Notices by steev hise (detritus@todon.eu)

@evan it’s a metaphor, an analogy, but it’s not a synonym.

@lambic

@ricci @evan @lambic what’s the opposite of “progress”😜

@evan you’re straw-manning. Who does what you’re complaining about? Old people being bad with tech is a stereotype but it’s not a synonym. I don’t see people using it as a synonym.

@lambic

It’s so apt and yet weird that it’s called #eurovision
Because every day all year is “Eurovision”. We live in a world civilization largely molded (violently) according to a European vision. That’s what’s playing on media players 24/7 anyway. And then every year the whole world has to watch the even more solipsistic exercise of whiteys gazing even harder at their own navels, or asses or whatever.

@aral here’s an idea. Just don’t do bank stuff with your phone. It’s a bad idea anyway.

‘Claude Salomon, a medical researcher at France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, asked if the likely inevitability of native [american] deaths [due to European diseases] could "reduce the historical guilt of Europeans." In a sense it does, Salomon wrote. But it did not let the invaders off the hook— they caused huge numbers of deaths, and knew that they had done it.
"Those who carried the microbes across the Atlantic were responsible, but not guilty," Salomon concluded. Guilt is not readily passed down the generations, but responsibility can be. A first step toward satisfying that responsibility for Europeans and their descendants in North and South America would be to treat indigenous people today with respect - something that, alas, cannot yet be taken for granted.
Recognizing and obeying past treaties wouldn't be a bad idea, either.’ — Charles C. Mann, “1491”

#genocide #Omen #seaofblood

@evan it was a joke. I actually believe documents, images, credentials, and all information should not exist at all. 😉

@evan stored nowhere

“Our best friends in the world—senators I know as strong supporters of Israel—have warned that they cannot support us if images of mass starvation emerge," he said. “They come to me and say, ‘We’ll give you all the help you need to win the war… but we can’t be receiving pictures of famine,’” Netanyahu added. To continue the war of annihilation, he asserted, “We need to do it in a way that they won't stop us.”

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/netanyahu-trump-gaza-aid-genocide-smotrich-ceasefire-hamas

It seems like there’s now more electric bikes on the streets than regular bicycles.

@koen_hufkens @pluralistic i used to have an electric bike for which the only way to turn on the builtin lights was via an app. I got rid of that bike.

@pluralistic amazing. I guess it’s accurate but i never thought all works of intertextuality would someday end up being called “fanfic”.

@pluralistic I wonder if Ulysess counts as fanfic. Joyce was just a big fan of Homer, right? 😜

Just as the border wall and other border security measures are largely Security Theater, the coming "mass deportations" will be mostly a variant of that, call it Anti-Immigrant Theater. There's no way (ask any expert) logistically or economically it could ever work to really deport 20 million people, but the fascists will make a big show of looking like they're trying it, with very scary video of raids and detentions and loading people onto buses, etc etc. A lot of people will suffer and it will be a human rights atrocity but it won't really be what they are promising. Just like most election promises.

#borders #immigration #MassDeportations

Some good tips here

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/17/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy-20-lessons-for-the-post-truth-world-donald-trump

@EndIsraeliApartheid Biden: "well, that's good enough for me, here's some more bombs."

Billionaires Are the One Case Where Personal Choices Can Affect Climate Change

“Jezz Bezos and Elon Musk emit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average human does in their entire life.”
https://gizmodo.com/billionaires-are-the-one-case-where-personal-choices-can-affect-climate-change-2000518380

“There was polling done in January that showed that half of people who voted for Biden believe that Israel has committed a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. And there are only a handful of Democrats in Congress who share that opinion. Public opinion doesn’t automatically translate into political representation — it has to be forged. And unfortunately, the movement infrastructure isn’t there yet. “

‘The Uncommitted movement did a service to the Democratic Party’ https://www.972mag.com/uncommitted-movement-democratic-party-palestine/

What’s the deal with people who post images of just text on here and then they just have to add alt text for the images. Why not just type the text in the first place? #mastodon