Notices by S.P.Zeidler (spz@mastodon.sdf.org)

something differrent for #caturday today:

mouse, with cat

and without cat

@mekkaokereke xenophobia is a hard problem. I had something of an aha moment watching some villagers doing xenophobia towards a stranger, who was Not From Here - but from the next middle-sized town. All of 40km distance. It basically needs hacks around humans' bugs.

@aral sorry, bear with me. I'm not steeped in US usage. How do I express the one without implying the other?

I want to express e.g. "I think trans/racist/gender slurs are nasty and I don't want to see them, ever" without writing a sermon and without inviting rules lawyering of the "but you didn't list this kind of nastiness".

"Be polite to everybody" used to be a short expected behaviour description. It's not meant to say "you can't complain about being treated unfairly". So how?

@aral ok, so how do you say "so your polity will have elections and you care a lot, and one or two other persons on our lists may, too, but the rest of us don't live there and don't care, put a sock in about how great 'your' politician is, this is not your canvassing venue"?

Just because the US right have weaponized the words "politics" to mean "everything of any societal impact" and "polite" to mean "I can harass anybody not white+male" we can't use them any more? Which can we use instead?

@HistoPol wait, you're thinking single-household homes, not 10+ households, 5 floor complexes?
Here's a picture of a gate to the court (found by search engine), they are usually not public: https://www.fotocommunity.de/photo/hinterhof-joachim-kaschta/46060050

@HistoPol I expect town-center residential buildings to be doughnuts with courts in the middle, filling the room between two more-or-less parallel streets, and having gates to both streets. What's the building plan you expect?

@HistoPol in many cases the residents will not have cars because they not only don't need them to survive, they don't even necessarily add convenience. Otherwise, the buildings will have a second side that fronts a street that is presumably not also a school street.

@elblandknipser @SheDrivesMobility @uhrmann Früher gab's mal Dorfläden, es muss ja nicht gleich immer das MonsterEKZ sein. Milch, Brot, Eier, Obst & Gemüse in Laufweite zu bekommen würd schon viel rausreißen.

@alcinnz @zoid @davidgerard@circumstances.ru in some cases, "which platform you're on" can be pretty close to personally identifying.