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@roboneko
at some point the convention becomes the standard. to stay with mail, ">" is the standard quotation marker. you are free to use something different but it will break clients. i'd at least be able to figure out what it quoted visually, i can't do that when tags are missing here.

i agree that it is the better technical solution to use the "headers", but if it breaks stuff hard for a minimal improvement it's just entitled bullshit.
@Hyolobrika

@roboneko
unilaterally changing the way stuff is done is bad, even if it might be more correct.

which is exactly what the poettering crowd is doing all the time for linux, only that the lennart ideas are always technically bad, not only in how they are pushed :>
@Hyolobrika

@Hyolobrika i think soapbox falls for the same fallacy desktop linux does: trying to make it "simple" to use for "common" people - which is code for users who already got their brain destroyed by twitter or in the case of desktop linux by using android or ios.

tending to those "new" people isn't helping: either one wants the real deal and puts in the work to learn the ropes of federated services or a new os or they are just larping "being different".

these attempts to fix non-broken stuff are imho always of questionable use but constantly succeed in making life worse for long time users.

Biden’s new Title IX regulations mean that gender identity will replace sex. This will, at the very least, spell the end of women-only athletics. As the proposed regulations state, ‘preventing someone from participating in school programmes and activities consistent with their gender identity would cause harm in violation of Title IX’. Female athletes will risk expulsion from their sport if they complain about it. Sorry, ladies, you had a nice 50-year run, but Joe says time’s up.

I think the real answer is to use farming practices that require less external inputs like chemical fertilizers. No till methods of farming may not scale to the same level of production, but there is a lot of waste in our existing system because of the way food is centrally distributed. More small scale local farms producing food stuffs for their own communities and less top down management (with less federal subsidies incentivizing bad practices) is probably the best course forward. It's probably also the exact opposite of the approach we'll actually take.

@roboneko @thatguyoverthere @MV2019@freeatlantis.com
nitrogen not taken up by the crops ends up in waterways leading to algae bloom, which then kills everything else due to the algae using up all the oxygen when they start to decompose.

it's for sure problematic, something should be done, but the politicians are thinking that just forcing farmers to use less fertilizer/manure will solve this problem without helping them in any way.

it's the same story with cars, "just buy a tesla!". some big cheese politicians thinking they know how to solve problems the easy and cheap way.

@atoponce maybe so that colorblind people can see it (better)? just a guess though.

@freemo i fear that the government will do a trudeau and just ruin every farmer out of spite.

i really don't get how most western politicians can be so removed from reality that they constantly want to disenfranchise their farmers. it's the single most stupid thing you can do.

@freemo
dutchnews.nl/news/2022/06/poli

guess they have been working on the border of bankruptcy for years and now should be forced to further reduce nitrogen usage.

which of course would be a good thing. i suppose most farmers would be happy to transform to sustainable methods. only they know it will end like every time, farmers paying the consequences for those laws out of their own pockets.

godspeed to the farmers in the netherlands.

politicians are afraid, as they should be.

all the recent fedi drama is due to

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