Brecht Savelkoul

@WahbAllat@masto.nu Will do, thanks!

@WahbAllat@masto.nu Is there any good description of Dushara's cult available in English? Because the Wikipedia page doesn't go into too much detail.

@GuerillaOntologist I heard an interesting anecdote about the "having inconvenienced many Western corporate customers" as well. (Pretty reliable, only one degree of separation between me and the source.)

It's from someone who works in an factory in Zhejiang, a province which accounts for a huge chunk of Western exports. There they are still nominally doing covid tests, but actually the testers are putting the swabs not nearly deep enough to actually be useful, just going though the motions.

@johnpelhamblack Don't know if it's what @nntaleb is using, but https://moa.party should do the job.

@sarangshah@mastodon.social Right, this goes to something I miss in traditional unions that mostly focus on things like pay and working hours. Not that they shouldn't do that of course, but I'd be very keen on a unionized movement to call bullshit on the terrible management philosophies and practices that keep proliferating unopposed.

@sarangshah@mastodon.social Also if you've been put in the position of having to actually implement and deliver on that kind of overpromised bullshit, you start to resent the smell pretty fucking quickly.

@profmusgrave Still annoys me that after years of instinctively saying Czechia (because we always said it more or less like that in Dutch), I had finally gotten used to saying "Czech Republic" in English, and then they change it.

@ndloubere Another key difference is that in the West zero covid was never seriously attempted by policy makers, even though anti-lockdown propagandists try to pretend it was.

This has resulted in the tragic situation where the country that actually wanted zero covid was let down by an incompetent hierarchy, whereas countries that didn't choose zero covid were only rescued from total collapse by the unacknowledged competence and dilligence of health care workers, teachers, etc.

@magbak@fosstodon.org @sarangshah@mastodon.social I think so yes. If your bank (or any other institution) rectifies an instance of fraud, they don't actually erase it from the books. Both the fraudulent transaction and the correction stay on the books. So that would work the same if they used append-only data structures behind the scene.

@magbak@fosstodon.org @sarangshah@mastodon.social Also the fact that every single blockchain entrepreneur appears to be terrible at accounting makes it improbable that any of them will be able to find a useful application for what's in essence just a boring new bookkeeping technique.

@screenager @jonassalen Ik ben persoonlijk niet overtuigd dat Australië echt bestaat. Volgens mij is dat hele continent een soort van deepfake. Ik bedoel, ziet dit er een plausibele diersoort uit?

@jonassalen Mijn drie gokken zijn:

1. Verenigde
2. Staten
3. van Amerika

@douginamug I think TGV and Thalys always require reserved places as well, so it's not just the Eurostar I'm afraid.

@survey@fosstodon.org Only if you have a very patient spouse who will tolerate 30s of fiddling with the audio settings whenever you pick up their call.

I voted yes.

@sarangshah@mastodon.social Right, so far I'm quite happy to see that people I follow for their history and humanities background are actually posting about that stuff, rather than being fully absorbed by the Current Thing, whatever it may be.

@sarangshah@mastodon.social I do wonder if it's social media in general, or just the algorithms tricking people into posting that kind of stuff.