@davidho I think it's just easier to block a whole car lane than, say, 1/3 and let vehicles decide for themselves how to use that "partial" lane. on the other hand, does it really take 8 people to fix 2 bollards! no wonder the process of improving bike lane infrastructure is not going anywhere 🙃
I'm going to ramble a bit, but it will hopefully come around to something. When I was growing up, I read a lot of older historical book series, a big one would be the Little House On The Prairie series. While I really enjoyed it, there are some very obviously negative portrayals of Native Americans and African Americans. I remember being angry about it as a kid, and my Dad telling me, that part of learning about history is that we have to acknowledge the people we were, and still are. But because Little House on the Prairie is only semi-autobiographical, I still have mixed feelings about this. I do think they are well written books by a female author, an interesting perspective on early American life, and as an adult I can see and acknowledge the issues with the text. If we try to get rid of every author with racist ideas there wouldn't be much left to read from the 20th Century, and it also feels like being dishonest about who we are. So, I'm very mixed, how do you all feel about it? Do you think children can handle books with racial issues like this if it's explained to them? What is our responsibility here?
@justafrog@RickiTarr i think people think of "back then" as "golden age" mainly due to the revision of that history. Removing the "bad" parts, softening the tone, and trying to harmonize that time ..etc, and you get people yearning to go back to that fabricated history.
Loops is a new platform for sharing short videos, and it's open source + federated using #ActivityPub
We're really excited to share this sneak peek that showcases the new onboarding flow and discovery features (Connect Mastodon) and look forward to the upcoming beta release!
@alb_004@pixelfed I agree with your concern. however, I guess as the other parts of the #fediverse , if it's algorithm-free, the consumption behaviour would be normal. unlike algorithmic-fed induced (addictive) consumption
@liaizon as an #Arabic speaker, if I "read/hear" Al Shabab in a non-arabic context, I'd associated it with #Somalia islamist group. If it's Arabic context, then it's completely different. I guess the same when interacting with words such as Taliban (students?), Mullah (religious leader/teacher?), or ikhwan (brothers)
@dragnucs@liaizon really? Maybe I recent years (>2015) are not as active and no longer in the media focus, but i guess in the early 2000+ they were all over the news (in #egypt at least) for terrorist attacks in #Somalia and disrupting horn of Africa region
This must be the strangest unfolding escalation of a conflict, waiting hours (5-6) for the Shahed drones from #Iran to reach #Israel and speculate whether there will follow more and other weapons like cruise missiles. #Iran#Israel
Today, for the first time in a long time my #bmi changed from #obese to #overweight 💪for 6 weeks now, I've been trying to (#cardio) workout 4 or 5 times a week and to eat less unhealthy 😅. So far so good #fitness
My sister, her husband, some of my nieces, cousins, and even a few of my aunts and uncles no longer vote. -They have not in years.
The warning signs were clear for decades as governments needed to pay for advertisements, not to promote their candidates, but just to convince people to participate in voting.
I still vote, but even I sometimes ask myself, why bother!? The system of government and the people we are told are our choices, are often not what I want.
@Linux_Is_Best I am not American, but if I understand the system -superficially-, the positions at the top of the federal government, is designed to NOT directly reflect the individual votes. while positions at the state and lower levels are more representative, I think. so while your vote may not valuable at the presidential elections, it's much more valuable (and probably more relevant) to the politics/direction of your city/state. so you can make a change, just not at the flashy elections 🙃
@RickiTarr#German is usually consistent and should make sense. for example, a team is called "mannschaft". makes sense, teams used to be all men. so how do you call a women's team? you'd think easy "frauschaft". WRONG, it's "frauen mannschaft" 😅 wheelchair is "rollenstuhl" (rolling chair), but elevator is "fahrstuhl" (travel chair). i would've picked differently 😅. finally, "Bauen" is to build something, so you'd think builer is "Bauer" but it's actually farmer. builder is "Baumeister". enjoy
@GRA3432@Sherifazuhur@jordan@palestine thanks for the link. the authorities in this case, according to Petra statement (which is repeating what's been circulating online, killing of a Jordanian in Hamburg) is #hamburg. could it be 1) there is death of Jordanian student, 2) that death has not happened in Hamburg 3) that death was not a homicide. in this case, both statements would be correct. 🤷♂️
@ghazi@Sherifazuhur@GRA3432 they say that on 19th Dec. a Jordanian citizen with a self-inflicted fatal gunshot . So far, no evidence of third-party involvement political motivation
@Sherifazuhur@GRA3432@ghazi I get your point, I don't know how this investigation is being conducted. it could be that he got in a fight (as you hint), or was a friendly mishap, or was self-inflicted if he was just a beginner. the gun club itself made the news earlier, when mass shooter on JW in March trained there. so, one could ask "what a 21yo Jordanian student was doing in such a gun club to begin with" (for that the police stated that no indication of political or extremist background)
