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The contortions I have to make to copy a few podcast episodes to a fitness tracker over BT…

Stupid app requiring a load of other stupid apps and background services just to be able to keep all my workouts inside a walled garden, and even then it's near impossible to get the files for anything useful.

The “send music to ” feature tries to guess where my audio is (on my phone), but fails — so I have to manually copy and paste MP3s from obscure directories to some magic path, every time, to have the app send them to the device.

You building and selling a ? This is the exhaustive list of apps, plugins, processes running in the background, accounts, subscriptions, online services, protocols and formats I want:

* Something I can mount as external storage over USB, or similarly over BT, with a regular file system containing all items in standard formats that are interoperable, that I can read and write without restrictions.

I just saw this. It's wrong in so many ways. Consider that exhibit B in my defence.

@SindicalToday

Es irónico, ¿verdad? «Sola no puedes» es de lo más paternalista.

Además, «defenderse a través de otros» tiene sus problemas. Uno concreto es que esos otros no te representen, realmente. Los demás no tienen forma de saberlo. En concreto, en este caso: la RFEF emitió un comunicado, con palabras literales supuestamente de su federada Hermoso, en el que ella quitaba hierro al asunto. Nos lo creímos unas horas. Resultó ser falso. Ahora Futpro emite un comunicado con palabras literales supuestamente de su afiliada Hermoso. ¿Nos lo creemos otra vez?

Entiendo que Hermoso debe estar pasando unos días horribles, y sometida a mucha presión e incluso a burlas por parte de muchos idiotas. Pero no entiendo que no haya dicho absolutamente nada sobre este asunto. Un tuit para explicar qué piensa exactamente sobre lo que pasó y qué pide que se haga con Rubiales, sería lo mínimo. Eso sería un ejemplo aún mejor para las niñas (y los niños) que sufran abusos, creo yo.

@croquetapeligro y @ChacheNeguer ya me habrán bloqueado, pero para que conste:

Lo último que he leído (hoy) es que la jugadora a través de su representante/sindicato ha dicho que las palabras que previamente se le atribuyeron en un comunicado de la federación no eran suyas (¡!)

Es todo bastante confuso y ya no sé qué creer, pero en principio lo que tiene más validez es esto último. O sea, que ella no considera lo que pasó mutuo ni irrelevante.

Lo que antes parecía feo, ahora parece feísimo: no solo abusa y se comporta de manera no profesional, sino que encima falsifica declaraciones de la víctima para exculparse…

@RubyJones has probably blocked me by now and so she won't see this, but for random passers-by who might be undecided about who's the tolerant, sensible voice in this short dialogue:

I simply asked why, if she doesn't see herself as a woman or a man, she doesn't opt for new pronouns that don't carry any gender meaning at all, such as “zer” — or even the old one, “they”. She asks that people use “she”… but then she doesn't like that people assume she's a woman. If she feels “non-binary”, why not use non-gendered pronouns? Isn't that a reasonable question/suggestion on my part?

And I say “feel” and “see herself” instead of “is” simply because other people don't always see us as we see ourselves. Perhaps I see myself as a woman, as smart, or as a good dancer. Perhaps I'm mixed race and I consider myself mostly white. Perhaps I feel very masculine. Others may disagree with any of that. That simple point isn't bigoted, and it has nothing to do with treating all people with respect. It isn't “erasing” or “violence”.

Now read her two replies.

@RubyJones

You projected hate and bigotry onto the random letters I typed.

@RubyJones

If someone asks me to use feminine determiners and pronouns with them, I assume they are a woman, yes. That is what those words mean. If you feel non-binary, why don't you ask for non-binary grammar?

I have very bad in general, but good memory for . It's interesting how I clearly remember where I was when I was reading certain , even many years later.

* _The Lord of the Rings_: trips by coach between Granada and Seville, 2005–2006.
* _Dracula_: commuting by bus between Madrid and Alcobendas, 2011 or 2012.
* _What Do You Care What Other People Think?_: beaches of Malta.
* _Don Quixote_: Tokyo, 2014–2016. _On Liberty_ ,too; I remember reading that at one of those popular cafes near Omotesando.
* _Swann's Way_: bus commutes in Madrid, 2019 or 2020.

And so on.

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@croquetapeligro @ChacheNeguer

Parece que son [«declaraciones facilitadas por la RFEF a EFE»](google.es/search?q=%22ha+sido+). Pero vamos, están escritas en primera persona, y supongo que si el comunicado no fuese realmente de ella, ya lo habría dicho.

Me sigue pareciendo horrible, sobre todo por la relación de superioridad de Rubiales. Probablemente se merezca el despido en cualquier caso (el gesto no es profesional). Pero quizá no ha habido abuso después de todo, si ambos tienen una relación muy cercana (como han dicho) y gestos de cariño habituales; sobre todo si ella misma lo está confirmando, como parece.

@croquetapeligro @ChacheNeguer

Me he enterado por vosotr@s (apenas sigo las noticias) y he ido a ver de qué iba la cosa.

Mi primera reacción ha sido de asco y de vergüenza ajena, y he pensado que a Rubiales deberían despedirlo inmediatamente. Qué gesto (y menuda imagen para el extranjero).

Pero luego he visto que la jugadora ha dicho que ella no tenía ningún problema con el beso:

> _«Ha sido un gesto **mutuo** totalmente espontáneo por la alegría inmensa que da ganar un Mundial. El presi y yo **tenemos una gran relación**, **su comportamiento con todas nosotras ha sido de diez** y fue un gesto natural de cariño y agradecimiento... No se puede dar más vueltas a un **gesto de amistad y gratitud**.»_

Entiendo que podría estar disculpándolo a posteriori por amistad con Rubiales o por miedo a enfrentarse. Pero, ¿no deberíamos «creer a la víctima»? ¿Qué versión es más auténtica, el vídeo de TikTok en el vestuario en el calor del momento bromeando con sus compañeras, o el comunicado de prensa oficial?

Why do I trust the literary canon and the classics, then?

* Not just old but considered best by experts (literary critics, historians, artists, philosophers, writers themselves).
* Survived not among a handful of alternatives, but among _millions_ of other books, the vast majority lost and forgotten (ie plenty of variety and competition).
* To an extent, in art “consumed and appreciated by more” correlates with “quality” (by definition, because art should be liked by people).
* Today, definitely not propped by trends, intimidation, inertia, or consumerism (quite the contrary).

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and the are descriptive, not prescriptive, observations.

Things stick around for lots of reasons, good and bad — including, but not limited to: coercion, fear, inertia, ossification, taboo, chance, network effects, market failures, sunk costs…

Lots of wrong ideas, unhealthy habits and abhorrent behaviours are “old”.

Old ≠ good.

(, you're next)

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please tell me a cool fact, i need to stop thinking about oldboy

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An informal take on in a single sentence by :

> _“Try to expand the moral sphere and to push the arc of the moral universe just a bit further toward truth, justice, and freedom for more sentient beings in more places more of the time.”_

michaelshermer.substack.com/p/

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