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I agree with the storyteller: the experience of having a slave is abhorrent, simulated or not, and this story is a window into something •deep• about the present moment. Even without having slaves, we are all in danger of having a •slaver mindset•. It’s a disease that’s running rampant now in billionaire-shaped techno-utopian circles.
I wrote this thread on the topic earlier:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113295613785073188
…and even having written that, it’s still shocking — not surprising, exactly, but shocking — to hear those thoughts expressed so baldly by the colleague in the story above.

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.11.2025.
373 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.

Na bula do xarope: "Tomar uma dose em intervalos de 4 a 6 horas, em um mšximo de 6 doses por dia."
Agora me diga, 'jênio' que elaborou esse texto, como alguém pode exceder 6 doses em um dia tomando uma dose a cada 4 a 6 horas?! ¬¬

The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol

FINANCIAL TIMES
The US and Ukraine have drafted a new 19-point peace deal,
but left the most politically sensitive elements to be decided by the countries' presidents,
according to Ukrainian first deputy foreign minister Sergiy Kyslytsya.
Washington had previously put Kyiv under pressure to agree a 28-point proposal that had been developed by US and Russian officials and crossed several long-standing Ukrainian red lines.
Kyslytsya, who was in the room as par…

US and Ukraine draft new 19-point peace plan but defer biggest decisions
The most politically sensitive elements are left for Trump and Zelenskyy to discuss

Die skandinavischen Länder geben den passenden Ton vor, Herr Bundeskanzler:
Der ehemalige dänische Justizminister SŸren Pind: „Die nordischen Länder allein haben eine Wirtschaft wie Russland. Wenn die USA uns im Stich lassen wollen, dann sollen sie doch zu dem Land werden, das früher Mut und Willenskraft hatte und jetzt ein Land der Feiglinge ist."
Via @…

1/ Last year I had to spend time with someone who votes far-right.
I could have avoided all political discussions but I gave it a try - knowing about the risc!
At some topics I said: I don't want to discuss that, I have a strong opinion there but let's skip that please.
At other topics, the discussions got heated until I said: waait. We don't need to fight. We agree to disagree. But none of us can change it. Our duty is to vote, not to fight each other. And I d…

After Alaska ofcourse Putin is very willing to participate in another useless meeting in Hungary. While nothing has changed. The meeting will just be a further delay. Further talking is useless if Russia won't even agree to a cease-fire along current frontlines (which Zelensky is willing to discuss).
#Trump #Putin

"[...] O conto é ficção científica, chama-se no original O Jogo dos Deuses, foi publicado no Em œrbita hš jš uma carrada de anos, em espanhol ficou, claro, El Juego de los Dioses, vem ilustrado com a imagem que veem ali em cima [...]"
#lampadamagica #ficçãoCientífica

E mais um continho em ingl... não, espera... em espanhol, agora é em espanhol
Para quem anda a escrever tão pouco (ha! pouco, diz ele, quando devia dizer nada), até tenho publicado bastante, e sempre fora de portas. De...

Estou jogando um joguinho em que você por vezes precisa utilizar gšs sonífero para capturar alienígenas vivos e assim obter informações sobre eles e tal. Mas eu até agora não entendi direito a dinâmica desses gases. Como resultado disso, meu soldado acabou de cair inconsciente por conta do gšs sonífero que ele mesmo espalhou no campo de batalha rs.