josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

@hund On the first day at my current job, they gave me two monitors, and my instinctive reaction was to exclaim: “Wow, two monitors! Are we rich? Should I have asked for more money?”

Except for a brief period, I never used the second monitor. Whenever asked, my reasoning always was: “I know how to minimise windows.”

Pues, a partir de lo que os leo por aquí (no sé cuántos de vosotros sois científicos de verdad, sólo cuñados o, peor aún, periodistas), el rollo de la #fusión que han anunciado hoy parece que de momento, y quizá para siempre, sólo va a servir para crear armas aún más mortíferas, y lo de la energía barata, limpia y poco menos que inagotable, ya tal.

I unironically agree. Maybe it's the years I've spent around here, but I don't really trust anyone who would use their own face, or even a real-world photograph, as their avatar.

@leoperbo XFCE.

@leoperbo Hace años que no veo mi escritorio. Ni siquiera sé qué aspecto tiene. De inicio se ejecuta una consola a pantalla completa y nunca la minimizo. Todo lo lanzo desde ahí.

@trinsec I understand that very well. I'm pretty sure the kids like that kind of activity. What you have to ask yourself is _why do they like it?_ You said it was a waste of time. Do you really enjoy wasting your time? Or is it just a form of escapism, just like other people watch action movies or play videogames on the bus? And if it is a form of escapism, shouldn't we address the question of what are they escaping from?

I'm not a particularly sociable person. I enjoy reading, watching movies, listening to music or playing videogames, but I never do any of that as a form of escapism. To me, they are intelectually estimulating activities, never a waste of time. They make me think about stuff and help me learn new things, things that I can then communicate to other people. And that's the really fun part, even though I, _like everybody else_ (extroverts too), find social contact exhausting after a while.

> They’ll have plenty of time to learn how to socialize, but does that mean you need to put them in a fascist regime that only forces them to socialize and never have fun?

To be honest, I find it far more fascistic to force them to work their brains out for absolutely no one's gain. There's something sadistic in someone thinking that a bunch of kids permanently living in their own brains is a good thing.

@trinsec

> Let them be themselves, they already have to suppress so many feelings in society.

I don't believe encouraging an obsession with accumulating and analysing data is healthy. That's why we created computers in the first place, so they would do that _while we could be ourselves_.

I don't think, like this person clearly does, that autism is some sort of superpower that she can exploit for whatever nefarious reasons she has. I'd rather help autistic children socialise than push them even further inside their own brains.

@trinsec How is that helpful for them or society?

So... you want to encourage their autism?

@trinsec Yep, I noticed when they asked me to delete a post and I went back there to check.

@trinsec BTW, I don't get why qoto censors their own users if other instances are going to block us anyway just for being _mostly_ a free speech one.

@trinsec Maybe. In this last case, I think it was because I replied to them with a DM to a followers-only post. I just thought it made more sense than another f-o post _to my own followers_.

@trinsec Because I was following them, now I'm not and when I went to see their profile the Follow button was disabled.

Lately I've been blocked by several people I thought I had a good relationship with and I can't figure out why they did it. Well, life goes on, I guess.

@urusan No, and I hope I never do.

@asensohn I'm not entirely sure that's what he was, but it is what he ended up being, mostly because he saw how taking all those who HRC called ‘deplorables’ under his wing was a winning strategy (at least in 2016).

@asensohn Absolutely true. By portraying Trump as a fringe, far-right candidate, she thought she would get the moderate Republican vote (hence her choice of VP) while neglecting to secure the progressive one that she lost when she rigged the primary against Bernie Sanders. Most stupid strategy ever.

@kaia That's perfectly plausible, given Trump's behaviour throughout the primary. I guess HRC didn't take into account how much Burgerlanders love entertainment.

Also, the whole charade had the side effect of disenfranchising true left-wingers (not SJW types, which, in my opinion, are fascists) and moderate conservatives, and thinning the Overton window.

As Wikileaks proved in 2016, Trump got as far as he did because the Clinton campaign actively forced the media to push him as the Republican contender. They just thought it would be easier to win against a fringe candidate like him.

Question: Shouldn't responses to followers-only posts be DMs? At least in this instance they are followers-only posts themselves, but my followers and the other person's followers are not the same set of people. Am I missing something here?