bin #neuhier und und habe keine Ahnung vom Fediverse, werde hier also erstmal gründlich rumdilettieren, man möge es mir verzeihen.
Kurzbio: 1991 zum Biologiestudium aus dem Speckgürtel Stuttgarts nach Leipzig gezogen und hängengeblieben.
Lebe mittlerweile alleine mit meinem Mann: Kinder aus dem Haus, Hund gestorben, Hühner vom Fuchs geholt. Immerhin bleibt daher Zeit, unser leider sehr marodes Fachwerkhaus zu sanieren.
Interessen: Politik, Bücher, Hunde, Hühner, Geschichte, Garten.
An area that’s been oppressed for generations isn’t producing significant science reseaech papers.
No shit Sherlock.
Propaganda is tools like you downplaying global events cause it doesn’t fit into your narrative. I didn’t know science coming out of Gaza is an actual metric for citizens to science and scientist to exist.
Care to go look up and tell me how Jews were treated in the region under the ottoman empire?
You seem to think that what’s happening in gaza is a one sided new event but you conveniently ignore what came before.
The US killed a half million civilians in the middle east as a result of 9/11. Where’s the blowback from that?
Then Oct 7th happens, and now all of a sudden everyone cares about gaza because Israel is kicking them in the teeth in retaliation.
Selective caring. Nobody gives a fuck about the rhohinga or the uyghurs, despite those situations being far worse. Where’s the demands to sanction China or Chinese companies who are supporting that genocide?
Where’s the support for native American groups who the US is still oppressing?
Hypocritical, all of you. I don’t care about your opinions if you just pick and choose when to apply your morals to make yourself feel better. Help everyone, or stop pretending that your not doing it because it’s the cool thing to support right now.
@bert_hubert 2/2 artistic protest action against the profit hype - the "EinBuch" (OneBook). The authors gave away the text of the book for free via the Internet and produced a single, extremely expensive physical edition that could not be copied. It remained a widely unheard protest. Market concentration and the profit maximisation had long since taken hold of the book market. @writing
What's the best way to monitor and log which processes are responsible for high system load throughout the day? Tools like top and htop only provide immediate values, but I'm looking for a solution that offers historical data to identify the main culprits over time.
Well, I've never really used much social media, but I reckon with my debut novel just waiting on cover art and final epub proofing, it's time for me to learn—somewhere far from Xitter.
Any must-follow folks or communities for an indie SF/F author on Mastodon?
@wandering.shop is an instance full of SFF writers and authors - it's maybe worth moving off Mastodon.social as the moderation is not great and quite a few places don't>
I have lots of music which I got basically for free, and a lots of music for which I paid.
My general attitude towards music is that I’m in it to explore, learn and enjoy the indescribable human connection that I get through, and only through listening to someone’s little “message in a bottle”. Doing this for many years (I’m 44 so over 30 years now) I’ve learned that training my brain on multiple styles and genres, the connection can always get deeper and more rich.
So I would not be able to ever say a purchase was not worth it, because I would always assume such decision to be rushed. I had too many experiences when I listened to something, didn’t quite like it, but later I somehow “grew into” it, and then I learned to love it for years and years.
Different music ends up playing different roles in my life. Some albums end up teaching me a genre or a style, some end up acting like a gateway drug, some end up as a “stand in” for whole genre. Some end up as “holy relics” of who I was, and are re-visited from time to time to see whether I’ve changed and how. Some end up on a shelf and get re-discovered, some end up on a shelf forever.
(That “stand in” part is kinda tongue-in-cheek, but it sometimes almost works; eg. I would never set out to get a Dub album, but Dub Guerilla is one of the 100 best things I’ve ever heard, and it’s just so darn satisfying that it satisfies all and any of my Dub needs.)
Sometimes my brain can be just really petty about things, like completely disregarding an album because of a track or a section which I feel is a mistake. Sometimes I just know I will need much more time, sometimes I feel certain things might remain hard to get into maybe forever.
Don’t get me wrong, somewhere among those piles, there are really things that I won’t ever care to pick up, and perhaps would not purchase them again, but it almost never has much to do with number of listens. It might be things that I just got with bad expectation (ie. not listening upfront) or things that I enjoyed because of content (eg. lyrics) but I have changed and moved on.
Other times music is best experienced live, for some bands the “spirit” simply cannot be tamed, let alone reproduced. Sometimes I get album from band directly after a show and then end up never feeling it again from the CD, but then again, I would say it was not worth it, because it’s still a great way to “tip” the artist, and sometimes it will just work out.
(A bit more related to the OP: Incidentally, just today I broke my all-time record by spending about 20 EUR for Vín by Janus Rasmussen, and for reasons completely unrelated to OP and the price (but related to a sub-thread) I also did something I would never do normally–put one of the tracks on repeat for several hours. That’s not to brag about money–it’s just funny how it ended up accidentally as “$ per listen” experiment, although )
I take one of these drugs, Farxiga - I’m diabetic. It’s listed here at $556 a box, I was paying almost $400 a month as my insurance copay in the states. Six months ago I moved to Portugal and here in the European Union it costs me 7 euros to fill that same prescription for 90 days. And that’s through the Public Health Service; I don’t have private health care at all!