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Yesterday was my daughter's last day at the daycare she went to for 2 years and her teacher sent a medley of pictures of her and... I'm not crying, you're crying!


 
Turns out the Capital Gazette shooting wasn't specifically against journalism, but rather against women (again). And Trump, like many others with him, have been vocal against both.
Hate produces hate - and hate kills. This is so sad. It's especially sad because mankind hasn't learned from the past. I'm unsure if the conservatives politicians really hate that much or if they use the hate as some wagon to unite their people. In the first case it is really sad that people think that way - in the second case it is a very dangerous game.

Here in Germany It's bad as well. All statistics (criminal statistics, economic statistics, ...) clearly are telling that Germany is in a really good shape - but some conservatives politicians are trying to persuade the people that we have got some "refugee crisis". And the media is supporting it.

I can only hope that times will be better some day.

Unfortunately there are both. The opportunists are seeing stirring fears as a mean to achieve power. The truly conservatives are longing for glorified times they will never be able to bring about, no matter how many corpses they lay down in the process.

And I believe times will be better again some day. What terrifies me is what additional horrors we'll witness before it happens. The last time it happened, we had millions of people marched to their death based on their religion and two nuclear bombs. I'm pretty sure we'll outdo it.

Tendency shows that current wars aren't so much between different states, but between different groups of people. Nearly all current wars are civil wars. I don't know what I would do, if violence would break out here. I had been in the army and had sworn to protect my country against enemies. So when violence breaks out, I should do something against it - but I'm also some coward and have a huge survival instinct.

And I really hate it to even think about something like this, because it shows that I really can imagine that things will go so bad.

I had been in the army and had sworn to protect my country against enemies.
What does this even mean?
What does it mean to you?

I had been in the basic military service for twelve months. I had got the choice to either serve in the military or to do reject this and to serve in some alternative non military service. I chose the military one, because I like the country I was born into. And when there had been enemies who wanted to destroy it, I had felt the urge to protect my country. In the former days the danger came from the east. Now the danger comes from within.

I'm totally unsure how I will react when these time would come. But I guess I would regret it at the end of my life when I would have to admit that I hadn't done everything to make things good again.



 
*squinting eyes*

Not sure if no one from #Mastodon reacts to my posts because #federation with #Friendica is broken or because they are uninteresting/irrelevant.

I've now received enough #Mastodon reactions that I have to face the facts about my posts 😅

Sometimes people don't have anything to say. But it doesn't mean they're not following ;)



 
I'm still following Martin Molin from @wintergatan building his new marble machine through weekly videos, and this is why I enjoy them so much:


 
The mystery and melancholy of this sticker whose corner started to peel and nothing can make it pristine again.



 
Turns out I am sadder to discover a friend is peddling centrist opinions than rightist ones because in the latter case I wouldn’t have been friends with them in the first place.
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Algorithms aren't neutral
Algorithms aren't neutral
Algorithms aren't neutral


 
I just donated 4 coffees (USD$12) and I encourage you to do the same.

My dear, trans man, friend Bay is really hurting for money right now, and with the weather conditions here in NZ being so awful he hasn't been able to work at all
If you could donate to his ko-fi (not a lot of cash websites work here) https://ko-fi.com/Q5Q5F324 I'd appreciate it
He ALSO has a pretty great, hand crafted knife for sale! https://felidaebay.tumblr.com/post/173722514331/selling-my-last-creation-i-made-in-2017-its-an
Please spread this if you can, he's a great friend and I'd love to help him survive this winter and pay rent :heart_trans:


 
I just read in a corporate email that "one of the richest aspects of the creative process is the actively collapsing the wavefunction of possibilities" and it's way to early for this kind of bullshit. How's your morning?
Adam Clark doesn't like this.

Never heard of the use of wavefunction outside of physics/p-chem. How dare Corporate BS appropriate a scientific term!

I must admit that what ticked me the most was the use of "collapsing" as it is one of the several unproven explanations about quantum mechanics. The "wave function of possibilities" is cringy but kind of accurate in this case?

I just want to know how something could passively collapse.

Ah, the mysteries of quantum physics.



 
By @Gargron for my European residents contacts. #internet #privacy #eu


 
I used to be annoyed by privileged lukewarm valueless centrists. Now I'm afraid of them knowing they would more readily bring about a dictator than the right:

But who's to say there aren't sleeper extremists calling themselves "centrist"?

That's the whole point of this survey. Self-declared centrist are more dangerous than self-declared extremists. You said it yourself, extremism is stigmatized so people are less likely to self-declare extremist, and it turns out people careful enough to avoid self-declaring extremism are the most likely to bring down democratic institutions.
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Then the title is misleading. An extremist calling themself a centrist does not a centrist make. As Tyler Durden put it, "Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!"

It would have been more accurate with "Self-declared", indeed. But since it is public politics we're talking about, it's mostly "self-declared" anyway.

Even "extremism" is a very subjective categorization, routinely used (mostly by centrists!) to discard political arguments without having to consider their actual merits.



 
I know I'm going to bed too late in Brooklyn when I start getting replies to my messages from people in Berlin.

Come on, it's only six hours. Could be worse, you could be on the other coast ;-)

If I was in San Francisco, people in Germany would start waking up earlier in my evening!

True. I guess I wasn't awake yet when I wrote that ;-)



 
Word is that ICE has cancelled hearings at the 201 Varick Street, NYC location for Monday the 25th due to the occupation. Keep it up!

#occupyICEnyc



 


 
@Gargron Do servers expose a public list of custom emojis? I'm thinking about creating an addon for Friendica that would add Mastodon's custom emojis replacement, and I definitely need a central place where I can see all of them.
All of them for a single server, at least, I know they are per instance.

In #Hubzilla you can see it by adding /smilies to site base URL

Thanks for the tip! Unfortunately I'm not seeing enough custom smilies post from Hubzilla to need an extension for it, but I assume such an extension would be software agnostic.