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quincy

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Errare humanum est sed perseverare diabolicum

Trying to be positive, not always succeeding.

life is too short, #kunst/ is long. nerd, SW engineer, EU-based.

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Human rights are universal; kein Mensch ist illegal; mehr rechtsfreie Räume.

#adblock #antipub: I endorse @hhwerbefrei: our cities deserve to be #AdfreeCities!

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dansup , to random
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Just finished my 35th lap around Sol

I don't feel 35 though 😎

quincy ,
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@dansup happy lapday! 🎂

DejahEntendu , to bookstodon group
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow.

This was a great book! Graeber and Wengrow integrate new archeological discoveries with anthropology and turn common belief on its side. In the same way that we used to think that evolution was a progressive march to new and improved species, we also thought that human development was on an upward arc to better things, with capitalism and

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@bookstodon

quincy ,
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@DejahEntendu @bookstodon

I second that.

This book challenges a lot of common implicit and received assumptions about the history of civilizations.

(Also, it filled quite a lot of knowledge gaps I didn't even know I had ...)

it's definitely worth reading.

Strandjunker , to random
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I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it a thousand times: The treatment for an ectopic pregnancy, a septic uterus, or a miscarriage that your body won’t release is abortion. If you can’t get those abortions, you die. You. Die.

quincy ,
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@Strandjunker

so-called "pro-lifers" don't care: the cruelty is the point.

breadandcircuses , to random
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It looks like YouTube is closed off again for people (like me) using ad blockers. And I can't find a single Invidious instance that's still working either. Just error codes everywhere, as if YT is killing them.

Has anyone else experienced this? Are there any known solutions?

quincy ,
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@breadandcircuses

damn. this was bound to happen.

but yt-dlp is still working 👍

I guess now's the time to use that to suck everything of value out of that turd named youtube and archive it locally ...

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