josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

@LibrosdeBabel A juzgar por lo que veo en librerías, la ficción ya no se escribe para hombres —hablo en general, obviamente hay nichos tipo Chuck Palahniuk (que tampoco son para todos los hombres).

El otro día fui con mi hermana a la Casa del Libro y, aparte de que no había más que gordas con pelos de colores, me di cuenta de que la ficción, ya desde sus portadas, está hecha para mujeres. Todas brillaban mucho y los bordes suelen formar algún tipo de dibujo. De hecho, en la Feria del Libro de Madrid, había casetas que mostraban los bordes de los libros en vez de las portadas o el lomo, lo cual me pareció rarísimo, pero entendible, viendo la tendencia.

@bonifartius Of course surveillance isn't a consequence of technology existing, that was not the point of the cartoon. The point was that whoever controls technology is not using it for the common good, but to make money, and they make money by surveilling us and exploiting workers.

For instance, delivery food was already a thing in the 1980s. Tech bros didn't invent that. What tech bros did was getting in the middle of it and making money out of both restaurants and clients while paying next to nothing to workers.

When I say Luddism is the answer I mean that we have to fight this state of affairs somehow, and a good way to fight is not to consume their shitty and unnecessary services.

(If this arrives to you, it was because I can't reply to your qoto account for some reason.)

@noyoushutthefuckupdad I'm as sensitive to feminist dog whistles as you are, but there wasn't any contempt “for all men” in the cartoon. You're imagining things, Dad.

@noyoushutthefuckupdad Last time I watched Oliver was in 2016. I don't know what he's up to these days, but being an expert with many years of experience in the field, I can confidently say that tech bros are not there to solve our problems, but only to make money, even if they have to create new problems in the process. The fact that someone you don't like said this doesn't make it any less true.

@prettygood You know your condition better than me, so I'll refrain from giving advice on things I know shit about from now on. I just hope you don't have to go through that again.

And, yes, cooking tasty stuff without salt is definitely a talent.

@prettygood I had a friend who went through the same thing and he said they told him the whole stone was basically salt. My father had one too years ago and he loved salty food.

That said, I'm not a doctor, but I thought it was common knowledge. Maybe I'm wrong.

@prettygood How are you doing? Did they tell you to cut on your salt consumption from now on, and all that?

@BitBun Good luck! I'm on the same situation right now. I need to leave this company I work for and I've seen how hard it is to switch these days.

@kaia Yeah, that's what I'm going to do.

@kaia At least I'm on vacation now, so I don't have to fix that shit.

@kaia At least you didn't have eight months of your work thrown away by a retarded fatso with delusions of grandeur on the day we had to present it to the client. Also, nobody in the office speaks to me anymore because it was “not the time to speak about it.”

@LibrosdeBabel Yo puedo decir que los conocía cuando la tienda era, literalmente, del tamaño de un dormitorio pequeño. Abajo había un sótano donde organizaban partidas de rol. Ahora es mucho más grande, claro, pero da igual, porque la mayoría de sus ventas son online, si no me equivoco.

Un detalle bonito es que, aunque han cambiado de ubicación varias veces, nunca se han ido del barrio.

@mattskala To me it is, because I don't want to read that. I want to know if the profile is active, if it is interesting, not if it was years ago. The “read this first” info can go in the bio. Actually, if they asked me, I'd say that's where it belongs.

@mattskala To be honest, I think most people use pinned posts as a sort of “greatest hits” and that's definitely annoying, at least for me. You go into someone's profile to see what kind of things they say, find out if they're worth a follow, and all you see are pinned posts from 2021. Not even introductions, just normal posts.

I'm not saying the use case you described doesn't happen, of course it does, but in my experience it's the exception, not the rule.