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Aral, the reports from that region are relentlessly sickening. Why do you suppose there isn't universal condemnation from the rest of the world? Is it all just due to racism?
@Professor_Stevens Sure, racism is a huge factor. But, also, in the words of the leader of the UK opposition, Kemi Badenoch: “Israel is fighting a proxy war on behalf of the UK.”
(This was not a criticism but a statement of fact and a defence for the UK’s ongoing support for israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.)
Here I confess my American ignorance of world affairs (we do have a lot to worry about locally, but still...). What's the UK's reason for supporting the destruction of Palestine?
That would explain the reaction to the Israeli attack on Iran. But am I to understand that the atrocities going on in Gaza are being tolerated (if that's the right word) by the UK (and the US) just because they are a kind of "foot in the door" for action against the larger countries to the east?
Orthodox priest and professor Darko Ristov Djogo reacts to footage from Chișinău, where peaceful Christian protesters — including priests — were violently thrown to the ground by police during an LGBT...
Las detenciones se producen en Berriozar y el Casco Viejo de Iruñea, relacionadas con manifestaciones contra la presencia del partido de extrema derecha.
Israel ha industrializado el terrorismo de Estado - mpr21
"Irán ya no es víctima de las incursiones israelíes, sino que se ha convertido en el trágico e implacable espejo de su política exterior. Es una consecuencia lógica y directa de décadas de provocaciones no autorizadas"
Se os acabo el monopolio de la violencia en oriente medio putos mierda sionistas, bienvenidos a la realidad cabrones, arde telaviv, haifa es un puto cráter y suma y sigue.
Hubo una época, no hace mucho, en que Israel reivindicaba el monopolio de la violencia en Oriente Medio, exhibiendo su poderío tras su Cúpula de Hierro, sus armas estadounidenses y sus armas nucleares no declaradas, dictando su voluntad a los medios …
Israel ha invocado tanto el infierno que arde en él.
Sin olvidar las perlas como:
Irán ya no se conformará con ser la víctima silenciosa de provocaciones y ataques ilegales [...] sino el brutal regreso de la justicia histórica. [...] Israel está siendo devuelto al lugar que le corresponde, no por la diplomacia ni los tribunales internacionales, sino por la fuerza implacable de un Estado que se niega a permitir que lo humillen y aniquilen [...]
@disisdeguey @xesfur De acuerdo, pero las armas nucleares tienen dos nombres, uno que utilizan de cara a la sociedad y otro que responde a su propósito real.
El primero ws "armas de disuasión" y el real es "armas de venganza" ya que en realidad se diseñaron para que en caso de que alguien las use el otro bando también y se provoque una destrucción mutua.
@disisdeguey Ya, pero en cambio los países árabes en general, están dando un espectáculo lamentable. Ni están, ni se les espera. Se ve que quedaron muy tocados desde la Guerra de los Seis Días, y además muchos países laicos donde el panarabismo de los 70 era importante, han ido cayendo por el camino.
by Dary Felix Garcia NASA is preparing to make history by sending humans to the Moon’s South Pole. There, astronauts will conduct moonwalks for exploration, science experiments, and prepare humanity for the journey to Mars. Missions of this scale require extensive planning, especially when accounting for emergency scenarios such as a crew member becoming incapacitated. […]
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This seems contradictory. On the one hand you're saying that these works are wrongly locked behind paywalls, but on the other you're saying that scraping them is an "assault on the cornerstones of our public knowledge." Is this information supposed to be freely viewable or not?
IMO the ideal solution would be the one Wikimedia uses, which is to make the information available in an easily-downloadable archive file. That lets anyone who wants the whole thing to have it without having to "hammer" the servers. Meanwhile the servers can be protected by standard load-balancing and DDOS prevention systems.
so every single repository should have to spend their time, energy, and resources on accommodating a bunch of venture funded companies that want to get all of this shit for free without contributing to these repositories at all themselves?
Was Aaron Schwartz wrong to scrape those repositories? He shouldn't have been accessing all those publicly-funded academic works? Making it easier for him to access that stuff would have been "capitulating to hackers?"
I think the problem here is that you don't actually believe that information should be free. You want to decide who and what gets to use that "publicly-funded academic work", and you have decided that some particular uses are allowable and others are not. Who made you that gatekeeper, though?
I think it's reasonable that information that's freely posted for public viewing should be freely viewable. As in anyone can view it. If they want to view all of it and that puts a load on the servers providing it, but there's an alternate way of providing it that doesn't put that load on the servers, what's wrong with doing that? It solves everyones' problems.
If someone did an Aaron-Schwartz-style scrape, then published the data they scraped in a downloadable archive so that AI trainers could download it and use it, would you find that objectionable?
That suggestion is exactly the same as what I started with when I said "IMO the ideal solution would be the one Wikimedia uses, which is to make the information available in an easily-downloadable archive file." It just cuts out the Aaron-Schwarts-style external middleman, so it's easier and more efficient to create the downloadable data.
I don’t understand why the burden is on the victims here.
They put the website up. Load balancing, rate limiting, and such go with the turf. It's their responsibility to make the site easy to use and hard to break. Putting up an archive of the content that the scrapers want is an easy and straightforward thing to do to accomplish this goal.
I think what's really going on here is that your concern isn't about ensuring that the site is up, and it's certainly not about ensuring that the data it's providing is readily available. It's that there are these specific companies you don't like and you just want to forbid them from accessing otherwise freely accessible data.
That is absolutely ridiculous. The pressure AI scraping puts on sites vastly outstrips anything people built for, as evidenced by the fact that the systems are going down.
Yes. Which is why I'm suggesting providing an approach that doesn't require scraping the site.
"In the USA" and "by large portions of the capitalist class" are the answers to your question, I think the previous commenter was just a bit too incredulous because this topic came up in the news lately and they'd expected it to be common knowledge even outside the U.S. since much of the "AI Industry" is involved with U.S. tech companies.
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Remember when people were trying to say people being shot in bread lines was from warning shots and now those same people just ignore dozens of people a day being shot in bread lines?
this is just /one/ of a multitude of atrocities that are being ignored & that israel used to try to justify, but now realise they don't even need to do so. i genuinely feel as though i'm losing my mind.
If I was a kid and I found out my parents intentionally infected me with COVID multiple times I would make sure my parents suffered horribly during their twilight years. Nothing illegal. But definitely enough to make them regret their life choices.
I am once again begging journalists to be more critical ~~of tech companies~~.
But as this happens, it’s crucial to keep the denominator in mind. Since 2020, Waymo has reported roughly 60 crashes serious enough to trigger an airbag or cause an injury. But those crashes occurred over more than 50 million miles of driverless operations. If you randomly selected 50 million miles of human driving—that’s roughly 70 lifetimes behind the wheel—you would likely see far more serious crashes than Waymo has experienced to date.
[...] Waymo knows exactly how many times its vehicles have crashed. What’s tricky is figuring out the appropriate human baseline, since human drivers don’t necessarily report every crash. Waymo has tried to address this by estimating human crash rates in its two biggest markets—Phoenix and San Francisco. Waymo’s analysis focused on the 44 million miles Waymo had driven in these cities through December, ignoring its smaller operations in Los Angeles and Austin.
This is the wrong comparison. These are taxis, which means they're driving taxi miles. They should be compared to taxis, not normal people who drive almost exclusively during their commutes (which is probably the most dangerous time to drive since it's precisely when they're all driving).
We also need to know how often Waymo intervenes in the supposedly autonomous operations. The latest we have from this, which was leaked a while back, is that Cruise (different company) cars are actually less autonomous than taxis, and require >1 employee per car.
edit: The leaked data on human interventions was from Cruise, not Waymo. I'm open to self-driving cars being safer than humans, but I don't believe a fucking word from tech companies until there's been an independent audit with full access to their facilities and data. So long as we rely on Waymo's own publishing without knowing how the sausage is made, they can spin their data however they want.
edit2: Updated to say that ournalists should be more critical in general, not just about tech companies.
to amplify the previous point, taps the sign as Joseph Weizenbaum turns over in his grave
A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must never make a management decision
tl;dr A driverless car cannot possibly be "better" at driving than a human driver. The comparison is a category error and therefore nonsensical; it's also a distraction from important questions of morality and justice. More below.
Numerically, it may some day be the case that driverless cars have fewer wrecks than cars driven by people.(1) Even so, it will never be the case that when a driverless car hits and kills a child the moral situation will be the same as when a human driver hits and kills a child. In the former case the liability for the death would be absorbed into a vast system of amoral actors with no individuals standing out as responsible. In effect we'd amortize and therefore minimize death with such a structure, making it sociopathic by nature and thereby adding another dimension of injustice to every community where it's deployed.(2) Obviously we've continually done exactly this kind of thing since the rise of modern technological life, but it's been sociopathic every time and we all suffer for it despite rampant narratives about "progress" etc.
It will also never be the case that a driverless car can exercise the judgment humans have to decide whether one risk is more acceptable than another, and then be held to account for the consequences of their choice. This matters.
Please (re-re-)read Weizenbaum's book if you don't understand why I can state these things with such unqualified confidence.
Basically, we all know damn well that whenever driverless cars show some kind of numerical superiority to human drivers (3) and become widespread, every time one kills, let alone injures, a person no one will be held to account for it. Companies are angling to indemnify themselves from such liability, and even if they accept some of it no one is going to prison on a manslaughter charge if a driverless car kills a person. At that point it's much more likely to be treated as an unavoidable act of nature no matter how hard the victim's loved ones reject that framing. How high a body count do our capitalist systems need to register before we all internalize this basic fact of how they operate and stop apologizing for it?
(1) Pop quiz! Which seedy robber baron has been loudly claiming for decades now that full self driving is only a few years away, and depends on people believing in that fantasy for at least part of his fortune? We should all read Wrong Way by Joanne McNeil to see the more likely trajectory of "driverless" or "self-driving" cars. (2) Knowing this, it is irresponsible to put these vehicles on the road, or for people with decision-making power to allow them on the road, until this new form of risk is understood and accepted by the community. Otherwise you're forcing a community to suffer a new form of risk without consent and without even a mitigation plan, let alone a plan to compensate or otherwise make them whole for their new form of loss. (3) Incidentally, quantifying aspects of life and then using the numbers, instead of human judgement, to make decisions was a favorite mission of eugenicists, who stridently pushed statistics as the "right" way to reason to further their eugenic causes. Long before Zuckerberg's hot or not experiment turned into Facebook, eugenicist Francis Galton was creeping around the neighborhoods of London with a clicker hidden in his pocket counting the "attractive" women in each, to identify "good" and "bad" breeding and inform decisions about who was "deserving" of a good life and who was not. Old habits die hard.
Your feedback is frustrating because it seems like you almost have it, but then you fall back on technosolutionist logic.
The fact we can even say that human drivers are "negligent" is a very good thing. That means we are aware that human drivers are accountable for their (in)actions.
"Autonomous" vehicles cannot be called negligent. It wouldn't make sense to do so. It might be the case that their makers cannot be called negligent either. Perhaps every person involved puts every effort into making the vehicles safe, but they turn out not to be. That is a very bad thing. It is (meta)negligent to set up a system like this, where people can be severely harmed or killed and there is no one who takes responsibility. I dare say it is sociopathic to do so.
The last point does not hold. Spanish people I know eat dinner at 11 PM and breakfast at 7 AM. And they live outside of Spain, the timezone issue does not apply here. Idk when they sleep (Siesta? Siesta in Sweden/Germany?) Please explain.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al 1) The #Fediverse is not #Mastodon. It is vast, and it is wide. Mastodon may be the most *popular* platform that is part of the Fediverse, but that is only because of Marketing. Think Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD vs. every other operating system on the planet. Windows is #1 due to marketing only. Doesn't mean it's the best. 2) Even among Mastodon servers only the flagship server is in Germany. Anyone is free to run a Mastodon server and a lot of them are located outside of Germany. 3) Equating the Fediverse with Mastodon and a Zionist developer in Germany completely ignores the vibrant tapestry that is the Fediverse. 4) Just avoid Mastodon. Seriously. Find a different server. Find a different platform. Mastodon sucks monkey balls but 99% of people never know this because they happy to bitch, moan, and complain about Mastodon sucking when 99% of other Fedi platforms and instances have already solved all the crap they're complaining about Mastodon doing.
Someone educate the admins at mastodon.social that holocaust and Holocaust are different things. Note the capitalisation.
What israel is perpetrating in Palestine is *a* holocaust, not *the* Holocaust. And yes, it is genocide. And yes, they’re also guilty of close to eight decades of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler colonialism. All these things can be (and are) true at the same time.
Basically, if you’re defending israel in any way, shape, or form right now, you’re the worst of the worst. Almost a century ago, you’re the kind of person who would have been cheering on Hitler. And yes, that’s also a valid comparison.
(Genocide-loving Germans on mastodon.social don’t @ me. My mentions are a genocide-apologist-free zone.)
Good summary. No idea what it has to do with my post, which doesn’t mention fediverse once, but still, appreciate the effort. Always good to reiterate the facts.
I was responding to your post about how Gargron (and mastodon.social) is anti-Palestine. Simply pointing out there are other alternatives out there, nothing more.
Over the course of its 20-year history, the ODF standard has been adopted, or at least recommended, by numerous supranational bodies and several countries on almost every continent.
Just encountered a water moccasin also known as a cottonmouth snake in the blackberries. I decided not to be so foolish as to stop and take a photo with my phone. Just imagine a very angry-looking, stocky, black snake displaying a triangular head and posturing as if it were giving me a few seconds head start.😅
I know. My analytical mind was like, "Hm. I wonder if regular non-venomous black snakes can mimic vipers." But luckily my amygdala was like, "Move it, sister!" LOL
Ah, yes, another person who can’t understand large numbers.
The combined net worth of all billionaires in the US is around $6T. That would only fund the federal government (not state and locals, just the federal government) for about 18 months. And you could only tax that once. And that’s just current spending, it doesn’t address the $37T debt.
it's a matter of having a fraudulent monetary system. many people make this sophomoric mistake of blaming "capitalism" (freedom and private property) for the fraudulent, private, fractional reserve central banking system we have that allows bankers to create virtually unlimited money and give it directly to themselves.
until the banking system is fixed and the systemic fraud is eliminated, wealth inequality won't change.
this applies to whatever political system is in place- if the currency is issued by fiat and the monetary system is fraudulent, it really makes no difference whether it's communist, fascist, or otherwise. wealth will be concentrated in the bank accounts of whoever issues the money by fiat
Fractional reserve is fine when properly managed. We can talk about how much reserves should be on hand but zero is incredibly inefficient.
As long as loans are actually paid back, it’s not inflatiionary over the long term since the dollars are returned (with interest) and that money is not chasing goods and services. Defaulted loans are different, so you need to have good risk management and keep those under control.
Wealth inequality is simply the result of freedom. People make choices, not all of those choices are good ones. If you started fresh and gave everyone the same amount of money, inequality will return as time goes on. It’s the natural order of things. Some people may not like it, but true equality == slavery. If you want a truly equal society, we have a place where everyone has the same housing, food, clothing, etc. We call that place prison because that’s what it takes to enforce that system.
@midway you're deeply misinformed. fractional reserve is not "fine" on any level, it's fraud. it's double-book accounting. it means the bank does not have your money. especially when combined with lending at interest, the bank creates money out of nothing, loans it out to people, then gets paid back plus interest, requiring perpetual, inflationary debt money creation that is mathematically impossible to ever repay. this is BY DEFINITION inflationary.
i don't expect everyone to be equal, or have equal outcome. i expect *** equal OPPORTUNITY*** meaning we don't have some rules for private bankers and others for private individuals, specifically that they control the creation of fake debt-money (counterfeit, essentially, with a power monopoly of the state, yet they're not answerable to the taxpayers) yet the rest of us can't create a competing currency.
what we have is socialized risk, and privatized profit. this level of wealth inequality isn't just a result of freedom, it's primarily a result of fraud, and lack of freedom
so i don't know what crack pot econ school you went to but you should ask for a refund
If a bank must keep all of your deposits on hand, it can’t loan money out and would therefore have to charge you fees to hold it. That is a very inefficient use of capital.
I never said that money should be loaned out that would be impossible to repay. That is the exact point I made…proper risk management is key. Some loans will default to be sure…it’s the real world. But money paid back isn’t inflation over the long term because you are taking money out of circulation by paying back a loan. That money is not chasing goods and services and acts as a demand suppressant to counteract the demand increase by the loan.
If you want to live in a world without a credit market, good luck to you. It is literally the basis of our entire modern society. Go live out in the woods and barter…there’s a ton of empty space out there.
This is, in no way, a defense of how every detail of our system today. But the underlying concepts are fine. It’s all in the risk management. I’m fine with there not being “too big to fail” banks…those are a bad idea. Reasonable regulation on what banks can do based on their balance sheet is important. Under that scheme, some banks can fail and their losses need not be socialized. This would change consumer as well as institutional behaviors that are the core issues with the system. Risk, like pain, can be a good thing…it helps prevent doing stupid things. There should be risk in the system. Trying to eliminate it is what leads to dumb policies.
@midway yes, a bank should keep all your deposits on hand unless it's an investment account and you explicitly authorize them to invest it on your behalf. if that costs money then so be it, there's value there. you should pay for it.
the fractional reserve system we have is beyond fraudulent ,there's zero reserve ratio, they create the money for loans out of nothing, so it's not like they actually loan out "your" money they loan out fake money that they litereally punched up on a computer out of nothing (this is one of the primary ways money is created in the """federal""" """reserve""" bank system, through loan origination. so to be absolutely clear, that's so far from the function of a savings bank- it's something completely different. again, the system is fraudulent.
and the taxpayers are on the hook for endless bailouts. this is how we ended up with 25% of our federal budget being interest on the debt. the system needs to be burned to the ground and replaced with sound money, imo a combination of constitutional gold and silver money, and non-fiat crypto like btc, and allowing other competing currencies.
Feel free to bury metals in your backyard and barter. I’m good making interest from a bank on spare cash. Credit isn‘t a bad thing when used properly. It’s how we have grown and advanced over the last century. Is it perfect? No. Should people diversify? Yes. But full reserve banking makes no sense. If you want a bank that is more local and looks out for its customers more, credit unions are a thing. Different options for different people.
>It’s how we have grown and advanced over the last century giving a fraudulent private banking system credit for "how we've advanced" is idiotic. we've advanced IN SPITE OF the parasitic drain on society extracting such a massive amount of wealth out of the productive economy
Someone's taken feeding the birds in Kelvingrove Park to a whole new level! This was the set up I found on the parapet of the Prince of Wales Bridge when I visited it for this morning's dog walk.
The Israeli-Iranian conflict has lessons on market power and war. So does China's use of rare earth magnets. Plus Meta tries a big AI acquisition, and Warner-Discovery splits up after a dumb merger.
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We speak with the UN expert about efforts to stop the genocide, the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" and activist convoys trying to reach Gaza. It was also one of the costliest weeks for the Israeli army.
Someone educate the admins at mastodon.social that holocaust and Holocaust are different things. Note the capitalisation.
What israel is perpetrating in Palestine is *a* holocaust, not *the* Holocaust. And yes, it is genocide. And yes, they’re also guilty of close to eight decades of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler colonialism. All these things can be (and are) true at the same time.
Basically, if you’re defending israel in any way, shape, or form right now, you’re the worst of the worst. Almost a century ago, you’re the kind of person who would have been cheering on Hitler. And yes, that’s also a valid comparison.
(Genocide-loving Germans on mastodon.social don’t @ me. My mentions are a genocide-apologist-free zone.)
i absolutely agree. thank you for this! I received this same message a few days back for responding with an image. And the image did not fall into any of the categories listed in this response from the admins!
stop calling every genocide a "holocaust", an holocaust is a sacrifice, an offering, it's the total opposite of a genocide
The jews were not genocided as a some sort of sacrificial ritual, and neither are the palestinians
That's why we call the genocide of the jews "Shoah" which means "disaster", and we should use the same vocabulary when speaking of the palestinian genocide, it's not a sacrifice, it's a genocide
Language essentialism is a big sign of Nazism/Fascism. As per Umberto Eco:
"Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak.[...] [E]lements of Ur-Fascism are common to different forms of dictatorship. All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning. But we must be ready to identify other kinds of Newspeak, even if they take the apparently innocent form of a popular talk show"
This is another of those scenarios @pluralistic is fond of reminding us of, where those responsible were warned, loudly, before the damage & forged ahead anyway.
It's bad enough that we, modern humanity, collectively, can't stop pissing where we sleep, but rewarding the biggest bed pissers with billionaire status might be just a little over the top in terms of bad idea'ness...
Es geht nicht um Atomwaffen. Es geht #Netanyahu um #RegimeChange - hin zu einer Art neuem #Iran als Vasallenstaat für #Israel und USA.
»Analysis | Netanyahu's True Goal in the War With Iran Is the One He Isn't Openly Admitting. Israeli PM Netanyahu often speaks of 'historical changes that will be talked about for generations' – and his real ambitions for this war against Iran certainly fit the description« haaretz.com/middle-east-news/2… (Paywall)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu often speaks of 'historical changes that will be talked about for generations' – and his real ambitions for this war against Iran certainly fit the description
Implicitly addressing #Israel, #EU says diplomacy is best method to address #Iran nuclear program
Foreign policy chief Kallas: "We all agreed the urgent need for de-escalation. Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb, and diplomacy is the solution to prevent this, and EU will play its part"
Analyst in #Tehran: "For years, #Iran civil society had been fractured: student activists demanding freedoms, ethnic minorities decrying repression, women resisting the mandatory hijab and a middle class crushed by inflation. Yet #Israel aggression transformed dissent into solidarity"
Mes amis, maintenant que les sionistes ne sont plus en sécurité en Israël, est-ce qu’il va falloir leur trouver une nouvelle terre pour y fonder un autre État ? Parce que l’argument principal pour cet État paria, c’était que le peuple juif fuyait la persécution… et aujourd’hui, ils fuient la guerre, par bateau.
**Alors, on leur accorde quel pays cette fois ? L’Égypte, puisque les Hébreux y étaient esclaves et que Moïse a été élevé comme fils adoptif de Pharaon ? Ou peut-être Ur, dans l’Irak actuel, puisque Abraham était originaire de là-bas, selon les textes ? **
The Russian ruble has become the leading currency for Russia's payments for goods and services from all regions of the world, after its share in Russian imports from Asia surpassed 50% for the first time in April, a Sputnik analysis of Russian Centra…
With the announcement from #Whatsapp injecting ads into their proprietary app, we cannot stress enough how important it is to keep our communications secure and private using open standards like #XMPP .
Please tell your friends and relatives to join XMPP. There are many servers out there open for registrations. I can even consider opening my personal XMPP server to new users if that helps.
Disclaimer I am not a lawyer or a cryptographer - the following article is based on my current, superficial knowledge in computer science, software licensing and a tiny bit of common sense.
Básicamente, porque el gobierno está intentando hacer la oposición más objetiva para que no entren hijos de jueces por favoritismo, sino porque aprueban.
¿Quién respalda esa huelga? La asociación conservadora de jueces y fiscales.
¿Cuántas huelgas ha habido estos años por la falta de recursos de los juzgados? ¿O por un Constitucional que no se renovaba, poniendo en tela de juicio todo el sistema judicial?
No hay más preguntas señoría. El ataque por tierra, mar y aire a este gobierno es apabullante... 😓
¿Os acordáis de que Trump prometió acabar con la guerra de Ucrania en 48 horas y aseguró que con él de presidente ningún país se atrevería a iniciar un conflicto bélico a gran escala? nytimes.com/live/2025/06/17/wo…
Trump surprised immigration hardliners last week when his administration announced it would pause some immigration raids that were hurting the agriculture and hospitality industries.
Then just as quickly, the MAGA pendulum swung back.
A new wave of raids would target immigrants in Democrat-run cities — and Monday there were signs that farms, hotels and restaurants again will be subject to raids #AureFreePress #News
From the Protestant church Sankt Peter und Paul in Görlitz, in the eastern German federal state of Saxony, one can easily see Poland. Next to the church, a
Como sé que Mastodon está lleno de gente lista y activista vengo con una petición de ayuda: si la empresa de aguas de tu municipio te cobra un gasto de agua desorbitado (estamos hablando de una salvajada cercana a los 1000 euros) y tú dices que es imposible que exista ese gasto por más que ellos digan, ¿hay alguna manera de demostrarlo? ¿de reclamar y que te den la razón?
Estamos alucinando con la factura y lo peor es que allí nos han dicho que la lectura del contador está bien, así que a lo mejor fue de una pérdida de agua ya arreglada porque este mes la lectura vuelve a estar en valores normales. Les hemos dicho que es imposible, que no ha habido ninguna pérdida, así que como no se arreglase por arte de magia, tiene que ser otra la razón. El fontanero nos ha confirmado que no hay pérdida. Ellos insisten en que la factura es correcta. Les hemos dicho que para ese gasto de agua tendríamos que tener una piscina olímpica en casa o algo así, que no hay forma posible, es que están de coña. ¿Opciones? 😖
Guys I trust you more than random search results. How do you deal with an avoidant woman? A woman who won't say yes or no even though there's chemistry and tension, how do you break through her shell ("break" shouldn't conjure images of force it's a gentle cracking of a suffocating dome, it's saving her) and make (again, so many people think this implies some sort of force, no no no, when you make someone get out of the way of a speeding bus at the last second is that bad??? No it's heroic!) her understand that the two of you have permission from the universe to be together and to enjoy your time together and to be devoted to each other???????? You bros seem to have it figured out I know at least some of you faggots are married and shit.
Friends of Socialist China was invited to the Tiantan Award Panorama, a Chinese Film Event, presented by the Beijing International Film Festival (BJIFF).
Any suggestions on how to get non-tech oriented people to switch from WhatsApp to Signal? I'm having trouble; political arguments and worries about encryption via incorporating AI don't seem to work for many people, who just go "I don't want to have to install a new app/check two different texting apps" and that's it. #technology #meta #signal #whatsapp
Well what I'm doing is offered myself to install Signal or Deltachat on their phones. Specially to people who are normal users (friends who don't care or don't know how to) and by now a few had say yes. Some just install these apps without a problem. Sometimes I just tell them:"you probably have a dozen apps that you don't use, so why not this one so we can message?" There's probably other options.
Excellent and informative presentation on how Arab states have been funding Israeli warcrimes, propping up their economy, selling out the Palestinians, while talking a big talk about solidarity.
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