As with pretty much every "conservative" initiative, harming the vulnerable is intentional rather than accidental. They see it as strengthening the gene-pool or some such eugenazi nonsense.
Maybe sales proceeds could go into a mutual aid fund, for that matter.
We need a voting platform, though, for deciding how to allocate funds...
I feel like there should be a "best of fedi" book, perhaps annually, that people could gift to their friends and relations who are still on bigcorp social.
(Just a thought; y'all have a nice day. :tootcat:)
More on-meme, though:
Every day she takes a morning bath, she wets her hair
wraps a towel around her as she's heading for the bedroom chair --
it's just another day...
and that's when security showed up.
Okay remember
Okay remember
That we have just about
half an hour
to get in, do it, and get out
(etc. etc. etc. because the entire song is literally about a bank heist)
P.S. Go on, take the money and run.
P.P.S. And so I quit the police department / and got myself a steady job / and though she tried her best to help me, / she could steal -- but she could not rob.
@harper @aleteoryx ...and we're pretty much all weirdos on this bus.
Except for the normies. Dunno what to do with them. Buncha weirdos. >.>
I presume "ESOP" is Employee stock ownership plan
...and yeah, there are a lot of things the bigcorps need to do which they aren't going to allow unless we compel them to.
@Uair Yeah, locating other people whose taste is similar to yours would be part of the essential mechanism.
...and I can't see any reason this can't be done in a federated way.
This seems related to the problem of freedom of speech (in the larger sense) vs. freedom to misinform -- which, now that I think about it, is really a subset of "freedom of quality", i.e. the freedom to purvey material that is objectively substandard in some way.
Transposing that problem into the realm of fiction, the problem is that quantity is often rewarded over quality. This often results in audience learning bad lessons from creators who repeat popular clichés and stereotypes, and rewarding those creators for conforming to those expectations.
If that reward weren't key to the survival of creators as creators (vs., say, fast-food workers), then it would be less of a problem because the quality creators could go on creating even if they were only appreciated by a relative few; they might be hard to find, but they wouldn't be smothered.
If, on the other hand, we're trying to use free markets to enable something like a meritocracy (not that I'm advocating this, but that's how it is generally sold to us), then that escalates the need for quality-control beyond just "what the market will bear" (much the same as with, for example, food: that which tastes great may actually be terrible for you, which is why the FDA was created).
To minimize centralization of those QC decisions (which obviously can be influenced by political considerations), we'd probably want accountability to take place in layers, so that the top-level authority (whether that's government or a guild or some other non-revenue-incentivized entity) has only the vaguest and most diffuse power over the final output of each creator.
However, as we've seen over the last two years (and historically), even the most diffuse control can be consolidated into much tighter control if malicious actors manage to get into the right positions.
So, the next-phase solution I see (a concept which I've been evolving slowly over the years) is a venue which enables peer-to-peer accountability for taste.
This isn't to say that there is any one "correct" evaluation of any given work of art, but more that it needs to be easier for individuals to help other individuals find works that they would find to be of suitable quality -- so that even the "niche" creators can find their audience as quickly as possible, and hopefully at least survive.
(...and yes, I have more detailed ideas about how this could work, but that's a whole set of wiki pages all on its own and I've probably blathered on too long already.)
He had some admirable qualities and for awhile I held out hope for him... but NOPE.
The basic plot was a good framework to build on, but... ye gods, can we have some characters worth empathizing with?
Proposal: a site called something like "Why Do You Care?" which lets you pick political issues that matter to you, and then pulls up the policies/laws/bills which affect those issues, how it affects them, how candidates have voted on those policies, and any other context that seems relevant (with links or fold-out sections as necessary to not be overwhelming).
@ObsidianUrbex I feel like the comm dishes should be repurposed, somehow... as comm dishes for peaceful uses, I mean, not as bird-baths or whatever.
A decade or more ago, I read a story about a couple who had repurposed an abandoned missile silo into a quite large underground home. WANT.
I propose that for every golf course they can shut down, they can have half of the water saved (from the same water-supply; this isn't credits they can transfer somewhere else).
That seems to me like a very generous deal.
Unusual case at work today, the house has a great rooftop solar setup but they're in a pickle with it: the company who installed it went bankrupt, and now there's an issue in their system that nobody is obligated to fix, but they're still paying the loan.
Being mastodon i thought id ask if any of yall might know how to regain control of a SolarEdge inverter/monitoring platform, once controlled by Titan Solar?