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xahteiwi

@xahteiwi@mastodon.social

Humanism, open source, some music, art, and nonsense.

Account is locked; a significant fraction of what I post is followers-only. Got a blank or nonsensical avatar, no visible activity, no pointers to your identity? I'll ignore your follow request. I might choose not to accept it for other reasons, too. 🙂

Sometimes I ask questions here. When I do, I would ask you to please reply with your own thoughts, not an LLM's response.

Toots in English. Tröten auf Deutsch.

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xahteiwi, to random
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If you were eligible to vote in the Netherlands in 2005, and you voted Against,I am going to hold this against you for the rest of your sorry life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Dutch_European_Constitution_referendum

xahteiwi,
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Same if you're French and you voted Non.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_French_European_Constitution_referendum

xahteiwi, to random German
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Jede KV-Verhandlung in Österreich sollte diese Grafik vor sich hertragen.

Im Öffentlichen Dienst steigen die Gehälter seit 2015 in einem Ausmaß, das über der maßgeblichen Inflation liegt.

"Die Wirtschaft kann sich vollen Inflationsausgleich gar nicht leisten" ist Unfug.

https://www.goed.at/fileadmin/

xahteiwi,
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Quelle:

Quelle: https://www.goed.at/themen/gehaltsverhandlungen-fuer-2024

xahteiwi, to random German
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Kann mir jemand mit einem Link auf eine Studie aushelfen, die die Auswirkungen eines Verbots der intensiven Nutztierhaltung gesamtwirtschaftlich betrachtet?

Also: nicht nur fokussiert auf Verkaufspreise bei Fleisch, sondern ggf. für Lebensmittel allgemein, oder auch im Hinblick auf Kosten im Gesundheitswesen?

xahteiwi,
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Hier ist eine, die in eine ähnliche Richtung geht:
https://www.uni-augsburg.de/de/campusleben/neuigkeiten/2020/09/04/2735/

xahteiwi, (edited ) to random
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So, here's a fun fact: have you ever wondered how exactly U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt convinced Americans that Hitler was bad, considering he ran a country that was itself deeply racist and heavily antisemitic, had a sizeable fascist movement, and used much similar economic policies as Germany in the late stages of the Great Depression?

He framed it as supporting religious freedom, which the Nazis were encroaching on.

I didn't know that, until I read this bio.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3301907-traitor-to-his-class

xahteiwi, (edited )
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One thing that this book barely mentions, curiously, is the Bitter Lake Agreement (also known as the Quincy Agreement), arguably one of the most influential things that the U.S. did in the 20th century. It shapes the Middle East to this day.

Here, he wasn't so hung up on religious freedom. So y'all want to force Wahhabism on a whole country? That's cool, as long as we can have your oil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Quincy_(CA-71)#The_Quincy_Agreement#The_Quincy_Agreement)

xahteiwi,
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@chrisjrn Oh and we didn't even mention eugenics. That was another thing that 1930s Germany and 1930s 'Murica were very aligned on.

larsmb, to random
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Looking at the world, I'm surprised not more people are pointing out that "AI at human levels" is really putting the bar on the floor.

xahteiwi,
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@larsmb I think they're tearing up the floorboards and then applying pickaxes, shovels, and excavators prior to bar installation.

xahteiwi, to random
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Hey look, it's me and Rutger Hauer.

https://flic.kr/p/2pVSHjC

xahteiwi, to random
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This is Ernesto. Ernesto is the best speaker communicator that I know of, in any conference I've been to.

If you run speaker communications for a conference, be like Ernesto.

@pycon⁠🇮🇹

https://flic.kr/p/2pVRwWP

xahteiwi, to random
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If you're arachnophobic, you understand that the problem is with you, not with the spider.

If you're hydrophobic, you understand that the problem is with you, not with water.

If you're homophobic, you don't understand anything. You're just stupid.

xahteiwi, to random
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Hey Muricans, remember? 80 years ago today, deep state government funded anteefah invaded Normandy.

We're still happy and grateful that it did. Are you?

xahteiwi, to random German
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Heute ist der 6. Juni. Vor genau 80 Jahren begann der größte, nachhaltigste und sinnvollste Dialog mit Nazis in der Geschichte.

xahteiwi, to random
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On this day in history: morning of June 6, 1944, the Brécourt Manor assault. If you ever needed an illustration that training in fundamentals, understanding and awareness of the situation, and small teams led by competent individuals as part of a large and meaningful undertaking where everyone knows what's at stake makes all the difference, this is it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C3%A9court_Manor_Assault

xahteiwi, to random
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The only exercise worse than lunges are weighted lunges.

xahteiwi, to random
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"Capitalism isn't the problem" is the new "guns don't kill people".

Seriously, anyone who argues that capitalism isn't to blame for this Recall thing needs their head examined. It's a train wreck from start to finish, it's horrible for pretty much everyone, and the only universe in which it makes a sliver of sense is one in which it is somehow okay for a tiny number of billionaires to get richer still.

xahteiwi, to random
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When people quote Drucker saying "culture eats strategy for breakfast", some curiously appear to think that it only applies to bad strategy and good culture.

xahteiwi, to random German
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Ich halte mal wieder die Tafel hoch.

Und ich bleibe dabei: das wahre Problem in Deutschland und Österreich sind nicht die Extremisten. Das wahre Problem ist dass in beiden Ländern nach wie vor 25-30% konservativ wählen, und die Konsis sich den Extremisten andienen.

War schon ab 1925 so.

https://mastodon.social/@xahteiwi/111200311772388319

xahteiwi, (edited ) to random
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People who owe their entire adult existence, life in peace and stability, and economic prosperity to the EU and then have the goddamn gall to say "let's fuck it all up for those who come after us" ... it doesn't fucking matter if I try to "understand" them or "relate" to them; they're raging assholes.

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I have never been to Nice, but I need to help a traveller with limited budget out with recommendations for street food, a quick bite, or a good-but-not-too-fancy sit-down place.

Fediverse d'Azur, can you help?

xahteiwi, to random
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It says a lot about Germany that some of the best-organised things in its tech industry are named after chaos.

xahteiwi, to random
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Go vote!

xahteiwi, (edited ) to random
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Here is @eumiro in the middle of one of the more impressive lightning talks I've seen in a while.

At this point he's in the middle of discussing the 7th keyboard layout and with it on his 7th language, and I'm not sure if he was yet past the half-way mark.

https://flic.kr/p/2pVSbsg

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