Notices by Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com), page 104
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 13-May-2021 00:20:15 EDT 
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I used to think that in democratic republics like France or the USA, a political party called "The Republicans" was redundant, but I learned both these parties are fine with the republic but are actively doing away with the democratic part of their respective countries. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 12-May-2021 21:15:04 EDT
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♲ @briangaar@twitter.com: Dude gives an interview criticizing Israel on CNN and a day later, they kick him out of his house: thedailybeast.com/cnn-msnbc-gues… https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-msnbc-guest-mohammed-el-kurd-who-blasted-israeli-ethnic-cleansing-forced-out-of-home?via=twitter_page
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 12-May-2021 19:26:58 EDT
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When I'm waiting for something, I'm obsessively impatient, and when I'm not, I'm morbidly apathetic. I can alleviate both of these feelings by doing something, but when I focus on a task I get tired fast and need to rest often, which exposes me to the double emotional bind again. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 12-May-2021 19:17:02 EDT
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Anyone with kids can relate with the Bible God creating Adam and Eve and then getting mad at them for breaking a rule he created for his own convenience. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 12-May-2021 12:22:55 EDT
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I'm going to use my own example because it's pretty telling. I have used Facebook even after I started loathing them for their abusive business practices, because I didn't have another way to stay in contact with many people on Facebook. It was only when Facebook forcibly froze my account and made demands I couldn't bear to comply with that I looked into using Diaspora, an alternative I already knew about but had no good incentive to use.
If I had had another way to stay in contact with people on Facebook, like through open protocols, I believe I would have left much earlier, even for a less snappy interface like Friendica's. You are right that most people aren't ready to leave responsive interfaces for something more experimental, but the current situation also prevents people who wouldn't mind crappier interfaces from making the move by relying on the private network effect. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 12-May-2021 09:20:06 EDT
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♲ @gp_jls@twitter.com: the way trans medicine is discussed, you’d be forgiven for thinking it really is a distinct, unique medical matter to be debated. in reality, everyone’s sex and gender are bound up in medicalization and the real distinctions are *social* (thread):
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 11-May-2021 17:50:05 EDT
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♲ @farbandish@twitter.com: Today is the anniversary of the Nazi book burnings, when the entire research library at Hirschfeld’s Institute of Sexology was publicly burned. Almost all scientific research into trans lives went kaput. People who think we appeared yesterday: there’s a reason you think that.
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 11-May-2021 15:45:06 EDT
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♲ @AlexPetrovnia@twitter.com: Not many people know that some neurotransmitters are released through your tear ducts as tears. The emotional relief you feel after crying isn’t a placebo, it’s the effect of your brain literally releasing the chemical signals of emotion to reduce intensity.
Crying is healthy.
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 11-May-2021 13:41:37 EDT
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Of course you're right, it still was a fun exercise for me to try to size patriotism with the absolute wrong ruler. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 11-May-2021 13:36:08 EDT
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WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO FIX MY JOKE? -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 11-May-2021 13:18:03 EDT
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Patriots don't make sense statistically speaking. How likely it is that the country you happened to be born in also is the best in the world? How likely it is that, among all the people who believe their own country is the best, only you would be right? -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 11-May-2021 12:35:16 EDT
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♲ @JuliusGoat@twitter.com: One of the foundational lies is "life must be earned" and we're not getting out of this cyclical mess until we stop believing it.
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 11-May-2021 11:02:04 EDT
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Here you go: www.wsj.com/articles/ppp-was-a… -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 11-May-2021 09:32:41 EDT
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♲ @writersrepublic@twitter.com: Countless corporations and business owners including members of Congress "gamed the system" by siphoning PPP from the Small Business Association but they're worried about the poors refusing to work in covid hotspots mkay
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 10-May-2021 17:15:09 EDT
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Indeed, that's why I believe we can make the network effect weaker by enforcing open protocols. I know it isn't the silver bullet because Gmail still is the overwhelmingly dominant email provider and SMTP is open, but it has made moving away from Gmail to other providers easier, including for me. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 10-May-2021 16:40:09 EDT
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♲ @briangaar@twitter.com: Once again one side (the dominant powerful side) gets the benefit of passive voice and the other side (always the marginalized one) is given the active voice.
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 10-May-2021 16:30:06 EDT
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I will be brief. Everything you said is accurate, but nothing is relevant to what I said since I was talking about ethics more than lawfulness. Sure, the mass surveillance program Snowden revealed was unconstitutional, but it wasn't illegal. It was rubber-stamped by judges in private courts, which is another ethical question, but at no point the actual law was broken.
Same for law enforcement queries, they are perfectly legal, but why would you want to make law enforcement's job easier when we know how biased they are? The FBI doesn't have to hack into Google, Facebook or Apple when they can directly serve a warrant. I can't say much about the NSA or the CIA since these agencies' motives and actions are secretive by nature, and decentralization without end-to-end encryption would indeed make it easy for these actors to pry into Friendica's private data, but at this point I'm not sure what project/corporation can rival such nation-state actors in terms of privacy/information security. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 10-May-2021 15:03:51 EDT
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Ha, you got me there. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 10-May-2021 14:15:04 EDT
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Bothsideism at work in real time. No connection is made between both events. The original event that sparked more violence is relegated in second place. ♲ @nyt_diff@twitter.com: Change in Abstract
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 10-May-2021 13:35:04 EDT
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♲ @ladyhaja@twitter.com: this tumblr post about Jurassic Park must be about 10 years old and i swear i think about it and bark with laughter at least once a month
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