Opposite mechanisms - are they rich because they are entitled or are they entitled because they are rich.
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My first reaction was to think the same, but this kinda assumes class mobility. Which is rare.
I think it's more likely that upper class kids are more likely to be entitled and grow up to become entitled adults.
Yes, it intentionally breaks with human history, which has been largely built around and fought over borders for a really long time. What people argue is that it's not human nature but learned. We organize ourselves locally and in communities, there's nothing natural about patriotism and nation states.
I personally think they are correct in fundamental parts of their criciticism, but that doesn't make it a realistic goal work towards any time soon. What we can do is to question the premises we are trained to accept and to think critically about how we should structure our societies going forwards.
Arguing we can't abolish borders because of Russia and America is a bit like arguing nukes can't be abolished because of the need for nuclear deterrence. It might make some degree of sense as a practical argument, but not as a normative stance.
The no borders crowd doesn't want America to be anything more than a geographical term. There wouldn't be borders and there wouldn't be states. Possibly some sort of global federation would be acceptable depending on who you ask.
They're right in principle. Borders are man made and lead to a bunch of conflict. The nation state is an arbitrary unit that has gained an absurd amount of power.
In practice of course few people would say we can just abolish borders over night and hope for the best. But criticizing it by saying that Putin would do this or that doesn't work because Russia wouldn't exist in this scenario and Putin would just be some powerless random guy with rapidly declining mental abilities.
The entire Russian war of aggression is about moving lines on a map in the first place. It's a text book example of the stupid shit people start doing precisely because of our obsession with borders.
It's funny to do a Ctrl+F for Lemmy in the thread linked by OP. They all collectively seem to agree that the threadiverse is a bunch of weirdos and that it's only good for memes and brainrot.
I'm not saying they're wrong, but it's true that they do seem to have a culture for lengthyness.
Yeah. I don't have the energy to read up on him too much but what I see reminds me more of socially awkward teenagers trying to be edgy than actual fascists. It seems to me it's a person who needs guidance more than boycot and a cold shoulder. But then again I can't be bothered to do my research and I'm sure a lot of people would be eager to tell me how wrong I am.
They sponsor a window manager called Hyprland, which is developed by some aggressively unwoke guy. When dealing with it Framework has blundered, babbling about a big tent instead of publicly asking the guy to stop being an idiot if he wants to keep receiving money.
I suspect people asking to boycot Framework tend to forget that people occasionally need to buy new laptops, and when doing so they have the choice between 1) a repairable laptop developed by a company supporting open source, and 2) a non-repairable laptop lining the pockets of people who are guaranteed to do more evil in the world than whoever develops some fucking Wayland window manager. But this is probably a dangerous take in these parts.
Edit: It seems the Framework also tweeted about Omarchy and some stuff. Not a great look, not sure if it's boycot worthy either.
Precisely how much of this would you want to eat?
I have seen sources claim it's a form of meat.
I've seen some blogs using threadiverse posts as their basis, and honestly I don't se many downsides. The content can be spread around the fediverse if people find it interesting, markdown allows for all kinds of text, it's long form by nature, and the comment section is integrated into the whole thing.
Pixelfed is for pictures, not blogs. Write.as would be a more natural (but probably less social) alternative.
I never had problems with Comaps or Organic Maps, and in my experience they are particularly good outside of cities.
I don't use voice guide though, but my advice would be to give comaps a shot and see if they fixed whatever bug you were having.
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The crew of the Mikeno, who may have broken the siege of Gaza [UPDATE: Kidnapped by Israel]
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Of 42 ships in the Global Sumud Flotilla, one made it into the waters outside Gaza. It remains unknown whether they made it to Gaza or if they have been arrested by the Israeli navy just when they were about to enter.
~~While not officially confirmed, the following footage allegedly shows their arrival in Gaza:~~
~~syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/115304225699538245~~
edit: It seems this post has been taken down, it was probably a video from another occasion.
Other sources claim that the Mikeno too has been captured by Israel: https://mastodon.social/@Al_Quds_News14/115303483176696689
According to Israel via Al Jazeera, they have seized "all but one" of the vessels carrying aid:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/9/2/live-geta-thunberg-once-more-on-board-sumud-flotilla-sailing-for-gaza
This could refer to the Marinette, which is still just north of Cairo, or to the Mikeno, whose status is not confirmed:
https://globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/
In either case these people are heroes. The person on the right side (their left) top row is the Fediverse's own @Vegard@fribygda.no, who is also the source of this image: https://fribygda.no/@Vegard/115299846437410236
Bonus picture: https://fribygda.no/@Vegard/115299851567351974
Find a protest near you. Demand action from your representatives.
Update:
It is with heavy hearts and sadness that we announce the Global Sumud Flotilla vessel "Mikeno" was seized by the Israeli Navy.
The captain, a hero, defied direct Israeli orders to shut his engine down and seize progression. He then went completely dark, shutting off all electronics and maneuvering past their blockade. The "Mikeno" made it within 7NM of the coast of Gaza. The ship was then intercepted, seized, and boarded by naval commandos deployed from multiple Israeli warships with drones flying overhead.
Source:
https://t.me/gsfnews/217
Whenever I go through a slideshow of pictures in a community in tile view, such as !photography@piefed.social, the behaviour is a bit janky for me.
On Firefox in android, swiping right moves one picture at the time, but sliding left (and forwards in the slideshow) sends me through a bunch of pictures making it difficult to navigate.
On Firefox in desktop (Linux) and moving to the right using arrow keys, the picture display slowly drifts to the left: After going through 20 pictures, half the image on display is outside of my screen. With every new picture it moves further to the left.
In both cases the X button moves along.
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Knowlegable Android devs needed: Help the European Commission regulate Google Play
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Every major innovation in information technology eventually leads to some new religion. Scrolls gave us the Torah, books gave us the Bible, the printing press gave us Protestantism. We're about to figure out what god awful religion computers are going to give us.