World press: Far right surges on Portugal elections!
I mean, yes, as someone who lives in Portugal, it's scary as hell, but in the ongoing love affair that the western press has with fascists, let's not lose sight of the fact that this "surge" is actually them coming third, and not a particularly close third either.
What's worrying is that there's no stable coalition without either them, or the centre right and centre left joining forces.
Every election so far people have been saying it’s their high water mark and then they triple or quadruple their voting. I’m not optimistic. 1.1M people voting for these fuckers… I’m still in disbelief. And some of the regions I love the most and the worst. The world is really turning to shit.
@Miguel Arroz They’re a receptacle for angry people to project anything they want onto. They can do well as a perpetual party of opposition, but they are, ultimately, bullshit merchants with nothing to offer beyond that piece of shit, Ventura, ranting about “gypsies” and nebulous “corruption” (presumably he’s angry that any potential backhanders aren’t coming to him).
Thing is, while parties of protest can do well when people are disillusioned with mainstream politics, if they do well enough to get any kind of power (say as a junior coalition partner), it’s … difficult to maintain that vote when people can no longer believe that you can be whatever they want you to be.
I was a member of the Liberal Democrats in the UK. In 2010, we picked up 22% of the vote as a party of protest, although unlike Chega we were coming at it from the centre left.
And it got us into coalition.
And ever since, the party
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@Miguel Arroz They’re a receptacle for angry people to project anything they want onto. They can do well as a perpetual party of opposition, but they are, ultimately, bullshit merchants with nothing to offer beyond that piece of shit, Ventura, ranting about “gypsies” and nebulous “corruption” (presumably he’s angry that any potential backhanders aren’t coming to him).
Thing is, while parties of protest can do well when people are disillusioned with mainstream politics, if they do well enough to get any kind of power (say as a junior coalition partner), it’s … difficult to maintain that vote when people can no longer believe that you can be whatever they want you to be.
I was a member of the Liberal Democrats in the UK. In 2010, we picked up 22% of the vote as a party of protest, although unlike Chega we were coming at it from the centre left.
And it got us into coalition.
And ever since, the party has been stuck on about 7%.
If PSD and PS form a grand coalition, then Chega can keep their status as “the plutonic opposition party” and will probably go higher.
It will be uncomfortable as fuck if they end up in some sort of power sharing arrangement with PSD though. As you so rightly note, they are fuckers.
But I think it will basically end them. Trump and Johnson managed to pull off the “plucky outsider” con while still being in power, but I don’t think Ventura has that in him. I don’t think he can survive his fans seeing him become everything he claimed to hate.
Or at least I hope so. The alternative is scary as fuck, and I already had to flee one country where these arseholes got unchallenged levels of power (although even in their case, it’s about to destroy them. Still, the damage is done)
I’m not sure if PS and PSD will form any sort of coalition. The history on that isn’t great. I’m not sure how long the next government will last but my guess is, not much. I’m still hoping the emigration ridings will repeat the result of last election, causing a tie in MPs and (hopefully) more votes for PS, forcing the president to invite the left-wing “majority” to power.
honestly, I’d rather have news media freaking out and overreacting about fascists than their usual normalization and hagiography of extreme right politicians
Oh. Light bulb moment. I thought I'd managed to catch an atypical cold despite all the making and hand washing. This makes more sense; I'm 11 days in and been feeling off for about the last 5.
@Alisdair Calder McGregor I guess it depends which way it initially tumbles. Could generate a pretty violent lift vector taking it either towards or away from the tail.
“So sometimes my roommate, with whom I’ve been paying a mortgage for 10 years and looking after a herd of cats, does me against the wall with a strap on. Do you think I should risk telling her I have feelings for her? I’m pretty sure she’s straight.” reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpd…
Dental surgeon just tried to fit my new crown to the implant.
Turned out it has to go back to the lab because it's too big, but it took 3 attempts with a bit of on-site drilling before he gave up.
Screwing it down deforms the gum and crushes it between the crown and the bone, which hurts. He told me to tell him when it got too much and he would pause, which I did, but a long time after he seemed to be expecting me to.
He's like, "waiting for your feedback..." and I just gave him a thumbs up, and his face is kinda like, "This should be hurting. Why aren't you yelling?"
I think trans women get kinda messed up pain thresholds, you guys.
Anyway, it has to go back to the lab for a resize, because it's too big. Also the wrong colour, because they did not account for UK and Ireland levels of tea consumption.
Today was uncomfortable but it didn't last long. Having the implant put in is a bit of a slog, but it didn't hurt. Hope all goes well. It's a bit of a process.
Exactly 4 years ago today I had what can only be described as an utterly brutal extraction of half an upper molar by a dental surgeon (the other half had been removed by my regular dentist 2 weeks prior).
My plan was to replace the tooth, which had died from an internal crack, just a freak accident from biting something hard, with an implant.
And then the world went into lockdown.
On Wednesday, 4 years and 2 days since the original was removed, I get my new tooth installed.
Here’s why the NHS were happy to vaccinate me with MMR the other day. From UK govt advice from 2019:
• individuals born between 1970 and 1979 may have been vaccinated against measles and many will have been exposed to mumps and rubella during childhood. However, this age group should be offered MMR wherever feasible, particularly if they are considered to be at high risk of exposure.
• individuals born before 1970 are likely to have had all three natural infections and are less likely to be susceptible. MMR vaccine should be offered to such individuals on request or if they are considered to be at high risk of exposure.
Tl;dr: younger GenX and older Millennials in the UK were likely given inadequate protection against measles and none against mumps and rubella: vaccinate on sight.
Older GenX and boomers: just give them the vaccine if they ask for it.
I recall that you had whooping cough many months ago, which I was reminded of because I also got it last autumn. Somebody on here told me recently that it was included in the tetanus booster. Research done some years ago shows that people don't need to the tetanus boosters, but I guess whopping cough wasn't part of the study? Anyway, I haven't had that shot in 20 years now and I'm guessing virtually no others adults have either.
Boomers: Talkin’ ‘bout my generation things my parents said to me…
GenX: What sort of things?
Boomers: Awful, cold things.
GenX: Such as?
Boomers: Er … um … tax the rich to build a welfare state?
GenX: And?
Boomers: Something about minorities …
GenX: Go on…
Boomers: I think it was “don’t put minorities in death camps”
GenX; You know you’re kind of an asshole?
Millennials: Oh hey dad, big bro. Wassup?
Boomers: Your brother was just leaving.
GenX: Well I do need to go get some overtime. My mortgage is fucking killing me and apparently someone ran away with my pension fund.
GenX: Asshole
Millennials: Wow. What was that about?
Boomers: Oh, music tastes. Anyway, let’s go into the city. There’s a matching band and something I want to talk to you about.
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Boomers: Cool band! Anyway, in the unlikely event tha
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Boomers: My generation! My generation!
GenX: Hey dad, what you doing?
Boomers: Talkin’ ‘bout my generation things my parents said to me…
GenX: What sort of things?
Boomers: Awful, cold things.
GenX: Such as?
Boomers: Er … um … tax the rich to build a welfare state?
GenX: And?
Boomers: Something about minorities …
GenX: Go on…
Boomers: I think it was “don’t put minorities in death camps”
GenX; You know you’re kind of an asshole?
Millennials: Oh hey dad, big bro. Wassup?
Boomers: Your brother was just leaving.
GenX: Well I do need to go get some overtime. My mortgage is fucking killing me and apparently someone ran away with my pension fund.
GenX: Asshole
Millennials: Wow. What was that about?
Boomers: Oh, music tastes. Anyway, let’s go into the city. There’s a matching band and something I want to talk to you about.
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Boomers: Cool band! Anyway, in the unlikely event that I die soon after plundering the healthcare system your grandparents built and laying waste to the environment, will you defeat the plans that they, and by they, I mean “I” have made? I know things are shit and it’s my fault, but I can’t be arsed to clean up after myself and the beach bar is open …
Millennials: My older brother was right. You are an asshole.
@Ghost of Hope The single dose measles vaccine they used in the 70s was not as effective as they’d hoped long term, but to be fair the thing was on the verge of being eradicated and they didn’t think it needed to be.
@Alexandra Lanes Dupuutren's appears to have gone into remission overnight. I guess my body is too busy doing measles things to worry about fucking my hands.
!Friendica Admins Any idea what the situation with the Docker image is? It seems like Phil isn't active and hasn't been for a while. Does anyone know if he's OK?
Hopefully he is, and is just taking a break. Does anyone else know how to generate a new docker image? At the moment, we're kinda stuck on 2023.12, which AIUI has known vulnerabilities.
Failing that, how easy is it to migrate an existing installation away from Docker?
I guess he is okay, but I guess that he currently is extremely busy, so that he can't do anything for the project. Sadly he is our only expert concerning Docker. It would be great if we found some volunteer to have a look at the whole stuff.
@Michael Vogel My partner, @Zoe O'Connell has expressed tentative interest as this sort of thing is her day job, but she's stupidly busy with her Open University work at the moment.
@Michael Vogel @Zoe O'Connell Heh, the basic mechanics of building a docker image given a base system and a set of stuff to install, I can do. I'm an utter beginner with stuff like GIt and suchlike though. Last time I was gainfully employed in software engineering, we were all about CVS.
So you have a service like Tailscale. Could actually be Tailscale.
You can install it on a barebones Linux SBC with Wifi. (Raspberry Pi zero W or equivalent). These things will run off a public USB port or a USB power pack for many hours.
Set it down somewhere with public wifi. Set it as an exit node. Go elsewhere.
Some hours later, do bit torrent, or whatever.
Some days later, if you are so minded, go back and collect it. Or not. These things can be cheap enough to be disposable.
It's traceable via Tailscale, were someone to do forensics on it, but you could set it up to wipe its Tailscale installation after a certain time period if you were paranoid. It probably wouldn't ever get that far.
Hell, in a lot of places with public wifi, cable tie a random box in place and people will assume it's part of the scenery for a very long time. Your only issue is power, and there are wa
So you have a service like Tailscale. Could actually be Tailscale.
You can install it on a barebones Linux SBC with Wifi. (Raspberry Pi zero W or equivalent). These things will run off a public USB port or a USB power pack for many hours.
Set it down somewhere with public wifi. Set it as an exit node. Go elsewhere.
Some hours later, do bit torrent, or whatever.
Some days later, if you are so minded, go back and collect it. Or not. These things can be cheap enough to be disposable.
It's traceable via Tailscale, were someone to do forensics on it, but you could set it up to wipe its Tailscale installation after a certain time period if you were paranoid. It probably wouldn't ever get that far.
Hell, in a lot of places with public wifi, cable tie a random box in place and people will assume it's part of the scenery for a very long time. Your only issue is power, and there are ways to address that.
You could easily make one that looked like, and functioned as, a USB mains power adaptor.
Random VPN exit nodes, everywhere. Just need a way of getting wifi credentials onto it.
A lot of wifis want you to log in via a website, so the work around for that is that you can record a lynx session and play it back, which is essentially automating a headless interaction with a website. Then put that a cron job.
I've done this in real life to keep a raspi authenticated on a pub wifi. It worked for several days.
Have been alerted to the existence of an MMR drop in centre. Going to attend on Saturday to see if they’ll give me one to top up my 49 year old single measles vaccine.
I queried my GP about shingles and MMR and had twin punctures in my arm that afternoon. But, since I'm to old to have any of the MMR vaccines, it's a full course not a booster. I have the impression they are keen to get them done. Achey and cross the next day, but just a bit tender in the upper arm the day after.
@anubis2814 I don't know when it changed, but the eligibility is simpler now than it used to be; between 70 and 80 instead of the tighter cohort it used to be. I'm sorry to hear about your co-worker. It's miserable at any age, though not, I think, infectious in its own right. In
It was noted that Farage is seen as “vulgar” by the people who inhabit the Tory back rooms, and my response was, “ I mean, come on. Looking at him you just KNOW he’s walking around in 1970s nylon y-fronts that he only changes once every 4 days.
The guy is basically every Sid James character from Carry On, but unironically.”
Me: reading article “blah blah blah Lawrence Livermore blah
Me: This is nuclear bomb research. Nothing to see here. Also solar panels literally exist. Move along.
I swear, “fusion power stations” are the global death industrial complex’s fig leaf for bomb research just as “hydrogen cars” are the global death industrial complex’s fig leaf for digging oil out of the ground.
“Look at me pretending to develop fusion power for A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS PER KILOWATT HOUR! Muhahahaha! Nobody suspects me of getting round non-proliferation treaties, which I literally admit to doing on my website!”
Solar panels: “Am I a literal fucking joke to you?”
America and France: Hi! We have world-leading programmes to develop and study high temperature deuterium-tritium plasmas, and also space programmes which use solid rocket boosters which you could hypothetically launch into a sub orbital trajectory with a payload of a few tonnes at very short notice. These are unrelated and very highly civilian normal things we are doing. Also, STAR TREK!
@Adam @Alisdair Calder McGregor You're replying to Alisdair, but in my thread, so I'm gonna assume "you" means me.
The answer, in general, unfortunately is "no". Posts that I can reasonably expect are only going to DFRN or ActivityPub type places support abstract (which gets converted to content warnings for ActivityPub), but unless I specifically restrict distribution, posts go to other places which handle them very poorly.
I love the idea of getting vaccine boosters, but understand that in some places it’s basically not possible. Consider the UK, for example, which is literally throwing Covid booster doses away rather than give them to people not in their “at risk” groups who want them.
I wasn't eligible this winter. I went to the pharmacy to get a flu jab and I was asked "Do you want the COVID one as well?" I said I wasn't eligible and they said didn't matter, I could still have it. I threw myself onto the needle as fast as I could. TL;DR you may not be eligible, but pharmacists can be reasonable.
@Alexis Bushnell @Sarah Brown I'm relieved for myself that I'll be able to get a booster, but angry that people in far greater need than me won't be able to afford it.
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