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stupidjim

@stupidjim@mastodon.social

Hi there! My name is Jim, from #europe, and I'm drawing silly comics about silly people. Oh, comics can contain sarcasm. It may show a different opinion than the mainstream. Oh my.

Updated every week!

Coming from a different instance? See all my comics here: https://mastodon.social/@stupidjim

#webcomic #neutral #comic #fair #funny #silly

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schwa, to random
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    stupidjim,
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    @schwa It also says 'you left your email in your cart.'

    rysiek, (edited ) to Bulgaria
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    If you are a citizen of any EU Member State, I implore you to consider signing the Tax-the-Rich citizens' initiative:
    https://www.tax-the-rich.eu/

    The idea is to tax the super rich and then use the money for climate transition. :blobcathappypaws:

    This is an official EU citizens' initiative, meaning that if it reaches certain thresholds, it will have to be considered by the EU institutions. That's a really powerful tool, if actually used.

    So we should use it. :blobcatcool:

    🧵⬇️

    stupidjim,
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    @rysiek There website has this question in the faq. :)

    It depends per country, as an example they state:

    "..In Belgium, for example, we propose that anyone with 1.25 million euros in assets in addition to their main home and business assets should qualify as "ultra-rich".

    Sounds like a good starter.

    https://www.tax-the-rich.eu/home#info

    ncoca, to Taiwan
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    Every article I've seen on the results has been framed as "China xx" or "Results will anger ", the exact same framing.

    Another example of western, English-language failing .

    stupidjim,
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    @ncoca Here in EU the news is mostly from an american-corporate point of view, nothing to do with neutrality. It's a huge problem.

    bryansmart, to random

    Big news for any blind Mac users doing programming or scripting. The BBEdit text editor has been around for decades, but hasn’t been accessible. It is now. Auto-formatting, code folding, run external compilers, built-in GIT client, edit local and remote files, hex editor, on and on. Plus, integration with ChatGPT to assist with coding, if you want it. If you're a blind coder on Mac, it's way better than whatever it is you're using right now. https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.html

    stupidjim,
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    @bryansmart It would be amazing if it weren't for this little thingy here: "integration with ChatGPT to 'assist' with coding."

    It will be writing all the code, copying from others, including the one who is using it. Making the whole editor useless, and paving the way for the ending of human coders.

    stupidjim,
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    @bryansmart 'Too bad for programmers'.

    Well that shows some of your personality. 'Sorry if I'm not sorry'.

    A thing 'AI' will not read for you is that it's not just affecting programmers, it's artists, engineers, medical people, librarians, bakeries, designers, shopping personal, supermarket employees etc. etc. Sorry for them too?

    The thing that gets this world in problems is that people tend to think only for themselves, because corporate tells them too, and people are too stupid to think.

    stupidjim,
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    @bryansmart Oh no, don't get me wrong, I'm not trolling, just trying to get my idea through. But when you say stuff like 'too bad for programmers' it sounds like you just want to have things your way, no matter how it downsides others.

    And please skip the 'privilege' thing just because I'm giving criticism, that's just rude.

    Anyways, it sounds weird but I really had no offending intended, just discussing, have a good weekend.

    stupidjim, to Bulgaria
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    Europeans! Here you can vote to 'tax the wealthy'. More info on the official EU page below.

    See the yellow button 'Support this initiative' to vote, takes 1 minute.

    https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2023/000006_en

    It's still in it's early stages but hoo boy! The profit will be used to combat climate change and inequality.

    Share would be great!

    #eu #europe #european #taxtherich #inequality #climatechange #mondaymotivation #solutions

    alberto_cottica, (edited ) to goodnews
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    No way! A European Citizens' Initiative to (1) tax millionaires to (2) finance a Green New Deal via EU Commission own funds, and (3) whose proponents are (check notes) the president of the Belgian Socialist Party, a Polish former Employment and Social Inclusion Commissioner and Thomas Piketty (@pikettylemonde), possibly the world's most prominent scholar of inequality.

    Did the timeline just reset? https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2023/000006_en

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    stupidjim,
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    @alberto_cottica Voted!

    Click the yellow button to vote, or just see directly here https://eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/#/screen/home

    stupidjim, to Europe
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    For those who like to have a relaxed timeline or explore tab, try using filters!

    It filters most of the dooming US-crap out by words or even hashtags. :)

    Settings -> filters. Ah, select 'Home & lists' and 'Public Timelines' to clean the explore tab too!

    p.s. the image is just a small part of all the words added. Think of 'marvel', 'furry', 'war', 'anxiety' and what not.

    #europe #relax #timeline #filters #silentsunday

    feditips, to random
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    1. Meta/Facebook has a horrific track record on human rights:

    1. Meta/Facebook is trying to join the Fediverse. We need to defederate them.

    2. If you're a server admin, please defederate Meta's domain "threads.net" (here's how on Mastodon https://fedi.tips/how-to-defederate-fediblock-a-server-on-mastodon/)

    3. If you don't run your own server, please ask your server admin to defederate "threads.net". Your admin is listed on your server website's About page.

    stupidjim,
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    @feditips Is there any way to block as a user?

    stupidjim,
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    @feditips Thanks for the answer!

    Difficult question though: would blocking that user be considered 'interacting' and so would Threads get your data when you block them?

    0xabad1dea, to random

    Google has announced that they will now consider an account dead and delete it if it receives no logins for two years. If you have any gmail accounts you don't use often, or have custody of someone else's while they're in jail/the hospital/the tundra or whatever, you should set a recurring alarm on your calendar to manually log into it every few months.

    stupidjim,
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    @0xabad1dea People still use gmail?

    stupidjim,
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    @0xabad1dea ...I was referring to using a service from a company that is known for its lawsuits regarding privacy, while there's loads of other email services available.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_litigation

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitrust_cases_against_Google_by_the_European_Union

    ZLabe, to worldwithoutus
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    Hope you had a nice weekend! Here's your Monday ice update - sea ice extent is currently the 5th lowest on record (JAXA data)...

    • about 210,000 km² below the 2010s mean
    • about 780,000 km² below the 2000s mean
    • about 1,460,000 km² below the 1990s mean
    • about 1,960,000 km² below the 1980s mean

    Sea ice plots: https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/

    stupidjim,
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    @ZLabe Looking at the repetition of decades being a million square kilometer less then the previous, it looks like this decade is actually getting more ice, as it should be below the purple line, but is on the same hight. Is this right?

    lilithsaintcrow, to random
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    It's bloody unconscionable that Covid vaccines and things like Paxlovid are being privatized, after taxpayer money funded research and development. The correct price for a vaccine is $0. The correct price for Covid treatment in this, the fourth year of the pandemic, is $0.

    stupidjim,
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    @lilithsaintcrow Every time you use a corporate product* you support investors.

    Investors use this money to lobby, to making privatizing happen.

    Stop using corporate products/free services and you stop investors from being able to privatize.

    It's that simple.

    *google, AI, FB, netflix, twitter, amazon, etc etc.

    stupidjim, to Fashion
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    "Yes pollution is bad, but.. "

    There's always this 'but' when it comes to changing something yourself.

    obligatory disclaimer: people with buns are just like everybody else. The bun in question in this drawing is just part of the outfit of someone doing something. I do not intent to show that bun-wearing-humans are idiots. That would be judging someone's character on their appearance, and that's just silly.

    TheEuropeanNetwork, to ireland

    From our 'Ireland EU 50' series, celebrating Ireland's 50th anniversary of joining the European Union.

    Ciara McQuillan is a Dublin based freelance food and travel writer, and columnist for The Irish Times.

    In her article for TEN she describes how Ireland’s EU membership has brought about a cultural exchange through food, expanding Ireland's diet far beyond meat, potatoes and Guinness.

    https://theeuropeannetwork.eu/a-taste-of-europe/

    stupidjim,
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    @TheEuropeanNetwork Working together can be SO good.

    MeanwhileinCanada, to random

    Canada had our worst fire season ever recorded this year.

    Australia's fire season is just starting and it is devastating.

    The scale of fires in NW Australia is an area bigger than Western Europe has been on fire at some point over the last 6 weeks.

    Stay safe down under.

    The man-made climate breakdown is 1000 times more costly than getting off fossil fuels.

    The time for talking has long past. We need to move quickly to transition. Canada has a lot of work to do on this front.

    stupidjim,
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    @MeanwhileinCanada Can we change this to 'society-made' ?

    "The man-made climate breakdown is 1000 times more costly than getting off fossil fuels."

    After all it's not politicians or CEO's who are driving millions of cars for a short trip or are buying billions of very very cheap and un-environmentally made products online.

    0xabad1dea, to random

    If anyone’s curious, this is the master list of characters taught in a Chinese public school language arts textbook for the first half of first grade. The book uses some extra characters to express coherent sentences, but memorizing them is not required at this stage

    people have asked me if there’s anything weird and ideological in the book; now that I’ve read all of it I can say it’s 99% totally normal but there’s an uncomfortable reference to “sending a boat to Taiwan to pick up all the children so they can come play with us” and a song about how to show the flag respect which isn’t any more or less weird than how the Americans do it. Also I guess you can see Mao in the background here (last image) but the traditional costume spread is sick

    (it wouldn’t surprise me if some of these costumes represent groups who might resent the statement written in the upper right, “I am a Chinese person,” but I’m not qualified to say)

    second page of characters (sorry I’m not transcribing this)
    third page of characters (sorry I’m not transcribing this)
    a watercolor illustration of several dozen children in different traditional costumes from cultures presently considered part of China. Tiananmen is looming in the background

    stupidjim,
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    @0xabad1dea That's a lot of detailed characters. And text, that too.

    janettespeyer, to random
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    AI can enhance curation! Discover how I use ChatGPT & DALL·E to elevate my Flipboard curation. From generating content ideas to crafting stunning magazine covers. Take a look at this article published in @Flipboard https://about.flipboard.com/business/4-ways-i-use-ai-to-improve-content-curation-on-flipboard/?fbclid=IwAR0h3w9cMNOfp0K9PT1PtxWIFb9aZw3PUnhKjGvIBWy59MADnvr-egamJBs

    stupidjim,
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    @janettespeyer Hey thanks for your answer :) I was referring to chatgtp using artwork and texts from people who never gave permission for that. Just because it's for 'free' for you doesn't mean it's a good thing, because using a free service financially supports that company to go on and do more of that, and I'm sure you don't support copying and pasting from artists/writers that never gave their permission.

    stupidjim,
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    @janettespeyer Glad to hear that. :) I hope I didn't sound to rough, and thanks for understanding!

    brianklaas, to random
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    If you poison the information pipeline to voters, you can kill democracy — it relies on informed consent of the governed, built on a shared sense of reality. That shared sense is splintering in ways that are tearing apart our societies, often based on widely held delusions. Musk made it way worse.

    stupidjim,
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    @brianklaas Cambridge scandal anyone?

    MeanwhileinCanada, to random

    Friendly reminder that dressing up as another culture for Halloween is not "cultural appreciation", it's ignorant. Just don't.

    stupidjim,
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    @MeanwhileinCanada I nearly liked this post until it used the word 'white' to refer to a certain group of people, because they're born with a light skin-tone.

    feditips, to random
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    This account also has a website full of tips about how to use Mastodon and the Fediverse:

    ➡️ https://fedi.tips <---- Click here to open the website

    It's all written in plain non-technical language, and aimed at a general audience. There's a section at the top with quick links to the most essential tips, and a complete list of guides below that.

    If you can't find the answers you need on the site, ask me and I'll reply. :blobcat:

    stupidjim,
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    @feditips Hey sorry for the question here but I can'T find an answer, maybe you can help: On my home timeline I'm seeing replies to (other user's) posts I made yesterday and it's cluttering up other people's new posts. I've deactivated 'show replies' in the menu but it doesn't help. Anyway to fix this maybe?

    stupidjim,
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    @feditips Hey thanks for the reply!

    I have the option deactivated since a few months ago. To be sure I'm telling it right, this is on my home timeline in between usual regular updates form other people:

    comments i made to posts of:

    • people I follow
    • people i don't follow

    replies on those comments from:

    • people I follow

    I'm on desktop, if that helps.

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