kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

This "there's no such thing as society" quote allegedly from Margaret Thatcher is beloved by neocons (exhibit #1) who make some kind of Ayn Rand selfish god of her, and among leftists, who make some kind of Ayn Rand devil of her.

In reality, Thatcher's quote is about social cohesion: society isn't some abstract overlord, quite the opposite - society is *you* and your neighbour and other people around. Society gives to you, you need to contribute too.

Full interview https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/106689

Before you call China a "communist" country...

#ShowYourWorkspace *

* comments about mess are warmly welcome under the condition that complainer comes and cleans that up 😁

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/FS_20_552

https://euvsdisinfo.eu/sputnik-coronavirus-could-be-designed-to-kill-elderly-italians/

#COVID19

If you are Fitbit user, you should be certainly aware of these

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.fitbit.FitbitMobile/latest/

"Large numbers and varieties of these wild game mammals in overcrowded cages and the lack of biosecurity measures in wet markets allowed the jumping of this novel virus from animals to human" https://cmr.asm.org/content/20/4/660.long

"No! Stay home, we will fill in [the voting cards] for you!"

"Как отважный рубль хитрого доллара победил"

"How a brave ruble won over smartass dollar"

Pro-tip for those scared by toilet paper outages: most people in the world survive without it all the time. High-tech solution is "bum gun sprayer" (pictured), low-tech is simple 1.5 liter plastic bottle with warm water. Reminder: you also have showers.

Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism":

Default #minecraft service definitions as used by VPS providers are quite crappy. Here I replaced some horrible systemd file running screen -D (!) with a properly hardened systemd service

"You can't kill truth with batons" (Дубинками правду не убить) - Poland 1968. Very relevant to our friends in Russia today.

Simply stop using #Windows

In 60's authorities of USSR promised #communism will be achieved by 1980, with almost everything available for free, 6 hours of work per day etc. This is literally written in this 60's textbook.

Reality: in 1962 workers of Electromotive factory in Novocherkassk organise a strike and protest against ever-inreasing work quotas and skyrocketing food prices. 26 are shot to death, hundreds arrested https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novocherkassk_massacre

Large increases in #DNSSEC validating resolvers worldwide http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2020-02/validating.html

WHO in Russia clarifying that garlic, cocaine, child urine and electric hand dryers do *not* prevent Covid-19 infection. Not trolling or anything, this is actual advice spreading in social media in Russia...

https://www.who.int/ru/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/myth-busters