tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org

#Spain 🇪🇸 is by far the first country in the world in relative number of actual deceased organ donors.
Source: https://www.irodat.org/?p=database

I too found #WarAndPeace to be unexpectedly engaging and entertaining, in spite of the many long “digressions” from the “plot”. In some way, the whole thing is a meta-historical essay, isn't it?

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2853426518

…and this is reason no. 173 why you should never use #URLshorteners:
https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/link/
#BitTorrent #privacy

“The #SoftwareDevelopment world would prefer to use their multi-gigabyte IDEs running on ElectronJS to build thousand-dependency Java applications targeting ungainly APIs on hard-to-operate systems than support something simpler and better.”

— https://mastodon.technology/@roguelazer
https://www.roguelazer.com/2020/07/etcd-or-why-modern-software-makes-me-sad/

🇪🇸 Pierdo toda esperanza en la humanidad. Hice una consulta por e-mail a una dirección oficial del Registro Civil Único de #Madrid, y esta es su respuesta, completa y literal:
«BUENOS DÍAS TIENEN QUE COMPARECER SIN CITA DE LUNES A VIERNES EN ESTE REGISTRO CIVL .UN SALUDO»
#español #lengua #funcionarios

🇪🇸 «Posicionar» (verbo) y «posicionamiento» (nombre) son #antipalabras: hay alternativas corrientes que son más fáciles y más cortas, y que además las preceden etimológicamente 🤷‍♂️

«Poner» o «pronunciarse» (v.) en lugar de la primera y «posición» (n.) para sustituir a la segunda.

Si no ves nada malo en añadir alegremente morfemas sufijos para cambiar la categoría gramatical de una idea *cuando ya existe una palabra equivalente, te* gustará mucho leer pronto «posicionamentación» (n.), que sería la siguiente palabra lógica en la secuencia; y luego, «posicionamentacionar» (v.); etc. 🤦‍♂️

#español #lengua #palabras

#TruthFindsAWay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBI7-pL52GY

“If scholars scan each others' collective work—every word written or recorded—searching for the least charitable reading of every snippet, we can all destroy each other.”
#cancelculture
— #JonathanHaidt
https://twitter.com/JonHaidt/status/1279443900789374976

“It’s time for more of us to stand up and say: yes, I am a center-left extremist. Yes, I’m an #Enlightenment fanatic, a radical for liberal moderation and reason. If #liberalism is the vanilla of worldviews, then I aspire to be the most intense vanilla anyone has ever tasted. I’m not a closeted fascist. I’m not a watered-down leftist. I’m something else. I consider myself ferociously anti-racist and anti-sexist and anti-homophobic and pro-downtrodden, but I don’t cede to any ideological faction the right to dictate what those terms mean. The world is too complicated, too full of ironies and surprises, for me to outsource my conscience in that way.”
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4892

«La #igualdad no es una bandera #socialista, sino #liberal, porque fueron los liberales quienes insistieron en la igualdad compatible con la libertad y la justicia; a saber, la igualdad *ante* la ley.
Los socialistas de todos los partidos usurparon dicha bandera y la desfiguraron, convirtiéndola en la igualdad *mediante* la ley, lo que necesariamente viola la libertad y la justicia.
Por eso jalean la “justicia social”, que es, como la “justicia fiscal”, una injusticia política.»

— #CarlosRodríguezBraun
https://www.carlosrodriguezbraun.com/articulos/expansion/contra-la-desigualdad/

One doesn't need to be a radical anarchist (I am not) to acknowledge these concerns:

“From the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been calls […] for […] governments to combat the spread of the virus. These calls may seem quite innocuous and unsurprising, but they represent a dangerous trend. […] Specifically, these calls for #government action highlight a concerning belief […] that, when faced with an economic, social, or political problem, we should first look to the government to ‘do something’ and that the government’s response will be in our best interest. These calls for action demonstrate not only […] acceptance of #paternalistic government practices, but our demand for more.”

https://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2020/Johnsonpaternalism.html