calotriton

Ransil, 8 days ago to random Spanish

Gente mandando a terapia a quienes llamamos al boicot a israhell.
Para esto sirvió la "normalización de la salud mental" que tanto estigma iba a eliminar para la gente loca, para mandar a terapia a todo aquel que no piense como tú.
La misma mierda con distinto olor, pero beneficiando a quien lo vende.

baldur, 15 days ago to random

It’s telling so many in tech think the only reason for being against something like cryptocoins or “AI” is that it overhyped and won’t fulfil its promise, leading to companies failing…

When the strongest reason to be against them is that promise itself is genuinely horrifying and destructive

calotriton, 6 months ago to random

well now we know what many in the fedi would have thought about other exterminations of people in the past (making excuses for it)

a sizable amount would say "oh but we didn't really know" later.

JackTheCat, 6 months ago to random

You could do a lot worse.
#Cracker #BabetEntertainmentAlternative

drewtoothpaste, 7 months ago to random

a New York Times writer is mad that you won't pay for his newspaper's transphobia and constant push to send your kids to war

breadandcircuses, 9 months ago to Arizona

A perfect (and perfectly scary) title from Jessica Wildfire (@jessicawildfire) —

"If a Cactus Can't Survive This, Neither Can You"

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You might’ve seen recent headlines about saguaro cacti keeling over in Arizona after spending nearly a month above 110° Fahrenheit (43°C).

Not even a week later, The Washington Post ran this absurd story: “Your body can build up tolerance to heat. Here’s how.”

I’m not linking to it. That’s how bad it is.

It’s not just getting a little hotter. It’s getting so hot that saguaro cacti are deflating in the desert. They evolved roughly 20,000 years ago. They’ve spent millennia adapting to a hot desert environment. They live up to 200 years in the hottest, driest environments on the planet. These cactuses are saying, “I can’t take it anymore,” and sagging over dead.

And we’re being told we can adapt.

I got curious about what temperature the human body can actually withstand, and it’s somewhere around 108°F (42°C). That’s when your proteins start to denature. A wet bulb temperature beyond 95°F (35°C) can kill a person in about six hours. No amount of heat tolerance can save anyone from that.

It strikes me as just a little ridiculous that out here in reality, parts of the world are becoming absolutely uninhabitable, and wellness writers are just now telling us to start building up our heat tolerance.

It feels like we’re being prepared and conditioned to start blaming heat deaths on someone’s “low heat tolerance,” as if it’s just another precondition that helps them rationalize indifference in the face of mass death.

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FULL ARTICLE -- https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/if-a-cactus-cant-survive-this-neither

#Arizona #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

vicgrinberg, 9 months ago to random

Not that I am complaining (esp since I recognize some facws), but why suddenly multiple new follows from firefish.social? New instance folks moved to? 🧐

calotriton, 10 months ago to random

are mastodon lists private to those you add to them?

ct_bergstrom, 10 months ago to random

Ah yes, of course. I've been trying to figure out who the fuck to blame.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4057045-catch-22-scientific-communication-failures-linked-to-faster-rising-seas/

Are0h, 10 months ago to random

I’ve said this before and I’m going to keep saying it.

We need to hard fork Mastodon. We cannot let ourselves be dragged down by the decision making of one person who cannot see outside of himself.

That project has driven so many people away from the fedi and we need to change that.

tomlowenthal, 11 months ago to random

Look playing RPGs isn't just an escapist power fantasy. The fantasy is about having clear and well-defined problems which can be addressed through straightforward if challenging tasks. It's reassuring to imagine that there are some big problems which can be solved by a small group of dedicated individuals. And then there's the ultimate fantasy: forget casting magical spells; RPG characters get to sleep eight hours in a night and wake up feeling refreshed.

gnome, 11 months ago to opensource

Happy #PrideMonth! We celebrate our vibrant and diverse community, joined by the spirit of collaboration and inclusivity. Thank you to all contributors who make #GNOME thrive! Let's continue our journey towards an #opensource ecosystem that empowers individuals together.

futurebird, 11 months ago to random

It's always hilarious when people buy a luxury condo in NYC then proceed to complain that a bus stop is too close to their apartment, or that a new subway stop "makes too much traffic" or that restaurants... exist or that buildings are "so tall" or that "this place feels like it's turning in to a humongous city."

Where are you from that you are shocked by a bus? A woodland glade in the middle of an island in the north sea?

theresnotime, 11 months ago to random

Can't keep putting it off I guess.. 🦀

seachanger, 1 year ago to random

Rad things about mastodon we take for granted

CW - these are amazing

Editing posts - hard to go back once you taste this

Alt text as the norm - total community enforcement

Replies - option to delist them so we don’t clog the feed

Timeline curating - we have near infinite timeline options with filters, lists, local, federated, hashtags etc

Muting - we can choose a time period!

Character count - 500 let’s you get an effing thought out

Ownership - we can own the damn thing ourselves

aeva, 1 year ago to random

MATE is working out alright I guess. I think I have it just about fixed up again after half trashing this Debian install by attempting to remove kde last night.

For whatever reason the "Breeze" dark theme I was using for GTK and QT was totally replaced with the light theme equivalent, but I found something nicer to replace it ("Sweet Dark").

Another screenshot with some random programs open to show the GTK theme "Sweet Dark".