Posts by simsa04@gnusocial.net
(DIR) Post #AHdrI6v3SaOylGuVwO by simsa04@gnusocial.net
2022-03-21T15:37:11Z
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Katarzyna Wężyk, "Westplaining Ukraine: Jeffrey Sachs, Varoufakis, Naomi Klein, and "the Guardian" Repeat Kremlin's Narrative [OPINION]" https://wyborcza.pl/7,173236,28189964,westplaining-ukraine-jeffrey-sachs-varoufakis-naomi-klein.html« By blaming Russia's attack against Ukraine on the eastward expansion of NATO, some prominent figures of the Western Left are either mindlessly repeating Kremlin's propaganda or unwittingly revealing their true attitude towards East-Central Europe: as patronizing and postcolonial as that of the imperialists they so eagerly criticize. »A popular attitude on the Left of my country, and often seen on the Fediverse as well.(Similar to much of the Left's glorifying the Soviet Union in the 1930s in spite of the Stalinist terror and its widespread anti-Semitism today.)
(DIR) Post #AHv69UyuVeP9BlPhia by simsa04@gnusocial.net
2022-03-29T23:14:35Z
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I wished this years Nobel Peace prize could be awarded to the Polish people as a whole. For their hospitality for the Ukrainian people after whom they look with so much care and kindness.They don't even call them "refugees" but "guests". I'm glad that they are my neighbours.
(DIR) Post #AIBmlqZ6dH1CQaJwHI by simsa04@gnusocial.net
2022-04-07T00:27:46Z
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It has already been filed to the bin so further processing is a waste of time and expertise.
(DIR) Post #AIBn3hkk8R5SJFHMbg by simsa04@gnusocial.net
2022-04-07T00:30:38Z
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Thank you for verifying the presumption that @Moon is a bot.
(DIR) Post #AIBnBdf5EKthwAPn5k by simsa04@gnusocial.net
2022-04-07T00:32:18Z
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Ever worked on a farm? Or in agricultural business? Ever did claw trimming? Anything?
(DIR) Post #AIBoacfw8N0S4XI7eq by simsa04@gnusocial.net
2022-04-07T00:43:53Z
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Good. From your comments in the your original thread I wasn't sure that there was much experience.
(DIR) Post #AIBs68i1NpoqGJzDEW by simsa04@gnusocial.net
2022-04-07T01:23:44Z
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This may be true, but I sensed a kind of nastiness in my comments and so I wanted to retrieve it in order not to let that enter the thread. Also I should have earlier paid more attention to the differences between the U.S. market and the European markets.What got me a bit stirred was your root claim, that, at least to me, seemed to ignore the impact of retail and supermarket chains, aka the middlemen, on pricing and the viability of the family farm model. As retail pays lowest prices, it forces farmers to reduce production costs and yield standardized products. That means mega-farms, big tech, the ability to pay for proprietary software in machinery (from which John Deere makes most of its money), more machinery because wage costs are too high, etc.And that has little to do with policies that serve agriculture corporations, seed producers, monopolies (& patent) on seed-fertilizer-insecticide/fungicide-packages. But it's a factor that squeezes family farms out of business.
(DIR) Post #AIHWqsKX466j20dhIm by simsa04@gnusocial.net
2022-04-09T18:54:33Z
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Anton Troianovski, "Spurred by Putin, Russians Turn on One Another Over the War" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/09/world/europe/putin-russia-war-ukraine.html« [I]t is the history of mass execution and political imprisonment in the Soviet era, and the denunciation of fellow citizens encouraged by the state, that now looms over Russia’s deepening climate of repression. [...] In the Soviet logic, those who choose not to report their fellow citizens could be viewed as being suspect themselves. »Which was to be expected. Ratting-out somebody not just in hope of being spared but in order to feel all the more belonging to the approved crowd.
(DIR) Post #AJpYg25mzWKrqcqVSy by simsa04@gnusocial.net
2022-05-26T02:50:22Z
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Looks like systemd eats at your RAM...
(DIR) Post #AK1j7R7ipgFozNkwe8 by simsa04@gnusocial.net
2022-05-31T23:39:45Z
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test 2!listening
(DIR) Post #ALMJMAaVQMEW2cWJhg by simsa04@gnusocial.net
2022-07-10T19:37:48Z
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@lohang With all the turmoil in Sri Lanka, are you ok?
(DIR) Post #AMVOWWOycWlauYUEGu by simsa04@gnusocial.net
2022-08-14T02:53:41Z
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I purchased an ebook on Amazon which I can read online on Amazon's Kindle. (Don't own a smartphone or an e-reader.) Is there a way to convert the ebook into a pdf-file so that I can print it?
(DIR) Post #ANL9pJkl2PyykU8F3g by simsa04@gnusocial.net
2022-09-08T02:02:00Z
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"The Rain Appreciation Society" is happy to extend an invitation to all lovers and suitors of !rain to join its newly founded group.
(DIR) Post #ANLE2fgRDEf0LUjb0K by simsa04@gnusocial.net
2022-09-08T02:03:37Z
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@lohang "The Rain Appreciation Society" would be honored and deeply thrilled to greet you as a founding members of !rain. :-)
(DIR) Post #ANTXL8fxbwwlrzi5QG by simsa04@gnusocial.net
2022-09-12T02:45:30Z
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They love keeping us glued to their whims.
(DIR) Post #ANvRwD1R51S91Wzac4 by simsa04@gnusocial.net
2022-09-25T14:05:07Z
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I only now realised that when you use a fee-based email-account, you don't pay for "doing" your emails but rather for storing them. Messaging is secondary, storage and organisation is priority. But if that is the case and that is the service the email provider primarily offers, then why are both tasks (storage and organisation) so badly solved?
(DIR) Post #AOdhaTsvemkmGGcdu4 by simsa04@gnusocial.net
2022-10-16T14:42:42Z
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Everybody talks about the tomato soup spilled over the (glas shielded) painting and nobody about climate change. Has that been the goal of "Just Stop Oil"? Or is it the more intricate goal to intentionally force people to talk about tomato soup instead of climate change and create cognitive dissonance?h/t @rysiek
(DIR) Post #APsu9AVrtM8W1pbJuy by simsa04@gnusocial.net
2022-11-22T03:10:40Z
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The issue is less a max number of accounts or a max number of subscriptions but a max number of subsriptions that themselves have a high number of followers. And how would you come to fair guidelines or criteria for that? Perhaps the easiest way would be to either decrease priority of federating to such "celebrity accounts" ("first the little ones") or to federate to such "celebrity accounts" and only their followers to which the the first one subscribes to as well.
(DIR) Post #ARiSE20MpkPNjAV3ya by simsa04@gnusocial.net
2023-01-16T23:13:31Z
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Your equation is misguided. "Freedom", "autonomy", and "responsibility" don't mean that people should become unpaid semi-employees of software companies that already abuse the employees they have. Programs are products, not commons goods; I am a customer, you give me the product. I pay for it and if your product sucks, I drop it and turn to the next vendor. Or do you expect everybody to able to grow their own food as well?
(DIR) Post #ARlHUX18mWRaWTPHsW by simsa04@gnusocial.net
2023-01-17T17:02:34Z
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I understand that you approach programming and computation (not necessairly the same) from a cultural angle. And I can sympathize with that. But that doesn't prevent sofware from being primarily a product, driven by capitalist, labour exploitative, and resource extractivist realities. In context of these realities I find it rather problematic to think of programming as something cultural as it tends to sugarcoat and disguise the aforementioned realities. The creeping in of a style of thinking that relishes in practical constraints with only technical fixes as accepted solution is just one of the impacts programming as style of thinking and as created result does have. At least IMO. But irrespective of this, I can see your point and cherish it as attempt to keep a humanistic outlook.