Florian Lütkewitte @monotrox99@qoto.org

I find it interesting to see, by a kind of revealed preference, what people really value via what qualities about someone they criticize or insult.

E.g., in the progressive circles I run in everybody agrees that body shaming is wrong, but shaming people for having having body parts or disabilities that don't match the standard masculine ideal is their go-to default insult, so it's pretty clear they don't mean it when they say all bodies are ok or even that trans men are real men.

Americans lose more money to civil asset forfeiture than to burglary every year now, and the wage theft dwarf that.

You're far more likely to to be robbed by your employers and the police than you are by your neighbours.

Humanity has historically eaten 6,000 plants; now we eat mostly NINE: This is a great (scary) story from Bloomberg on how global diets have converged on a few crops in a few decades – with many alarming implications. Well told (super smart graphics!) #food #climate
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-global-diet-homogeneous-food-security-risk/?cmpid=BBD010523_prognosis&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=230105&utm_campaign=prognosis&leadSource=uverify%20wall

Wenn die Katastrophe richtig kickt wird das aber nicht so bleiben. Dieses System funktioniert nur mit halbwegs stabilem und nicht zu heißem Klima. Wer näht denn unsere Billigtshirts, wenn Bangladesh nicht mehr ist? Wie funktionieren denn die Lieferketten wenn ständig irgendwo ein Sturm oder eine Flut Produktionsstätten zerstört? Corona war da nur ein kleiner Vorgeschmack. 2/x

Facts are facts.

Was für ein großartiges apokalyptisches Foto von @mariusmichusch

“Young people these days can’t afford housing, health care, or college because they eat too many avocado toasts, drink too much, and go to too many concerts”

Data: ❌ ❌ ❌

https://www.axios.com/millennial-spending-income-demographics-trends-153a5f33-7f56-4f1d-b72b-501e30ae6003.html #avocado #avocadotoast #inflation #highered #healthcare #studentdebt #debt #affordablehousing #sociology

Particle simulator progress: made a proper file dialog using my engine's UI lib for saving & loading simulations. They are in a simple JSON format so that you can easily generate/consume it with a separate tool.

Klimawandel leugnen ist so lustig, stell dir vor du kannst das zweite Jahr in Folge Anfang Januar mit T-Shirt raus und bekommst es hin dir einzureden, dass das eigentlich schon immer so war

My recommended first step towards a saner, more productive public conversation about #drugs: stop talking about certain (legal) drugs as if they were not, in fact, “drugs”

#BasketballAndSports #alcohol #DrugLegalisation #news #media

bitte denkt daran, dass ihr 2023 erfolgreicher, fleißiger, konsequenter, gesünder, reicher, schöner, glücklicher, attraktiver und insgesamt viel besser werden müsst und dass ihr schreckliche Versager seid, wenn ihr das Mitte Januar noch nicht geschafft habt