They're loosely (imo) grouped under Shiah but they're not the mainline imamate (e.g. the twelvers, Ismailis etc) ones. Brb I need to refresh my memory on their theology.... Oh yeah, cos for them the Mahdi has returned (the guy who founded the group) In any case, significant enough south asian group that they often get persecuted in places like Pakistan. Beyond my practical experience encountering them in the UK I don't know much about them, but I always get the impression they're part of that colonial-era spiritual movements happening in the indian subcontinent of their time.

Curious at the description of their group -if they're really Ahmadis. Big on charity but definitely gets branded a cult because they're not mainstream sunni.

Also the comment section damn nice 🥹 I think when the subculture isn't a cytro-infested space the convos are actually great

Congrats to you for your TIL then 😂

Oh no worries - I remember feeling so surprised... Then I observed how low-key ours is... 😂

They're predator species iirc? (Or I'm getting my terminology wrong) but this is a good sign of the health of the river! That means the ecosystem can support 🥰

Eyyo just to direct some eyes to the politics sub - @acausa@monyet.cc updated the state elections thread with a new comment summarizing the state of play as we head into undi season. Really got me up to speed too!

RIP my office work, but-- that's right!

if you have the patience: https://privacy.thenexus.today/should-the-fediverse-welcome-surveillance-capitalism/

this is genuinely a good summary of the implications of Threads, but if you have any questions I can have a crack at it.

On the privacy thing, you have to remember, it's not apple-to-apple comparison, it's an apple-to-oranges. what your server needs to have from you in order the service you, is not at all the same as what meta does do as a rule, even as you leave the platforms. AP is quite leaky though, no doubt (i've raised this separately on kbin.social), but it's not the same issue, and is being worked on, because federation means someone is working on a solution somewhere.

but basically the contention is mainly on 3.5 areas:

• privacy and surveillance - as above
• market domination of open source standards - ask anyone running their own mailserver these days what's their rate of success sending anything to gmail or Office365 addresses (a lot of my work involve african IP addresses and institutions and they really kena)
• the protection of minority groups, both from infra pov as well as modding pov - meta famously do not give a shit; many ppl in fedi are from minority identities (2017-18 wave for example got onto mastodon because it was available as trolls attacking queer ppl got worse on twitter). infra pov is related to the privacy question; but smaller instances at least can jaga their members better and boot out haters and defederate from instances who won't control their members. this is the modding pov that is a critical difference from meta, which brings us to point 3.5
• capacity - small instances like this for example, got admin and mods who need to sleep. if trolls coming from diff timezones, how? belum lagi touch on traffic capacity issue.

sekian timakacih

It's good that she's so talented but truly her rezeki is because her parents can kaw2 support her sampai pindah to be nearer to Nashville

the very short answer is related to balance of trade + geopolitics. It's not at all surprising if you know how textiles are like, to understand why the first tools that was mechanized and ushered in the Industrial Age were related to this industry (Europe had domestic and colonial reasons for wanting to speed this up as well as break the domination of India).

so yeah, thread made better sense for us to source rather than do (Indians had the best fine cottons, and until Egypt and America were British-colonized, nowhere else can compete; Nusantara don't have the best soil for cotton as a mass industry; China had the best silk and pretty much made it illegal to export the silkworms out), and we had other things that make better sense to trade like local organic goods; our marine navigation etc. Weaving tech for the nusantara groups (the Straits Chinese and later waves had a different cultural source) came from the north via Vietnam. Weaving basically became a thing in every cultural group worldwide, because textiles are expensive - in our case, we're so rich from the other things to get that we actually did more trade with finished Indic textiles, but eventually we did it too because you can't just wait for India (not China as textile source though; we're an Indic sphere region) - lol this is why the British also developed a weaving industry in Manchester and northern England.

In Malay the name of the loom (kek siam = siamese loom), tells you where our tech initially came from. This was the same with the more Malay/Muslim groupings in Borneo as well (the transfer of tech, which is via trade), while groups like Iban maintained backstrap weaving (where the loom tech requires your body to be part of the frame and tensioning; unlike the more stationery cultural groups who put in more energy in floor looms etc that're non-moveable).

alamak, still long answer hahahahaha

I got some old, secondhand tools from Bulgaria. Feeling like want to layan my superstitious side for a bit - anyone got any small petua to make sure old things don't have any unsatisfied energy?