit out there that you and I haven't heard of it, you know?

And yeah, maybe cameras and phones and so on are at a point where we're into incremental improvements at best, but surely there's something that I should be looking at and getting erect about, you know?

Instead, I'm merrily cancelling stuff instead of buying into it, and I'm not looking at new tech and thinking "hmmmm....yes please!"

I dunno. It seems a bit...like, was I just lucky enough to have been born at the point where tech hit it's peak?

Seems rather unlikely, no?

Seems instead that the grift, the planned obsolescence, the pivot to subscriptions and so on has taken the place of genuine innovation.

neonsnake , to random
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Starting to see lots of threads with "missing" posts, where my mates are responding to what appears to be bad faith questions - based only their response posts.

Guessing I'm either blocked or have blocked, and I'm counting this is a win, tbh.

neonsnake OP ,
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@CedarTea Yeah, I tend not to block, I simply unfollow.

(I save blocks for people who are saying such shite that if I were to accidently hit the "boost" button on my phone, I would feel thoroughly ashamed for mistakenly boosting their crap into my friends' timelines. Bigots, basically)

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@violetmadder @CedarTea

I once hit the boost button by mistake on something utterly horrific that somehow ended up on my TL, as I was scrolling on my phone at 6am whilst sitting outside with my morning coffee and cig, obviously not completely awake.

I unboosted immediately, but it was enough to make break into a cold sweat - I cleared house swiftly, but I now block in instances like that.

That aside, I'm quick to unfollow.

What's the "note on a profile" thing? I don't think I'm aware of that?

neonsnake OP ,
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@CorvidCrone

oh, wow.

So, I've just left a note on yours - can you see it? Or is it private to me, is that the idea?

(it says "has sent me links when talking about mending clothes", just so you're not wondering what I've said about you, in case you can't see it 😉 )

@violetmadder @CedarTea

neonsnake OP ,
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@CorvidCrone @violetmadder @CedarTea

I feel a bit weird about it lol, making notes on people

I obviously can't rationalise this in anyway, and its obvs helpful, it just feels a bit odd

neonsnake OP ,
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@CorvidCrone @violetmadder @CedarTea

I see a few different uses - like, between us here, I can see tagging you'se with "veggie gardener, hydroponic practitioner or interested in/ DIY-er and helpful when stuck", that kind of thing, so I know if I'm teaching people to suck eggs; and then yeah, I can see a "liberal but actually okay" or "liberal but fash-adjacent" notes being useful.

Hm. I need to think about this.

Is it searchable, do you know?

Like, if I had a bunch of notes saying "great person for gardening tips", could I bring up that list if I wanted some specific advice?

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Earlier today the UK Government’s Secretary of State for Scotland, Alister Jack MP, announced that he will order ministers to plan for a nuclear reactor to be built in Scotland!

Scotland only has one operational nuclear site left, Torness, which will be decommissioned in 2028.

Will you help us tell Alistair Jack and the UK Government to keep nuclear out of Scotland?

Petition:

https://greens.scot/NuclearFreeScotland?utm_source=email&utm_medium=middle

neonsnake ,
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@benroyce

"No political party caters to your interests, and then you vote. It will never ever work that way in a million years.

You vote, and then that party caters to your interests."

I suspect I'm misinterpreting you, but I'm struggling to understand this.

This reads at first glance like you're saying the following:

"A party will put forwards policies that you don't agree with, and do not cater to your interests. However, you should still vote for them.

"Once you have voted for them, they will then abandon those policies, and instead pursue policies that (instead of the ones you ones you condoned and endorsed with your vote), cater to your interests."

That doesn't seem accurate to me, to be totally up-front with you.

@foolishowl @HeavenlyPossum @peterbrown @RD4Anarchy @petealexharris @bobjmsn @tf @Tarbh @simon_brooke

neonsnake ,
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@HeavenlyPossum

I appreciate that my knowledge of how the US voting system works is inherently limited, but this suggests that 48% of people voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and 45% voted for Donald Trump.

And yet Donald Trump was made President.

These doesn't seem to suggest that more people voted for MAGA than Democrats, unless I've totally forgotten how numbers work.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2018/08/09/an-examination-of-the-2016-electorate-based-on-validated-voters/

@petealexharris @tf @bobjmsn @simon_brooke @benroyce @RD4Anarchy @foolishowl @peterbrown @Tarbh

neonsnake , to random
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Call me naive and woolly and ignorant of realpolitik, but if I'd had snipers posted on the roof of my university when I was 20 years old, in response to me saying "genocide is a bad thing, actually"....I'd have probably not felt kindly towards whoever was ostensibly in charge of running my country (Tony Blair, at the time, lol) and would have been disinclined to listen to anyone telling me that the alternative to rooftop police snipers was fascism.

neonsnake , to random
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Good god, I've just been on LinkedIn and saw the phrase:

"are you a Rock Star marketeer? Or just a karaoke singer?"

Relatedly, does anyone have any good tips for getting vomit out of a keyboard?

neonsnake , to random
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I finished The Lost Cause by @pluralistic a couple of nights ago, and in the final few pages, the main character is mulling over the motivations of the antagonists (MAGA types) who push back against bottom-up organising and top-down legislation that removes obstacles.

This quote really hit me:

"The Flotilla believed that some of us were born to be wise kings, and that winning in the market was the modern equivalent to pulling a sword out of a stone, and that Uwayni and the GND were doomed because they had defied the natural order of things, like trusting toddlers to run the factory.

"The Magas who believed this were a combination of pathetic and outraged: convinced that they were inferior to the superheroic “inventors” and “founders” they worshipped, but also sure that they were smarter than the rest of us, because we were too stupid to recognize our betters."

(the Flotilla is a floating sea-stead of AnCaps)

The second paragraph hit me hard (the first is only included for context), that whilst they might be nominally "anti-government" or "anti-elite", they absolutely still believe in "great men", the John Galt bullshit, and look down on us for daring to question the greatness of such self-made men (cough) as Musk, Bezos, Gates and so on - (until those people start doing things they don't like, of course)

There's a lot to unpack about this book - I really enjoyed it - but it needs some thought.

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