sotolf

@sotolf@polymaths.social
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I'm a serial hobbyist, trying to have as much fun as I can, Some things I find stupid, and I probably will tell you, but I try not to be a dick about it, mostly I do manage that.
Anything I say is just my personal opinion or if it sounds really stupid, probably a joke. Yes I might have opinions that you don't like, and if you don't I'm willing to talk
about it, just be honest and decent and I will strive to do the same.

Anything I post on here is under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 If you want to use my posts for something commercial (LLM training, ad testiment etc) just contact me and I'm sure we could
make something out.

Some things I do like:
- Programming
- Shorthand
- Retrogames
- Indiegames
- Pen and paper puzzles
- Reading
pronounshe/they
bookwyrmhttps://bookwyrm.social/user/sotolf
repohttps://codeberg.org/sotolf
bloghttps://sotolf.codeberg.page
sotolf5h ago
Another book finished, and one begun, I really enjoyed dragon ship, it was a return to full force, and it's gettig quite interesting. So on to the next one, I've been reading a lot these last weeks, and really enjoying myself, I think it will keep on being interesting too :)
sotolf8h ago
Yey, defeated the second boss of etrian odyssey II And got to the 3rd stratum with a beautiful snowy tileset, I just rally enjoy how this game looks, it's so beautiful. Still having a lot of fun with it, still slowly making my way forewards :)
sotolf12h ago
James ChipJan 13
There should be a chapter in The Design of Everyday Things devoted to this dial.
sotolf12h ago
Matthew | The Autistic Coach13h ago

Autistic relationships don’t follow neuronormative rules.

We connect through rhythm, not forced routine.

Through shared silence, not small talk.

Through presence, not performance.

If your way of loving doesn’t look like theirs - it’s not wrong.

It’s real.

@actuallyautistic

sotolf13h ago
Annika Backstrom1d ago

TIL about "digraphs" in (neo)vim. Need to insert, say, an en dash, which has a digraph of -N? In insert mode, ctrl-k, hypen, N. Want to check the digraph of a character already in your file? ga to show ascii, and look at the "Digr" notation. You would see e.g. "Digr =e" for the euro symbol.

:help digraphs
:help digraphs-default

#vim #neovim

sotolf13h ago
Jostein Sand Nilsen13h ago
Et tre på grensa mellom 🇨🇭og 🇮🇹.
sotolf13h ago
Anon Opin14h ago
Everything new in a Mario Kart game since 2010 has just been trying to emulate Diddy Kong Racing (1997)
sotolf13h ago
Fesshole 🧻16h ago
Had a 3 months contract in an office above a bakery. The bakery always smelled divine. I ended up buying something delicious on the way in, on the way to lunch, and on the way home every day. Gained 15kg over that contract. Now refuse to work near bakeries.
sotolf15h ago
O.E. Auran 🕊️❤️⁂16h ago
sotolf16h ago

Getting so close to a round number :)

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Nol Malone ☭1d ago
Show threadA Tattered Scrapbook1d ago
@anolandria The same argument also applies to capitalists…
Show threadDarcy1d ago

@Tattered @anolandria

Sorry Tatterd they are not even close to comparable.

I agree Capitalist are depraved but Nazis and Fascism are in a league of their own.

Show threadA Tattered Scrapbook1d ago
@Mor696 @anolandria If you look at the people standing together at DJT’s inauguration, and think about the role played by companies like Krupp in 1930s Germany, and the shadowy role played by fossil fuel and military contractors in ongoing genocides, and the reason why postwar Japan had to (pretend to) break up the zaibatsu, you may start to conclude that there is less than a hair’s breadth from one group to the other. Or, perhaps, choose to block me…
Show threadMichealDeSanta1d ago
@Tattered @Mor696 @anolandria Capitalism won BTW
Show threadA Tattered Scrapbook23h ago
@MichealDeSanta @Mor696 @anolandria I think you might find that history is continuing. And as capitalism continues to annihilate the planet, the question of winning and losing may still be open.
Show threadDźwiedziu21h ago

@MichealDeSanta
Cuba has comparable life expectancy as USA for the fraction of the cost. …with an illegal trade blockade.

Unless your definition of “success” is capital in the hands of the richest.

Also yes, capitalism has won so *hard* that we're paying the additional price of it crumbling into fascism.

@Tattered @Mor696 @anolandria

Show threadMichealDeSanta15h ago
@dzwiedziu @Tattered @Mor696 @anolandria people are litterally fleeing cuba in droves
Show threadDźwiedziu13h ago

@MichealDeSanta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_embargo_against_Cuba

Which the US actively makes viable, by suffocating Cuba.

(But don't worry, Trump will make migration impossible. \s)

And still the life expectancy between the two is similar.

@Tattered @Mor696 @anolandria

United States embargo against Cuba - Wikipedia

Show threadA Tattered Scrapbook8h ago
@MichealDeSanta @dzwiedziu @Mor696 @anolandria People are fleeing the US. People outside the US are being killed by US weapons. People are being deported from the US to the world’s most repressive (per capita) prison state. I’m not quite sure how your “point” illustrates capitalism “winning”.
Show threadDarcy7h ago

@Tattered @MichealDeSanta @dzwiedziu @anolandria

I'm not sure your "repressive (per capita) prison state" is correct.

The US has the most prisoners of any country in the world. Followed by China who has about 100K less. But the population of China is 1.419 Billion & the US is 340 Million.

Let's figure that out?

Show threadA Tattered Scrapbook5h ago

@Mor696 @MichealDeSanta @dzwiedziu @anolandria Good grief! “Deported to”. El Salvador has the greatest prison population per capita.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate

Feel free to apologize.

List of countries by incarceration rate - Wikipedia

Show threadA Tattered Scrapbook5h ago
@Mor696 @MichealDeSanta @dzwiedziu @anolandria By the way, China has a much lower per capita imprisonment rate than the US, while Cuba’s is higher. My point was that “repression” is not an indicator of “winning” in the same way that China ≠ Cuba. But fascism is an outcome of capitalism, which was the original point.
Show threadGilbert Pilz1d ago
@Mor696 @Tattered @anolandria Fascism is just a logical progression of capitalism. Unless there is continuous, strong push-back from the left, any capitalist system will devolve into fascism.
Show threadMeshboi1d ago

@anolandria following this logic, I should kill my communist neighbour. As an avowed Stalinist, he has obviously declared violent intent. Therefore, as a property owner, I am within my rights to defend myself.

This sort of rhetoric is non-ironically dehumanizing and genocidal. Not much of a surprise though, coming from Bob "Eugenicist" Chipman.

Show threadCosmonautCat1d ago
@IntheMesh_ @anolandria that logic only tracks if you fall for the anti communist narrative about Stalin
Show threadMichealDeSanta1d ago

@sememmon @IntheMesh_ @anolandria Denying the death toll of Joseph Stalin is the same as holocaust denial. We have countless evidence history and more to back his crimes up. One of the worst leaders in history.

>But but the histor-
When the berlin wall fell who ran to which side?

Show threadCosmonautCat17h ago

@MichealDeSanta @IntheMesh_ @anolandria we have in fact a lot of historical evidence for the contrary. The tales of evil dictatorship and mass exterminations are from the Cold War and based on anti communist fear mongering. Historians have had a chance to review the formerly secret Soviet archives in the meantime. Equating the USSR and Nazi Germany is nothing but relativation of fascism.

In 89 people wanted western consumer goods, not a new system. And Stalin was dead 36 years. So?

Show threadMichealDeSanta14h ago

@sememmon @IntheMesh_ @anolandria

>Umm acutally only a couple million died.
Thats not the point the point is that stalin was one of the most brutal dictators of all time who was also one of the most incompetent.

Quote from wikipedia

According to historian Stephen Wheatcroft, approximately 1 million of these deaths were "purposive" while the rest happened through neglect and irresponsibility.[2] The deaths of at least 5.5 to 6.5 million[

And thats not even including the deaths from famines

Show threadCosmonautCat13h ago
@MichealDeSanta @IntheMesh_ @anolandria nice strawman you got there. Wikipedia of course has a very liberal (as in Liberalism) bias. Why don't we take it from the CIAs secret internal assessment? https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf
Show threadMichealDeSanta13h ago
@sememmon @IntheMesh_ @anolandria The cia is talking about the RED scare during that time. we have REAL photographic proof of the gulags used there.
Show threadCosmonautCat12h ago
@MichealDeSanta @IntheMesh_ @anolandria you seem to like talking about different things. This was addressing your claim that the man was an autocratic dictator. Maybe you should look up what that means first. GULAG is the abbreviation of the prison management btw. and yes the USSR had prison and work camps, but those were in no shape or form comparable to the Nazi concentration camps.
Show threadMichealDeSanta10h ago

@sememmon @IntheMesh_ @anolandria >Yes they had forced labor camps and secret police but they werent nearly as bad as you think

rofl. I also love how you try to downplay it by calling it a "work camp"

Show threadCosmonautCat10h ago
@MichealDeSanta @IntheMesh_ @anolandria lmao the US prison system is legal slavery to this day but sure let's demonize the USSR who had universal suffrage and racial equality before all of "the West". The only time the "Gulag" were very full was during the war when - guess what - they had to put pows somewhere. That was also the only time they had high death rates in the camps.
Show threadMichealDeSanta10h ago

@sememmon @IntheMesh_ @anolandria
>Yes we have mass famines, prision camps and secret police but hey guys we have racial equality.

what amazing priorities

Show threadMichealDeSanta10h ago
@sememmon @IntheMesh_ @anolandria Let me guess? The famines were fake. please deny the horrors of the Holodomor next. Because this is the same level of holocaust denial.
Show threadCosmonautCat10h ago
@MichealDeSanta @IntheMesh_ @anolandria it's absolutely not, equating the famine and the Nazis industrial genocide is severe downplaying the latter. The so called Holodomor is a lie printed in a Randolph William Hearst newspaper and has no sources that don't go back to that. The guy "reporting" it was even convicted for his lies in the US after it. Conveniently never mentioned today of course. Robert Conquest was a British intelligence officer. Jesus Christ.
Show threadMichealDeSanta10h ago

@sememmon @IntheMesh_ @anolandria

>One of societys greatest famines is a lie.

I guess the millions of witnesses, historical photos are just false right?

lol there was a great video debunking the points that commies like you make. I don't know how you can deny all the evidence that we have

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL-hS2HaA6Q

The Insanity of Holodomor Denial

YouTube
Show threadCosmonautCat9h ago
@MichealDeSanta @IntheMesh_ @anolandria no the famine was very real, but it was not targeted or deliberate, which is the claim anti communists make. Way to move the goal posts.
Show threadMichealDeSanta9h ago

@sememmon @IntheMesh_ @anolandria

See the Holodomor Genocide explained at 1:15 in the video.

Show threadCosmonautCat2h ago
@MichealDeSanta @IntheMesh_ @anolandria might watch at some point not today though
Show threadCosmonautCat10h ago
@MichealDeSanta @IntheMesh_ @anolandria pretty telling that you think racial equality is less important. 😉
Show threadMichealDeSanta10h ago
@sememmon @IntheMesh_ @anolandria Eating food and not starving from a famine is pretty important. thats pretty obvious? do you conisder that less important?
Show threadCosmonautCat9h ago
@MichealDeSanta @IntheMesh_ @anolandria no, but the famine was not a policy of the Soviet Union. No one went "let's starve our population, lol"
Show threadMeshboi13h ago

@sememmon @MichealDeSanta @anolandria Who is your dealer and where can i buy from them?

It matters little whether Stalin was a dictator ruling alone or whether it was a team effort. They killed millions. mass killings, gulags, forced collectivization.

Stalin was perfectly ok with doing this to achieve his goals. thats why I think its fine to equate him to Nazis.

If you know any historians who suggest the contrary, id love to know who they are.

Show threadCosmonautCat12h ago
@IntheMesh_ @MichealDeSanta @anolandria Domenico Losurdo for example has an excellent book on Stalin's reception in history, that goes into most of the claims. Highly recommend, it's recently been published in English by Iskra Books. Btw the inflated death count comes most likely from the "Black Book of Communism" which has been debunked even by its authors and counted Nazi soldiers as victims of communism. 🤡 And had to overinflate the numbers even then.
Show threadMeshboi8h ago

@sememmon @MichealDeSanta @anolandria

I know where the inflated death count comes from, and the many issues with it. That's why I didn't say 100 million were killed by communism.

I've spent some time reading the book you recommended. I don't find it very convincing. There's alot of whataboutism. Losurdo characterizes the mass deportations under Stalin as a function of the 2nd 30 years war and just handwaves it by arguing other nations did it worse. he just absolves Stalin of blame. 1/2

Show threadMeshboi8h ago

@sememmon @MichealDeSanta @anolandria

2/2

The Great Purge is framed as a justified, neccesary, if perhaps cruel action. Losurdo fails, imo, to explain why this required the culling of several hundred thousand people. He argues that the killing was partly inevitable due to public pressure and demand for purges. I think thats a fair point, but it also doesn't absolve Stalin. On the whole, Losurdo appears unwilling to critically asses historical claims, he instead just plays defense.

Show threadIan1d ago
@IntheMesh_ @anolandria Then enjoy fascist rule, I guess. The rest of us will be punching nazis.
Show threadC.S.Strowbridge1d ago

@IntheMesh_ @anolandria

Oh, you're one of them. Enjoy your block.

Show threadGilbert Pilz1d ago
@csstrowbridge @IntheMesh_ @anolandria Telling people you are blocking them betrays an emotional age of around ... 6 or so? The fact that you don't realize this adds another layer of cringe to your already embarrassing behavior.
Show threadDźwiedziu21h ago

@gpilz
Telling people you don't have arguments other than ad hominem betrays an emotional age of around ... 6 or so? The fact that you don't realize this adds another layer of cringe to your already embarrassing behavior.

@csstrowbridge @IntheMesh_ @anolandria

Show threadDźwiedziu11h ago

In all their maturity @gpilz decided to block me xD

@csstrowbridge @IntheMesh_ @anolandria

Show threadC.S.Strowbridge15h ago

@gpilz @IntheMesh_ @anolandria

No, telling someone you are blocking them encourages others to do the same.

So enjoy your block.

Show threadDźwiedziu21h ago

@IntheMesh_
A “stalinist” wouldn't have property.

Nice try nazbol. Pretty much perfect misunderstanding of Popper's Paradox of Tolerance (as a social contract).

@anolandria

Show threadMeshboi12h ago

@dzwiedziu

Respectfully, I think you misunderstand my argument. In this scenario I am the property owner. My neigbor is a Stalinist, which to me indicates that he would be willing to seize my property with violence to hand it to the state. If i follow Bob's (faulty) logic here, I then have to right to kill my neigbour, even if he hasn't actually done anything yet. Because his identity declares violent intent.

Popper was an anti-marxist and liberal btw. his PoT very much applies to commies.

Show threadDźwiedziu11h ago

@IntheMesh_
You've used a bad example. There is no stalinist danger in the world today. There is a nazi one.

Also the example carries the lack of understading of private property in marxist terms. Which is not the property owned by private citizens, but by the capitalist class (TL;DR).

Commies aren't mean to take your toothbrush as the conservative propaganda wants you to believe.

And Popper being anti-marxist argument is a non sequitur.

Show threadMeshboi11h ago

@dzwiedziu The degree to whether these ideologies are a threat is irrelevant to my point. Bob does not qualify the violence as OK when a certain threat level is achieved. He just states that it is self-defense, regardless of further circumstances. That is the principle im arguing against.

I concede, I should have been clearer when I said property owner. I am aware of the private/personal property split in marxism, so I was thinking of someone who owns a small business or a farm. 1/2

Show threadMeshboi11h ago

@dzwiedziu These would fall under means of production, and would therefore be subject to seizure by the state.

I pointed out that Popper was an anti-marxist and that his PoT also applies to communists to illustrate that they also form an intolerant danger for a tolerant society, just like the nazis. Hardly a non-sequitur, im just trying to refute your claim of my misunderstanding.

2/2

Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦1d ago
@anolandria 🗣 LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!!
Show threadThis is Hell1d ago
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Show threadBas Schouten1d ago

@anolandria Yeah.. This all sounds wonderful and wholesome and all.. So there is this category of human that you believe you can harm and kill without moral confliction. Great.

So what exactly are the criteria that would qualify someone for being on the receiving end of said violence? I'd imagine that's the more difficult question

Most more extremist humans on the planet believe the other side is deserving of violence.

Show threadJargoggles1d ago

@Schouten_B @anolandria
It's very, very clear - if someone is actively identifying as a Nazi. It's not a very long post, how did you miss like a quarter of it?

Also, maybe consider taking a historical example to add context. In Jim Crow-era US, would you have an issue with a black person treating Klan membership as an explicit threat to their life?

Show threadBas Schouten1d ago

@jargoggles @anolandria I'm going to need a more concrete example of a situation in a modern day context?

Even being a Klan's member -in itself- is a part of freedom of speech if someone doesn't participate in violence upon others. I would certainly shun such people and see them as a potential threat. Initiating violence though? No. All that will do is strengthen the Klan.

Show threadBas Schouten1d ago
@jargoggles @anolandria If this wasn't clear, who are the people openly identifying as national socialists, threatening violence in said context and that are immune to normal law enforcement channels to the extent that it warrants a lynching that this post is referring to?
Show threadMisuse Case1d ago
@Schouten_B @jargoggles @anolandria Look if you have been living under a rock for the past 10 years or longer, which seems to be the case, that’s not something strangers on Mastodon can help you with.
Show threadJargoggles23h ago

@Schouten_B @anolandria
That was a lot of words to say, "I've only heard the ultra-sanitized history of the civil rights movement and fascism."

It's like those Psych 101 students who get a teeny tiny insight into the subject and then start diagnosing everyone they know with irritatingly smug, unearned confidence.

Taking the fight to the Klan only made them stronger? Suggesting that people should try to report Nazis to the police? Holy shit, that is just... that is some *profound* ignorance.

Show threadNoName ✴🏴21h ago
@Schouten_B @jargoggles @anolandria
This mf just talked himself into defending being a Klansman as "free speech", and then expects everyone to take him seriously.
Show threadBas Schouten20h ago

@Malashinov @jargoggles @anolandria That is how it works legally. Unless you can actually prove someone has committed a crime, being a member of a non-terrorist group or holding an opinion, however abhorrent you may find that opinion.

Inciting violence directly, which a Klansman might do, can be illegal. Simply being a Klansman cannot. See for example Brandenburg v. Ohio.

So yes, in almost all of the Western world, holding such opinions is constitutionally protected.

Show threadBas Schouten20h ago

@Malashinov @jargoggles @anolandria The point is, no matter how morally superior you believe yourself to be, you still have to prove others violate the law of the land before taking action. That is the foundation of the separation of powers.

It is also what will protect you when you end up holding an opinion that a part of society deems abhorrent.

Show threadNoName ✴🏴20h ago

@Schouten_B @jargoggles @anolandria
Maybe, just maybe, we shouldn't trust our lives to the law, which on a whim of people in power can criminalize entire existences of groups of people.

The Nazi regime and all its atrocities were legal – because they, the Nazis, were writing the law. And what led them to power was partially this passive acceptance of their existence: they were allowed to "free speak" their hateful rhetoric, that cultivated the ground from which their seeds of violence could then grow.

I'd argue that we shouldn't wait until the concentration camps are built, and root them out while they're only discussing their future genocidal plans: punch, kick and kill the fuckers. And unless you're blind and deaf, you'd recognize a Nazi when you see and hear one.