Notices by Coffee & Aspirin (deejoe@mastodon.sdf.org)

@ajroach42

https://gitlab.com/deejoe/fork-drawer/blob/master/gogs-gitea.md

you know those cartoons that have just a little tiny rain cloud that only rains on one person and that follows them around? I drove under a cloud like that today, blue skies punctuated by only the fluffiest white clouds all around, and there we were getting big splatty drops.

tootstream still tootling along well, whatever was knocking it out in my earlier experiences with it seems to be either a) solved entirely or at least b) much more rare

@Gotterdammerung

sorry to interrupt

@Gotterdammerung

ok

@Gotterdammerung

of course. my point was that it *also* included that, but the extent to which one dwells on any aspect can vary, sometimes all too conveniently so.

@bgcarlisle

as for survival, the corn-based food system owes much to the very progressive Henry A. Wallace. He succeeded in building a system where calories are more abundant and available than ever.

The catch is that system is optimized for a goal that's off center from what we really need (and though we know more now about what we need, we're still figuring some of it out).

@bgcarlisle

I'm troubled by the potentially tremendous gap between meeting people's survival needs--which can be tricky enough*--and affording them sufficient whatever to preserve their dignity. Dignity is a tremendously elastic concept--I know SUV drivers with families to tote around for whom a more practical minivan is beneath their dignity.

*see planned, later post

@Gotterdammerung

on the other hand, there seems to be in a lot of this handwringing over the loss of certainty regret for the loss of racist, feudal, colonialist, hierarchical, authoritarian 'certainties'.

I'm not sure everything lost from the cosmopolitan, multi-ethnic empires that were destroyed or dismantled in this period was bad. But a lot of it was horrible.

@Gotterdammerung

Fair. I'm at least somewhat conversant with the art & science aspects, less with the philosophy.

I'm thinking here too of Hilbert's problems, of Goedel, of Church & Turing.

@Gotterdammerung

Not sure what is meant by juxtaposing here Cezanne, who died in 1906, and Einstein, who only began to publish on relativity in 1905.

such a sad testament that the Wallace presidential campaign you hear about is segregationist George rather than progressive Henry

@lneely42

lol Swift

@glimpse

oh, that's too bad