Notices by Juho Mäntysalo (iju@mastodon.social)

@rysiek @gubi @ciaranmak

For example Tsechslovakia 1948 was a horror of Soviet control, but Guatemala 1952 was just companies being companies.

Even though it was the same thing: premier of a superpower authorizing a coup in a client state.

@rysiek @gubi @ciaranmak

As mastodon allows multiple threads, I'm going to go beside the point:

The historical whataboutism has a poor reputation due to us still being close to 1950s and affected by partisan rhetoric of the time, and we side with the USA.

That being said, USA's rhetoric hinged on the fact that USSR politbyro was technically responsible for everything, while USA had plausible deniability by working through companies and client states.

Which whataboutism tried to point out.

@liilliil @rysiek @midgephoto

Also it's fundamental for the fiction of Russia as the successor state of the Kievan Rus¹ to hold Ukraine, instead of client state of mongols.

I suppose this leads to need to be part of "Europe".
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¹ it is not unheard that empires use names and/or creative interpretation of history as justification of destiny.²
² The USA13 expanding west while breaking countless treaties and practicing genocide under idea that they were "America" and Americans were "Indians".

@liilliil @rysiek @midgephoto

As has later come to light, the negotiations then (after eight years of war) was to formalise Ukrainian loss of eastern areas and the status of the remaining stub as a satellite with with limited autonomy.

You could as well say that the coup of Hawaii was legit because the successor polity exists as an US state.

@adamconover

Not that I disagree, but was the show a standup or stripdown?

@renchap @Mastodon

I'm just hoping this doesn't end up being the first step of many. But time will tell, I suppose. Would hope the German regulators could be reasoned with, but of course simply the fact that this happened must eat some confidence on future.

@renchap @Mastodon

Just worried that the US-non profit might get pressure from donators from US-legistlation, or that the board of directors start to influence the direction of the development.

@Mastodon

Sad to hear if this pushes you to be more US-centric. Have loved that you've based from Germany, not just for people, but for législation as well.

@big_louse @aral

More like: is internet big because a whitehouse (among other institutional actors) has a webpage? Is email big because whitehouse (among other..) has an adress?

I'd argue yes.

@big_louse @aral

Well, arguably both internet and email became popular when commercial operators were allowed operations in the second half of the 1990s.

At that point Internet had existed half a decade, and email two.

@aral @big_louse

Yeah, I addressed that in my other post:

https://mastodon.social/@iju/112234235808358225

That said, I'd like to say that please don't assume something not directly stated. That's just strawmanning, and it's unbecoming:

https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/112226607795971711

Also: expecting sainthood of mortal people in a complicated world is rather unconstructive. Even as "greater good" -arguments rarely end well.

Question is largerly is TERF-content something that requires defenetration or technological incompatibility.

@big_louse @aral

Getting large institutional actors on Fediverse is a big part of popularising the platform.

@liztai @adhdeanasl

Just to air my related pet peeve: US people think they're the world to the extend they don't even bother to put their location on their profile. And if there's something that can be read as location, it's a place that's so "other" that they don't even think it's an even theoretical alternative.

Just the day before yesterday I made an error by thinking someone was Syrian..

@jeffowski

There's many wonderful times in history, if you have either very select criteria, or work for MonkeyPawTravel, Inc.

@ryanhoulihan

Hey, was scrolling past the live feeds and came across this.

Don't know much about transitioning, but I thought to say the following: I'm sure you're right when you say these problems are temporary, but that doesn't make them any less valid. And it feels horrible when you feel you're alone with your problems. It's not true (the cause of all our suffering is common), but it's hard to see, when you're down, or when people are getting lost in their own life.

Please hang in there!

@tb @DrakkenZero @hypebot

I don't know.

Godwin's Law (the first) helped me develop my debate skills. When I couldn't just say "this is like Hitler" but instead had to resort to things like "it's hard to find any good things with these policies... poverty will rise, among other things".

Even as fascism is on the rise, I find it more helpful to speak of the results of these policies instead of referring to shorthand, as pop culture has mixed the actual Nazi policies with fictional stuff.

@ryanhoulihan

Have you considered military surplus? The Polish officer's coat I bought two years ago for 60€ is the warmest winter coat I've ever owned, warm even in -30°C.

I know finding these is a bit of a dice roll, but Varusteleka seems to get shipments semiregularly, you can subscribe for an inventory alert, and they sell these on both sides of the Atlantic, I believe.

You can button these to both directions, if that's a criteria, and the backwaist can be adjusted, somewhat.

@fluffy @killyourfm

This has more to do with the fact that major labels own most of Spotify, so shafting independent labels/artists allows gaining monies from those who didn't sell their business/music to labels directly.

It's a bit unfair to blame Spotify-the-company, which has historically (and probably still) doing actually quite badly, as it's just a pipe from consumers to labels, without enjoying from a strong position like Apple with Itunes.

https://mastodon.social/@iju/111310182204725068

@Mastodon Really looking forward to that cross-server favouriting!

@Gargron

Yeah, to me 47€ for shirt+shipping plus 24% VAT at the customs on top was a bit too much, even though I was really keen on buying one.

Hopefully you'll do a rehash with an EU-partner at some point :)