bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

Wir veranstalten heute Nachmittag unser 2. Tauschcafé.

Jeder kann bis zu 10 wertige Dinge mitbringen, die dann den Besitzer wechseln können.

'Wertig' soll heißen, kein Ramsch aus dem Keller, der weg muß, sondern Dinge, die man selbst schätzt, die trotzdem nicht mehr in Gebrauch, aber zu schade zum Wegwerfen sind.

Das 1.Tauschcafé war ein voller Erfolg. Jeder ist strahlend nach Hause gegangen und wir hatten neben dem Tauschen einen wunderbaren Austausch.

#RessourcenSchonen

@nosleep one of the differences are americans are still angry at not being what we are supposed to be, while most of the world has embraced hypernormalization.

i've spent most of my life on the outside looking in. america has always been a place of fantasy for me. there has been this image i've built up from growing up consuming american media (hollywood, youtube, tales from my parents); an image of absolute freedom and limitless possibilities.

it took me two and a half years of living here for that image to be shattered. there is, in fact, no place on earth that offers what so many emigrants seek. the issue lies in the fact that such a place cannot exist, because it would be akin to finding heaven on earth. unrealistic expectations are what cause people to move to a completely foreign land, with no hope of ever learning the language or integrating into the culture, for the chance at a new life. it would therefore be naive to try to find a place that ticks all of the boxes we create for ourselves.

but america comes so tantalizingly close. in every corner of this land, from the wildest mountains, to the densest cities, there exists the illusion of absolute freedom. the presence of the government is confined to administrative buildings, blacked out ford explorers, and the occasional newsflash from washington. government is an afterthought. there is no suffocating presence.

i think about government a lot. it's a reflex you learn from living in an authoritarian country. no matter the subways they try to bribe you with, you always need a backup plan to flee, to get your loved ones out. little schemes, an eye for a good golden parachute. it eats up brain cycles and is a source of constant, everchanging stress. it gnaws at you quietly in the background, tainting your future. you only realize that there are spikes in your collar when the chain gets yanked.

which is why i bought into the american image so much. i wanted to completely ditch the collar. and i got frustrated when it was replaced with a comfy, pink one instead. no matter how distracting tax filing, nutrition labels and making rent is, my old reflexes kept kicking in. i have a much bigger hamster wheel to play with. but i can still see the bars of the cage.

this country is FUCKED UP. but in a refreshing, and exciting way. no matter how hard i work the wheel, i know i was simply not born in the right class to unlock the complete freedom childhood me dreamed of. and this realization is what made me realize i desperately want to stay.

you don't need complete freedom to be happy. in fact, it would only drive you mad. i'm happy with the overcrowded hellhole that is new york, the stars (multiple) in the night sky i can't count, the thirty year fucking mortgage, the cute boys with curly hair i've hit on and the red haired asshole i gut punched when i was completely drunk out of my mind. i'm happy with worrying about majors and minors, how i should structure my 401(k). because this country is HUGE.

you thrive at the ignorance of your handlers. when the bureaucratic machine can't possibly even begin to figure out what box to put you in. when you only remember the four layers of government cake when it's time to do your taxes. it's this that draws me in.

the way the culture is so completely ignorant of the world it lives in. it is an almighty privilege to call your government traitors and live to type the end of your sentence.

i love this place. i really do. and even though i am legally obligated to gtfo 30 days after my graduation day, i'm waiting for may 4 with bated breath. come hell or high water, i am going to get my green card and stay. this is my country. and i'm not going to let some power-tripping locals try to say otherwise.

it's contradictory, naive, and stupid. and even if i have to unceremoniously fly god knows where on day 29, i know i will be back. because this is my american dream.

‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/15/recycling-plastics-producers-report Companies knew for decades recycling was not viable but promoted it regardless, Center for Climate Integrity study finds. #greenwashing

moon asked to relay that SPC is down due to database corruption. he does not have time to deal with it right now, so it will be down at least until tomorrow afternoon.

Me and the other directors at my new company have been toying with a new idea, paying people for the work they do on interviews (well sorta).

Basically the idea we are toying with is when we give a programming test as part of the interview we basically offer them the choice of either doing a toy project that has no value to us as a company, or giving them the option to fix any outstanding tickets on one of our open-source projects with a bounty attached to it. This way if your programming test gets accepted you stand a good chance of getting the job AND get paid the bounty.

Programming tests never sat right with me because it seems like a huge time investment to ask of someone who might not get a job. So I wanted to make the process more fair and beneficial to applicants.

Would love to hear what #fedihire thinks about this.

Correctiv-Skandal

Auf der Berlinale-Eröffnung wurde das Wort "Deportation" mehrere Male verwendet.

Correctiv hat den Beitrag bereits angepasst und das Wort "Deportation" heimlich durch "Vertreibung" ersetzt, denn es fehlen die Beweise dafür.

Correctiv vermeidet es, das kenntlich zu machen (nebenbei eine Grund für eine klare Abwertung bei Trust Pilot).

Das kann bei der gerichtlichen Auseinandersetzung als üble Nachrede gewertet werden.

Die anstehenden Klagen erhalten so Substanz.

How is it that in 2024 I still can lose half an hour of my work day trying to get a stupid journal article, from a major journal that my university pays for, to open?

I usually route around this bullshit, but I wanted to actually get the publishers copy for once. Bad decision.

I guess this is why scientific peer review has pretty much moved to blog posts about stuff in arXiv...

#Science #sciencepublishing #publishing #openaccess #bullshit #academiclibrariessuck #publishersuck

nato has still not updated their signage. our nitter is still responding with a 302 redirect to meatspin gif rss

@ConfederateHobo Donkey

haha holy shit after some fucking around i got suspended accounts to work with nitter