Spartaco Pécora {🇻🇪 ⋂ 🇮🇹} @zpartacoos@qoto.org

https://txti.es/covid-pass/images long blog but certainly worth the read. In fact, I'd say it's one of the best blogs I've ever read. The extreme #covid mandates in the Baltic countries are no longer about protecting people but rather about bringing out the worst in humanity and subjugating people to discriminatory practices by creating a two tier society of the 'good' and the 'bad' when there is no data to support said practices.

This makes me sad. I think this situation will go in the history books for sure as an example about how we don't learn from history. In their case it's worse than most other countries since they had crazy levels of authoritarianism until the 90s when Soviet union left. So, you'd think they'd be more anti-authoritarian, right?

#lithuania #latvia #estonia #baltics

How to retroactively clarify something after your initial statement was misinterpreted (or you didn't phrase it precisely enough due to time, pressure, etc) and led to a long chain of misunderstandings?

I find it that for compsciy, mathy, physysy people they tend to quickly follow the new chain of implications after you clarify that initial erroneously interpreted interpreted statement. However, for the average folk this sometimes makes them think you are trying to mislead them or change what you said earlier with malicious intent. Anybody know how to deal with this?

Okay. I don't believe in ghost but this house I'm staying in has some seriously weird stuff happening. Perhaps somebody broke in and is living in the basement???

Anybody remember the username of the Filipino guy with the evil ironman picture? #qoto

got= git

Currently working on an epic #emacs setup where I can export my org file (in org-roam network) containing latex, code, images and plain text automatically to a PDF version of the latex doc, a Jupyter notebook, a HTML site, and a reveal js presentation such that I only got version control that one file. Once this is in better shape, I'll be able to edit a single file and automatically generate lectures + summary notes + relevant code all via a simple key binding

What's a good way of dealing with incompetent people on a individual and societal level?

At the individual level, one might argue you can just avoid these people once recognized. However, what if said person is a family member from which you can't fully disentangle?

At the societal level, you'll typically encounter these people when you least want to and in a situation where you can't just swap them such as in bureaucratic institutions.

Any ideas?

Actually even house design is drastically different because of this cultural difference. In Venezuela if your house looks more like a prison (with bars in windows) the better. Here people want big open windows where anybody could throw a rock and bam they're inside your house.

Similarly with locking doors. I can't even count the number of times my heart has dropped in the mornings while exiting my flat and noticing the door was left open by one of my flatmates.

My mind = "shit we could've been robbed/murdered last night"

But here people think that's perfectly safe thing to do ..lol I don't know if European people are naive or if I'm too much of a cynic

Since moving to Europe, I've retained the habit that I had in Venezuela of telling people "message me when you get home".

Many people here find that weird, creepy, or sexist (if said to women). Meanwhile, I'm just trying to make sure they're safe, irrespective of sex gender or anything else really. In my country this is just a basic courtesy because getting murdered/kidnapped while driving from point A to B is a frequent occurrence. This upbringing has created a paranoia in me in which even though I know Europe is a lot safer, whenever a friend forgets (or chooses not to) to tell me they arrived home safely then I start panicking the ruck out. My mind goes through various bad scenarios until eventually I message them then they respond they're okay. There are people for which I've done this enough that they get really annoyed by me and tell me to stop asking them if they arrive or not.

So, what should I do? If I don't see that they arrived okay my Venezuelan ass is gonna think something fucked up happened to them.