Dojan

Mm. You’re describing someone very dear to me, because of whom I wear an n95 mask every day.

People you describe fight an uphill battle, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. They can ask for accommodations, but a lot of people won’t meet them. Meetings can be held digitally, of course, and one can advocate for oneself digitally as well. In time they can hope to win allies, and with them also get advocates that are willing to help amplify their voice.

I’m sorry, but I don’t have any good solutions. The world is neither kind or fair, the best we can hope for is to build communities with people that empathise and see us.

I wish you the very best.

Unions would do that if more people who cared about it joined unions and pushed for it. Unions only work if you’re actively doing stuff in them. It’s democracy, it only works so long as you partake.

I don’t think the U.S. has properly democratic elections due to problems like the FPTP voting system and the presence of gerrymandering. It’s simply not democratic if the votes can be manipulated in such a fashion that not all voices actually count.

I think I said it elsewhere, but the bar is in hell, and settling for that is unacceptable.

I feel like putting the U.S. and “democratically chosen” in the same sentence is a little bit of a stretch.

Are you sure that’s what they’re trying to do?

I often see people waving away the incremental enshittification of social systems in my country by saying “at least it’s not like the U.S.” but to me that’s burying the bar.

China and the USA are both run by nasty regimes, they suck in different ways (albeit increasingly less so), but you couldn’t pay me to live in either place.

Apples to oranges, but since they’re both rotted what virtue is there in accepting either one?

Or Matrix. Lots of clients, all kind of meh, but it’s federated, and has e2ee.

Yes. Work or die. It’s violence.

Andy is an Asian immigrant living in Europe, and he’s not even ethnically white, which makes it even more unlikely that he would be a white supremacist.

This is largely irrelevant I feel, given that they give further motivation for him not being a white supremacy in actual actions taken. Your origin or the colour of your skin doesn’t guarantee anything. For example Gandhi was a white supremacist.

Overall a pretty good read.

I thought this was about the CSS framework.

Yeah I had a hard time getting into the time leap thing. It just stopped being interesting.

Discovery was still going?