Tobbit @auldlangsin@qoto.org

Just drove to work and had the most gorgeous view of an orange sky, thunderclouds rolling in and the alps in the background.

I don't know how I managed to love in a city for over 6 years

Just bought some water ice. Nothing weird to see here. Now get your mind out of the gutter while I'm slurpin' some bussy.

So my brother recently got a hamster (which he adores) and now I'm building him a hamster wheel speedometer for his birthday.

Since moving, I have started to expand my plant collection by growing various trees from seeds with the intention of turning them into bonsai.
A lot of them actually started sprouting but now some kind of fungus or insect is affecting them.

I really hope at least some of them are pulling through because at this point I'm easy too invested

War nie so der Schwimm-Typ aber so ein Badesee ohne Eintritt 5 Rad-Minuten von der Wohnung entfernt hat an solchen Tagen schon seine Vorteile

@nightmane Deploy the Hornissen!!!

The funny thing is that it's not so much about the engineering and problem solving aspect of it. More often than not, it's just simple logistics. Basic flight-ready components have huge delivery times (sometimes more than a year) and PCB manufacturers are running at full capacity.

Me as an amateur space enthusiast: "Why do these cool missions constantly get delayed? It can't be that hard to make a realistic estimate..."

Me, a few weeks into working in the space industry: "Ohhhhhh...."

@tortoc Die sind sowieso meistens über App verschließbar (neben anderen Funktionen). Macht also wenig Sinn, da extra Elektronik für NFC Tags einzubauen

There is one good thing about the recent rise of ebikes: Nobody's gonna steal my 20 year old mountain bike when there is a 5000€ ebike with a shitty lock right next to it

@tortoc Mehr oder weniger, ja. Mir ist in letter Zeit echt aufgefallen, dass sich Leute mir gegenüber deshalb anders verhalten und es ist echt uncomfortable (wohlgemeinte Insider mal ausgenommen). Gerade wenn man es damit vergleicht, wie wenig Wertschätzung Leuten in wirklich essenziellen Berufen entgegengebracht wird.

It's so weird how your job becomes a huge part of how other people view and treat you. And how unfairly some jobs are seen as more respectable than others, especially in the social and care sector

If you have a conflict between independent science on the one side and market forces/economic factors on the other side, there is no compromise.

Between the unchanging laws of nature and a human-made system to quantify value, exactly one side can be influenced, changed and compromised with.

This has been like this with tobacco, chlorofluorocarbons, DDT, fossil fuels, neonicotinoids, endocrine disruptors... The list goes on.

Yet, more often than not, independent science is ignored by those in power for the benefit of lobby groups, industry and more "realistic" and less "idealistic" solutions. Leave those people in an enclosed space with a car engine running and ask them again, which is more "real": The molecules in the air or the money in their wallets.

Fuck the Agro-Industrial Complex

Brooke: "We love in a simulation"
Woke: "We love in a South Park episode"

How else would you explain the headlines of the past few days!

It's so discouraging to look at climate politics rn.
I'm used to people not doing enough to fight it but a lot of factors point towards regression and destroying progress we already made or were on the track to making.

And all because people don't understand that we need to let go of our ill-gotten gains, even if it hurts our wallet. In a fight between market forces and basic physics, there is only one long-term winner