Notices by Mx. Chara Dreemurr (chara@mastodon.starrevolution.org)

@Laurelai as ever, in a society still dominated by white colonialist morality, manners are weaponized. aggression and abuse are fine as long as they're aimed at acceptable targets, and it's not polite to make too much noise about injustice. after all, it's Just As Bad[tm] to be angry about receiving routine abuse, in some nebulous fashion, as long as the abuse has social sanction

@Laurelai or "yes you may have been right about this person but you were Just As Bad[tm] in some bullshit way that lets me off the hook"

@Laurelai if there's anything I've learned in my own years of dealing with people who've spent all their emotional energies defending abusive peddlers of bullshit...nope, you'll not get a single apology from any of the crowd. they've written their excuses for not apologizing well ahead of time. "well I was just erring on the side of caution" or whatever

the techbro culture of fediverse developers has a massive debt of culpability to repay, for clinging to their sham FOSS "principles" in the face of fascist incursion

now a white supremacist terrorist cell is literally part of your creation

well done Eugen and everyone. good job

oh here's a bit of news

corporate health insurers have set up fraudulent "shadow networks" of imaginary mental health care providers that they route their victims to, to deny them services and save themselves money

https://boingboing.net/2019/06/20/working-as-intended-3.html

@Laurelai nope, he's committed to his baby. sticking monomaniacally with the first bad idea that pops into mind, and heaping more junk atop it instead of waiting to see if problems crop up, is par for the computer-geek course

@Laurelai if you weren't shackled to an instance, to be a user on this pseudo-decentralized network, then maybe it would work more like it's supposed to

but instead, instances just accumulate members and it's not easy to move. some instances don't even allow deletion of your old account

@Laurelai gawd this infantile slippery slope nonsense

as if FOSS geeks aren't always to micromanage who gets to play with their toys, on far more childish grounds usually

"free software" culture is really something isn't it

going to the mat for the sacred inalienable rights of a _fascist propaganda outlet_, cos that's all that "Gab" is. you can try to abstract it away all you like, but Gab is poison

@Laurelai isn't free software amazing. THE FUTURE

bleh stands to reason that new Chenobyl series sounds like sensationalized horseshit

the story is fascinating enough as a engineering disaster, but nope gotta turn into Cold War propaganda about those silly Soviets

@Laurelai I'm kinda tickled by the idea of Kermit "hulking out" but still looking exactly the same, and staying the same size

@Laurelai @Sylvhem imagine looking at several thousand years of human history, and the existence of cities that go back millennia, and thinking "yep civilization is impossible just because this particular gang of white guys really suck at it"

if you take the red pill and the blue pill at the same time is that, like, a reality speedball

@Laurelai it's some weird hangover of when old astronomers who were half mystics thought that the planets fell into, like, a perfect mathematical series or some shit like that. look up "Titius-Bode Law" (wow I actually remembered that). also Kepler had some whizbang perfect geometrical scheme that...sort of didn't work and he was _disappointed_

@Laurelai don't even need to bother with that. it goes around the Sun, and it's round

the whole "dwarf planet" thing was because of some business about "clearing the neighborhood of the orbit" based on whether a planet's big enough to influence other objects near it or not, I dunno, it's always seemed a bit dodgy to me

and it's been pointed out that we can't even apply that criterion to exoplanets, like, planets around other stars, because we can't observe them well enough to know whether they've "cleared their orbits" or not

so I'm honestly in favor of the simplest definition. if it's round and it's orbiting a star, it's a planet. never seen what the big deal was with having lots more planets, like that was too "complicated" or something

mastodon.social is merely Twitter masquerading as a Mastodon instance, pass it on

@Laurelai *now imagining a vacuous DailyKos comment thread where various liberals drift off into fantasizing about how much better the catering would have been under Obama*

corollary: the degree to which a lot of online folks regard "[person X] makes me feel uncomfortable" as a justification for almost _any_ antisocial action just astounds me sometimes

phew, lotta people committed to mob justice as some kind of ethical principle, out there