Notices by Steven 🥖 (steven@zeroes.ca)

@tokyo_0 You block both separately, but authorized fetch works over Activity Pub, not the API.

@tokyo_0 I don't think authorized fetch and the public api are related at all.

I'm actually kind of excited to see if I can federate my GoToSocial account with Threads or bridge it to BlueSky.

I assume it'll never actually be possible with Threads, but...

Okay, okay, so I found an (abusive?) autism treatment thing that I am completely fascinated by.

It is mostly bad. I am not endorsing it. This thread is about how weird it is, and one or two good aspects of it.

It's called "Son-Rise".

Almost all Nietzsche you hear people talk about is preamble.

Especially the stuff Nazis like.

Hot take: podcasts tend to be better than other types of online media, specifically because targeted advertisements are harder to do.

It is impossible for athletics to be both competitive and accessible.

If the goal had anything to do with health, then the focus would not be on competition at the expense of accessibility.

Also: there's obviously some fucked up gender stuff going on there.

Hot take: Nietzsche was a bit of a shit-poster, and you can totally just skip all the preamble and go straight to his conclusions.

The poorer you are, the more important each dollar is.

$12,000 is what you'd make annually in BC from welfare, if you can get it.

That is obviously not enough to pay for food and housing.

You're already in the cheapest housing possible.

You're already eating the cheapest food you can get, and probably not enough of it.

Not every penny goes to survival, but only because you wouldn't have enough money to pay for survival anyways.

Hot take: it's exceptionally shitty for middle class people to reply to discussions of actual poverty by proclaiming their own non-richness.

Yes, with housing and food costs where they are, it can be difficult to stay above water on $50,000 a year.

No, that is not the same discussion being had when somebody is struggling to survive on $12,000 a year.

Minimum wage in BC is likely to get you around $30,000.

That's not enough to pay for the basics, and it's also more than double what a lot of people are surviving on.

Median income in BC is somewhere in the range of $50,000. More than 4x the welfare rate.

If you have any sort of professional job, you're likely making something like $60,000. That's 5x.

I make even more than that.

With food prices and interest rates, I'm currently underwater.

Things are really hard.

But it would be wildly offensive for me to imply that I have any experience or knowledge about what poverty is like.

I do not.

That is not what poverty is.

The purpose of bans on dorm-style housing is to make the lives of otherwise-homeless people worse.

That's why it's entirely fine to have dorms for university students, where very poor people effectively do not have access.

Hot take: gym class is about enforcing power dynamics.

If it had anything to do with teaching health skills, it wouldn't focus almost exclusively on dangerous team sports that require 20 dudes, expensive equipment, and a field.

It would be line dancing. And yoga. Aerobics. Nutrition.

Hot Take: Mastodon should have at least twice as many privacy settings, including:

Normal settings, such as:

- People I follow, only.

- Local only.

- Public, but only people I follow can reply.

And totally unhinged settings, such as:

- Public, but no boosts.

- Hashtag only (public, but not listed on non-hashtag timelines).

- Actually unlisted (public, but not listed on any timelines).

Imagine replacing your gym teacher with a physiotherapist.

Gym class specifically focusing on improving students ability to exercise and avoiding injury.

Grading based on actual skills learned.

No violence.

Hot take: dorm-style housing be legal everywhere.

It used to be normal for people to be able to move into dorms when they were new to a city, or fall back to dorms if something went wrong (instead of immediately becoming homeless).

"Skid Row" literally is where the dorm-style housing used to be in Los Angeles.

They banned them, and the people living in them moved onto the streets.

I really don't understand people criticizing an apology for including an explanation.

An apology needs to include an explanation.

That is the most important part of the apology. That is where you communicate what went wrong and how to mitigate future harms.

Without an explanation, you're just saying a bunch of words.

If your "moderate" position is that it's okay for abusive parents to deny their children health care, you can absolutely go fuck yourself.

If a child wants birth control or puberty blockers or an abortion, and their doctor is willing to prescribe those things, then that is the end of the story.

If a parent tries to stop that child from accessing medicine that a doctor has prescribed for them, then that is, by definition, an abusive parent.

@Threadbane @DaWoDerPfeffer @Robert_R_Freitag_II @JoeQuinlan @lednabwm I think what this tells you is that "was there a historical Jesus" is defined in two contradictory ways that are played against each other in bad faith by theists.

Like, if the question is "are historical claims made by the bible, about Jesus, true" the responsible answer fits somewhere between "obviously not" and "there is no evidence".

But if the question is "was Christianity founded around a cult leader claiming to be the messiah, who would later come to be known as "Jesus Christ", that seems fairly likely.

The trick is that people point to pretty good evidence for the second question, and claim that as historical proof for the first question.