@Steve@social.coop

Steve

@Steve@social.coop

Cooperator, interpreter and translator, Linux user, fair-trader, cyclist, husband and dad, not necessarily in that order.

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RickiTarr, to random
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I'm going to ramble a bit, but it will hopefully come around to something. When I was growing up, I read a lot of older historical book series, a big one would be the Little House On The Prairie series. While I really enjoyed it, there are some very obviously negative portrayals of Native Americans and African Americans. I remember being angry about it as a kid, and my Dad telling me, that part of learning about history is that we have to acknowledge the people we were, and still are. But because Little House on the Prairie is only semi-autobiographical, I still have mixed feelings about this. I do think they are well written books by a female author, an interesting perspective on early American life, and as an adult I can see and acknowledge the issues with the text. If we try to get rid of every author with racist ideas there wouldn't be much left to read from the 20th Century, and it also feels like being dishonest about who we are. So, I'm very mixed, how do you all feel about it? Do you think children can handle books with racial issues like this if it's explained to them? What is our responsibility here?

Steve,

@RickiTarr @Etche_homo This is my take, too. If we take every problematic book off the shelves, the shelves will eventually be empty. That said, we should have conversations about what makes them problematic, and how much has changed since they were written.

Steve, to random

@ntnsndr , are you following Milei's misadventures in Argentina?

Steve,

@ntnsndr Yes. I'm trying to imagine a form of federation that would protect them against suspension.

Steve,

@ntnsndr It would require an odd form of secondary incorporation that was still very respectful of autonomy and independence. As in, the second-tier co-op would own a small piece of the first-tier co-op, but in the event of involuntary suspension or dissolution, the second-tier co-op automatically becomes the full owner, as a holding company, until such time as the workers can reestablish themselves. Or maybe just the assets, not the legal entity.

Steve,

@ntnsndr This is roughly analogous to the indivisible fund going to another co-op upon voluntary dissolution.

Steve,

@ntnsndr Nope, it's just an idea I have. I see the potential for platform and/or second-tier co-ops to alleviate some of the precarity and uncertainty that co-ops face face everywhere, but most conspicuously in Argentina.

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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Yeah, all rideshare companies are literally middle men skimming off the top, except they're not skimming. They are taking the lion's share and telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Steve,

@big_louse @Adam_Cadmon1 You're describing a platform co-op, and they exist: https://drivers.coop/. For further details, talk with @ntnsndr.

RickiTarr, to random
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Tell me a silly/funny childhood story!

I'll start:

One time in Sunday School, the teacher was talking about the difference between humans and animals, and mentioned that Animals had Tails and humans didn't. I let her know this was not true, because my Dad had a tail, just in the front, instead of the back. The teacher was silent for several seconds, and tried to correct me in a church appropriate way, but I doubled down, and insisted that my little brothers also had front tails too. This got so heated that the teacher had to go get my parents to take me out of Sunday School.

Steve,

@TheJen @RickiTarr Did it involve the fact that exactly two of every animal went on to the ark, which means that every species on earth would consist entirely of inbred offspring? And that assumes that none of the predators on the ark ate any of the prey animals. And that there was food available once they got off the ark, in spite of all animals having drowned 40 days earlier. And that the knew how to find their way back to whatever was left of their original ecosystem.

thomasfuchs, to random
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Loving people who come to the rescue of a…

…checks notes…

…huge multinational corporation which is acting unethically and is likely breaking the law purely motivated out of a profit motive.

Steve,

@thomasfuchs Dude. You need to be more specific.

That describes dozens, if not hundreds, of situations.

LRRRonEarth, to random
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I THINK @Alice, @the_etrain AND I WOULD MAKE A BITCHIN' BAND. ALWAYS MOVING FROM TOWN TO TOWN, ROCKING OUTRAGEOUSLY HARD, TOOTING FROM OUR VAN. THE COPS WOULD STRUGGLE TO TIE THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES TO ME. IT WOULD BE GREAT.

Steve,

@mentallyalex @LRRRonEarth @Alice @FlagrantError @the_etrain "Good-adjacent." I'm totally stealing that.

Steve, to random

Are we sure @pluralistic isn't really some sort of collective? Has someone checked on this?

Steve,

@pluralistic You write more than I can read! Well, not really, but I do have to set aside time for it.

Daojoan, to random
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I made a free Zine called I miss the internet.

And for weeks, I’ve been fielding people who are mad that they have to sign up for my mailing list - again, for free - to download it.

As a creator, if you charge for your work, people ask why it isn’t free.

If you put it behind a sign up wall, people ask why you deserve their information.

And if you just post it for any / all, you get scraped by an LLM.

But fuck it.

I’m tired.

If you want it just grab it from my Dropbox.

Steve,

@Daojoan Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a skilled carpenter to build one.

Don't let the negativity get you down. There are more of us who like what you're doing, but don't always get around to letting you know.

Daojoan, to random
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It is statistically unlikely that any random podcast or YouTube channel will blow up in popularity to the point of replacing the creator's working salary through direct payments.

I'm not saying that to burn you out.

I'm saying it because I'm a realist.

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/the-creator-economy-cant-rely-on-patreon

Steve,

@Daojoan I have a half-baked idea for a producer/consumer co-op for independent writers, musicians, and other "creators." The consumers would pay a flat fee, like $20 month or whatever, and would have unlimited access to the creators' works. A smallish fraction of the revenue would be distributed evenly to all producers, and the rest would be distributed proportionately.

Steve,

@kboyd @Daojoan Do you have a link? Turns out there are a lot of media organizations named Nebula.

GottaLaff, to random
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Via @atrupar (he incl clips):

Liz Cheney on CNN: "When you think about Donald , for ex, pledging retribution, what Putin did to Navalny is what retribution looks like in a country where the leader is not subj to the rule of law.. you've now got a Putin wing of Repub Party"

"W respect to EJeanCarroll, people need to understand...what jury found in that case is Trump was guilty of committing sexual assault -- basically that he actually had done what he said on Access Hollywood tape he did"

Steve,

@GottaLaff I'm guessing Carroll now has a bodyguard or two.

AkaSci, (edited ) to random
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New radar imaging by ESA's Mars Express mission strongly suggests that a vast amount of ice, up to 3.7 km thick, lies beneath the surface near the equator. The ice if melted would cover Mars with an ocean 2.7 m deep.

Layers of ice and dust lie below a crust of hardened ash and dust 100s of meters thick.

The deposits are located in the Medusae Fossae Formation, a large geological formation ~5,000 km along the equator. See maps below.

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Buried_water_ice_at_Mars_s_equator
1/n

Steve,

@AkaSci I'm trying to understand this. If this is how much water Mars has left, as frozen groundwater, is it possible to extrapolate back how much it had in the past?

RickiTarr, to random
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A dude is literally running for President so he can have A Get Out Of Jail Free Card.

Steve,

@RickiTarr I feel like this is proof that truth is stranger than fiction. If you'd described this situation to anyone at all in, say, 2010, they wouldn't believe it.

HeavenlyPossum, to random
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A sad fact of the world is that the rise of fascism—in the US, in Israel, in India, in Russia, in a host of European countries—is a predictable response by global elites to the challenges to their wealth and privilege posed by the climate catastrophe.

This isn’t to say that things are hopeless, but rather that things will get worse before they can get better, and that defeating any particular instance of that fascism doesn’t make that threat go away.

Steve,

@RichPuchalsky @HeavenlyPossum You're not wrong, but I think Possum is focusing on the recent past.

My own quibble with this is that fascists by and large deny climate change -- at least for now. If the conclude that they can blame it on the minority group of their choice, they will quickly become ecofascists. I worry that people of good will could be duped by this.

RickiTarr, to random
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Just to balance things out, tell me an artist, that as far as you know, seems to be a decent person, as well as a great artist!

Steve,

@RickiTarr There's Bruce Springsteen, the guys from Rush, Weird Al, and (to my surprise) Jon Bon Jovi.

GottaLaff, to alexjones
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"The families have filed their own proposal seeking to liquidate nearly all of ’ assets, including his media company Free Speech Systems, and give the proceeds to them and other creditors.

"The families’ plan would set up a trust that would liquidate nearly all of Jones’ assets, except his primary home and other holdings considered exempt from sale under bankruptcy laws."
https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-sandy-hook-shooting-bankruptcy-b8e8377dcc45df5f2938ff547228328f

Steve,

@GottaLaff I don't get it. How is it even possible for Jones to make this proposal at all? The court set the amount, so how is that negotiable?

RickiTarr, to random
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It's been a minute since I've done a music question, so here goes:

Who is an artist/band that you're annoyed you like?

Steve,

@RickiTarr There are a number of rockers whose music I like that I hope never to meet in person. Examples include David Lee Roth, Axl Rose, Lars Ulrich, Sting, and Eric Clapton.

Steve,

@MichaelPorter @RickiTarr I was going to suggest the same -- let's list musicians who actually are good people. It will be a fairly short list, but that's all the more reason they deserve credit.

GrimmReality, to random
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HEY, the Harvester Building off downtown is still for sale. Somebody buy me this building so I can set up a kickass headquarters for whatever the fuck it is I do.

Steve,

@GrimmReality I'd love to. It's a great building in a great location.

I'd inquire what the price is... but it doesn't really matter.

eeyam, to palestine
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Another Onion banger:

Every Word Besides ‘Children’ Used To Describe Palestinians Under 18 https://www.theonion.com/every-word-besides-children-used-to-describe-palestin-1851071213

@palestine

Steve,

@eeyam @palestine @sstrudeau

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