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@raketenlurch aber moxies jahrelange signal agitprop und fud gegen federation musst du doch zu würdigen wissen!

There are people ice skating in tank tops. Ice skating! Tank tops! Is this the future of socialist America?
"Are you as bored as I am?" Can be said backwards and still make sense.
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@thor maybe the dugnad idea shows a bit in the scandinavian social system, if i get it right? we have the same proverb about the weather and clothing here :)

@thor interesting! here in germany there are some anti mask people. maybe they just get too much attention from the media though. still it's a bit unsettling to see people believing that wearing masks is harmful for more than a few people with preexisting conditions..

@thor i have the feeling that it might be that the population of the nordic counties is more sane in general. do you have anti-mask protests there?

@thor regarding toothbrushes: the swedish tepe ones aren't the cheapest but so fucking soft that it pays. every other one feels like a wirebrush now.

@yarmo Why do we keep saying "github" instead of "Microsoft/Github" ?

@sir while many things can be done via mail, maybe even better with sane mail clients, HTTP and HTML still seem useful for it as presentation layer and the API. i was just wondering what you'd consider as alternatives to this in a product like sourcehut.

@sir out of interest, what do you think would be the alternatives for things like sourcehut?

imho most problems can be solved with plain html forms and just requesting the next document. it's not the most elegant solution, but it does the job for 30 years now.

advanced things should be native clients. it's a bit funny that browsers now deliver the promise of java (run everywhere), using a technological jenga tower.

so maybe i'd say "the modern web is doomed".

Of course freakonomics.com/podcast/the-e… destroys my nice little model and its assumptions.

People are actually very attached to the numbers and won't adjust their office hours based on local suntime:

> [ . . . ] Huntsville, Alabama (on the eastern edge of the Central Time Zone), and Amarillo, Texas (on the western edge). Even though cities like this are on the same clock, the western city gets roughly an hour more of sunlight – which means that people there tend to go to bed later. But they have to wake up the same time as people in the eastern city – so, on average, they get less sleep.
[ . . . ]
> And we find that permanently increasing sleep by an hour per week for everybody in a city, increases the wages in that location by about 4.5%.

If Amarillo, Texas would just go to office an hour later than they do, that difference wouldn't be there.

But then again they say in the episode that the early bird does catch the worm. So I guess it's complicated. Again.
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@blinkwarp yeah, i guess these things can be fixed, but there is no reason for big money to do it. the populace is easier milked when fear and uncertainty reign.

@Demosthenes i was more thinking about how those psyops could go wrong when put into the meme-grinder 4chan is ;)

the realization that the future as painted in transmetropolitan is here right now, sans the aliens.

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