Born following the unholy union of a duck and a cardboard box, Roberto von Archimboldi entered the world as a broken, diseased disaster. He has been searching for joy ever since.
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Last Notes npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I guess that 'passions of the people' is code for 'pesky things that the ruling class don't like'. Equally though any system does need a conservative drag for stability npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Can someone explain how this works? A senator dies and the governor can just appoint any person she likes to replace her? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Yes indeed. I do also think that, unlike Marie Antoinette, my man was trying to help. Perhaps we should refuse to accept systems that impose Microsoft on us? It is no more outrageous a position than shunning anyone who uses OpenAI npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I got mastodoned the other day. It made me smile. I was asking for help setting up grapheneos to minimise Google invasive behaviour. I made a throwaway comment about my first love, lineage. A kindly fellow, enquired why I had switched operating system. I explained that my school was enforcing use of outlook and Microsoft's authenticator. My new friend suggested that I change school. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I have this strong sense that most people in this country, the UK, do not, like me, feel thoroughly removed from power. I also feel that my sense of how power functions in this country is correct. I want to know if my first feeling is shared. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I have high hopes for Emilio Gay. He looks to have a solid technique and to understand his game. It was part of what I felt was wrong with the Stokes decision. Duckett and Gay looked well placed to make a game of it. It didn't seem helpful to Gay. I can see the logic. The win was a moonshot. Going for a 50 ball century from one of the top three wasn't crazy npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi you are right, you know. My memory is playing tricks on me: npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi it is not that KP should or should not have been ditched. He shouldn't have been in my view. You pick your best players and you manage them. It is also not the case that anyone from Compton through to Rory Burns set the world on fire. The problem was that their opening partner was shot. That ramps up the pressure no end. They may have been pants regardless, of course. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Things that annoy me but shouldn't: England cricket fans comparing Alistair Cook's departure to Ben Stokes' and complaining that Stokes' was attention seeking. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi thank you. Can you point me to something that explains how to set that up npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi it is, but I need MS authenticator. I preferred the grapheneos sandbox to micro G, but this could have been a mistake npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I installed GrapheneOS on my new to me pixel 8a phone. Does anyone want to explain to me how the sandbox for google services works? I tried reading the docs but they were too much for my tiny mind. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Why do I feel more drunk (and am probably more drunk) in hot weather? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi there are a lot of games. These all sound very good npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi something in the middle I think. They all like to win, but that does cause squabbles npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi If you wanted to buy a board game for a 12 year old boy with two sisters, one slightly older, one slightly younger, and who had very little board game experience what would you buy? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi One of the very odd things about the death of Henry Nowak is why the police put him in handcuffs. Criminal Law Act 1967 authorises the cops to use such force as is reasonable and necessary to effect an arrest. That can include cuffs where a suspect is threatening violence or to escape. Nowak was on the ground, stabbed. What are they cuffing him for? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi although also, you're telling me that actual velociraptors were turkey sized and had display feathers? Amazing npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Would you go to Jurassic park? You can have a discount code. It is probably a bit pricey at full whack. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi thank you and seeing as I arguably met the rule, I sent you £5 npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I propose a new mastodon rule: if you make a post about AI, you have to give at least £5 to someone in Gaza npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I think that the first one was a bit more comprehensible to me. But maybe this is analogous to languages, if I have understood. They are ways of saying the same thing, but some of them are clearer depending on the task or just more intuitive to the programmer npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi but why is that? I fear that if I have to ask it is because my understanding is so minimal. I never got beyond 10 PRINT "Hello World"; 20 GOTO 10 npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi does that mean that it is just a matter of style as much as anything and different people finding different things intuitive or infuriating? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Why are there so many different programming languages? Don't they all do the same thing in the end? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi all your content is golden. I really like it when you post stuff about your daily life npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I understand you better now. A rule like the former would have the effect of reducing the rental value, and thus the price, of the station. A win-win npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Very probably true. The station owners themselves are probably heavily mortgaged to some 'unregulatable' bank npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I was travelling from Cambridge to Brighton yesterday. It was hot. I bought two sugary drinks at Kings Cross. Nothing posh, we used to call it pop. It cost £6 something. It's sugar water and colour. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I keep thinking about voting. More accurately I keep thinking about throwing your lot behind mainstream political parties. I make the clarification because your vote is statistically meaningless. Nothing much follows from that about whether you should go to the polling station. It does, however, show that the debate around voting is really about whether we should be supporting mainstream political parties. What we are really doing is arguing about whether we should join a movement to support the election of some party or other. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi as a bit of a counter point, http://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1586/reshaping-the-balance/ npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I see. I didn't realise that you are involved, respect. Can you add an RSS feed? Mastodon loves RSS more than anything else npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I couldn't even work out how to donate through the page. It is in Anghamel's bio here, so that was enough for me npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I love this idea, though I couldn't work out how to exchange money for a recipe. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Can we all agree that the fediverse has enough content explaining why LLMs are bad? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Here is my UK election hot take: npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Are these Iranian lego diss tracks really the product of AI? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Corbyn stepped down after he lost the election in 2019. He lost that election because he was foolish enough to let Starmer et al manoeuvre the party into opposing Brexit. It turned out, and who could have guessed, that the British establishment preferred colonialism and austerity to Corbyn's milquetoast anti-atlanticism and Keynesian economics. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi the UK was an imperialist venture long before Trevor Chin was born and long before the Labour existed to be friends with anyone. It seems so obvious to me that Israel uses leverages its position in the Middle East to destroy the Palestinians. It is only able to do that because it serves the US's imperial agenda. They are the inheritors of Britain's empire. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I guess that it is pleasant to blame the Jews for the racism and imperialism of the US and UK establishments, but I am sorry to tell you that they were at it long before Israel existed and will be at long after that evil regime has collapsed. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Today seems a good day to remind people that conspiracy theories seem to provide psychological cover for the dissonance that comes with someone actually attempting the transgressive thing that you wished for but weren't brave enough to undertake yourself. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi "For Marxists, the proper proximate aim is the politicisation of state business, its being put into question in the full glare of publicity: the exact opposite, in other words, of the mission of the civil service. We do not favour permanent bureaucracy, civil or military, but the supremacy of democratic bodies. A mature socialist society would not have a career civil service at all, but accountable officials, upon whose work the utmost transparency is imposed. Though today the ‘revolving door’ between government and private industry is a mechanism of legalised corruption, we should in fact aspire to ordinary people rotating in and out of direct economic activity and political-administrative roles - something only possible with the total subordination of the economic to the political. Every cook can govern - and should." npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi we sung it before the Stansted 15, anti-deportation activists who were charged as terrorists, went into court. It is a movement that will never die. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi they look awesome npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi they are the worst npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi true, but better than a black range rover. 'Oh don't look at me. I bought a ludicrously expensive status symbol, but it's just so convenient for getting the kids to Tai Chi practice and nipping out to Waitrose for smoked salmon and crème fraîche.' npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi got you. That makes sense npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi needs a winning at life hashtag npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi thank you. Most appreciated as always npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi can you explain this a bit more? I missed the original npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I guess, though I haven't followed either very closely, that the scandals are different. Clinton was unlawfully conducting government business from her private server. She then compounded it by deleting some (or all?) of the emails. Patel was stupid and got his private emails hacked. He has done nothing unlawful. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi thank you very much my friend npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I had a victory today. It made me very happy and it kept somebody housed npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi almost certainly the right response npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I take your point, but 000 000 is the dream npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I agree, but surely that is what everybody who is trawling through his emails is really hoping to find? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Oh look, an update from brilliant Brighton refugee housing charity, Thousand 4 1000 npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi How come I haven't seen any Kash Patel nudes? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I hope that your week is full of joy (or at least an improvement on the last one) npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I probably read it too quickly. It also seemed to be saying, get involved in the Labour party but get Long-Bailey elected and get involved in the Green party. That seems wrong for the reasons articulated. These parties are bourgeois parties. I'm happy with the idea that we use our limited power to win concessions by backing Corbyn or Polanski, but that has to be from outside of the party. We have to articulate our rejection of their world even as we support taxing wealth npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I think that this is not quite right. You are right that voting 'left' will inevitably lead to disappointment and disillusionment. The reason given is correct. These parties are not revolutionary. They are committed to the status quo. That is to say, they are bourgeois political parties. It also seems right that revolutionary politics is built through long term political engagement. It then seems that conclusion has to be that the struggle has to be outside of the mainstream, parliamentary parties. Sure, vote Green if you want, but the working class must build its own political organisations that articulate its own interest and perspective. That must be the long-term project, not struggling to get a reformist elected who will inevitably sell us out and return the ground to the worst aspects of the bourgeoisie npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that is a good question. I guess it shows that TERFs are more mainstream, closer to power, than Palestinians. One other problem I have is with heavy moderation is that is in essence policing. That is inherently conservative. It reinforces the dominant culture norms npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I will do. She is great npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that is true, but those places are rightly blocked by the majority of instances because they exist to let people attack and harass other users. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi no, but because I think that people should not be kicked off mastodon for being wrong, even for being wrong in ways that are very offensive. I can expand on that thought if you want npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi This has to be right. A friend of mine pointed out to me that banning trans women from elite sport is to impose an upper limit on what it is to be woman. The corollary of that is you make men's sport the open section and the women's game the consolation prize. This can't be a feminist approach npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I love [@molly0xfff](https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff )'s reporting as the next annoying guy on mastodon. This line in her recent newsletter struck me as odd: npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I love [@molly0xfff](https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff )'s reporting as the next annoying guy on mastodon. This line in her recent newsletter struck me as odd: npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I'm sorry to hear that. Do look after look yourself npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi you alright or just busy? Normally you greet the world earlier. Have a lovely Friday npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi you have become a romantic. This is gorgeous. I love the way the window does not divide the scene evenly in two. It gives it the sense of a fleeting glance at, as you say, the eternal npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that is very true. What it actually means is that you are not sufficiently imperialist and for the big owners of capital. I think that in the end the reasons these attacks work is that many small owners of capital, which are those who vote, are scared to gamble. The system sort of works for them. Radical change could well go wrong. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi If I was the Green party, when Labour try to scare people by claiming that they are not serious on defense, I would be trumpeting loudly my unique commitment to energy security. That takes the form of renewables and not backing wars in the gulf. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi an argument which would only work if there was visa free travel npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi we should make this happen, 'Google, free as in free base' npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi is that 'free' as in 'freedom'? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi It definitely looked like a good glaze npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that cake looks amazing npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I mostly know him because of his work on truth. He was clearly a wonderful thinker npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that made me chuckle npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi it used to work for me, but it broke. I think that I broke it npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi So there are many terrible things about Sir Keir Starmer. His complete disregard for the meaning of what he says is one. Here is a snippet from his forward to 'Restoring Control' the immigration white paper: npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi as a counterpoint, here is Frank Ramsey: npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Windows 11 is so full of bugs. I know that I am preaching to the converted, but at least when my Mint installation starts doing funny things, someone can teach me how to fix it. (Still trying to get my Bluetooth working again and my ersatz clicklock. I think that I did something to the kernel in a failed attempt to get VirtualBox to work). npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I second that. I have a new found respect for ants thanks to futurebird npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi maybe that is all I am saying. If so, like you say, it is not particularly deep. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I'm with John Brown on this. some guy who has never been exposed to serious left organising comes to the conclusion that the problem is rapist Jewish peadophile billionaires -- maybe he spent too long on mastodon. Sure, he is racist and reactionary, but there is hope. He needs persuasion. It is not that hard precisely because he has started from a realisation that he is being oppressed. He just hasn't yet understood oppression or power. He is not deeply committed to the idea that Jews are an oppressive alien power. He hasn't even realised that is what he thinks and how could he? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi good point, well made npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi they were wrong and possibly stupid about their 'after Hitler, us' position. It should also be acknowledged that the popular front with the liberals has also been a disaster for the working class npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi this is really interesting exchange. Here is an article from the Weekly Worker that chimes with Sofia's position: npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi genius npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi what I like about this is you manage to tell people who are doing it wrong by telling people that they are doing it wrong without doing it wrongly yourself. Hats off npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi thank you npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi can you expand? I am sure that you are right, but I am not quite clear what you mean npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that is a good point. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi adopting Thunderbird and a password manager revolutionized my life. If you have more than one mail account, I highly recommend npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi What I genuinely don't understand is why people don't look at the state of the UK armed forces, notice that it can't do jack and conclude that the appropriate proportion of GDP to spend on 'defense' is 0%. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi personally I love reading my email in a dedicated mail client like Thunderbird that supports PGP. It handles key management very smoothly. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi عيد مبارك ♥ Eid mubarak npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I'm trying to remember which tracks are on that album. Why do you say that is a conservative work?
