Jezza! @jezza@qoto.org
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Joined Jul 2023
@levisan and cut into the profit margin that comes with being distantly compared to champagne? Imagine the consumer price difference expectation if they packaged it in cans...
@levisan it's kinda ironic that we have browser defaults for exactly this kind of presentation, yet, you basically never see anything that looks like a simple document.
@levisan i made a comment to that effect once, and promptly got removed from the job. Turned out that the site was designed by the owner, and he thought it was perfect.
There are all kinds of retarded reasons why things don't get updated, and laziness is just one of them.
For me, unexciting, clean, Bauhausy modernism that gets straight to the point and underlines the key value propsitions and services of the organization or person is a design goal.
Some clients appreciate this, others see a lack of 5meg stock pictures of multiculti hipsters drinking coffee with yesteryear's laptop and feel that something important is missing.
@levisan the original olympics were a sort of festival for Zeus. The olympics as reconstituted are a globalist function. They are precisely about nations, founded as the (keyword first:) International Olympic Committee in the late 19th century.
As the olympics sweeps through a city, billions are pissed away on athletic facilities that will likely never be used again, and as much again on 1984-ish security architecture that will. It's at least as corrupt as FIFA, and a feeding trough for favored contractors and agencies.
By point:
1. Not all countries support or organize all the same sports, so the programs of various countries get to play on the world stage so long as they play at the best level of their nation.
Olympic standards, in turn, often become national standards (hence 25m and 50m pools around the world.)
2. No it wasn't. Judges (and referees) are absolutely necessary to deal with corner cases and close calls. Subjective issues like ice skating performance require the insight of experienced skaters and judges to be ranked. Olympic events resolve in rankings, not participation trophies.
3. That defeats the purpose of national representation and the vision of the IOC. It's about globalism, representing nations as participants in a single global platform, like the UN and other global organizations.
@levisan mostly because it would be under a single point of control. Modern digital currencies are not simply mediums of exchange, but also, regulation. Eg, you can only spend it on category X, but not category Y and Z. If you don't spend it by date, it evaporates. And of course, every transaction, globally, could be centrally monitored.
Those are important ingredients for hypothetical global totalitarianism.
take your dick home, @levisan !
@levisan maybe you've got better whippersnappers than others. You have whippersnapper privilege!
@levisan those communities are designed for older people: one storey buildings with minimal flat thresholds on the doors, community services to cover what old people increasingly cannot (lawn, snow clearing, exterior maintenance of the home).
Excluding younger people limits parties, crazy drivers, and people out of step with the rhythm of life of retirees.
No booming house/car stereos, no skateboarders / scooter riders to wipe out driving... and obvious indications that someone doesn't belong in the neighborhood.
@levisan i think we need more than that... first, "open mythologies" which other people are free to make work from without complications, including being able to sell it (as media, not as IP.)
The second is that we need people to focus on creating new things. It's hard for me to believe that Marvel's spandex or Star Wars Trek is a monopoly on the possibilities of storytelling and universe building.
@levisan no, i'm not a bot. 🤖
@levisan there's an "intangible culture heritage" argument, which is as legitimate as your belief in such, like the protections extended to cheese from some particular part of Europe.
To me it seems like part of the larger scheme to own and manage culture.
It's sort of like how fanfic is a response to the reality that modern mythologies are copyrighted intellectual property.
Nanoo nanoo, live long and prosper.
@levisan apparently the hollywood sign is such an object. To me, this is absolutely ridiculous, and so laws be damned. If you or I are in public, we're subject to photography without our consent. Seems the same thing should be the case for the crap called public art inflicted on us in a public space without our consent (and usually with our tax money.)
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@levisan or two line, or line priority.
Coffee is the best argument I have for drone delivery. Flying coffeemakers and steamers FTW.
@levisan i think coffeeshops and retailers should prioritize those for whom coffee is a medical necessity over those for whom it is a recreational drug.
@levisan my pet peeve is the use of the word "community" when there is no unity, nor anything in common other than some arbitrary category of the mind, and the primary purpose is for some asshole to speak for other people.
"On behalf of the XYZ community..."
"Speaking as a member of the XYZ community..."
... and that's when I shot them/they, your honor.
@levisan i buy Christmas lights and gift paper on Dec 26/27, and usually, pascha is after the western date for easter, so I'm used to getting candy and whatnot at a discount, too. :-)
@levisan only to the degree that it is not a function of monopoly/cartel. If that were true, inkjet ink, paper, light bulbs, and vinyl records would be shipping cost only.
To the degree that you can't roll your own and must buy it from an industrial concern, it will always have an associated cost.
On the other hand, at the end of the season when your neighbor has nowhere else to store and can use no further tomatoes, they come free by the pound: there's no cartel or monopoly on their distribution or production.
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Joined Jul 2023
