-- Leo's gemini proxy
-- Connecting to freeshell.de:1965...
-- Connected
-- Sending request
-- Meta line: 20 text/gemini;lang=en-GB
Nothing much to report. Here are a few things.
I widened the definition of tags recongised by my hashtags crawler. Many capsules have self-organised tagging with URLs something like gemini://foo/tags/bar so I'm counting "bar" as equivalent to a hashtag there. I also noticed a few capsules use a tag emoji 🏷️ at the start of a line followed by a comma-separated list. I'm counting those as hashtag-equivalent too.
Maybe I should call them tags instead of hashtags. Maybe it doesn't matter.
I mentioned there are some Spartan servers, and I was asked where they are. Here's the list from spartan://mozz.us (and obvs. you'll need a Spatran-capable client to visit them).
There's a psychological thing that bothers me. Most people want a world of peace and calm, where people don't do harm, live by the golden rule, and so on. But some people couldn't give a shit about the suffering of others. Those people want to win at life. The details of winning varies, but by definition it involves other people losing. The people who become political leaders are (almost) all win-focused. They win by climbing a party ladder, then they win power, then they can win by proxy if their country "wins". And if that means some people die, what does that matter?
I was going to make parallels with people who become billionaires, or school bullies. But you can see how those would go without me spelling it out.
I watched The Third Man which was on TV today. There's a famous scene where the bad guy says:
> ...in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
In the film it's intended to make the character seem despicable. But I think the people who want to win can listen to that and think, "Go Borgias! Let's have more of that."
So the world is broken. Did you ever get told at school that a small number were spoiling it for everyone? Seems to me that it's true.
-- Response ended
-- Page fetched on Sat May 4 02:41:58 2024