Its the same with drawing.

Its funny how no one gets confused about lawyers having to practice law, etc. We need better PR.

because conservatives believe everyone thinks like them and are just scared to admit it

just need to preserve this line because its so spot on

As a left-leaning person that would be nice to believe, but I have seen young teenagers who get a taste of shitty capitalism just run to the other side of the spectrum and become ‘communists who know nothing about communism except that it’s better than capitalism’.

I think actually building a working system of governance that doesn’t concentrate corruptible levels of power in a few hands is hard, and many people lack the patience and intelligence to work out the problem. So they run to ‘easy answers’ that make them feel morally superior and offer the chance of something different (even if worse), especially when they are young and reactionary.

Its the same way some Bernie fans ran to Trump because they lacked the patience to dismantle the duopoly for real, so they hoped he’d do it somehow. We’re all feeling worse off, but at least they got to 'show the democrats, right?

bad take, we are voting right now in agora about this. Are you ignorant of it or just shit stirring?

seems like we will be defederated again soon judging by the vote in agora

That tracks.

If you are serious then start a discussion in the Agora

This is pretty much it

oh my boss felt entitled to this recently

they point blank told me they needed me in the office because ‘they owned the building’ (read: they think they are entitled to use their employees time and resources to prop up the value of their commercial real estate)

they also spent the time during the pandemic installing a giant paid cafeteria, so they were hoping to capture some of that lunch revenue I mentioned for themselves, or the company they sub-contracted with

(yes, I did quit, get a new job, and a raise)

I work remote and do see that money. Let me explain how:

• I save money on car maintenance, gas, and business attire.

• I save money on food by eating at home or eating in my neighborhood instead, which adds value to my neighborhood and creates businesses in my neighborhood instead of my bosses

• I save roughly 2 hours of getting ready / commute time per day, and time is money.

What’s wild is that my boss ever felt entitled to all of that for their benefit.

is that what you’re doing? scale of 1 to 10 how hard to get it going?

Cool to see an appreciation post. It has been a very stable instance overall. I am happy with my choice to hang here.

Good to know and a strong argument for not jumping to implement brand-new features (let the others be testers haha)

IMO the best way to solve it is to ‘lower the stakes’ - spread out between instances, avoid behaviors like buying any highly upvoted recommendation without due diligence etc. Basically, become ‘un-advertiseable’, or at least less so

when you say import tax do you mean actual monetary payment? Or a computing power tax? I don’t think I understand

This is why everyone should take steps to protect their privacy. You don’t have to go 0-100 overnight. Just audit yourself and do a few things now. Keep those habits up. Then audit and add a few more things, repeat.

I need to do this myself, I’ve been slipping

Yeah looks like someone commented in that thread 8 days ago with no answer.

I’d donate as well, as this has become my main social media hub for now.

I assume the costs are not too bad yet or theDude would be quicker to get it setup?

I also want to say that I’d be fine donating some small amounts (like 25-50 bucks) without any book keeping or reports on costs for the short term. Longer term that stuff is nice to have but I understand even a trustworthy operation can take a bit to set that stuff up.

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the biggest meme community has had plenty of that and people seem to enjoy. I’d say start there.

everywhere needs more content right now so be the change you want to see and make some anti-capitalist memes :)

If we maintain respectful conversations with each other, then bad actors from other communities will be obvious

Also In general I dislike ‘playing nice’ with bullies to prevent them attacking you. Better to attack back.