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Relevant Scott Alexander's blog post: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/whither-tartaria

> One older man out of nowhere loudly proclaimed I was Anti-semetic

There's a bit of fringe-political subculture worth knowing here. Most self-proclaimed antifascist groups in Europe are made up of leftists who side with the Palestinians, and in Germany that scene has a long history of friction with old-school "anti-imperialists", often fairly authoritarian communists. The "antideutsche" current grew out of a rejection of exactly that, dating back to reunification in 1990, when part of the radical left decided the real danger was Germany itself. It started as a mostly intellectual critique, but in practice it came to mean waving the Israeli flag at every opportunity and giving grief to anyone in a keffiyeh.


Ironically that is exactly the part of Germany that is the real danger.

Reading this comment from an hot european bathtub right now, I've been here for two hours

Don't you get all wrinkly?


I guess this must be extremely subjective because for 15 years now in my country the far-right has been "on the rise" and all the politicians, and a lot of the media, now only talk about the immigration, the immigration and all the "normal" right-wingers, centrists and even soft left try to compete for being the one who will say the least "politically correct" thing, that is something about how immigration is not compatible with our culture or something. The right-wing party has split and one part is now allied with the far-right party.

My impression is that the overton window has gone further and further to the right so chacun voit midi à sa porte


The Secret to Japan's Great Cities - Not Just Bikes

Consider at least giving the title of what you want to share and even to add a small description as to why this is worth anyone's time


But I don't think that's the case for Bluesky


It's because of spam. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Ironically AI could fix this when trivial spam detection inference becomes cheap enough to throw away on every upload.


AI would classify anything disagreeing with the government as spam. For example right now it would classify anything opposing Israel as spam.


Are you sure that's not just people getting fed up with you and hitting the mute button? I just mute those people.


That trains the AI


Yes and most importantly when the black box flags something as spam there will be no appeal.


> Even Bluesky has this problem!

Bluesky is totally accessible for me without an account. What do you see ?


Plenty of people restrict their account to require that you too have an account to see their posts. A link to Bluesky often feels like roulette on whether I can see a post or not.

It isn’t as egregious as other sites but it’s still restrictive.


I don't understand why they have this option. Why would anyone toggle this on?


Maybe to minimize bots scraping your info.


If bluesky ever becomes popular boots will just scrape the firehose directly.


I mean it's 3x the size of HN by monthly active users


I don't remember giving my phone to bluesky


I didn't


I don't have the same animosity against web fonts but yes I realized I could just do that on Firefox and I appreciate relying on the same font across web pages. I don't feel like I am missing out on much and aesthetically I like the idea of reusing what I already have instead of downloading a new font on every page


The "sad" thing is that it is generally not advantageous for people to have both a phone data plan and an internet box plan if the latter is not shared so a lot of people have a fiber connection on their wall but still use their phone as hotspot since bigger data plan < reasonnable data plan + internet box plan

It's not the end of the world but it feels like a wasted effort. I don't know what the solution is.


It's not really a big issue. Connecting the last meters of fiber is cheap, either done by default in new constructions, or on demand for older houses. ISP's hardware to run PON is cheap.

Once street level fiber deployment is done, whether market penetration follows or not isn't a huge deal.


> Connecting the last meters of fiber is cheap

Check the France map. This is cheap in densely populated areas, like cities. It isn't in mountainous areas with just small groups of houses like in the middle of the country.


Pretty irrelevant to the last meter, and most ISPs do it for free when you subscribe as they can re-use conduits and sheaths for the legacy copper line, otherwise it's typically a few hours of work.


I am clearly not talking about the last meter issue, I am talking about when the fiber is already in the home and sits unused. That seems like a pity (yes not a huge deal)

But maybe I misunderstood your point ?


Where do you think is the last meter if not in the home?


You wrote last meterS and re-reading your comment you obviously mean the connection between the street source and the home.

Which is unrelated to the point I was making


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