Notices by clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de), page 103

It's pretty jarring how a few weeks after equinox it's like somebody flicked a switch and suddenly it's dusk at 18.

The sine wave goes really fast around 0.

> Modernity
> Has failed us

Pink shirt with white text and lots of fine print I didn't read. I can't tell if this little old lady's shirt is straight up quoting McVeigh or if it's something else entirely.

#TShirtSpotting

@Martin Owens Yes, I'm certainly astonished from time to time, wait what, *that* is decided and enforced on a state level, and yet, it is a country with a shared overall culture, party system and political discourse, so it is interesting to see what the trends are on average in the population, just like I described above the trend for first of all Sweden that I know better but also for the EU overall, which I can see reflected in e.g. EP composition and discourse.

@Deniz Opal

"Let's find you a fediverse home! Use a suggested server close to you"

"[ . . . ] is a mastodon server in Hong Kong"

Oh cool! That's a neat feature.

fediverse.observer/

My understanding of the US spectrum and terminology:

libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-9…

@Martin Owens @Deniz Opal

One thing that is nice in Scandinavia is that views on LGBTQ+ have become less conservative across the board, so it doesn't come up much in block politics.

Same-sex civil unions and later same-sex marriage were developments that happened as national consensus and didn't become election issues.

@Deniz Opal @Martin Owens

@Martin Owens @Deniz Opal This one is clear, it's about "progressive" vs "conservative" social values, fifteen enumerated issues, it's not about economic policy, and it's about people's values over time versus people's labeling of themselves over time.

According to the article the US is going ever more progressive, but that's not how it looks in Europe. In specific issues the trend is toward progressive, but not overall.

On the one-dimensional political scale (yes, reality is more complex) government regulation of the capitalist economy generally goes together with progressive social views, which is why I phrased it the way I did, it's all proxies.

These graphs may be true for the US, but in Europe the Overton window has been shifting Right in my lifetime, since the Wall fell, mostly by copying bad ideas from the US.

When I was a kid Sweden was still "the People's Home" and proudly Third Way, staunchly Social Democrat.

In the 90s neoliberal policy ruled, copying Reaganomics, lowering taxes, selling public utilities to the market, engaging in New Public Management, but immigration policy was open and had popular support, xenophobes were politically active but were booed off the streets.

In the 00s and 10s the xenophobes got their party into the mainstream and into the parliament and are now the biggest party.

♲ @selzero@syzito.xyz: Because older generations tend to be more conservative than younger generations, it looks like people get more conservative with age.

This is, thankfully, untrue.

People get more progressive with age.

It's just that previous generations get a little left behind. The jump between generations is bigger than the progress that happens within people, giving the illusion that older people become more conservative.

Some good news for once. 😊

brilliant.org/lesson/the-overt…

#politics #demography

> Between
> Friends
> All Is
> Common

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"Lotus III" (Amiga, intro and title music)

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=CgGSBoivBI…

"Hypa-Ball" (C64)

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=RfKkp7cn2e…

"Hypa-Ball" was the game on the #C64 I would load up and just run the title screen because the music was such a banger.

On the #Amiga it was "Lotus III: The Ultimate Challenge".

> Well done
> Is better than well said

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> Semi
> nice

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I just learned about this and I am shocked and unsurprised.

theconversation.com/why-did-pe…

School is closed due to typhoon, so kid is working on his game in Scratch while watching Scratch videos.

Typhoon warning was just canceled, so tomorrow it's back to school.