Competitive Off-Topic

[glad cradle]

Gotta also love how they just ignore the question

Surely disabled people can't make decisions on their own or say anything

[tawdry oxide]

yeh it's always such bs

everywhere

[glad cradle]

Let the abled people handle this, we know best

[tawdry oxide]

when it's not that? you'll have various doctors

[languid river]

"their views and voices are blah blah"

does not listen to their views or voices

HMM YES THEY CARE

[tawdry oxide]

and or "disability orgs reps" who are in fact... part of the org managing various institutions who benefit from exploiting disabled people

by owning the special places where they live

or where they work with no workers rights etc

[glad cradle]

Labour fighting "handouts" while in the middle of chain of scandals of Starmer and cabinet happily taking bribes

[tawdry oxide]

(even tho you said it's a bit diff in germany)

[glad cradle]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/20/keir-starmer-labour-stop-taking-clothes-gifts-from-donors

Lord Alli, a businessman who is Labour’s main fundraiser, had given Starmer £2,435 worth of glasses and £16,200 worth of work clothing, as well as a stay in an £18m penthouse apartment and there were questions that Starmer may have broken parliamentary rules by failing to declare clothes bought for his wife by Alli within 28 days of receiving them. Downing Street said on Monday that the parliamentary standards commissioner would not be launching an investigation.

[tawdry oxide]

digusting

[glad cradle]

But yeah, disabled people are evil money grabbers, not the ruling class nuh-uh

[tawdry oxide]

i had missed that one

[glad cradle]

It got pretty huge, Labour had to commit to not take bribes like that anymore after spending two weeks trying to defend this shit

[languid river]

what is this...

[glad cradle]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/19/keir-starmers-35k-in-free-tickets-puts-football-regulator-plans-under-scrutiny

Keir Starmer is facing questions about whether his £35,000 of free tickets from football clubs risks a conflict of interest as his government prepares to bring in a new regulator opposed by the industry.

The prime minister has been under scrutiny for days over his more than £100,000 of freebies and gifts over the last parliament, with another £8,000-plus due to be registered for the free use of a hospitality box at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium.

And man is already earning good

Not just as PM, but he got a lot of money from his previous job

He doesn't need someone to pay for his glasses and his clothing and his football on top of it

[glad cradle]

Just your regular casual government corruption

[languid river]

can we like

[glad cradle]

The business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, said on Thursday that Starmer’s attendance at Arsenal football matches and Taylor Swift concerts was “part of the job”.

The cabinet minister said he had “no problem” with politicians accepting gifts that can be of “a more personal nature” and said “hard-working” politicians were entitled to “a bit of relaxation”.

[languid river]

spend government money on improving the country

like it's meant to be used for

[glad cradle]

But disabled people want to live in a heated flat? Leeches!

[tawdry oxide]

yeh but imaginethat AZ

what would they do if they didnt have free meals at the parliament and shit

• open bar

• money to pay the flat they live in or a flat provided (it'd be ok if it was a regular place, but in various countries, high rank politicians have like , super big "classy" flats)

and similar shit

[languid river]

oh no! some guy earning $100M/year is earning $99.9M/year now and that $0.1M/year is going into improving the world! 😭 😭

[glad cradle]

Like, I could understand the PM visiting a world or euro cup game where the country is playing as an official duty. But not fucking Arsenal or Taylor Swift

[languid river]

wait until the headlines become like "Around $6M of government revenue this year went into an onlyfans model"

it's not that far off

[glad cradle]

Supporting young, independent small business owners

[languid river]

fr fr

[tawdry oxide]

i know that various high ranked french politicians get like 8k euros income + 6k euros monthly "in case they have stuff to pay for their job" (the ones that arent already refunded)

[languid river]

that's their pay?

[tawdry oxide]

yes

[glad cradle]

I mean, a bit of extra money is fine. For travel and such. That's not that much money for high ranking officials

[languid river]

idk what you mean by "in case they have stuff to pay for their job"

[glad cradle]

It's fine to play the government people decently, they just don't need all that bribery shit on top

[tawdry oxide]

also they can take up to 5 helpers and get 10.5k to pay them

it's not decent, it's a scam

most people dont get 4k monthly

poverty line is under 1.3k or something

[languid river]

just as long as it's not too much

[glad cradle]

Most people don't have to govern huge parts of the country.

[languid river]

if you're going to try to remove humans from the supply chain entirely at least pass on the benefits of that to us

[tawdry oxide]

no no no the ones thing i said are the deputies, the people at assemblée nationale

[languid river]

but no the CEOs just pocket the extra profit

well side rant over

[glad cradle]

Yeah, I agree. Just saying, I rather pay the high ranking officials well if they were to do the job well and without taking bribes

[tawdry oxide]

also, even if you govern, you dont deserve this

you're prob already corrupt (but somehow you can still get such jobs)

[glad cradle]

So what then, Glitters

Let AI rule?

[tawdry oxide]

what

[glad cradle]

If you think everyone who governs is corrupt

[tawdry oxide]

i'm just saying nobody shall get such pays

[glad cradle]

Who should govern then?

[languid river]

what would be a fair pay for them?

[tawdry oxide]

let them live with the average pay

[languid river]

nobody ever?

[tawdry oxide]

they'll understand

a good chunk of these people talk about merit and effort

[languid river]

idk how much work they put in but more work should = more pay

[tawdry oxide]

they're just people born from already well off people

[languid river]

otherwise why get into these high ranking jobs

[tawdry oxide]

more work doesnt mean much

[languid river]

idk what being a government person is like

[tawdry oxide]

at a normal worker thing? yes

but

it's like "these ceo work very hard"

oh yes, having an army of people to feed you infos

so harsh

you take decision

[languid river]

I don't know how hard they do work

[tawdry oxide]

if you fuck up? people lose their job, if you end up fired ? you go with golden parachutes (in huge companies)

i'm not talking small companies

[languid river]

the only thing that's for certain is nobody should be paid above like $1M yearly

[tawdry oxide]

i'm only saying that a lot of politicians are corrupt at various degrees

[languid river]

and that's why they don't deserve high pay?

[tawdry oxide]

because they took gifts, or litteraly agreed to do xyz or employ specific persons

[glad cradle]

Depends on the person. I've seen politicians work their asses off, but in every instance, you can also kinda just cruise through it. Seen slackers everyone, local, state, federal, EU, who aren't even there most of the time. But most people are and work at the very least

[tawdry oxide]

indeed, some politicians do work as intended while others slack

i'm not saying there is 0 work done

but most politicians dont have people's interest at heart

it's a quest for power, glory and money

[languid river]

so then they don't deserve pay

[glad cradle]

That's what I am saying Glitters, is getting on the horse backwards with that

[languid river]

because they aren't doing their jobs properly

[tawdry oxide]

the pay thing, i know some people say : yes but if we dont give insert big number they'll be easy to corrupt / won't be good

[languid river]

that's just wrong

[tawdry oxide]

ah yes, the good ceos tanking (big) companies, very competent

[languid river]

no one should need to explain that

[tawdry oxide]

and yeh uh i think there should be a limit to money people get

and it'd be capped to the lowest income in the company too

so you can't get 36 times the money the lowest person in company gets

(36 is arbitrary, people did calc this somewhere iirc, i'm not putting the normal number)

[languid river]

average ceo

wait no

average ceo is 36x the next highest paid person

[tawdry oxide]

french median income is 1850 euros internet says

so yes, these people with 8k+ with many advantages shouldnt be getting this much

also, lemme check how much a minister gets

10.6k for a minister (16k for the head of ministers) that's nearly 10 time the median salary

[languid river]

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-ceo-slashes-salary-in-half-to-apologise-for-wii-u-losses/1100-6417409/ that's crazy

seems like this was done to avoid layoffs

[tawdry oxide]

also when a minister leaves the govt they get police protection for life

[glad cradle]

Regular ministers? Which country?

[tawdry oxide]

france

given i was checking france i kept digging there

[tawdry oxide]

i missed that one too .... but yeh, this, even this is so very rare to see, a CEO cutting salary when company is in difficulty

[glad cradle]

I see, I thought that was mostly very important pepple like the president given that they know government secrets

[tawdry oxide]

oh i'm sure if we check for the whole europe we'll get diff ways of managing this

[languid river]

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/13/nintendo-ceo-once-halved-salary-to-prevent-layoffs-why-thats-uncommon.html other sauce

[glad cradle]

Yeah. amd the board too. Nintendo also has plenty of money left, they could run for a while without making money

[tawdry oxide]

"In New Zealand, former prime ministers do not automatically receive lifetime security protection. However, they may qualify for security arrangements based on specific circumstances, such as credible threats or risks to their safety. The decision regarding security is typically made on a case-by-case basis by the New Zealand government and security agencies. "

in the UK it seems to be only prime ministers getting lifetime protection (tho some apparently chose to forgo). Then they check the "risk level" for each person it says

[languid river]

because not all of it went into CEOs

google's ceo made $226M last year, that is $225M too high

[tawdry oxide]

even 1 million is a scam imo

[languid river]

it's the upper limit

remember this is google

one of the biggest companies in the world

[tawdry oxide]

also i remember seeing people say "when a person's wealth (including home/stocks etc) reaches 1 million, they should keep that million, get a trophy saying "congrats, you won capitalism" and then, all the money they keep winning goes to fund public stuff

[languid river]

LMAo that's a great idea

the thing is that there is no longer an incentive to work

it's not going into your pockets

as in none of it

that's why high pay exists for important jobs, the scam part is that it's too high

[languid river]

no one needs this much money

[tawdry oxide]

indeed

[glad cradle]

another nintendo ceo before is death spend most of his personal wealth in financing a cancer treatment center

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2010/05/hiroshi_yamauchi_gives_millions_to_cancer_treatment_hospital

[tawdry oxide]

good

(i'll assume the person searched this and funding currently existing places)

[glad cradle]

Nintendo is the way it is, because it was blessed by presidents that actually cared for the company. not just money for themselves

[languid river]

and they are successful for it

[tawdry oxide]

indeed

they also had various clever ideas x marketing

[languid river]

I do wonder how much better the world would be if these companies actually invested into the company instead of pocketing all the money for CEOs

[tawdry oxide]

depends, companies would go bankrupt less often i assume

[languid river]

even if it doesn't go to a public cause, I'd rather have that money go into making better products

or paying people at the bottom

[glad cradle]

a lot of big companies fail not because times change ot their products fail on accident. That happens too, but most of the time its the leaders making decicions that make short term money, but destroy the product itself

see Boeing

[languid river]

also that, they only see short term

[glad cradle]

They are not interested in the company surviving but in the compaylny making money

[languid river]

these companies never see more than 2 months into the future

[glad cradle]

when it dies, they go to the next company to squeeze

[languid river]

golden parachute?

[glad cradle]

about 3 actually - until the mext quarterly report

[languid river]

I doubt they see even that far, but maybe

[tawdry oxide]

also when stocks and xyz, you ""owe"" stuff to your shareholders

so they pressure you into doing xyz by threatening to mass sell

[glad cradle]

no, no, they deeply care about the next quarterly report

[languid river]

because the shareholders see that

and that's all they want

[tawdry oxide]

at least, i've heard of ismilar scenarios pretty often

[languid river]

investors

[glad cradle]

exactly

[languid river]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/944382825245835274.png?quality=lossless&size=64

I see your point now

that explains why the internet is run by zombie companies

twitter, youtube, discord, snapchat... just some clearly unprofitable services that stayed alive solely from investor money

their only value was users, now they need to monetise those users. not to make a profit necessarily, but to point at this to shareholders

[glad cradle]

Funny you say that. This year will be the first year where YouTube will be profitable

[languid river]

I guess I'm glad for them?

[tawdry oxide]

there are also zombie companies as in : kept alive from public money, notably during covid

[lethal plover]

There is a lot of big companies screw little ones by direct and indirect means leading to some innovations getting buried or acquired by big companies.

[glad cradle]

mhm, I dunno. I guess its nice that the plattform can carry itself, but it meant deep cuts into the user experience

[glad cradle]

certaily

[languid river]

we won't get those cuts back without competition

and I hope costs have reduced by then

[glad cradle]

Well, a reason why no competetion takes off is thst its very expensive

again. not many would or could carry a loss leader like YouTube for so many years

[languid river]

I always wonder what would happen if the internet was only starting to become mainstream like 20 years in the future when it's considerably cheaper than now to pay for servers, electricity, storage, etc

[tawdry oxide]

this also works in uh... "creative space" (bit diff topic but). as in : big youtubers having huge production values and raising the bar. which means it's harder for newer people to

[languid river]

the only other reason is vendor lock-in

[glad cradle]

tbh a lot of innovation happens out of necessity of existing problems

[languid river]

I wonder if this is just an inherent flaw of social media

[glad cradle]

Well, YouTube offers the users and a lot of features

[languid river]

unless it's federated or smth idk how that stuff works

[glad cradle]

And that'S valuable

You could do a Dailymotion Channel at any time

But good luck getting viewers with that

[languid river]

okay fair, maybe this is a very good timeline with regards to innovation of the underlying technology

[glad cradle]

Also, big companies are financing a lot of free stuff people, especially developers use.

[languid river]

they are, yeah

a lot of big companies make open source software

sometimes with strings attached, but open source nonetheless

[tawdry oxide]

big companies strat is usually : free, into holding the market into price hikes

something something captive users

[lethal plover]

Federation not perfect cause same as Daily motion you are limited in reach.
What good with federation is if you have a user in many places, then you get all boosts and views, while if you popular in your own social circle on you instance then barely anyone hears about you.
If you pay YouTube enough/cheat algorithm/get hype campaign then you get easy reach to new views.

[glad cradle]

Not the stuff AZ is talking about

Oldwell is made in Angular, which is Google, that uses Typescript, which is Microsoft, which is Javascript, which is trademarked by Oracle, I use Github, which belongs to Microsoft. used to use VSCode as IDE (Microsoft), though currently on PHPStorm (IntelliJ). I often used MySQL (Oracle)

That's stuff the big companies need to be free and open source, moneytizing there would be fatal for them

[glad cradle]

Even without it, basically everyone uses YouTube and has an account

Just easy to use, really

That's also the thing some people didn't get on the move to the fediverse, it's not that much work, but a little bit of work is already too much for most users

[languid river]

why would it be?

[glad cradle]

Because a lot of development is driven by the millions of developers

[languid river]

"uhm my convenience 🤓" stfu

[glad cradle]

Similiar reason why the Japanese companies leave comiket alone for the most part

[languid river]

there are benefits to trying new things

"I'm too lazy" is code for "I've run out of excuses"

[languid river]

what if they just monetised it from the start?

[glad cradle]

They could tell people to not make parody doujinshi, and they do in individual cases, but for the most part it fertilizes new generations of artists

[glad cradle]

Internet wouldn't be where it is right now, I say

[languid river]

definitely not

[tawdry oxide]

Indeed

[glad cradle]

I mean, you can tell people to stfu, but that won't make them leave Reddit either. You see the problem?

[languid river]

they just don't care

that's the problem

[glad cradle]

Exactly, and why would they?

[languid river]

sometimes they have no reason not to care but are just stubborn

[glad cradle]

Though for the most part this is not caring

[languid river]

we are all hoping for a youtube competitor

but it's hard to care about a platform your favourite content is not on

[glad cradle]

Exactly

[lethal plover]

Agree, Reddit might have bigger consequences if there was established alternative people would flock, but there was none.
Few that were proposed were either closed off and people didn't enjoy afterwards/were too controversial while federated places wasn't ready for people/ was too hard to understand/ was lacking in moderation tools and most important, less diverse in topics compared to Reddit.
So people gone back because they wanted comfort that Reddit provides in their community.

[languid river]

sure a competitor may be perfect but if I can't watch btd6 videos then I'm sticking with where the users are

that's kind of an inherent flaw in social media that I don't think can be solved easily

[glad cradle]

Also, it was just a bit too much for some people. They want to register at "the side", not look up what kinda instance they subscribe to. We can belittle these people all we want, fact remains that the process is mildly too inconvenient

[languid river]

it can happen, just look at skype, myspace

but those were destroyed by their own actions

[glad cradle]

And if we want to solve the issue throwing your hands in the air and just calling people stupid is doing nothing

[languid river]

I do wonder how discord grew to compete with teamspeak though

seems like they just offered a better product

but what made people consider switching when we're all so stubborn?

[glad cradle]

They offered more product in one

Also free

We paid for our discord server back then

In Discord you just create a new server for free

[lethal plover]

Oh I don't belittle, even if it looked like it. I genuinely understand that some subreddits are really knit tight community.
It's more of how people got burned with Fediverse and decided that Reddit can't get worse.

[glad cradle]

Was easy for us to switch

[languid river]

of course

it makes sense now

[glad cradle]

Plus, you have all the servers in one neat list, so you can hope around easily

Convenience

[languid river]

free, and better product

[glad cradle]

Also, Discord at the time had some issues with audio quality

It was brief, but it was at the perfect moment to let us think "what else"

Also, Discord just looked nice, TS was looking kinda archaic and Discord was neat and slick

[languid river]

still is on pc

[glad cradle]

This is how TS looked back then

[languid river]

I always felt like discord has a weird... indie-ish touch?

[glad cradle]

And Discord looked roughly like today

So you can see the appeal in design alone

[lethal plover]

My group switched to Discord from Skype because there was better background noise reduction. I use mic on camera so people heard when I play game and themselves, on Discord it was solved so we switched.

[languid river]

I can't describe it well

[languid river]

yup that is very confusing

[languid river]

how long has discord had that?

[lethal plover]

More than 5 years maybe all 10

[glad cradle]

Oh yeah, TS noise reduction was dodgy as hell. Sometimes worked well, and sometimes ... just not at all

[lethal plover]

And Skype had none, so when we tried Discord. We all group switched to it.

[glad cradle]

Dear lord, I was using Discord 5 months after it launched

[languid river]

as long as I can remember

so it's been a while

[glad cradle]

Was also for AZ. I am aware, that you know the issues the fediverse had in gettign adopted

[lethal plover]

Discord features from years ago what makes it worth using now, all new features is the factor that makes it less appealing.

[glad cradle]

Yeah, I agree

These game quests don't interest me

I guess, I am paying for Nitro plus extra server boosts, so I can't take the high ground on this

[languid river]

people are too harsh on discord

I see people saying that it's only gotten worse since 2018

a lot of the changes are harmless or just good

a lot are just bad or weird though

like even if you don't use voice messages, it's not going to affect you much, and they are a fun thing to have anyway

even small things like app icons

it's pretty useless but it's harmless too

I gtg sob

[lethal plover]

Yeah, that's why I am interested in Fediverse. Like everyone like to use custom emotes, so you either pay to Discord to have more/ use animated ones. Or with Fediverse host your own/ pay to server owner and use any emotes that on server or even see new ones from other servers. Customisation is appealing to many, so companies will put price tag on it. Same thing with game industry.

[lethal plover]

#1240743141997281362 message

Annalee: At this point, I think all of us know that social media is full of propaganda and disinformation. What is less obvious, at least to Americans, is how much of that same disinformation is now being featured in places such as The New York Times and The Atlantic. No shade to the many excellent writers and editors at those publications; I named them specifically because I write for both. What I’ve witnessed over the past 10 years is the way social media has changed traditional media to the point that top editors at the big dailies and magazines are demanding the same “news feel” that they get from reading X. They see political extremism and culture war[s] sucking people into social media, and want to reproduce that vibe in op-ed sections and front-page news. [For now,] I’ll be ruthlessly evaluating the receipts, sources, and citations of everything I consume, whether it’s on the front page of The New York Times or in an obscure post on Mastodon.

interesting to discuss

[solar harbor]

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-underground-wildfires/

There was too much positivity about the climate change here yesterday

[languid river]

Create your account to continue reading

[solar harbor]

That's odd, I can read it without issues

[languid river]

huh

[solar harbor]

Fuck it, took a screenshot

[languid river]

I was just tired of getting a fully negative view of it

[languid river]

ily tysm

lmfao it doesn't load properly for me

[solar harbor]

Oh my god lmao

It looks like the page was saved in the wayback machine, but for some reason it doesn't work for me

[solar harbor]

Are you trying to see the image from your phone? Did you try downloading it?

It's unreadable for me when viewing it in the app, but perfectly clear after I downloaded it

[languid river]

will try rn

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@randahl/113192402581023638

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@cemedia/113193117962862366

[languid river]

what does that even mean?

[lethal plover]

I don't speak idiotic.
Just UK goverment tells right is left

[proper grove]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-conference-israel-gaza-palestine-b2617483.html

god i hate word soup articles, just get to the point

[lethal plover]

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/labour-bans-its-members-from-using

Labour banned journalists from Declassified UK from the conference because it’s fine for the prime minister to write columns for The S*n, but he draws the line at people who are anti-war. Labour even allowed GB News (the British version of Fox News) to hold a fringe event. It gets even worse, a former IDF chief of staff called Yair Golan was a special guest. What do you even say to this?

A whopping 15,000 protesters marched to the Labour conference, waving banners calling for an end to Labour’s support for genocide. It’s the most reasonable demand anyone could make and yet Labour would give all protesters the Sarah Wilkinson treatment if they could get away with it.

[solar harbor]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=aJCRu1MSfH0

The title is a bit misleading. These are produced by Germany, and Ukraine is expected to receive 18 no earlier than at the start of 2025

Still, the thing is really cool. I can't wait to see how it performs on the battlefield

[lethal plover]

https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran/113194610647890806

[proper grove]

https://x.com/r230614_shin/status/1838029920506892460

man its honestly impressive how bad ubisoft is handling AC

[glad cradle]

This kind if stuff is why people in high positions speak via translators even when they speak each other's language. There is more to it then just perfectly understanding words.

Ubisoft directly lacked some Japanese sanity checkers. Pretty easy to stumble, and Ubisoft didn't jist stumble, it's a whole Laurel snd Hardy sketch

If the capital G gamers think Yasuke being the protagonist is a problem, it's not. It's the massive amout of apparent ignorance of the culture

[lethal plover]

https://ohai.social/@TarkabarkaHolgy/113196526951628139

Parrot talked about it

[lethal plover]

https://kolektiva.social/@ChuffMeister/113196788985722870

[tawdry oxide]

Yeh very basic but done all the time

[languid river]

I hope no one follows in these steps when there are better ways to solve the issue

[tawdry oxide]

yeh same with other stuff

[proper grove]

https://web.archive.org/web/20050908152838/http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/09/01/photo_controversy/

[glad cradle]

That seems a lot of waffeling around

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.world/@AndyHarrison/113201744295133358

https://beige.party/@GrimmReality/113201646982728774

https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/113200274762585696

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@hanse_mina/113203947035504090 @solar harbor The person definitively asshole, but it is funny. Also shows how baby faced guy on checkpoint.

[proper grove]

https://x.com/IGN/status/1839357037576077434

IGN (@IGN) on X

Sony has doubled the price of Horizon: Zero Dawn following the reveal of its PS5 remaster. https://t.co/HoTG1YKmIz

Twitter · Sep 26, 2024, 5:31 PM

[clever forge]

that game doesn't even need a remaster

[proper grove]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ubisoft-shares-sink-decade-low-083010524.html

https://tenor.com/view/trombone-pusheen-musician-instrument-gif-11434220432919976776

[tawdry oxide]

Aaand ofc both these news have far right / gamergate spamming their shit on twitter

[glad cradle]

Hey, live the far right alone, Twitter is their safe space after all

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@rvps2001/113204288678272832

[tawdry oxide]

https://x.com/EricTopol/status/1838937705977110991

Eric Topol (@EricTopol) on X

Two doses of a Covid nasal vaccine spray led to >50-fold increase in spike-specific secretory IgA antibodies against 10 strains of #SARSCoV2, indicative of potent mucosal immunity
https://t.co/5giaE7guvd @JCI_insight with evidence of blocking infections among health care workers

Twitter · Sep 25, 2024, 1:44 PM

https://x.com/EricTopol/status/1838995240180760957

Eric Topol (@EricTopol) on X

"At least 86.2% participants who completed 2 [nasal vaccine] doses maintained uninfected status, likely without even asymptomatic infection, for at least 3 months."

Twitter · Sep 25, 2024, 5:33 PM

not perfect but would still be way better (efficiency wise) than the current vaccines we have

tho it's not a brand enw thing

large phase trial is costly apparently and nobody cares

these seem to be the main problem as to why we dont have nasal spray vac right npw

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@McSpocky/113213194220751875

[lethal plover]

https://fxtwitter.com/danaroach/status/1837310112102301710?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1837310112102301710|twgr^7f13859b88e0caf2a4ce2ab34cb254681212c138|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.comicsands.com%2Fmusk-biden-super-bowl-tweet-2669281050.html

https://fxtwitter.com/Steve_Beans/status/1838379609156378676?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1838379609156378676|twgr^7f13859b88e0caf2a4ce2ab34cb254681212c138|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.comicsands.com%2Fmusk-biden-super-bowl-tweet-2669281050.html

[lethal plover]

https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/113217968407664714

Idiots ...

[proper grove]

o yea i heard about that

something in the ball park of 40k repair on the low end, along with a couple weeks of downtime prob

one thing that always gets ignored in these cases is the judge who granted the search warrant on basically 0 evidence

https://ballotpedia.org/Diego_H._Edber

[lethal plover]

https://journa.host/@pbump/113227977633383486

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.energy/@janrosenow/113230975750719720

It’s done.

This is the moment Britains last remaining coal power station came off the electricity system for the final time, marking the end of 142 years of coal generating electricity in Great Britain.

HT National Grid ESO

[lethal plover]

https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/113235762136667226

[proper grove]

https://x.com/SteamDB/status/1841374449318220159

SteamDB (@SteamDB) on X

German regulators have specified that all games must have a rating in order to be sold to customers in Germany.

Starting on November 15, 2024 @Steam will no longer display games to customers in Germany if the game is missing a valid age rating.

Twitter · Oct 2, 2024, 7:07 AM

[clever forge]

oh no

they found steam

after like 18 years or something

[glad cradle]

game pubslihers and devs just need to fill in a survey ntw

[clever forge]

Does that mean NSFW games won't be blocked on german Steam anymore at least?

[glad cradle]

good question

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@democratsabroad/113238845368389626

[lethal plover]

https://infosec.exchange/@adamshostack/113239714636783051

[proper grove]

Its not grooming if shes an adult, the whole concept is an adult "prepping" a child for a sexual relationship. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sexual_grooming&useskin=vector @clever forge

The behavior could still be abusive but you wouldn't call it grooming

[clever forge]

Well i guess manipulating in an abusive way is what i mean

[tawdry oxide]

Grooming can also be usee for manipulation but yeh it s mostly toward kids teens

[glad cradle]

@tawdry oxide

https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article253823978/Hamburg-Verdacht-auf-Marburg-Virus-nach-Aufenthalt-in-Ruanda-Zwei-Menschen-in-Spezialklinik.html

In Hamburg somebody called emergency services from the train and they a whole part of the .sin station ubder temp lockdown and got yhe nanesxof peolle close

he might have the Marburg virus

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr30351gzro

It actually made international news

[tawdry oxide]

Urgh

I heard it was going strong in africa (i gorgor the countries)

And i heard of a maybe europea' case but apparently the person wasnt contagious

"Vitus scare"

Recently in a place in the us chlorinr gas is in the air

And thr govt said "it s ok it s miiiild"

Yej right ..mild chlorine gas, fk u

[glad cradle]

Person didn't have it at all. They were tested and it was announced today that they weren't infected.

We need to talk about how they got to traveel without quarantine after coming from a dangerous area

But generally you can see that this was taken very seriously

You don't shut down part of Hamburg main station just for fun

[tawdry oxide]

yeh, so first one wasnt a problem. hopefuly second isnt either. this shit could spread very quick and we've seen how govt and all dont give much fuck

that would be way worse than covid alone which is already OOF

and at some poitn H5N1 will prob come too

[lethal plover]

https://biologists.social/@steveroyle/113247254001850168

[lethal plover]

https://infosec.exchange/@dymaxion/113248082319964695

[lethal plover]

https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/113248219515539566

[glad cradle]

@tawdry oxide

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13916787/Vulnerable-woman-38-mummified-council-flat-four-years-seen-alive-stopped-claiming-benefits-involved-invasive-medical-check-ups-inquest-hears.html

Sad on many ways

first of all the benefit system

But imagine, you're dead for 4 years and nobody every noticing

She said several letters to a local reverend were found, torn up, which were pieced back together by police.

'The common theme through all of them was, 'I don't have very much food, I don't have much money left, my phone is broken – I don't know what to do',' she said.

She had a genetic disability and some on top of that, and they took her off benefits and there was not put into this why someone which such severe conditions would go off benefits

But at least there is now a labour government, and

oh nvm

[tawdry oxide]

yeh...

also a disabled athlete asked for a wheelchair ramp for home. a person from a public disability office thing suggested euthanasia

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/09/02/canada-paralympian-christine-gauthier-stairlift-euthanasia/

and yeh, in many coutnries they're always making it tighter, fit to work "evaluation" shit

all that

so many hoops to go through, even with lifelong condition, you usually have to do the papers again and hope that they renew your rights

etc

yeh "labour govt"

UK trying to dothat

France might bring back the law project they were on

they also claim they want to have one benefit only and that it would be 70% max of minimum wage

which is...already lower than the disability benefit that is under poverty line

and we all know going to push for pushing people ot work

also, in the US mask bans in various places..

not the whole us, but diff US states

either wanting to pass a bill, or trying to, or similar

[clever forge]

Canada not recommending its citizens suicide (impossible challenge)

[tawdry oxide]

yeh...and it'll be spreading

[lethal plover]

https://nileane.fr/@nileane/113248970775697816

[tawdry oxide]

yay for that victory it's really something

[tawdry oxide]

yeh they're going after

some "created" a fork and all (they didnt do much for now)

and ofc it's all gamergateshit

[solar harbor]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/x-loses-appeal-of-400k-australia-child-safety-fine-now-faces-more-fines/

It's like saying "Nice try, officer, but I have legally changed my name, so the person you are trying to arrest doesn't exist"

[glad cradle]

Although, for now Godot ended up with more money rather than less

Of course, the reviews are kinda a stain

[lethal plover]

Yeah good big, medium and low reviews games get raided with wokot... Stupid bots and lots of them russian bots....

@glad cradle also it's all started with this https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@shram86/113250757972519227

[glad cradle]

Ludicrous statement

[lethal plover]

So poking idiots triggered more idiots to crawl

[glad cradle]

But I can see where they organized

You could probably take a dive into kotakuinaction and see some of the organisation for that

[lethal plover]

Discussion on the post really interesting even if it goes ways from some comments.
But gist is, people are easily swayed into same mindset. So there always bad actor that gives push while the masses pick up and ride that wave.

[glad cradle]

Well, yes

Happens everywhere

And it annoys it when it comes from groups I associate with

Heck, I managed to accidentally start a short lived harassement campaign

[lethal plover]

I fear for voting we will have soon. Hope the worst we can prevent but Russia won't sit idly this time.

[glad cradle]

Wasn't intended and I shut it down as best I could, but man, the thing snowballed very quickly

[glad cradle]

Yeah, best of luck. Truth to be told, they probably don't have to do that much more. In Germany they laid the groundwork years ago, probably goes double for Moldova

given that they have their eye on it for a long time

[lethal plover]

I mean it's too blatant here. The desperation irks from pro Russia parties but those of russian mindset will follow through while those of Romanian or smart people see as it is.
Though I don't think I am smart, but it's so obvious. Maybe because I get right news and see all corruption and scandal around buying people to protest and other things.

[proper grove]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tencent-guillemot-family-said-consider-134712316.html

[proper grove]

https://x.com/fromsoftware_pr/status/1842036975181902264

[lethal plover]

https://infosec.exchange/@malwaretech/113257047424000919

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.online/@spocko/113258177677417950
https://mastodon.social/@christianschwaegerl/113259039167963496

https://mastodon.social/@augieray/113257909150263764

https://infosec.exchange/@malwaretech/113257047424000919

[tawdry oxide]

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@bretcarmichael/113260325477314795

[lethal plover]

https://newsmast.social/@KamalaHarrisWin/113261218127707076

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@Savvyhomestead/113262595959049026

https://mastodon.social/@krzyzanowskim/113262926776525028 https://mastodon.social/@GeekAndDad/113263166600273498 @glad cradle

[lethal plover]

https://zeroes.ca/@broadwaybabyto/113263947102195504 @tawdry oxide

US is broken

Cop: Normal people(like me) won't wear mask so you either hiding something or deathly ill.
And you don't seem like deathly ill person to me!

[tawdry oxide]

yeh i seen this

and iirc i stated here that in various states there were mask bans things

either trying to pass, or wanting to propose one, or passed

there was one place where it was repelled i think

and yeh, clearly, only elderly ish white folks will be prob allowed to wear

another way to kill minorized people, to give power to the police

also in france they put algo surveillance cams "for security during olympics"

and now "we're going to make them permanent"

ofc various people knew it'd never be temp

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.online/@justinfarrimond/113264892070258523

@lost harness ^

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@tdp_org/113265637976714407

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@rvps2001/113266414048018684

https://mastodon.social/@rvps2001/113266406206723791

[glad cradle]

isn't time to retire

Come to Europe we give you a free place to live in Den Haag

[tawdry oxide]

https://x.com/resiapretorius/status/1840811662355386699?s=61&t=yKSNMvmF1wirrZFK0QB3Mg

Resia Pretorius (@resiapretorius) on X

4/Endothelial Dysfunction (ED) plays a central role in both acute and long-term COVID. Persistent fibrinaloid microclots have been identified as key drivers of symptoms. These abnormal clots obstruct circulation and oxygen delivery, exacerbating disease. #BloodClots

Twitter · Sep 30, 2024, 5:51 PM

(New study up there if curious)

https://x.com/resiapretorius/status/1840811668411908354?s=61&t=yKSNMvmF1wirrZFK0QB3Mg

Resia Pretorius (@resiapretorius) on X

5/Capillary rarefication or a reduction in the number of capillaries is seen in Long COVID, further diminishing the blood supply to organs, especially during physical activity. 🚶‍♂️This might explain fatigue and other debilitating symptoms. #Microcirculation

Twitter · Sep 30, 2024, 5:51 PM

The visuals are a dense and all but the tweets are cool

[proper grove]

https://www.naval-technology.com/news/new-zealands-hmnzs-manawanui-capsizes-after-running-aground/

they managed to hit a reef in a ship specifically designed for hydrography

[tawdry oxide]

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.online/@spocko/113268848877376940

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@Brit_In_Moldova/113272910862297097

[lethal plover]

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113274343620089198

[lethal plover]

https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/113276328412719977

[lethal plover]

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113277579039163984

[glad cradle]

https://www.t-online.de/sport/fussball/bundesliga/id_100506252/vfl-wolfsburg-kevin-behrens-verweigerte-unterschrift-auf-regenbogen-trikot.html

Scandal surrounding Kevin Behrens: The former national player is said to have refused to sign a VfL Wolfsburg jersey with a rainbow logo. This is reported by "Sport Bild". The incident occurred during an internal signing session in the last week of September. The marketing department had asked the players to sign fan articles for various purposes.

Behrens is said to have refused several times and allegedly said: "I won't sign such gay shit." This statement caused horror among the club's employees. The incident was then immediately reported to the sporting management.

@rapid umbra

btw the brother-in-law of the Dutch Volleyball player that got to participate in the Olympics despite being convicted of sexual assault of a minor

It was more than SA, but server doesn't let me write that

[rapid umbra]

disgusting

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@Meyerweb/113278934857741435

context#1240743141997281362 message

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113279036767428522

[lethal plover]

https://ohai.social/@dramypsyd/113278502989485883

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/113280329228188280

[tawdry oxide]

ew

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@skry/113281634011217928

https://mastodon.energy/@Sustainable2050/113281529208723132

[lethal plover]

https://masto.ai/@geekgyrl/113280602345250168

[lethal plover]

https://fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/113282949294781644

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/10/08/norways-national-football-stadium-has-the-worlds-largest-vertical-solar-roof-how-does-it-w

[proper grove]

https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/kamala-harris-twitch-account-streamed-tim-waltz-rally-alongside-live-wow-gameplay-021612716.html

https://vxtwitter.com/N_Tys26/status/1844189877937824148

just footage of random wow gameplay put next to him

[lethal plover]

https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/113289386901963090

https://mastodon.lawprofs.org/@CarolineMalaCorbin/113289185306502574

[lethal plover]

https://mk.absturztau.be/notes/9z7tskqrf17002mt @glad cradle

part of Godot is woke
let's fork!
oh wait, we are shit and doing it for controversy sake!
Nah, Godot woke guys!

[proper grove]

dam wonder why he might want to step away

[glad cradle]

jesus

[glad cradle]

The fate of most reactionary actions by idea people without skills

And on that note, also the fate of most communities that angrily say they're non-political

when they're assembling as a political reaction

@soft dirge

me when typescript makes noises

[tawdry oxide]

chariot living dangerously

[solar harbor]

https://en.usm.media/the-state-of-the-coast-of-crimea-is-approaching-an-ecological-disaster/

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/113295129479897008

[lethal plover]

https://infosec.exchange/@ravirockks/113297997676928752

[lethal plover]

https://chaos.social/@realhackhistory/113295928732642760

[glad cradle]

damn, service providers stealing your data? that would be bad, glad this doesn't happen on the legal side

[solar harbor]

[glad cradle]

no, no it's 3.3 of all high schoolers 330% percent are trans, this is the future liberals want

[solar harbor]

Lol. It's kind of funny in a humourless way to be exiting the subway while at the start of an air alert, considering how that's the opposite of what we should be doing. We're approaching 3 years of this, everyone has long since ceased to care about the sirens.

[steady spade]

Asmongold got banned from Twitch

[glad cradle]

@lethal plover

https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/allergy-risk-walthamstow-cat-faces-30153536

The London Ambulance Service is facing backlash after trying to evict a much-loved cat from Walthamstow Ambulance Station. Defib has been a familiar sight at the Grove Park Avenue base for 16 years after being adopted by paramedics when he was just a kitten.

The black and white feline now risks losing the only bed he's ever known after a change in management dubbed him an infection control and allergy risk.

Cat has been living there so long. I can understand allergy risk and all, but it was fine for 16 years, just say no new cat afterwards, cat is probably not living that much longer anyways

[lethal plover]

If it was allergy worry... it would be addressed not 16 years after. This is some change in uppermanagement bs

[glad cradle]

Yep

[glad cradle]

Certainly wasn't the workers

He is fed and cared for by paramedics taking their break at the station, with staff even creating a check-in and cuddle rota during the national lockdown.

My guess would be that some manager saw them relaxing with the cat during breaks, and you can't have happy workers

Allergy argument is weird btw because they want to bring therapy dogs in

So I don't know what's happening here, if it's a manager on powertrip or they just don't like cats

[arctic vapor]

Also iirc there's cat food that prevents cats from producing protein thst causes allergic reactions, coupled with the fact the cat has been part of the service foe 16 years - yeah, upper management bs, and I'd know cuz I worked for NHS lol

[proper grove]

<https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/beloved-cat-fired-job-local-public-library/story?id=40200707

https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/beloved-cat-job-local-library-international-backlash/story?id=40351635

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/library-cat-outlasts-councilman-that-wanted-him-gone/

[glad cradle]

Yeah, that was a very good story

[glad cradle]

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/single-justice-procedure-dying-man-prosecuted-fasttrack-court-insurance-dvla-b1188357.html

A dying man has been prosecuted in a controversial fast-track court for not having insurance on his defunct van in the weeks after being told his life was ending.

The 66-year-old received a conviction earlier this month after the DVLA pursued a case against him through the beleagured Single Justice Procedure.

The man, from Market Drayton in Shropshire, detailed his battle with a chronic respiratory condition in a letter to the court, and revealed that he spent four months in hospital over the summer.

But the letter was not seen by DVLA prosecutors – who could have withdrawn the case – due to the fast-track set-up of the Single Justice Procedure, a courts process introduced a decade ago to cut costs.

In his letter, he wrote: “I am in poor health and have been for a number of years with chronic COPD. As a result, I have spent a considerable amount of time in hospital.

“At Easter this year, I was diagnosed with End of Life stage. Consequently I was in no fit state, either physically or mentally, to comply with the insurance requirements for my van.

“Since then, I have been in hospital for 4 months as well as other shorter stays.”

They let the Tories just grift billions, but an old dying man having not paid his car insurance, now that's real shit

[lethal plover]

https://urbanists.social/@straphanger/113328589606215857

[tawdry oxide]

yeh it's.. uh

not often people kiled

but various car people do this

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@GatekeepKen/113334167693856162

[lethal plover]

https://misskey.io/notes/9zkron776m5e00ww @glad cradle more nonsence with Godot fork

[tawdry oxide]

"so surprising"

litteraly all the parrots were that

litteral far right people

[lethal plover]

https://toot.cafe/@baldur/113339814585602516

[lethal plover]

https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2024-10-20-logreglan-a-sudurnesjum-aetlar-ad-haetta-ad-nota-gervigreindarmyndir-af-logregluthjonum-425104

[proper grove]

dude in the back squaring up with a child

[lethal plover]

https://point.md/ru/novosti/obschestvo/uchastnik-gruppy-bi-2-maks-lakmus-vpervye-progolosoval-na-vyborakh-v-moldove/
Huh I think I read about it and forgot.
Could've been lucky and got autograph. We listened to Bi-2 whole family at times.

[proper grove]

https://vxtwitter.com/disclosetv/status/1848065250911998133

[glad cradle]

Great he found job be's more suited to

I hope they can get him the job

Heck, I am sure Americans would finance a toy McDonalds location where he can play

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@EvilBunnyPottymouth/113341937055190129

I think this guy is at gun point

https://sfba.social/@MicheleV_AK/113342352846199713

[lethal plover]

https://kolektiva.social/@KevinCarson1/113342876015323346

[glad cradle]

https://metro.co.uk/2024/10/20/gay-man-rejected-asylum-told-not-truly-gay-judge-21803417/

His attendance at LGBTQ+ Pride events and nightclubs didn’t cut it, while the judge said a photograph of Monsur looking at same-sex pornography was ‘staged’.

"Proof that you're gay."

"Looks like you're proving too hard to be gay, denied."

Describing being gay as a ‘lifestyle’, the judge told Monsur there is a ‘distinct lack of documentary material that might be suggestive that the Appellant was truly a gay man before he sought asylum’.

[tawdry oxide]

yeh it's really that when you ask for asylum and are not white

[glad cradle]

How do you proof that you're gay without someone saying it's staged

Like even if you suck the judge's dick in court and then to proceed to have raw sex with him, they can still say "yeah, you're just doing in for the staging"

[lethal plover]

You are committed, but we cracked fake gays even tougher than you

[tawdry oxide]

Ltteraly yeh

being a refugee is horrible

all the dehumanizing

[solar harbor]

https://e360.yale.edu/features/ukraine-war-wilding

So, I saw this article linked on Reddit, and some knobhead with a Canadian flair took to arguing about how this article is somehow pushing a foreign agenda on Ukraine. Yes, an article that quotes pretty much exclusively Ukrainian ecologists and reports on a discourse that has existed in Ukraine for over a year before it was published.

[glad cradle]

Everything I don't like is agenda, everything I like is just

Happens on all sites

Always annoys me when people try to defend Ukraine even when it fucks up, that's just blind

Ukraine made and makes mistakes

the important thing is that it learns from that and tried to fix what's broken

Not that it somehow can't make mistakes

[solar harbor]

Funny thing is, this user keeps making dumb claims even after having admitted not even having read the article. It was obvious they didn't, but to admit it and still proudly be an idiot is something else

[glad cradle]

welcome to reddit where people argue titles only

[solar harbor]

I swear to god, an argument with a wall is more intellectual than this

Ok, I'm done with that. There's no breaking through the fog in that brain. What matters is that whoever reads the argument will see how dumb that user's arguments are.

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@randahl/113347715913852509

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@Some_Emo_Chick/113350954829747000

History loves to repeat itself... We live in a loop!

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.art/@Nick_Stevens_graphics/113352617814781128

hmm yes my 6th finger itching

[glad cradle]

I mean

it does look weird when you edit it in

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2060gy9zy1o

I think people caught on and he deleted bis post

[lethal plover]

perhaps.

or he is misinformed, not always malicious.

[glad cradle]

if he was misinformed he didn't check if this was real and just raged a whole paragraph based on something he didn't see himself

This isn't some difficult paper research, it was 5 second google

[lethal plover]

Can't defend, won't defend.
It's not like Mastodon immune to trolls or twitter or other social media. But it was fact checked so means it didn't pass compared to twitter.

for bright example

[solar harbor]

https://mil.in.ua/en/news/tarhan-robotic-system-is-put-into-operation-in-the-armed-forces-of-ukraine/

They really just named it "cockroach"

[glad cradle]

https://apnews.com/article/american-airlines-fined-disabilities-wheelchairs-ee35b40ac14eb8c79bd0ddea31a1053c

@tawdry oxide

Good news for once

[tawdry oxide]

ye i uh i seen iti think

it's not big but it's something yeh that company is

uh

they're all oding shit, but that one is...

doing it even more

and yeh that tiktok vid of employees just letting the thing slide and bump and crash on the floor

the wheelchai

[lethal plover]

https://bark.lgbt/@hooves/113358332216145680

@wintry tusk about our last discussion about ignoring ego maniacs with lot of money ^

[wintry tusk]

I don't know. It doesn't affect me. Whatever Americans do with their country is their business.

[clever forge]

[glad cradle]

Sadly it has effects outside

[wintry tusk]

Well, sure. But, again, for us it's like the tide, you can't control it anyway. All that we can do is deal with it. Moaning about it doesn't help.

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@augieray/113358647666534585

[glad cradle]

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/23/linus_torvalds_affirms_expulsion_of/

As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call brains. I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be supporting Russian aggression? Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of history knowledge too.

@lethal plover @solar harbor

And of course, there already people going "no, don't bring politics into open source"

My god, almost everything is politics, nothing lives in isolation

[lethal plover]

No politics in my sports!

Athletes openly support Russia on tribune when receiving awards.

Yeah you can be blind to politics, but talking about no politics is same as talking about no gas in gas chamber.

If you can't sniff it, doesn't mean it's not there and can't kill you.

[lethal plover]

https://zeroes.ca/@broadwaybabyto/113361371159865285
@tawdry oxide feel like you have similar experience.

[tawdry oxide]

yehn i dont lay in bed allday (unless oof) but yeh... people dont realize

esp when you see how many people couldnt handle 1 ish month of "lockdown"

(some countries harsher than other ofc. line in china it was very strict (aka what a lockdown should look like kinda but uh surely we ont hafe all details)

iirc i seen this uh htis post, and that person ofc (on twitter and mastodon, maybe vsky, can't remember)

[lethal plover]

I heard horrors about Chinese lockdown, so yeah there were early extremities.
Problem is not about lockdown but about whole how to deal with it.
Think Japan is the best case scenario.

[tawdry oxide]

dotn knowwhat they did in japan? and yeh i heard some stuff like full biometry checkpoints etc, or apparently in some places people were out of food and nothing was coming? (cause the state was handling food distribution iirc)

oh and also the uh...

employees locked in their workplace i think

and delivery people living on the street to always be avail and not lockdowned? (i thiink...?)

[lethal plover]

Japanese have normalised masking long time ago, so the spread didn't require full lockdown like we had to.

[tawdry oxide]

yes, any person feeling a bit sick masks (normally)

so it helped

also i think some indoor places already were displaying co2 in air

in europe uh... was it latvia doing it good at least in school?

https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/education/air-quality-sensors-installed-in-schools-throughout-latvia.a459519/

and you can check the data from a website/portal

every place should do this

so so so important (and then you need to act/be able to act on it ofc, but information is power)

[glad cradle]

They're also generally making less of a fuss when government is telling them to do something, and are generally more mindful of others

[tawdry oxide]

ofc it doesnt mean ableism isnt existing there or anything. but yeh

you clearly had people go to places while knowing they were sick and all

[lethal plover]

Like when we gone voting, my mom asked if she needs to take her dentures. I said we can take masks as we get sickly recently and it will be good to both hide her face without dentures and to not cough in voting booth.
So when we were passing supermarket had a call out about hey did COVID come back?
So yeah it's joke for some to mask up.

[tawdry oxide]

totally yes

many dont realize yet, or, being abled, they think they're invincible

[lethal plover]

I wanted to highlight that masking means COVID and not like human decency

[tawdry oxide]

oh

also masks are so good at preventing many other airbonrne stuff

but there are places liek the usa and all passing mask bans

masks are good against covid and airboen,but also against facial rec

[solar harbor]

https://www.tvfandomlounge.com/character-ai-sued-after-teen-dies-by-suicide-believing-game-of-thrones-daenerys-targaryen-loved-him/

[wintry tusk]

Good Lord, Americans love suing for any stupid reason.

[proper grove]

i hate it so much

[lethal plover]

https://peoplemaking.games/@eniko/113366947097497758

[lethal plover]

https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/113372924485506726

[proper grove]

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1850326584537858393

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) on X

WHEN I’M PRESIDENT THE MCDONALD’S ICE CREAM MACHINES WILL WORK GREAT AGAIN!

Twitter · Oct 27, 2024, 12:00 AM

how is this real

we need to save Harambe, something broke in the timeline

or things are just gonna keep getting sillier

[steady spade]

"I used to be president of the United States"
just put my fries in the bag, bro

[glad cradle]

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/10/ted-cruz-falsely-calls-2-cis-teen-girls-boys-in-desperate-search-for-trans-athletes-to-demonize/

New stuff from the "we can always tell"-club

[lethal plover]

https://aus.social/@DenisCOVIDinfoguy/113383496360369453 @glad cradle

[glad cradle]

We're strapped for money and the Pro-Russia parties happen also to be in line with covid denial and downplaying

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/113386517534440885

[glad cradle]

Something something swastika

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@LukaszOlejnik/113389446702944507

Sewage blew up in Moscow

mastodon strips text in embedded videos

[glad cradle]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360466469/woman-wrongly-sent-male-prison-scotland-because-masculine-features

And here we are, at the pinnacle of what TERFs lead to

@tawdry oxide

[tawdry oxide]

yeh i seen that...

that and other terf bs

but yeh litteraly it hurts everybody

danger

[glad cradle]

Yeah, protect women - that strictly conform to a certain feminity standard

Genitals? not woman
Broad shoulders? not woman
Jaw too square? not woman
Hair too short? not woman

[tawdry oxide]

yeh it's about racism x having control over women's body/appearances too

the norms

... bleh

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@mcc/113392928083335306

https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/

[glad cradle]

Damn

Topsy (c. 1875 – January 4, 1903) was a female Asian elephant who was electrocuted at Coney Island, New York, in January 1903.

Thompson and Dundy's end-of-the-year plans to advertise the opening of their new park, by euthanizing Topsy in a public hanging and charging admission to see the spectacle, were prevented by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The event was instead limited to invited guests and press only and Thompson and Dundy agreed to use a more sure method of strangling the elephant with large ropes tied to a steam-powered winch with both poison and electrocution planned as backup, a measure supported by the ASPCA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_(elephant)

Just casually executing an elephant for entertainment

Just got on her, because I just saw an Elephant slowly crushing and abusing human to death

[lethal plover]

https://mapstodon.space/@zoom_earth/113395767797443004

[tawdry oxide]

OH din hear of

[lethal plover]

just saw post as well.

[clever forge]

@rapid umbra Pretty sure you live in Catalonia but just want to confirm you are okay

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.xyz/@johnonolan/113396611309755215

[rapid umbra]

hey, thanks for asking

So far we are perfectly fine where I live, it rained but nothing special

[glad cradle]

I keep forgetting that Ghost exists and I kickstarted that thing

[glad cradle]

Good to hear you're doing well

My 10 Pound

[tawdry oxide]

Glad to hear you doibg fine meta forgor you were there

[rapid umbra]

[lethal plover]

https://journa.host/@w7voa/113399310458927482

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.world/@FAIR/113398555856933426

[proper grove]

for the peanut thing its not that they didn't know its that certain groups stand to make a huge profit from medical fraud

and those groups are just fine with greasing hands

extremely wide spread too

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-hearts-stem-cells/

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/22/business/harvard-dana-farber-cancer-institute-data-manipulation-claims/index.html

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/113398544077804715

[proper grove]

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/founder-and-four-executives-insys-therapeutics-convicted-racketeering-conspiracy

scandal after scandal destroys public trust and leads anti vax stuff

[glad cradle]

The German Self-Determination Act is now active. You can now change your first name and gender more easily in Germany.

Previously you had to proof yourself with professional appraisal and court orders, now you just need to declare it twice at the office (once, and then after three months again for absolute confirmation)

You can do this every 12 months, minors need permission from their parents, but otherwise not restrictions

Possible gender is female, male, diverse or just plain denial to give a gender

Oh, wait there is one. If you change your gender back, you need to take your old name and can't just make up a new one. I suppose this is to not have this abused as a cheap name change.

[proper grove]

#1240826667535175741 message

its been a long time since the Liberator days of 3d printed guns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGC-9?useskin=vector

FGC-9 is seeing alot of use by rebel groups in the Myanmar civil war after the military overthrew the government

https://x.com/Jake_Hanrahan/status/1480896937452875781

Jake Hanrahan (@Jake_Hanrahan) on X

#Myanmar / #Burma: Anti-junta militants seen with more FGC-9 3D-printed firearms—JStark’s creation.

Twitter · Jan 11, 2022, 1:38 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Cw3K-owAITc

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.world/@jeffowski/113417438041388445

[proper grove]

wonder if some of my favorite artists have posted, i should check twitter

o Margot Robbie is trending because she had a kid, good for her, sure hope no one is gonna be a huge weirdo about it

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.online/@spocko/113420810105465537

[proper grove]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33e75z83l0o

[lethal plover]

monsters...

[glad cradle]

@tawdry oxide

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/wheelchair-user-humiliated-after-driver-bans-him-from-coach-for-complaining-about-safety-and-discrimination/

At this point I recognize this guy just by the picture

But yeah, not just me

The spicy part here is that drivers apparently have whatsApp group where they shared info about him and refuse service based on that

Now the company is facing yet another hefty payout after one of its drivers recognised him from pictures believed to have been circulating on a drivers’ WhatsApp group, and refused to allow him to board the coach.

He had arrived early for the 10.20am coach service last Thursday and was first in the queue, but he said the driver immediately recognised him.

He said: “He opened his door and huffed and puffed and said, ‘You’re the guy who keeps putting complaints in.’”

The driver said the safety harnesses were not on board – which would have been unlawful – and then wrongly suggested that Jonstone-Brent and his wheelchair would be too heavy for the lift, which had a capacity of 300 kg (more than 47 stone).

The incident is particularly embarrassing for Arriva because its executives had invited Jonstone-Brent to one of their depots next month to explain how the company was failing on access and safety.

[tawdry oxide]

recognize the guy by the picture?

as in : you've already seen the person? (or did i misunderstand)

[glad cradle]

Yes, you've seen him too

[tawdry oxide]

i guess i just forgot the person

but...

i'm totally not surprised at all...

shit like this is so common

[glad cradle]

He is very often complaining about disability treatment, which is also why he is on the shit list and why he is invited to meet with Arriva

[tawdry oxide]

i just had to not buy a rollator model because of this

because if i bought this one model (or those from the company), i couldnt take the bus

[glad cradle]

In August, Arriva paid him £6,500 after Disability News Service (DNS) reported how he had been left with a broken ankle and two broken wrists and had to complain at least 15 times about the failure of drivers to ensure his wheelchair was safely attached to the floor and strapped in.

[tawdry oxide]

but yeh, if you try to fight it, you get shit and it has dire consequences...

[glad cradle]

he is in the news often, because he travels a lot and he is very vocal about the times he is mistreated

[tawdry oxide]

and yeh, many drivers have no idea (or maybe never got training) about how to secure a wheelchair

med transportation driver (at least the ones i seen) know how to do it

[glad cradle]

On the other hand, being disabled and massively overweight and a complainer makes him also an easy target for vitrol

[tawdry oxide]

yes

nothing is thougth for that basically

and so many systems "supposedly" for disabled people are...

not thought for them

or only for very few cases

[tawdry oxide]

arent they from the same source?

[glad cradle]

Here's btw when I posted an article about him in August

Same source, same picture, different event

That's what I am talking about

[tawdry oxide]

oh they tot used the same pic

that's why i was confused

[glad cradle]

That was the article when he got hurt and was filmed and humiliated

[tawdry oxide]

usually these situations (along with broken wheelchairs) lead to, at the bare minimum, lasting injuries (for months) or loss of uqality of life that's permanent or...death

[glad cradle]

Comments on Reddit are also very normal about this

The guy is clearly a fucking nuisance, weaponising his disability to wind up bus drivers. Let him sit at the side of the road.

[tawdry oxide]

unsurprised

[glad cradle]

Yet nobody has stated his actual weight with wheelchair ......curious.

[tawdry oxide]

just like yesterday, i read various medical people ""joking"" about sedating patients (they often do that, even without anything)

[glad cradle]

If I keep complaining about a service and still use it, the service provider will get rid of me for good.

Driver is absolutely right to tell him where to go. Weasel just wants another payout.

[tawdry oxide]

yeh ofc, totally wants to be hurt, humiliated and sht just to be able to use transportation

[glad cradle]

I also like to break my wrist just to annoy people

It's just the funniest thing

Also, other disabled people tried the route and came to similiar conclusions of failures to meet disability standards

It's just that most people just take it and don't go big

So him complaining every time it happens just seems to be overproportional because other disabled people just don't complain

And reasonable, seeing the backlash he gets for asserting his rights

[tawdry oxide]

yeah you can't complain otherwise u dont get access to stuff you need

you always have to...

be careful

[glad cradle]

If you get Bürgergeld ( Existance Minimum money ), they can now order you to work 6 months for an 1-Euro job

[tawdry oxide]

[glad cradle]

It's what it says, 1 euro jobs are jobs that pay 1-2 Euro per hour

[tawdry oxide]

more shit like this, combined with "the right to die" shit

...

[glad cradle]

Private companies can't offer these, we have minimum wage, but it's essentially semi-forced work

Like, you can still ignore it, but you won't get money

[tawdry oxide]

yeh

and also

it's giving subsidies on public money to private shit

[glad cradle]

Again, private entitires can't

[tawdry oxide]

they do this in various places through various means... eww

[glad cradle]

You will be on public stuff

[tawdry oxide]

oh

i misunderstood then

but

in france they can

[glad cradle]

Also, specifically for you Glitters: they can condemn you for this when you don't show up three times in a row, with out proper excuse.

And being sick is not a proper excuse, actually

[tawdry oxide]

not surprised

same in france

they lock you in your room

threaten you

etc shit.

(cause a chunk of people doing that kind of things live in a special place tied to the workplace)

all held by the same ""org""

[glad cradle]

Well, we talked about the Werkstätten before, that's not all people out of work, but specifically disabled people who have trouble finding jobs

And the issue is that the Werkstätten are private

And they love their cheap workers who depend on them

[tawdry oxide]

yeh

coercition

...

[glad cradle]

it's a neat idea and sometimes it works

But you know that some people just have money in the eyes and not to get people into work to get them into proper work later

[tawdry oxide]

yes

the end goal is generating money

here, various orgs complained because they now have to pay a thing regarding healthcare (i forgor what exactly)

"govt should pay this for us, we can't, otherwise we'll sink and wont be able to help disabled people"

yeh "help"

[glad cradle]

Yeah, but there are also good examples

Like the Cap market

https://cap-markt.de/

It's a supermarkt staffed by disabled people, and made comfortable for disabled people

With silent hours, shopping assistance, barriere free access to everything

[tawdry oxide]

you'd have to see the working conditions and contracts and all, but yes this seem like it has some good ideas

[glad cradle]

The space between the products is wide enough that two people in wheelchais can pass each other everywhere in the shop

[tawdry oxide]

yeh the row seems wider

[glad cradle]

Trying to find a picture of their shopping trolleys

They are made in a way you can put them on your wheelchair

[tawdry oxide]

like front of the wheelchair?

[glad cradle]

Not quite sure, just read it

But seems to me more like it's own chair

In any case, that way, the helpers there can transport you around along with the shopping cart

It's an option not mandatory

I would feel kinda weird like this, but some people like it

[glad cradle]

https://youtu.be/NZcC6i1WROA?t=15

Here's a casheer showing his barriere free workspace

[lethal plover]

https://aus.social/@shlee/113424513773089735

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/113425473296855044
https://www.usermag.co/p/how-an-ig-famous-squirrel-became
The fuck?

@glad cradle Twitter as always prove that it's a shit show. Rip Peanut though .

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@randahl/113432332718296525

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@ThePlant/113435023059754862
https://mastodon.social/@ThePlant/113435299433256995

[lethal plover]

https://hachyderm.io/@Impossible_PhD/113444885771140827

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@Zarkonnen/113446404925565936

[lethal plover]

https://mastodon.social/@bastianallgeier/113447246357304569 @glad cradle

[glad cradle]

Heh

[glad cradle]

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-debates-lowering-age-of-criminal-responsibility/a-65180780

[lethal plover]

https://infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecurity/113448532840306857

[glad cradle]

I had a weird thing this week where an intern who I given a task to summarize requirements of a client gave me a text that was obviously ChatGPT and I asked her. And she blanked out and said she forgot

Was quite the "act stupid. not that stupid"-moment

[arctic vapor]

I had a brilliant idea.

I should forge money. Why you may ask? So that i could go to hotspots for scam artists and "bet" the fake money. What would be the point? To sic popo at them. They may not give a damn about the scam artists robbing tourists, but if thousands of dollars suddenly entered the circulation? You bet your ass they'd crack down on the scammers within a month.

[lethal plover]

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do/post/3laijg7uxek22

[lethal plover]

https://mas.to/@Brian_Mahoney/113453088460584681

[glad cradle]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/09/blind-woman-denied-benefits-because-she-attended-dwp-interview-with-help-of-mother

@tawdry oxide British DWP still evil

[tawdry oxide]

dwp is shit

[glad cradle]

sending inaccesible contact despite being told how to contact people

[tawdry oxide]

(but all disability thingies usually are)

depending on the specific person you encounter will either doom you or not

[glad cradle]

making centers inaccessible on purpose and when you manage to get there somehow, they say "well, youvmanaged to get here"

[tawdry oxide]

yeh

or if they see a pic of you outside of home

'wow, you can get out, you have energy, go work!"

[glad cradle]

Easton is 40 and lives in Hertfordshire with her brother, who acts as her carer. She is blind and has a hearing impairment and was diagnosed with Pfeiffer syndrome, a genetic condition affecting her skull, and hydrocephalus. She cannot leave home without help and employers have not been interested in her, so she applied for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and had to travel to Archway in north London for her assessment.

“They asked how I got there,” she said. “My mum said we’d gone by train, and she’d had to guide me and make sure people didn’t bump into me and all those sorts of things.

“Because mum was able to get me there, they basically said that that, and the fact that I used to have dogs and let them in the garden, meant ‘you’re more than capable of working’.”

[tawdry oxide]

and you do all this and have to redo it often

and it's all for.... barely 1000

(i dont know the amount in every places)

some countries give you like 500 euros iirc...

[glad cradle]

Yeah

but don't worry

this is of course tory policy

and labour surely will -

The work capability assessment, used to decide who gets ESA, is expected to be reformed or replaced in early 2025 as part of the government’s ambition to reduce the benefits bill. Campaigners are nervous about what that means.

.... want to pay even less, okay

[tawdry oxide]

"If you have no resources, you will receive the maximum amount of the AAH which is €1,016.05 (whether you have a disability rate of between 50% and 79% or more)." french one is among the highgest i think

yeh they want tto fuck it again

every uk party is guilty of this

them and the other one

[tawdry oxide]

iirc i mentioned to you how in 2010/2014 it was changed with this shit "fit to work" assessment they sent private companies do (they got much money) even to people recognized disabled

[glad cradle]

Damn, Switzerland

I mean, its more expensive to live, but not to that degree

[tawdry oxide]

oh, i was going to say "1700 isnt much in switzerland" bu it's 7k

yeh it's super expensive there

[glad cradle]

but not 10 times Germany

[tawdry oxide]

i dontremember if it was sweden or denmark that i checked

and it was like "you can get this, and this" but they were small sums that you had to get separately as far as i understood

so either i misunderstood, or it changed

switzerland is, like most countries, doing shit stuff not to recognize long covid and all so people can't (or struggle) to get the disability allowances

bleh

[glad cradle]

well thkse are averages

norwayvis the only one where it is an universal rights

switzerland and sweden base it on how well you have earned when you were still working

[tawdry oxide]

ah

that's why they're so high

[glad cradle]

The Danish benefits are calculated based on the average of the best 3 financial years out of the last 5 years before you became disabled and the benefit is equivalent to 66% of this figure.

[tawdry oxide]

iirc they might still havesomething if you were disabled and never worked, for some o them

but ofc yu'd have to be born there iirc?

[glad cradle]

of course, they have basics, but that's far lower

btw in Germany they didn't calculate a lot in given that it's only the allowance

e.g. paying your flat aside from the allowance is not everywhere

[tawdry oxide]

oh ! the support with taxi, free public transp and housing benefit is a thing that should be normal yeh

the alg II "extra" is a thing, tho if it's like here, it's complicated

like, here, if they refuse you one thing you asked for, they wont tell you why

[glad cradle]

Well, due to lack of exoerience, I can't tell. I was never on unemployment benfits.

[tawdry oxide]

and ofc, some stuff that helps wont be in those lists

weighted blanket, noise cancelling stuff, etc (ofc, i assume some other countries would cover that)

and like, for mobility aid, you can ask too, but it's a whole paper thing you need to do before buying and bring a quote, but then you wait 1+ year/ 2 years (i heard from people who did it) to get an answer. and the amount is apparently not great

so if you can, you just buy the mobility aid on your own

[glad cradle]

what country are you talking about?

[tawdry oxide]

france

[lethal plover]

https://sciencemastodon.com/@brianvastag/113461760129309532

[solar harbor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu0MaMalSlg&t=1028s

Totally not posting this because I'm biased

[glad cradle]

Social security costs in Germany rise 41.9%. Here's the crux, @tawdry oxide . To pay for people in need, people who work need to pay. almost 42% of all money I make goes away. Put taxes on top and I take home less than half of what I earn.

That's why it's hard to get more out. To pay for sonething you need to have the money and working class people are aching under how much it costs.

Though the true weight is less dusabled people, but just old people who need care, it still comes around as money from the social security pool that is limited

And I mean, I am doing fine, but I don't have children to care for and not a bonebreaking outside job

[tawdry oxide]

ofc, tho usually people with back breaking jobs...are quite poor?

unless it's diff in germany?

the thing is, the billionaires are the one diverting the money

[glad cradle]

depends on the backbreaking job

[tawdry oxide]

them, wealthy people (millionaires too), politicians

etc

there is money

but it's been diverted into...various uh

what's the word

tax break apparently

that + various offshore account shit

and investing in painting and or "homes" etc

like, these families owning 10 places and renting 9 of them

(i thiiiink that tax break and some "investment" things are samey all around the world, even tho some countries may have more than others depending the specifics?)

but yeh ofc funding public thingies costs much

bit diff but tied : countries let people get covid by lying to them and shit. then they wage war because they spew stuff like "nobody wants to work anymore, they all call sick all the time, fraud the disability thing" etc etc

[tawdry oxide]

einkommensteuer?

[glad cradle]

The upper 10% pay for half of the taxes

[tawdry oxide]

zahlen is to pay iirc

[glad cradle]

income tax

[tawdry oxide]

oh, thanks

yeh but the thing is, how much money do they still have afterward

also i guess it depends of the taxes too

like, VAT is the most unfair shit

given it's the same amount for everyone on a specific product in a specific place

which means, you buying some bread will pay the same as wealthy people (if they buy the same bread thing)

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we have two VATs though. Necessary goods are taxed less

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yeh, tho they usually, alas dont have everything in them (i guess it depends per country again)

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like iirc, in various places, VAT on period stuff is not "necessary goods" one

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In Germany period products are in the 7% bracket

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good

scotland apparently gives them for free

(they started in 2020)

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not that long though

since 2020 too

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20 places do apparently

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activiats managed to chamge it in Germsny