FailForward @FailForward@qoto.org
Exploring, failing, backtracking, just to identify the only viable path forward. And then scarred, stumbling forward into the future. Learning.
Boring and steady. Knowing little and questioning a lot. Mostly harmless.
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This is an experimental scrapbook space. A collection of stuff I want to keep in a form somewhere on the spectrum between a blog and a shoe-box full of scraps, cut-outs, quotes, links and reading notes and sometimes my own silly thoughts about them.
Perhaps it might be of marginal interest to others too, but I don't care that much.
Joined Jan 2021
@piggo Yes. This. For instance Audible completely ignores the TLD you use, it redirects you to what Amazon "thinks" should be right. E.g., having an account at audible.de, accessing it from NLD, it automatically lands me at audible.co.uk and displays a message that if I really want to go to the German version, I need to click "here".
... and then I am furious and my bathroom shines...
@piggo Yes. Mostly. When I procrastinate OR force myself.
Actually there's another situation when I clean the bathroom: when I am furious and angry. Does not happen too often, but then it _is_ truly clean.
@piggo Happens to me often.
@adamasnemesis Well, it's complicated actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_midpoint_of_Europe
@jwildeboer I am trying to check excess mortality as a perhaps more useful indicator: https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid and you know what I found? It seems most interesting Asian countries do not report 🤔 .
@jwildeboer Not that I am going to dissect this too much, but what's your lament specifically about?
When I hear how they do it in China, I certainly am not ready to accept living in a society mimicking their ways of manipulation and isolationism. No clue how they do it in say Indonesia, or so, but I would also not have much trust in precision of reporting from India, or Bangladesh.
My personal guess would be that those plots you sent to a large extent reflect western societies being 1) open to the outside, as well as within; and 2) high degree of testing/diagnosis/reporting.
It's actually easy to achieve low profiles in such plots (as witnessed by many countries): close your eyes, stop testing and you are good.
So what are those lessons we should learn in Europe?
@pony Hmmm. That happens to me only once in a while when some e-mail bounces off of gmail.com. Otherwise I don't feel much either. As I don't feel much about hosting my own vacuum cleaner at my home since ever...
@pony Did you expect to feel something?
@jwildeboer You mean like this? Or that?
* https://www.delta.tudelft.nl/article/farewell-spaceboxes
* https://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/Netherlands/South/Utrecht/Utrecht/photo613417.htm
Just add art-deco inside, but that's a subjective choice.
@openrisk@mastodon.green Progress...
@ktemkin What you write is no good, so wishes of improvement. But I wonder, what you describe as broken tendons is supposed to cause a lot of pain (methinks), so how come you did not notice? Or can it be that you get such an injury without much pain?
@markusl @jwildeboer Agreed. Though, I'd guess in such cases 2 things can happen: 1) the parties quickly realize it's an accident/misunderstanding and quickly de-escalate; or 2) the incident only reveals that at least one of the parties actually had an implicit propensity for the conflict, just was not aware of it and now realized it serves them actually well. I.e., there was at least one with and intent on conflict, just did not know it explicitly yet.
@jwildeboer How do you read all those things as US wanting to have war? All the headlines you posted say clearly that US _warns_ Russia - and everybody in NATO is adamant that war should _not_ happen. Yes, US sent now a handful of troops to Poland (ally). But in the end, it's about 15k NATO troops at the eastern border of the alliance and 130+k Russian fully equipped invasion force on the other side. Where do you see the NATO/US being "keen"?
@jwildeboer Peace is a fragile equilibrium. You need two to cooperate. For a conflict you need just one.
Me and you not wanting it, won't make it "not happen" if the other party is determined to go ahead with it.
... I know we speak the same. Just venting my own frustration about this ...
@z428 Looks very artistic and noble. ... until you closely look around 🙂
@piggo This is done more often than you'd expect. It's quite common practice also for many Czech diary products. You just need to carefully read the diary products EU-origin label next time you go to your supermarket. For instance here an example from Slovakia: https://m.smedata.sk/api-media/media/image/sme/7/16/164407/164407_1200x.jpg?rev=1
This is a product made of Slovak milk which is exported to Germany where they make butter from it, which is in turn shipped to Slovakia - it's one of the most sold brands in the country. The reason is/was the efficiency and capacity the of production line in Germany: https://ekonomika.sme.sk/c/6695153/slovenske-maslo-rajo-vyrabaju-v-nemecku.html.
@hob First attempt at a group post. Let's see what happens.
3-layered apple pie, edition #2 The first attempt was fine and tasted well, but there were several things which needed improvement. Primarily the ...
@hob /help
Exploring, failing, backtracking, just to identify the only viable path forward. And then scarred, stumbling forward into the future. Learning.
Boring and steady. Knowing little and questioning a lot. Mostly harmless.
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This is an experimental scrapbook space. A collection of stuff I want to keep in a form somewhere on the spectrum between a blog and a shoe-box full of scraps, cut-outs, quotes, links and reading notes and sometimes my own silly thoughts about them.
Perhaps it might be of marginal interest to others too, but I don't care that much.
Joined Jan 2021
