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justafrog

@justafrog@mstdn.social

Full-time amphibian.

Strongly committed to treating all individuals of the most common primate species fully as valid persons as much as possible.

Concerned about covid19, climate destabilization and economic equality.

Likes complete information abstract board games which have been played for centuries, straight into this modern time.

Middling at chess, kind of okay at baduk. Into the second year of taking shogi seriously.

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futurebird, to random
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Homo naledi is the most interesting new human like primate. They are from South Africa, little people. walked upright, but primates walking upright goes way back.

They had hands just like modern humans but longish arms and powerful shoulders ... so they could probably zip up a tree.

They have small brains half modern size. This has made people astonished that they may have had fire.

I'm glad I'll never meet one, a smart little firebug with powerful arms sounds terrifying. 1/

justafrog,
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@futurebird @sashin Don't most human children need to be taught not to grab the fire?

NanoRaptor, to random
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The one true USB3 connector.

justafrog,
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@futurebird @NanoRaptor I'm sure there's a mini version of it, just like with USB 2.

StillIRise1963, to random
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"Come July 1, school districts in Florida could authorize volunteer chaplains — those who are religious or not and with no training — to provide support and services for students in public schools, though GOP-controlled legislatures across the country are rejecting similar proposals.”

https://www.rawstory.com/chaplain-schools-in-florida/

justafrog,
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@StillIRise1963 I can't think of a scenario where it isn't at the very least a gigantic waste of money.

Just imagine if the same budget had been allocated for a trained counselor, or even just an extra janitor?

You know, someone USEFUL!

TonyStark, to random
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One of the many problems with instances not dealing with antisemitism among their users at all or making a moderation announcement that borders on excusing antisemitism is that all the users who’ve been widely blocked, limited, and suspended elsewhere for antisemitism will notice your instance doesn’t do much about antisemitism and just start moving there.

Then your instance is filled with a whole lot of antisemitism.

justafrog,
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@TonyStark When deciding what to allow, always consider if it would be okay if 1000 people on your instance did exactly that same thing, every day.

It's never ever only just this once.

The internet is not that kind.

justafrog, to random
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There's currently no dialysis for anyone living in .

Takes about 8 days for half of dialysis patients to die without it.

Maybe 40 days for all of them?

Note that some dialysis patients can't even manage 2 days without it.

It might not be getting shot, or bombed, but it still counts as murdering civilians.

BlippyTheWonderSlug, to random
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It's a holiday today in Germany: Christihimmelfahrt (Christ drives to heaven) or something like that.

Which explains why it's so quiet, and the trash bins haven't been picked up.

justafrog,
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@BlippyTheWonderSlug Hemelvaartsdag, in Swamp German.

There should be an indication on the trash calendar from your local municipality.

justafrog,
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@BlippyTheWonderSlug You talk like basing a trash collection schedule on the bible is strange and unusual.

msquebanh, to random
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My worst surgical living nightmare is a walk in park, compared to what children undergoing surgeries without anesthesias are suffering right now.

I had multiple surgeries in childhood for my polio paralysis. During one foot bridge surgery, I woke up in massive pain & was screaming from pain & felt terror upon seeing my foot all opened up with blood, bones & everything else showing. I was sedated again quickly but still remember that clearly.

are the strongest kids in the world.

justafrog,
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@msquebanh It's been on my mind a lot.

The medical staff can't have an easy time with it, either.

None of them expected to live through a time where they routinely operate on little children without sedation.

fkamiah17, to random
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One to watch, given the University has set up the camp again today.

https://nltimes.nl/2024/05/08/amsterdam-city-council-hold-urgent-debate-university-gaza-demonstrations

justafrog,
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@fkamiah17 I'm glad to see they don't give up easily.

Popping up right the next day makes them very very frustrating to deal with, and thus hard to ignore.

justafrog,
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@fkamiah17 Always fun to see which protests get that treatment and which don't.

Always the right wing astroturf which gets treated with kindness.

Climate? Human rights? No mercy!

justafrog,
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@fkamiah17 I just read that Utrecht's uni closed some locations till monday, to avoid having their buildings continuously reoccupied.

Let's see how much success they'll have managing the yoofs today.

justafrog,
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@fkamiah17 TU Delft, where students are talking about withdrawal from military work such as the F35.

justafrog, to spain
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Meanwhile, doesn't beat the crap out of students for supporting and life goes on without any real problem.

Note that this is a very real and possible choice that leadership could be making, in any other country.

justafrog, to random
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"You're not worth the trouble." I say, before launching into a 61-point rebuttal which I will come to regret, in time.

eniko, to random
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fuck it post deleted it's not worth the risk just to vent about the gatekeepers of success in gamedev

justafrog,
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@eniko Have you tried just being really famous?

justafrog,
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@eniko Gosh, it almost seems like established big players are trying to pull up the ladder behind them.

justafrog,
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@eniko Yeah, I think it's publishers trying to corner the market like a 1970s music publisher.

RickiTarr, to random
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Every generation of kids wants to identify themselves in a new way, and yes, we've all been guilty of finding it funny or annoying, but the truth is we all did it. I'm happy for them that it's safer for them to really explore their identity, and sexuality in public, and not just little secret corners of the internet, or shadowy bars that people only whispered about. Maybe we are fine with words like Queer, Gay, or Ace, we fought for them to be fine, and maybe it feels strange that they would reject something so hard won. We should let them find their own identities though, it's what we wanted, right?! So, Cheers to all the new words and acronyms, I can never seem to keep up with, I hope each generation gets to be less scared to be themselves.

justafrog,
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@RickiTarr Where it becomes acceptable to just be queer, the number of people being queer out loud increases every generation.

It's no wonder new identities are surfacing, considering how much was always repressed.

We'll probably have a lot more people rejecting the cishet identity when everyone alive grew up in a time where it was normal to be queer.

GayDeceiver, to random
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I once had a boss who wanted the team to do team evaluations. The pushback was so hard, he had to go to HR and tell them it wasn't happening. HR told the team, "It's happening." We went to the Big Boss and told them, "Ain't happening, or we walk."

It didn't happen.

justafrog,
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@GayDeceiver Probably not how it went, but I imagine you suddenly busted into exec's office and went Beastie Boys with that line.

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, this might sound weird, but this is what I'm thinking of today. I'm assuming most of you know the idiom, "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." I know it's about looking at the horse's teeth to check it's age and health, but in my heart I have an alternate history where it's about The Trojan Horse, which doesn't really even make much sense, but it's still living there rent free.

So, does anyone else do this, make up alternate histories for words or phrases? If you do, I'd love examples!

justafrog,
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@RickiTarr Think you'd love reading up on folk etymology.

StillIRise1963, to random
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“ 'Once a black soldier was brought to trial, he had practically no chance of acquittal,' he said."

"This, said Roberts, allowed the military hierarchy to protect the reputation of white Americans by 'scapegoating many African-American soldiers’ ".

"Of the 29 soldiers sentenced to death for rape in 1944 and 1945, 25 were black GIs, she said.”

https://www.rawstory.com/taboo-french-women-speak-out-on-rapes-by-u-s-soldiers-during-wwii/

justafrog,
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@StillIRise1963 There's so much dirt which got swept under the rug, all to preserve the happy narrative of heroic liberators.

justafrog,
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@StillIRise1963 A lot of old WW2 movies don't even have black soldiers in them!

fkamiah17, (edited ) to random
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WEEK 32: Yesterday at the University of Amsterdam
Edit: it's been bulldozed by riot police.

justafrog,
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@fkamiah17 I found the stated reason absolute bullshit, too.

Municipal authorities and police quoted "fire safety" because the barricades might make it hard for the protestors to evac in an emergency.

Bitch, you ARE the emergency!

Especially galling when the current mayor of Amsterdam used to be the Green/Left party leader.

Supposedly a party of more nuanced thoughts than "must not upset Israel".

justafrog,
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@fkamiah17 They got staff and faculty to join the protest, because they were mad about it.

And no, a return to normalcy will not be granted.

justafrog,
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@fkamiah17 Yeah, I noticed a mood shift towards BDS months ago, and it's only gotten more intense.

This isn't some sort of top-down organizational thing.

People are genuinely disgusted and want Israel to fuck off forever.

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