FailForward @FailForward@qoto.org

@pony "Not liking" and "having a very low opinion" are two different things. One is a statement of subjective emotional attitude, the other expresses a subjective qualitative judgement. I might not like broccoli, but I certainly do not have a low opinion of its vegetable qualities. But no worries, it could have been worse, such as an attempt at a negative objective qualitative judgement.

@piggo But yes, personally, I do not see that little piece of paper as so bad in relation to all those other things I am doing just to be: e.g, that packaging, owning a car, or using Internet for shitposting (electricity of data centers).

I hope you also see that in relation to all sorts of luxury non-essential stuff you and me are doing (e.g., 3d printing), these little filter papers are probably the least problematic item.

@piggo I get it. Touché. 😄

@pony

> i have a very low opinion of slovakia personally

What a beautiful display of primitive nationalism. Man, did you even read it after yourself?

This election campaign in the little country of yours is really very interesting to observe from far outside. Thanks to these primitive polarising factors one gets to observe what is "under the surface" of even many intelligent and otherwise accomplished people. It's nothing different than elsewhere: primitive atavistic emotions rooted in "us good, them bad" 🤦‍♂️ That's no surprise. But it's fun to observe the society discovering this about themselves - because they thought that "we are better than that" - no, you are not.

@piggo Says a person whose garbage bin is full of packaging from the supermarket. Man, those little filters are the most normal decomposable filter paper in a round shape. You could have come up with a better argument.

And yes, there's a metal mesh to that gadget if you don't want filters.

@piggo Recently I switched from moka pot (because the pot is gone and I had to replace anyway) to Aeropress and suddenly discovered a whole new level of coffee experience. I am not a coffe snob, but like an espresso-style experience. That one works just with a kettle 🙂 . Sometimes a bit of technological progress is good.

@mia

@m well, hypothes.is is open source, but more read-only open source, rather then truly deployable by individuals - you'd have to modify their brwser extensions, etc. Some things are a bit clumsy, but I find it really simple, clever and useful. I already encountered some bugs, but I can live with those. What was a bit harder to crack was how to use it properly on mobile, but later I figure that too. What I find good about it, is that it's stored at a company, but easily downloadable via their APIs using e.g., https://github.com/out-of-cheese-error/gooseberry

@m lemmy. maybe I shall try what's it about...

Maybe you remember, 2 years ago I had a plan to use this as a sort of bookmarking/scrapbook place. That didn't quite work out, but I stuck around for the "short meaningless interactions". But recently I found something what does indeed work for me: hypothes.is -- annotating web pages while reading. That's very very close to what I was looking for back then. It does not have ActivityPub integration, but there is Dokieli (https://dokie.li/) which does. I know you like to play with open source stuff with fediverse integration, so I drop it here and who knows, maybe you'll find it interesting too.

@m I guess the effect is that, apart from direct participants, people simply learn _not_ to read those conversations (admittedly this is a hypothesis with some conspiracy potential 🙂 ).

Anyway, who needs conversations on a platform designed for broadcasting one's "self" or for screaming at each other?

👆 is not a criticism, rather an observation based on very shallow, but careful analysis of the ratio of boosts per post (appropriating somebody's fancy content for one's own) vs. likes/fav-stars (sending 👍 to the original author).

On the upside, the current design leads to the only meaningful mode of interaction which is 1-to-1 dialogue in DM.

@udittmer as far as I found, it's not straightforward to remove a specific country from the plot, but you can have it different aggregated geo regions, which might be close to what you are actually looking for.

@maxroser

@geo_lectures

Here's the same plot in absolute numbers: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/distribution-of-population-between-different-poverty-thresholds-historical?stackMode=absolute&country=~OWID_WRL

Draw your own conclusions.

@maxroser

@udittmer Check yourself at https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/distribution-of-population-between-different-poverty-thresholds-historical?country=~OWID_WRL

All the plots at ourworldindata.org are interactive and backed up with open data.

@maxroser

@piggo I see, Are you going to take out the "filling" of the "propeller blades"?

Just asking, I have no clue about 3D printing...

@piggo what is it? It generally looks like a propeller, but I doubt it's one.