Balaji Srinivasan is the spearhead of the new fascist movement establishing itself in Silicon Valley.
It's easy to dismiss him as a clown given how bad, inconsistent and dumb his ideas are but he's a clown with a lot of followers in tech who listen to his visions of "ethnic cleansing".
@HeavenlyPossum wow took them a while to figure out that they could save at the top by cutting the people with the highest salaries instead of the people doing the actual work
Growing up in Central Turkey, we didn't have tap water in our houses; there were village fountains (with spring water) where you'd get your drinking water from.
But, and this is really the great part of, these kind of fountains ("çeşme") were everywhere at road crossings or places some long dead person liked, etc. Most of the time, relatives would finance the building of such a fountain for the benefit of everybody if one of their loved ones died and had a somewhat preferred place (least of which could be just in front of their house).
And since you can't, as a traveler, be expected to always carry a cup with you, there would always be a metal cup attached to a (thick) chain (built into the concrete) there. You'd then get there, take the metal cup, drink the cool spring water, thank the people who built it and, if you were someone of faith, pray for the soul of the deceased person (whose name would be inscribed on the concrete wall) and continue your journey.
And the basin in front, where the water is collected? Well, you see, humans aren't the only thirsty beings ... livestock, wild animals, birds - water is life for everybody!
I really loved this tradition: you never needed to carry water with you throughout Central Anatolia when traveling - there would always be a "çeşme" somewhere on your path...
And since then, cold water, for me, tastes only good from a metal container...
Growing up in Central Turkey, we didn't have tap water in our houses; there were village fountains (with spring water) where you'd get your drinking water from.
But, and this is really the great part of, these kind of fountains ("çeşme") were everywhere at road crossings or places some long dead person liked, etc. Most of the time, relatives would finance the building of such a fountain for the benefit of everybody if one of their loved ones died and had a somewhat preferred place (least of which...
"This evening, Google indiscriminately fired over two dozen workers, including those among us who did not directly participate in yesterday’s historic, bicoastal 10-hour sit-in protests. This flagrant act of retaliation is a clear indication that Google values its $1.2 billion contract with the genocidal Israeli government and military more than its own workers."
"This evening, Google indiscriminately fired over two dozen workers, including those among us who did not directly participate in yesterday’s historic, bicoastal 10-hour sit-in protests. This flagrant act of retaliation is a clear indication that Google values its $1.2 billion contract with the genocidal Israeli government and military more than its own workers."
"I do understand the demand. We definitely aim for a better service than we sometimes provide. However, sometimes, the frustration of angry social-media-guys carries me away, and I'm even tempted to reply: "If you cannot live without the extreme guarantees of huge proprietary cloud platforms, you cannot have the freedom Codeberg provides"."
hmm is it possible to be logged into 2 different accounts on the same server on mastodon using the web interface? maybe easiest to pick 2 different servers?
So yeah damn. Big changes for SSB/P2P. Will miss André, he's been an amazing colleague. Still processing and letting this sink in. If someone wants to discuss the future of #ppppp with me just write. https://mastodon.social/@staltz/112218063802637164
@powersource wpuld love to learn more about ppppp. I am aware of it for a long time now, but what would you recommend is best to learn about the details? 🙂
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