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Eh-yup.
I largely walked away from Facebook about 5 years ago, but I didn't nuke my account, because I have close family members who still post there, despite agreeing it's horrible, and every so often I go in there to check what they have posted recently. I refuse to post anything new or otherwise interact with it except for this one limited use case -- which *would* go away if my family would start avoiding it consistently, but they don't.
I once asked one of these close family members which of Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, and Netflix was the most terrible; my vote was for Amazon because of its absolutely atrocious labor practices, but his was for Facebook because Amazon at least has something that could be a socially valuable business model if the labor issues were worked out, whereas Facebook's model is actively fucking with billions of people's mental health and social stability. He still actively uses Facebook regardless, largely because of the network effects.
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Had to wait days to get the server back online because the replacement hard drive appears to have been DOA so I had to get a replacement replacement hard drive, but the original drive failed entirely before that got here...
So... finally back up and running.
(I do have a Raid-5 style setup under LVM, so thankfully that means no data was lost... but it wasn't in a great position to run it in the mean time. I plan to try and upgrade it to RAID-6 style soonish so I can safely run it deprecated... as well as a few other configuration changes that'll help performance and reliability)
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As a Jew, I usually just say that I'm not a Zionist, because a focus on what Israel does is not central to my identity. I think it's fine for non-Jewish anarchists to say that they are anti-Zionist, though, because they are consistently against all states and all state ideologies.
People aren't going to get "Nazis are often Zionist" without more explanation. Better you than I.
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@Rich Puchalsky :anarchism: answered it over in this comment: https://foggyminds.com/display/c6ef095f-4265-7601-119e-11f680606673
@Gary @Charlie Stross (it's rarely used, but I think /srs is the punctuation to indicate seriousness, much like /s is sarcasm)As far as answering that, it's a bit meatier which is why I chose not to include it in the original to avoid completely derailing.
Some of the common antisemitic reasonings behind goy "zionism":
- Naziism - At the least in classic Nazi ideology, but still often present in modern Naziism and white supremacy in general, there's the idea of "Blood and Soil".
It's the belief that each "race" has rights to a certain land. The Nazis of Germany believed it was Aryans to Europe. As such those following "Blood and Soil" believe that the Jewish people have ultimate right to the land of Israel (as in they would fully endorse us launching a full fledged holocaust against non-Jews there). (I'll note that as always Nazis and white supremacists are always hypocrites. Side note this is the reason why many americans claim a distant "cherokee princess" relative, because it was a way for Blood and Soil Nazis to justify their supremacy in America)
- Christian Antisemitism - Many Christians support Israel existing purely because they believe it coincides with prophecies with the end times. Short gist is that it amounts to the Jews in Israel will basically be forced to convert or die when Jesus returns. There's no basis in respect for Jews, just viewing us as essentially tools for their beliefs.
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I would argue that if you believe that Israel should become a "state for all of its citizens" instead of "the state of the Jewish people", and include both Arabs and Jews as equal citizens, then you are an anti-Zionist. You don't need to call for the ethnic cleansing of Jews in Israel/Palestine to be an anti-Zionist. You just have to reject territorial expansionism, settler colonialism, and "Blood and Soil".
I consider myself anti-Zionist and believe the idea of an ethnonationalist settler colony to be absolutely ridiculous to me, regardless of where it is. I am also Jewish so there's that.
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Dear lord I can't win lately... NAS went down and I basically had to kick it to get it back up, likely related to a dead disk...
Here's the tally of my environment:
* 2 Proxmox servers
- 1 server failed, I need to send it in for a refund under the protection plan
- I bought a server to replace it already... that server came with a busted ram slot meaning it's already on degraded performance (need to refund it, but want to get a replacement before I send it off...)
- 1 old desktop running as a NAS
- 1 hard drive is throwing non-critical block errors, threatening to fail... I got the warranty exchange set up already but...
- 1 hard drive failed entirely after setting up that warranty exchange and now I don't have the parity to spare a drive, so I need to spare drives before I can start exchanging drives (those drives should arrive on Saturday)
And in all of this... spending way too much money I really shouldn't be spending at all...
And before someone thinks I'm throwing around a few K here... everything I'm getting is renewed, which is probably part of the problem but I sure as hell can't afford new. (Proxmox servers are around $100 each, drives around $45 each)
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Oh, and the NAS going down is critical because those $100 boxes (a) don't have enough disk space for everything and (b) it's how I'm maintaining the ability to high(-ish) availability transfer between the two nodes (this saved me when the one proxmox system died).
Those are tiny form factor systems, but they have room for a second hard drive. I need to get a couple of hard drives to drop into them so they have better local storage, afterwards I can set them up as ZFS and use proxmox's features to sync the drives between the two nodes... that way they're not relying on the nas for anything that's not just large.
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You want to know how to leave me completely dumbfounded?
Go on a christofascist rant in someone's comments, spout completely bullshit for _hours_ and then... practically out of nowhere... acknowledge your poor behavior and apologize.
... it's going to take me a looooooong time to process this.
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Wait you think Wednesday is supposed to be neuro fucking divergent? The Addams family are macabre. They enjoy inflicting pain on themselves and others. They're obviously creepy and quirky. They're bizarre. They're morbid. They're antiheroes, maybe. They could even be argued to be sociopathic, sadistic, cruel, or just mean. But that's their entire shtick, you absolute massive twat. They're an antithesis of a typically-portrayed family, the one with the white picket fence and the golden lab. What they are not, nor has anyone involved with their creation ever claimed they were, is neurodivergent.
But sure, just randomly make something unrelated to you completely about you, cause that screams neurodivergent, not narcissism.
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You ever want to see how razor thin support and inclusivity is?
Tell people you're a Jew and hate "Happy Holidays" and "Season's Greetings" because they're faux inclusivity.
People come out of the woodwork that would normally say they're allies to tell you that the harms you experience aren't real, or that the fact that others like it means the harms you experience don't matter.
Let alone the people who don't remotely read said posts before replying...
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@Cass M 🇨🇦 :mstdn: oh wow I was out of sorts when I replied the first time, I completely blazed past calling out that "Judeo-Christian" is antisemitic:
https://foggyminds.com/display/c6ef095f-6464-c4a4-3268-4c3346737962
99% of the time "Judeo-Christian" is antisemitic. And yes, I will absolutely elaborate on this if asked.Credit: @Rabbit Cohen
Edit because this blew up far more than I expected and multiple people have asked for me to elaborate, here's a copy of my elaboration with follow up questions encouraged:
It's a messy topic and it's late here (I'm a bit sleepy), so feel free to ask follow up questions.
The short version of it is that Judeo-Christian is almost always used in one of two harmful ways:
1) To try and give more credibility and weight to something that is purely Christian by claiming that it's part of Judaism as well when it's not (like the above example, because Judaism explicitly permits abortions)
2) To try and talk about broader groupings of related faiths while ignoring the many other Abrahamic faiths (the proper term, though that one more often hurts the lesser known groups, don't use it unless you also know it applies to groups like the Baháʼí, which I'll admit even I know next to nothing about, but it's valid here because all I'm doing is naming their religious family)Because many (cough most cough) teach a bastardized form of Judaism through the lens of Christianity, and because that's the only exposure many get to our faith... they get skewed harmful and hurtful ideas about us.
Some highlight examples:
* We don't have an established afterlife (we don't say there isn't one, we just have zero information on it if there is)
* We don't seek "eternal reward", the reward for our faith is being a better person than we were the day before
* We have forgiveness baked into our faith, and no it doesn't require animal sacrifice (it requires you to actually ask the person you wronged...)
* We thoroughly encourage arguing any topic with anyone (right time and place of course), and that includes picking a fight with God if you think they're wrong about something (you have a 99.9% chance of being wrong... but we commend the effort and every once in a while someone wins the argument)
* We have a rule, Pikuach Nefesh, roughly meaning that life is the highest commandment. Your well being takes precedence over your faith, if it would hurt you or others to be observant than you are exempt from that requirement. It's unacceptable to hurt others for your faith, and for yourself it's frowned upon
* We actively discourage conversion, it's allowed but it's not a trivial process. We don't want people to become Jews, we just want people to be better.
![Screenshot of a Tweet from Rabbit Cohen @[url=https://mastodon.online/users/BathysphereHat]Rabbit Cohen[/url] reading: Abortion bans are not "Judeo-Christian". They are ChristoFascist. Get "Judeo" out of your mouth.](https://foggyminds.com/photo/388477810964c4a3b847e0a701013240-1.jpg "Screenshot of a Tweet from Rabbit Cohen @[url=https://mastodon.online/users/BathysphereHat]Rabbit Cohen[/url] reading: Abortion bans are not \"Judeo-Christian\". They are ChristoFascist. Get \"Judeo\" out of your mouth.")
The biggest thing for me with some of the eat the rich posts I've seen lately, especially those talking about Taylor Swift, is basing judgement off of a net worth score.
(I'm no fan of Taylor Swift, I just know that she barely notched over and only on net worth... which is a junk number, basically a fancy guess how much them and everything they own would sell for, including things like song rights, likeness, etc)
I'll especially note that I don't think any artist really comes close to billionaire earnings without other businesses that are bigger than their art.
Useful reference:
* Highest Paid Actor (in a year) - Most years this floats just under $80 million, some rare extreme years see around $200 million
* Highest Paid Musician (in a year) - this jumps around alot but in 2022 it was $210 million and peaked in 2014 with Dr Dre at $620 million (next highest was Bruce Springsteen in 2021 for $435 million)
Important note not being a billionaire doesn't mean they can't be exploiting, just that billionaires are guaranteed to be intentionally exploiting.
In the case of artists, they have very little control over most of the things. Actors are contractors with little to no employees and no control over the pay of anyone else. Musicians are tied up in contracts and have a limited list of employees (ie. background dancers), and generally are just hiring venues (the venue provides almost all the workers, and they pretty much all suck of course).
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Got my anti-cistamines today! One order of tit-tacs and one order of antiboyotics!
#hrt #trans #transfemme
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welcome! to the world of tomorrow!
congratulations! it just gets better from here 💜
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(for those unfamiliar: Framework makes a modular upgradable open laptop design, their laptops have expansion bays that accept these cards which all use standard USB-C ports as their basis, so their USB-A expansion card can technically be used as a C-A adapter on other computers)
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Oh God, I'm LOVING Scott Pilgrim: Takes Off!
It Is NOT What You Expect It Is!
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@raf 🟣 My jaw hit the floor and never quite got off it the whole rest of the way.
I was half watching it while playing games, expecting a straight retelling with minor changes and more content... I was so confused at the end of episode 1!
My initial expectation is it's going to be like the Matrix 4 movie with lots of callbacks but done so much better
But no spoilers! I'm checking this out!
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@:labrys-xf-p: HighPriestessTerra :labrys-xf-b: :xf_lesknife: maybe? I hadn't heard anything and the EU's pressure usually comes from other fronts.
I suspect it might be success on Google's counter-ploy add all the same features, and have it automatically translate iMessage's "such-and-such liked your message" to proper reactions... so iMessage users got stuck purely being the less featured bunch
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when your Stealth skill is as low as mine you don’t even try.
My ‘Stealth skill’ is “don’t be in a spot where someone can make a Perception check against you in the first place”.
Yes, men are losing rights* in the age of feminism
[Note: This essay originally started out as an answer on Quora .] If, God help you, you ever read incel or “men going their own way” forums, which I have done, you frequently find a complaint— Well, hang on, wait.tacit.livejournal.com
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I'm as much eat the rich as the next girl, but I do get tired people applying it casually to entertainers or artists...
It's not a score thing, it's not hit this number in net worth and suddenly you're on the dinner plat. It's based on the fact specifically on the abuses it takes to get there, entertainers being one of the few exceptions on multiple fronts.
Here's the thing about entertainers:
* they're typically not the ones responsible for paying the workers, outside of a small few, actors don't pay the film crew (they're paid by the same people as the crew), and singers/musicians don't pay the majority of the crew (they're paid for by the venue, those they do pay for are probably going to be better compensated for their expertise). The stories of actors donating parts of their salary to crew... that's legit charity as it's not their responsibilities (that responsibility falls on the producers and studio execs).
* they have wildly inflated net worth, because net worth of a performer is typically about how much money they can make, but not necessarily how much money they get.
* they have inconsistent pay
* often those numbers hide other expenses, if they have their own staff or equipment or resources or such... those costs come after the number you're being quoted typically (ie. a musician makes $500 mil on the tour? Their personal crew, tour bus, etc are all paid out from that). This is because a performer is an instance of them being their own business which means they have astronomical expenses under their name.
Of course this doesn't mean they can't be awful, it's not uncommon for them to start their own side businesses (considered a good plan because their stardom likely won't last forever), and it's in those businesses where they often become "The Rich".
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@Charlie Stross it's entirely guesswork I agree, but I do think it's also a combination of people not knowing what net worth even is...
Like for you they'd be talking thinks like your "fair market value" if you were to sell off all rights to the laundry files.
Net worth includes a lot of ridiculous number... for the typical person it includes the estimated amounts they can get if they were to sell their car, their home, every single possession of any remote worth to them...
The "net" part of it is what the number is minus debts.
The guesswork of course is just them guessing what you could theoretically sell your whole life for and a guess of how much you owe in debts.
A lot of people think it means income or how much money someone has on hand.
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Dear god can we stop with the false "this saying is actually longer", it's terrifying seeing constant historical revisionism even if it's something so minor...
We don't need to edit history to erase all the inconveniences of taking a quippy saying at face value, and this only encourages people to be awful around so very many very real social issues because the quippy line can be purposefully misread in some shitty way that's obviously incorrect... by pulling this constantly it just tells people they're in the right for their bad faith takes.
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Hey, it's that time of year again where I remind you that "Happy Holidays" is *** NOT INCLUSIVE ***.
There is no special feature of this time of year that makes "happy holidays" inclusive. It's popular to cite how many holidays occur in winter/fall... but you find just as many in every season.
Happy holidays is purely a stand-in for Merry Christmas, and the whole effort of it is using a nod to minority religions (most commonly my faith) to throw Christmas in our faces while pretending to include us.
Channukah is our least important holiday, acknowledging it when you don't even know our other holidays, let alone what our most sacred holidays are... well, that tells you the whole story itself.
Let alone people don't know when it actually is and will most years be "celebrating" it weeks after it's over.
Holidays don't have to be lumped together, celebrate your holiday. Nobody is offended at you celebrating your holiday, only at it being forced on us.
And "Happy Holidays" only exists as a way to force it on us while pretending to include us.
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Been (re-?)watching Babylon 5, and I think it holds up remarkably well with a good story.
I'm into Season 3 and it's only been really dated by the intro, CG quality, aspect ratio, and the use of CRTs.
(questionable "re" because I think I watched only a handful of episodes as a kid)
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Random recommendation post:
Kagi: https://kagi.com
"Premium" Search Engine, free tier to try it out and a small monthly fee to use it regularly. Absolutely better results than Google, no ads, and more privacy. I really do recommend it. (And for my family there is a family plan as well...)
Beeper: https://beeper.com
A universal chat platform, if you long for the old days of Trillian, GAIM/Pidgin, and the like. Days when you could use your own chat program and just talk to everyone across everything... well this is it again. It's a Matrix service (think open source equivalent to Messenger/Skype/Discord/etc) and bridges to all the other services. Currently it's free, but it's planned to be free + paid extra features.
This has made a world of difference in my experience talking and chatting with people, especially the short list of people who talk primarily on Discord rather than SMS or Messenger. Plus if you're on Beeper or another Matrix service, end-to-end encryption is the default for complete security (You can even use your own client if you like without losing that)
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in reply to Rich Lafferty 🐀 • • •I couldn't find the joke!
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