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Hello #europeans in #fediverse,
When the threat of national encapsulation and isolation arises I'm Looping for the digital European society that proves Thema all wrong and shows that we have more in common than different.
This account is english only as I believe with all languages we support we've built us a bable tower. This makes things easier.
#babletowerfree
I'm interested in everything what brings us closer, connects us and sbows solidarity to each other.
May this be European wide rails, solidaric energy grid, IT independency, shared medication, army, EU Technical Relief, Trade Unions and other support, and of course the self confident stay in the NATO.
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Hi, I'm #NewHere!
I have (had) accounts over on diaspora* since 2014-Sep-28, but seeing that Friendica has a "calendar" function, I thought it was time to give it a try. (I'm considering finally de-Facebook-ify myself later this year?)
So, about me?
You could say I’m your average anybody.
I like #reading — #books, but also #comics, both in paper and digital form. I tried audiobooks, but it didn't fit at the time. I do enjoy books read on the radio, and radio theatre, and listening to radio and "pods", though, so maybe I'll give audiobooks another try later on.
A few years ago I got myself an e-reader, and with age it's really convenient to be able to choose the size of the letters myself.
I mainly read #fiction, but there's the occasional non-fiction #book as well.
I listen to #music, but not as much as I used to. (I visited Roskilde festival 10 years in a row. It’s been more than 20 years since.) The music I enjoy may range from #alternative / #indie / #NewWave, over some #classics, and #pop, and #synth, to certain #rock, to #EBM; I enjoy #ska to a certain extent, but I’m really not that fond of reggae.
#Films are usually #nice, but if it’s too hetero-normative romantic I may start feeling uncomfortable. It doesn't "have" to be #lgbtq, though.
But horror #film is not my thing.
I used to spend time #geocaching, which then more-or-less got faded out by me playing the mobile app game Ingress.
Now I'm more into #krokning (it's called #TunisianCrochet in English, but there's nothing "tunisian" specific about it) — a yarn craft which, unfortunately, is less social / mobile.
But I do try to exercise. Considering that I have #rheumatism, I aim to get back to my exercise 2–3 times a week routine — but that very same thing also makes me prone to catch colds, and when I get it, I'm down for 10-14 days, and it always takes a bit to get back on track …
I used my #Jolla phone as my daily driver. With some Sony's in-between, I now have a #Fairphone 5 instead.
I liked #CrunchBang (#!), and then continued over to #BunsenLabs. I'm on Windows 11 now … (and still wish I was better at #Linux).
I'm a cis-gendered Kinsey scale 5 female, and, should we go into detail, the Klein sexual orientation grid is probably a more refined "but messier to describe" tool. Also, I guess I'm more bi-romantic, than -sexual? ⚢
I like #languages. It would be neat if I could just "transfer" them into my head. Studying a #language is hard, and if you don't maintain it, it's gone.
I’m #adopted. My first language is #Swedish, and I think I manage ok in #English.
Being #Scandinavian, I can usually understand #Norwegian and #Danish - at least as long as both sides concentrate on making themselves understood.
I can understand German so-so, but some of the German I studied went out the window when I gave learning Dutch a go. I’ve been studying Chinese (as an adult), and tried to learn #Esperanto (as a teen). I can’t really say my attempts of learning Spanish or Japanese, or Swedish sign language, have stayed with me.
I’m not good at grammar as a subject.
I like #mathematics. I’m no longer that good at #maths as when I was in school. I like the #scientific approach on things, even though I wish I was better at grasping and explaining — e.g. as in: understanding why things work the way they do. ♇
I understand that we as human beings wants to "believe in something bigger", but we shouldn’t forget the #sceptic approach. To blindly trust things without even questioning them is seldom good. Then again, to question every thing, to the point of seeing conspiracies all around us, isn’t logical either.
I’m a close-to-atheist #agnostic. I have an equal hard time understanding fundamentalist atheists as I find it hard understanding fundamentalist theists.
I’m a #feminist. Being #female ♀ myself, that wasn’t a hard decision. When I was younger, I preferred calling it "being pro-equal treatment", or "pro-equal rights". Then I understood that there are branches of #feminism, and that calling myself "pro-equal treatment" instead of "feminist" only hurt the bigger cause, and that I don’t necessarily need to connect myself with the branches that (in my opinion) have the "wrong" view of feminism.
I don’t want women to rule over men, with sex/gender being the only denominator, just as I don’t want men to rule over women, with sex/gender being the only denominator. We’re in this together, and to make things work we need to listen to, and learn from, each other. I'm not always good at this, but I hope I'm trying.
I wish I was up-to-date with #programming — what I learned in the 1980’s / 1990’s (Basic, Pascal, Ada, Prolog) is either out-of-date, or buried too deep in my brain-archive.
I think I can be quite good at contributing ideas, though.
I’m really not that unique.
We may even have things in common.
additional tags that may or may not be relevant: #NewHere #NyHär #average #unique #anybody #läsa #bok #böcker #serie #serier #library #bibliotek #literature #litteratur #musik #alternative-music #indie-music #klassiskt #cinema #movies #yarncrafts #reumatism #lesbisk #lgbt #hbtq #hbt #gsm #språk #adopterad #GenX #svenska #påsvenska #svensk #svenskar #Sverige #SE #inSwedish #Sweden #SWE #skandinav #Skandinavien #skandinaviska #dansk #Danmark #Denmark #norsk #Norge #Noreg #Norway #finlandssvenska #Åland #Finland #nordisk #Norden #Europa #Europe #matematik #science #vetenskap #astronomy #space #TheUncertaintyOfDoubt #rambling #TooLongForSanity #over-tagged
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I gave Friendica a FB facelift with a user stylesheet in my browser. So now, at least for me, it has a more modern, familiar appearance.
Here's an example of the Home Feed:
And an example of the Global Feed:
This is pretty easy to do if you're using Firefox and a user content stylesheet. But you could also use the Stylus Add-On to do it. There is also a Stylus Extension for Chrome (and other Chromium-based browsers).
For Safari there is the Userscripts Extension in the App Store, which can also do user stylesheets.
Friendica needs Settings > Display > Theme set to the "Frio" theme.
Under Settings > Display > Theme Customization it needs to either be set to "Lite" or to "Custom" ("Dark" nor "Black" will not work).
If you set it to "Custom" you need to "Save" it first to see the options. Then you can copy+paste my "schemestring" into the box and "Save" again. Even if you don't apply the user styles that will get you a newer FB color scheme.
I haven't looked at any of the documentation for Friendica themes. I have no idea if my stylesheet could be adapted to a "Frio" variant/scheme. If anyone else who knows more about it wants to try feel free to do so. But even if it can the server admin would still have to make it an option. This way you can apply it yourself.
I'll try to add links to the stylesheet files in the comments, though this is my first time using Friendica's file attachment features.
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Okay, here is my first try at the DARK MODE variant! Set your Friendica theme to "Frio" and the Theme Customization to either "Dark" or "Black" and Save your settings. Then copy and paste the code below into your user stylesheet and restart your browser. If you're using Firefox wrap all of it inside of @-moz-document domain(friendica.world){...} (or whatever domain you're on). Hopefully this works, I don't know what the character limit is here.
/* FRIENDICA MODS V2 DARK MODE */
body {
background-color: #1C1C1D !important;
font-size: 15px !important;
padding-top: 125px !important;
}
#topbar-first .nav > li > a,
#topbar-first .nav > li > button,
nav.navbar .nav > li > a, nav.navbar .nav > li > button{
color: #B0B3B8 !important;
}
#topbar-first, nav.navbar {
background-color: #252728 !important;
color: #B0B3B8 !important;
}
#topbar-first .topbar-nav .nav-segment {
margin-right: 10px;
}
#topbar-first .nav > li > a:hover:not(.selected) {
background-color: rgba(255,255,255,.1) !important;
border-radius: 8px !important;
}
.fa-lg {
font-size: 24px !important;
}
#topbar-first .nav > li > a:hover,
#topbar-first .nav > li > a:focus,
#topbar-first .nav > li > button:not(#main-menu):hover,
#topbar-first .nav > li > button:not(#main-menu):focus,
nav.navbar .nav > li > a:hover,
nav.navbar .nav > li > a:focus,
nav.navbar .nav > li > button:hover,
nav.navbar .nav > li > button:focus {
background-color: rgba(255,255,255,.1) !important;
border-radius: 8px !important;
}
#topbar-first .nav > li > a.selected {
border-bottom: 3px solid #0866FF !important;
color: #0866FF !important;
}
#topbar-first .nav > li > a.selected:hover,
#topbar-first .nav > li > #main-menu:hover,
#topbar-first .nav > li > #main-menu:focus {
background-color: transparent !important;
border-radius: 0 !important;
}
ul.tabs li {
font-size: 15px !important;
margin-left: 10px !important;
}
ul.tabs li.active {
border-color: #0866FF !important;
}
ul.tabs li a {
margin-top: 8px;
color: rgb(90, 167, 255) !important;
}
ul.tabs li:hover:not(.active) {
border-bottom-width: 0px !important;
}
ul.tabs li:hover:not(.active) a {
background-color: rgba(255,255,255,.1) !important;
border-radius: 8px !important;
}
.dropdown-menu {
padding-bottom: 15px !important;
}
.dropdown-menu li {
margin: 10px;
width: 92% !important;
border-radius: 8px;
}
.dropdown-menu li:hover {
border-color: transparent !important;
}
header #banner {
left: 0 !important;
right: auto !important;
}
header #banner #logo-img,
.navbar-brand #logo-img {
background-color: #0866FF !important;
height: 40px !important;
width: 40px !important;
}
.topbar ul.nav {
left: 50% !important;
margin-left: -25% !important;
position: relative;
}
#topbar-first .nav > .account img {
border-radius: 100% !important;
box-shadow: 0 0 1px rgba(255,255,255,.1) !important;
height: 40px !important;
width: 40px !important;
}
#search-box {
position: fixed !important;
left: 100px;
}
#topbar-first #search-box .form-search {
height: 40px !important;
font-size: 15px;
background-position: unset;
box-shadow: none !important;
}
#search-box form > div {
background-color: #333334;
border-radius: 50px;
}
#search-box form > div::before {
content: '\f002';
font-family: ForkAwesome;
position: absolute;
left: 10px;
top: 8px;
}
#search-box .form-control.form-search {
border-radius: 50px !important;
background: transparent !important;
width: 100% !important;
}
#search-box .form-control::placeholder {
color: #B0B3B8 !important;
}
#topbar-first #search-box .btn {
font-size: 0px !important;
height: 32px;
width: 32px;
top: 2px !important;
background-color: black !important;
}
#topbar-first #search-box .btn::before {
content: '\f061';
font-family: ForkAwesome;
font-size: 15px;
color: #B0B3B8;
}
#nav-user-menu, #nav-notifications-menu {
background-color: #252728 !important;
border: 1px solid #1C1C1D !important;
}
#nav-user-menu {
min-width: 250px !important;
}
.nav-pills .dropdown-menu li a,
.nav-pills .dropdown-menu li .btn-link,
.nav-tabs .dropdown-menu li a,
.nav-tabs .dropdown-menu li .btn-link,
.account .dropdown-menu li a,
.account .dropdown-menu li .btn-link,
.contact-photo-wrapper .dropdown-menu li a,
.contact-photo-wrapper .dropdown-menu li .btn-link {
color: #B0B3B8 !important;
border-color: #252728 !important;
}
.nav-pills .dropdown-menu li > a:hover,
.nav-tabs .dropdown-menu li > a:hover,
.account .dropdown-menu li > a:hover,
.contact-photo-wrapper .dropdown-menu li > a:hover,
.nav-pills .dropdown-menu li.selected a,
.nav-tabs .dropdown-menu li.selected a,
.account .dropdown-menu li.selected a,
.contact-photo-wrapper .dropdown-menu li.selected a {
color: #333 !important;
background: #f2f2f2 !important;
border-radius: 8px;
}
.nav-pills .dropdown-menu li.divider,
.nav-tabs .dropdown-menu li.divider,
.account .dropdown-menu li.divider,
.contact-photo-wrapper .dropdown-menu li.divider {
background-color: #252728 !important;
}
#topbar-first #nav-notifications-menu {
border: 1px solid #1C1C1D !important;
}
#topbar-first #nav-notifications-menu li {
border-color: transparent !important;
box-sizing: border-box;
margin: 10px;
border-radius: 10px !important;
width: 94% !important;
}
#topbar-first .notification-unseen {
background-color: rgba(56, 88, 152,.2) !important
}
#topbar-first #nav-notifications-menu li.notif-entry:hover{
background-color:rgba(128,128,128,.2) !important;
border-color: transparent !important;
}
#topbar-second {
height: 60px !important;
background-color: #252728 !important;
border-color: #333 !important;
}
.btn.btn-primary:hover,
.btn.btn-primary:focus {
border-radius: 8px !important;
}
#dropdownMenuTools {
height: 40px;
width: 40px;
background-color: rgba(255,255,255,.1) !important;
border-radius: 100% !important;
margin-top: 5px !important;
margin-right: 10px !important;
}
#dropdownMenuTools:hover,
#dropdownMenuTools:focus {
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,.1) !important;
}
#jotOpen {
border-radius: 8px !important;
background-color: #0866FF !important;
color: #ffffff !important;
border-color: #000 !important;
box-shadow: none !important;
}
#jotOpen:hover, #jotOpen:focus {
box-shadow: inset 0 0 100px rgba(0,0,0,.1) !important;
}
#jotOpen::before {
content: 'Compose';
font-size: 15px;
margin-right: 10px;
line-height: 32px;
position: relative;
display: inline;
top: -4px;
}
#jotOpen .fa-pencil-square-o {
font-size: 32px !important;
position: relative;
top: 4px;
}
#topbar-second #nav-short-info {
margin-top: 10px;
}
/* Other people profiles */
#mention-link {
border-radius: 8px !important;
background-color: #0866FF !important;
color: #ffffff !important;
border-color: #000 !important;
box-shadow: none !important;
padding: 0 16px !important;
}
#mention-link:hover,
#mention-link:focus {
box-shadow: inset 0 0 100px rgba(0,0,0,.1) !important;
}
#mention-link span:first-of-type {
float: right;
font-size: 32px;
top: 4px;
}
#mention-link span:first-of-type .fa-2x {
font-size: inherit !important;
}
#mention-link span:last-of-type {
font-size: 15px;
margin-right: 10px;
line-height: 32px;
top: 6px;
position:relative;
}
#contact-edit-status-wrapper {
margin: 15px 0px !important;
border-radius: 10px;
}
/* sidebar widgets */
aside .widget,
.nav-container .widget {
background-color: #1C1C1D !important;
-webkit-box-shadow: none !important;
-moz-box-shadow: none !important;
box-shadow: none !important;
}
.tread-wrapper {
background-color: rgb(37, 39, 40) !important;
box-shadow: 0 0px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.5) !important;
border-radius: 10px !important;
}
.wall-item-container .media {
background-color: rgb(37, 39, 40) !important;
border-radius: 10px !important;
}
.well {
-webkit-box-shadow: none !important;
box-shadow: none !important;
}
.contact-photo,
.contact-photo-xs {
border-radius: 100% !important;
border: 1px solid #252728 !important;
}
.hovercard {
background-color: #252728 !important;
border: 1px solid #1C1C1D !important;
}
.hover-card-pic img.thumbnail {
border-radius: 100% !important;
background-color: #1C1C1D !important;
border-color: black !important;
}
p.wall-item-announce,
.media .time, .media .shared-time,
.media .delivery, .media .location,
.media .location a {
font-size: 13px !important;
}
.type-link, .type-video {
padding: 0 !important;
margin: 0 !important;
background-color: rgb(51, 51, 52) !important;
border: 1px solid rgb(101, 104, 108) !important;
}
.type-link h4, .type-link blockquote, .type-link sup,
.type-video h4, .type-video blockquote, .type-video sup {
padding-left: 10px !important;
padding-right: 10px !important;
}
/* ACTION BUTTON LABELS */
.wall-item-actions-row button,
.wall-item-actions-right button {
display: block;
white-space: normal !important;
margin: 0 auto !important;
-webkit-box-shadow: none !important;
box-shadow: none !important;
}
.wall-item-actions-row button::after,
.wall-item-actions-right button::after {
font-size: 14px;
font-family: sans-serif;
display: block;
margin-top: 2px;
}
.wall-item-response {
overflow: visible !important;
}
.button-comments::after {
content: 'Comment';
}
.button-announces::after {
content: 'Share';
}
.share-links .dropdown-toggle::after {
content: 'Share';
}
.button-votes::after {
content: 'Quote';
}
.button-likes::after {
content: 'Like';
}
[id^="dislike-"]::after{
content: 'Dislike';
}
.wall-item-actions-right .dropdown-toggle::after,
.more-links .dropdown-toggle::after {
content: 'More';
}
.wall-item-response span {
position: relative;
text-align: center;
display: block;
background-color: #0866FF;
box-shadow: -1px 1px 1px #000;
border-radius: 4px;
color: #fff;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: 700;
width: fit-content;
padding: 0px 7px;
margin-left: 55%;
top: -62px;
z-index: 1;
}
.vote-event:not(:has(.wall-item-response:empty)){
padding-bottom: 135px;
}
.vote-event .wall-item-response{
position: absolute;
top: 63px;
}
.vote-event .wall-item-response:empty{
display: none;
}
.vote-event .wall-item-response:nth-of-type(1){
left: 15px;
}
.vote-event .wall-item-response:nth-of-type(1) .button-event::after{
content: 'Going';
}
.vote-event .wall-item-response:nth-of-type(2){
left: 105px;
}
.vote-event .wall-item-response:nth-of-type(2) .button-event::after{
content: 'Can\'t Go';
}
.vote-event .wall-item-response:nth-of-type(3){
left: 204px;
}
.vote-event .wall-item-response:nth-of-type(3) .button-event::after{
content: 'Maybe';
}
/* END OF ACTION BUTTON LABELS */
#profile-photo-wrapper {
overflow: visible !important;
padding: 5px;
background-color: #1C1C1D;
border-radius: 100%
}
aside .widget li {
margin-bottom: 8px;
}
aside .vcard img.u-photo, aside img.vcard-photo {
border-radius: 100% !important;
box-shadow: 0 0 1px rgba(0,0,0,.3);
border: 3px solid #1C1C1D;
}
aside .widget h3.p-name {
font-size: 32px !important;
text-align: center;
word-break: break-word;
}
aside .vcard .p-addr {
font-weight: 600;
text-align: center;
white-space: break-spaces !important;
}
aside .widget li.selected {
background-color:rgba(56, 88, 152,.2) !important;
border-color: transparent !important;
border-radius: 8px;
}
aside .widget li.selected a {
font-weight: bold;
}
aside .widget li:hover {
background-color:rgba(128,128,128,.2) !important;
border-color: transparent !important;
border-radius: 8px;
}
#widget-contacts {
background-color: rgb(37, 39, 40) !important;
border-radius: 8px !important;
box-shadow: 0px 1px 2px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) !important;
}
.contact-block-img {
height: 100px !important;
width: 100px !important;
border-radius: 8px !important;
box-shadow: 0 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
margin: 5px;
}
.comment-fake-form {
border: none !important;
background-color: transparent !important;
}
.comment-fake-form textarea {
border-radius: 50px !important;
background-color: rgb(51, 51, 52) !important;
box-shadow: none !important;
-webkit-box-shadow: none !important;
}
.wall-item-actions button {
font-size: 24px !important;
color: #B0B3B8 !important;
}
.wall-item-actions button:hover {
color: #0866FF !important;
}
.wall-item-actions .checkbox {
padding-top: 6px !important;
}
.comment .media-body {
padding: 10px;
background-color: rgb(51, 51, 52);
border-radius: 20px;
}
.wall-item-actions-row .wall-item-emoji {
font-size: 18px;
line-height: 40px;
}
.navicon {
font-size: 20px;
position: relative;
top: 1px;
}
/* not obviously clickable or intuitive what it does */
.plink.u-url::before {
Content: 'Link: ';
}
.img-allocated-max-width {
margin: 20px auto;
}
/* Photo Albums */
.photo-album-actions .icon-padding,
.photo-edit-link-wrap .icon-padding {
margin-left: 10px !important;
}
.photos-upload-link {
font-size: 28px;
color: #0866FF !important;
opacity: 1 !important;
border-radius: 8px;
padding: 0px 8px;
}
#photo-album-link {
opacity: 1 !important;
}
.photos-upload-link i,
#photo-album-link i,
#photo-edit-link i,
#photo-toprofile-link i,
#album-edit-link i,
#album-drop-link i,
.photos-order-link i {
font-size: 24px !important;
color: #0866FF !important;
opacity: 1 !important;
border-radius: 100% !important;
padding: 8px 11px !important;
height: 40px;
width: 40px;
}
#photo-edit-link i.fa-image {
padding: 6px 7px !important;
}
.photos-order-link {
margin-top: 5px !important;
}
.photos-upload-link:hover i,
.photos-upload-link:focus i,
#photo-album-link:hover i,
#photo-album-link:focus i,
#photo-edit-link:hover i,
#photo-toprofile-link:hover i,
#photo-toprofile-link:focus i,
#album-edit-link:hover i,
#album-edit-link:focus i,
#album-drop-link:hover i,
#album-drop-link:focus i,
.photos-order-link:hover i,
.photos-upload-link:hover i,
.photos-upload-link:focus i {
background-color: rgba(255,255,255,.1) !important;
}
.photos-content-wrapper .photos-upload-link::before {
content: 'Add Photos';
font-size: 15px;
vertical-align: middle;
margin-top: -10px;
display: inline-block;
}
.justified-gallery {
overflow: visible !important;
}
.justified-gallery > a,
.justified-gallery > div,
.justified-gallery > figure{
height: 180px !important;
width: 180px !important;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
position: relative !important;
top: auto !important;
left: auto !important;
border-radius: 8px;
margin: 4px !important;
}
.justified-gallery > .jg-entry-visible > img,
.justified-gallery > .jg-entry-visible > a > img,
.justified-gallery > .jg-entry-visible > svg,
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So I finally saw some posts with "Events" so I could see how that worked. It didn't look so good:
So I restyled this with arguably the most convoluted bit of CSS that I've ever written so it conditionally adds space for a second horizontal row of buttons and then puts the buttons in that row like this:
I edited the action button and dark mode stuff above with the change. The line that makes the magic happen is this one:
.vote-event:not(:has(.wall-item-response:empty)){...}
Now that is some freaking alchemy!
But the .vote-event container itself is NEVER empty. It ALWAYS has three boxes in it. So I needed a way to check if the container has empty boxes in it, and if it doesn't then add space for a second row of response buttons. Such fun when you have no control over the document's structure. 😜
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It doesn’t matter whether your views are left, right or somewhere in between—the latest news from Meta about changes to their policies directly undermines free speech. This should deeply concern us all.digital-team (The Office of The Duke and Duchess of Sussex)
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On polling and propaganda
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On polling and propaganda
For almost two years now polls in Canada have shown that the Conservative Party of Canada, led by Pierre Poilievre, Canada's answer to Donald Trump, have a commanding lead over the governing Liberal Party led until recently by Justin Trudeau. There is no doubt that this was a major factor leading to Trudeau's resignation, in the hope that the Liberal Party might recover lost ground under a new leader.At the same time, I can't help feeling that the polls have a lot of influence on how Canadians will vote.
I wrote a thread on Mastodon about how this might work. The Conservative Party's messaging consists simply of repeating “Justin Trudeau is a horrible person and he should resign”. This is spread both by conventional media and corporate social media as news and commentary.
Then one day you get a phone call from a polling company asking whether you agree that Justin Trudeau is a horrible person and he should resign”. What are the odds that you will say yes, if you've been exposed to the statement repeatedly?
Polls are viewed as representing the most probable outcome of an election “if it were held today”. But that probability is only conditional. It is the probability that you will vote one way or another given that you've been exposed to a certain propaganda. I am sure that if in a parallel universe where the Conservative Party of Canada has not been hammering the message about Trudeau for years a similar poll was conducted, the result would be quite different.
But there's more. The poll itself has an influence on the election outcome. One reason is what is known as “social proof”. Gil Duran has a great post about this in The Framelab. He writes
People tend to copy what other people do. If something is popular, we tend to trust it more. When many other people buy a product or follow a trend, we tend to assume it’s good. Our brains are wired to look for clues from other people’s choices. It’s a basic human instinct to follow the crowd. “Monkey see, monkey do.”
If you see that a majority of your fellow voters will vote Conservative, you are more likely to do so yourself. Marketers know this very well.The poll may also have another effect on the outcome of the election: If you are not a Conservative voter, but you are convinced that the Conservatives will win, that makes you less likely to take the trouble to vote. The poll becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I see propaganda as a process, where a certain political message is spread to as many people as possible and then polling is a feedback mechanism that confirms that the message is true. Polling skeptics will scrutinize the methodology and the statistical methods, and I have been one of them, but I believe now that that is missing the point. The polls can be quite accurate in that they reflect popular opinion, and yet be a key component of the propaganda process.
#Democracy #Elections #Statistics #Propaganda
Jedi Mind Tricks: The persuasive power of 'social proof'
The 'wisdom of crowds' and the power of persuasionGil Duran (FrameLab)
Hoe wijzig je een evenement in de agenda ?
Ik maak op de agenda afspraken/evenementen. Door die te delen )openbaar of alleen voor een bepaalde groep) bepaal ik de zichtbaarheid.
Hoe wijzig ik achteraf de rechten?
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Try signing up again? — Could it be that something accidentally got mistyped in the e-mail address, e.g. a comma instead of a dot, or something like that?
Bespreking over het vervangen van onze Facebook bedrijfspagina.
Hoe blijven we onze doelgroep bereiken?
Hoe zetten we oude informatie over van Facebook naar het nieuwe platform?
Welke periode willen we gebruiken?
Hoe lang handhaven we Facebook nog (met daarin steeds links naar nieuwe platform)?
Locatie op Maps: met link naar Maps
Satisfactory, not very satisfying
OK, been playing Satisfactory since December 25th, when I got it as a Christmas gifts.
I'm struggling in the game. I think I hit the mid-game blues, and it's just frustrating at this point. I tried to do the Ficmas event, but because I was new, I didn't have the equipment to make what I needed to make. So I had to pause, work on getting the machines, then restart the ficmas stuff. The dependency trees are kind of obvious. How to work around terrain, less so. I've run into dependencies I can't do anything about, like mycelium. The first branch in the mycelium research tree is 5 mycelium. Guess how much I got the first and ONLY time I found mycelium in the game? Yep, 4.
I recently upgraded my scanner to find enemies, and now I'm too scared to actually explore. I don't know why-- I was relatively fearless before. I finally sneaked around till I found an impure quartz node so I could work the quartz research tree. I'm about 50 game days in (hard to tell-- I died twice.)
I see pics and videos of really gorgeous Satisfactory setups, and I'm so impressed. And then mine? Mine looks like this:
Just absolute spaghetti. Anyway, I know I'm just complaining, but what is the Internet for but to whine about video games, right?
I think I'm going to put this one down for a while and do something more productive with my time, like eat yogurt or burn things.
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Capture SMS : "samedi janvier 18 judo ensuite on peiut se noyer claudio"
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Migrating from corporate social media
Starting to explore migrating away from corporate social media like Facebook or Twitter, to the fediverse. The biggest obstacle is of course the network effect: I have a group of friends on Facebook, we all follow each other, will they migrate with me? I guess I'll find out. I am doing this gradually, first migrating to the fediverse (links in my profile), and starting a blog at write.as/leastaction/ with some longer pieces about topics that interest me: the meaning of democracy is a big one for me these days. And yes, the rise of oligarchic despots around the world.
If any of these things resonate with you, do let me know. I am very happy to have conversations about these important topics.
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My first content post. It’s a whole new world!
I would share some photos but still not sure of how this all works.
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I'm very new to this (as of yesterday, actually 🙈), and I found this page listing some mobile clients.
I'm experimenting with using the "Raccoon for Friendica" (via F-Droid), and also the one you're using, "Fedilab".
I'm still learning to navigate, so I'm also using Firefox ("Add to Home page") from my smartphone (this is from desktop, though). Maybe the last one is worth a try for you - just go via a web browser?
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in reply to phle (has very dry winter hands — I'm sorry for all the accidental 👎) • • •@phle You're welcome! ^_^ I just got to read your whole intro, lol :D I'm younger than you, but I'm also into rock music and festivals. Seems like this year is going to be fresh in new releases. Can't wait to see what's cooking:
There are also some shows too in my country, but I'm not sure if I have the money for all of them.
Otherwise, I'm also into geocaching whenever I have some spare time. I heard about Ingress and how it turned into Pokémon Go, and I've actually been quite a big player of the latter when it was cool, lol. Although I like geocaching more. I've been to quite a few places this way.
Hope you'll like your stay here :D Unlike Diaspora, this place can get a tad more noisy, as you have access to the wider Fediverse of Lemmy and Mastodon, along with diaspora or whatever RSS feeds you plug in here. And if you're also on Bluesky, you can plug your account here as well and create even more noise :D But I like it this way, personally. I like the fact that I can stay in touch with the world, basically.
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It was actually PoGO that turned me to Ingress - the device I had at the time wasn't compatible with it, and then I found out that Niantic made that other game I'd tried to play some years earlier, and that my PoGO non-compatible device, as opposed to my earlier Ingress non-compatible device, was compatible with Ingress!
Yeah, I play very sparsely now, both Ingress and geocaching - but the latter is perfect when touristing: great way to see "weird" places! 😅👍
Oh, RSS feeds too? (better not, I like to have content, but preferably not too cluttered 🙈)
I got rid of Twitter just recently, even though I haven't used it for yeeeears, and contemplated whether I should get a Mastodon account as well ... but, 🙄🫣 looking at my tendency to wall-of-texts, ... 😬
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