I used to think this way, but now have learned that many things are more efficient / less prone to misunderstanding when having a spoken conversation.

You’re correct. But blue sky does support federation, just not the same protocol as the fediverse, right?

Interesting thoughts, thanks for sharing.

On the subject of drift from “ideal” belief systems to corrupt ones, I would argue that what we’re seeing is actually evolutionary pressure.

If we think of ideas as living things, and we place them in an ecosystem of other ideas, they inevitably have to adapt to keep reproducing. (Spreading to another person’s mind)

So generally they have to be the sort of idea one would feel compelled to transmit, and then be transmittable. They have to be understood, received.

I think many people have received a transmission of ideas that is very different from the one that was sent. And then the various pressures of life transform those ideas more.

That can be bad as we’ve seen in cases of Christianity, Marxism and more. It can also be good, because then the belief system becomes sustainable. I’m thinking of certain religions which were batshit when they started, but in order to live on they moderated. Not that they’re entirely reasonable now, but they’re able to live on and wouldn’t have in their original form.

One advantage as I understand it between a worker cooperative and an ESOP is that the worker cooperative has a one person one vote system. It avoids the issue you mention about not having voting shares. I worked at a place with an ESOP and just the managers had shares. And even there they didn’t prevent the business being sold to private equity. Sure they got paid out but now that previously family owned business is part of a monopoly in our industry.

They might be wrong that no one was saying that, but there definitely wasn’t a significant voting block who thought a third party candidate had a shot at winning.

Blaming third party voters is a loser mentality. 77 million voted trump, 75 million Harris, and 101 million didn’t vote at all. How about blaming those people? Or blaming the party and candidate? If someone didn’t win the majority of the blame lies with the person running.

I can understand having already been into his work, but since I’m not I certainly would pick almost any other thing to read than Gaiman.

First, I think OP is making a big deal where it’s not necessary. And the US as a nation has done many fucked up things.

That said, thinking about people not nations, I’m American and I didn’t elect a felon. Yes, 77 million voters picked Trump, which is shitty and doesn’t make sense. 75 million voters chose Kamala. And around 110 million people of voting age didn’t vote at all. (Which also doesn’t make sense to me)

But you can imagine for those 75 million people it’s not going to feel good to be painted with the same brush, and it’s not kind to do so.

Why is this guy being such a weenie?

You could take the lenses off, and the nose piercing could still scrape your partner’s face.

It sounds like a hard situation, good on you for trying to help. I’m not qualified to give advice, but doesn’t this sound like hoarding behavior?

They’re not real, most importantly

Hyphenated names are too long. One of my good friends has one and people just refer to him and his siblings by the initials of their last name, like “Tim MP”

That’s great we’re in agreement. Your comment said “… a lot of people who published research before their marriage continue to publish under the same name even if they changed their name.”

So I didn’t read your comment as saying woman shouldn’t change their name, because you’re describing women changing their name, and then not using the new name in a specific context.

Sure it’s a headache. So why does the woman have to do it? I think either keep your names as is or both people change.

Are you saying that the people who came up with the original surnames are more qualified than people today? At least with my idea when people come up with a new name they have to use it themselves, rather than their defenseless children.

When people get married they should come up with a completely new last name for them both.

A minor sized town near me uses these types of blocks regularly to block off the main street for pedestrians.

I’ll also say I’ve seen Philadelphia just park garbage trucks to block off roads.

Wow that’s a crazy story, thanks for linking

I have a very hard time believing he would have won.

Dark empaths sounds like something made up to make life seem more dramatic and mysterious