Boys just want to have fun. / Composer / Coder /
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This is not my "professional" account. I'm just posting weird stuff.
If you know me from another social network or in real life, please say hello!
Kill your inner cop. Fight the fascist within. (Also, give your inner liberal a few kicks in the pants.)
Jewish
Look, like you, I am a tech nerd. I've hosted fedi servers. I have a lot of websites. I'm writing a CMS for an MMPORG.
I cannot be fucked to host my own XMPP server. Nobody I know uses XMPP since the embrace extend extinguish thing happened with it. Is this fair? No. Is it true? Yes.
No normal person in a train station wants to hear about ex em pee pee.
Well since nothing is perfect unless we all roll our own XMPP servers, the nice older lady in the train station should just keep using WhatsApp. After all what's the point of less metadata collection unless everyone who staffs and runs it is perfect? There's no point in trying to improve things for normal people.
No she actually didn't know and was keen to learn abut Signal.
Woman in the train station: Oh, I don't like the US right now.
Me: I keep trying to get people to stop using Facebook.
Woman: I don't use Facebook!
Me: What messaging software do you use?
Woman: WhatsApp
Me: That's Facebook.
I mean, to be fair the US's food safety laws, healthcare, and gun laws are all kind of shit, but you don't need to look all the way to the EU to find better examples. Canada or Cuba are much closer.
But, like, I've seen some traditional european food that really does not seem healthy...
White Americans want to imagine themselves as part of a European diaspora and therefore fantasise about Europe as a place that is simultaneously more 'advanced' than the US and also fixed in time at some nostalgic or idyllic moment.
These fantasies are also racist in that they erase the diverse communities who actually live in the counties and fetishise a projected whiteness into a cultural superiority. The simultaneous and contradictory freezing in time makes that country an eternal, fixed homeland, free of diversity or the same structural problems of capital that plague north america.
This becomes problematic at various junctures, most often in north america, but also in europe when the US's billionaire class pumps money into fascist political projects that share their racialised nostalgia.
The idea of countries being 'advanced' relative to each other is already highly sus.
European countries are multi ethnic and multiracial. Most are modern democracies who have experienced waves of migrations from different places at different times.
The assertion of European countries as mono-cultural, white ethnostates is a white supremacist fantasy, disturbingly popular in the US.
It costs £3.40 ($4.66 USD) to post a letter to the USA!
A single letter! One sheet of paper.
I regret creating the impression that I care about the minutiae of Christian symbols and their origins.
Christmas trees, cherubs, particular depictions of murder via torture, and the whole cult of saints, including the ones that were actually local deities, are all fully Christian.
Some of the most awesome people I know are pagan, but I also do not wish to decorate my home with pagan symbols. Not because I don't respect their religion, but because I do respect it as a tradition that I do not practice.