Notices by Ramesh #NotGoingBack (rameshgupta@mastodon.social), page 2

⬆️ Spectacular view of #CinnamonBay from the Cinnamon Bay Plantation in St. John, #US #VirginIslands

⬆️ Ruins of exploitative 18th c. #CinnamonBay #plantation and sugar factory on St. John in #US #VirginIslands.

This is what remains of the windmill that powered the sugar factory on the plantation.

⬆️ Inside the #Annaberg #Plantation sugar factory ruins.

That large round structure is a room-sized boiling pot in which they boiled sugarcane juice to make molasses before they were dried and shipped off to the Danish colonizers’ home country.

It took more than a 100 years for #emancipation in US Virgin Islands after the 1733 #SlaveRevolt

#AnaNavarro is killing it at #DNC Day 2 in #Chicago by telling attendees what real #communism means, and by drawing parallels among communists worldwide and #DonaldTrump:

“They attack the free press. They call them the enemy of the people… They put their unqualified relatives in cushy government jobs… And they refuse to accept legitimate election results when they lose and they use violence to stay in power…”

#KamalaHarris #Harris #HarrisWalz
@kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

⬆️ @tchambers @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

>> This is why people-powered small dollar donations to #KamalaHarris are so important

Also, number of donors is a better proxy for number of votes than amount of donation.

A million donors, each donating $10, is infinitely better than 10 donors, each donating a $1M

⬆️ >> Rashida #Tlaib is #Palestinian

#FFS, she is a #US citizen and a #MemberOfCongress

Tlaib is puting the interests of #Palestine ahead of the interests of the country she took an oath to serve. That's not even in dispute.

US #Election2024 is about US FIRST, not #Israel, not #Palestine

Scroll up and see this discussion on #PoliticalExtortion on a different branch of this very thread ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/112940330939085701

#KamalaHarris #Harris #HarrisWalz
@Pineywoozle @sofiav @PamelaBarroway @Stybba3019

⬆️ @escarpment

>> binary belief in good and evil will probably never fade… This is religion's biggest "gift" to humanity.

There is no evidence that humanity did not have the concept of good and evil before religions were invented.

There’s plenty of evidence that religions are a scourge and are directly responsible for much of the strife on earth.

Humans have to fight for survival, just like nonhumans, but we are additionally burdened by religious strife whether we are atheists or not.

⬆️ image by @VeroniqueB99

#SnatchHisWig.

⬆️ @HistoPol @GreenFire

You are thinking too logically, but in the irrational #Trump world, it Trump Accountability Office #TAO will mean accountability to Trump, and ONLY to Trump 😀

⬆️ @GreenFire

>> FEMA will become TEMA for Trump's Emergency Management Agency

Now that you’ve led the WAY and set us on this PATH 😉, here’s my entry for #TAO:

Government Accountability Office GAO will become #Trump Accountability Office TAO

⬆️ @lanodan

Know that I am changing your Quiet-Public setting to Public for your posts where you put your immaturity & lack of knowledge for whole world to see?

Sooner or later, you will self-0wn.

> Freeloaders had no right to whine

>> By the way from my side of things, you're a freeloader :P

No, I am not. Research all of my posts in this thread and you will learn that I pay a monthly fee through Patreon to cover a part of #Mastodon cost

Nobody will miss you when you tire of your hobby 🤡

⬆️ @lanodan

>> And people have been providing services on the internet as a hobby essentially since the beginning of it.
And interconnections on the internet effectively works as a massive zero-sum game

You sound like a child. How long have you been on the #Internet and how much of its history are you aware of?

#ARPANET was created by the #UnitedStates Department of Defense.

It was not a hobby 🙄

⬆️ @lanodan

>>>> The massive point you're missing is that most of the Fediverse is ran like a charity

I'm not missing anything. You just missed what I already said in response to your earlier post:

>> Services don't NEED to work in market economies. They can be sponsored by donations from patrons & benefactors. But SOMEBODY has to pay. Freeloaders had no right to whine

The world does not run on charity alone. Charity is needed and is very helpful. Otherwise users, patrons, customers must pay

⬆️ @lanodan

>> Yeah sure I'll inject ads on my own #Fediverse software…and sure people won't then flock en masse to other servers that they can run on a shoebox

Snark, and still miss the point 🙄

#Fediverse is massive infrastructure, not just your little shoebox. How many users do you host? How do YOU make a living? How do OTHERS on the back of whose work you run your shoebox make a living?

EVERYTHING needs external nourishment, from a simple biological cell to complex computing infrastructure

⬆️ @lanodan

>>>> Advertisers aren't needed, they just are manipulators

>> Who pays for #Fediverse? #Mastodon costs money to run. If we don't pay, they WILL have to fall back on ads

>> Freeloaders spoil it for everyone

ONLY by paying you earn right to complain.

In a #MarketEconomy, paying for services also incentivizes development of alternatives to which you can switch to if/when a provider becomes abusive or manipulative.

For true manipulators, we need #AntiTrust. #LaissezFaire is #utopia

⬆️ @lanodan

>> Search engines… there is some without any ads…Email services there's a ton of alternatives…same shit for blogs…OpenStreetMap

YES! Use them to avoid ads. Simple. Use #Linux instead of #Windows, or pay up for #MacOS to avoid ads.

>> Social media? Not really applicable for the Fediverse. Advertisers aren't needed, they just are manipulators

Who pays for #Fediverse? #Mastodon costs money to run. If we don't pay, they WILL have to fall back on ads. Freeloaders spoil it for everyone

⬆️ @ariadne

>> are they paying me for the use of my computer to run their adshit? no? then it doesn’t need to run on my computer.

They are paying you in kind.

By running search engines, by running your email services, by providing storage for your documents and photos, by powering your blogs and social media, by giving you maps and directions, by translating ideas between languages, and in so many other ways — ALL of which cost money — that you DON’T PAY for.

Privacy is not FREE. Pay for it

⬆️ @chris @Andrew

Welcome to #Chicago! ❤️

⬆️ @chris

>> Our new office is one mile closer to my house along the same bus line. Thanks to #Chicago traffic it will cut my commute from 60-70 minutes to about 30-40

If it is taking you 30 minutes to travel that marginal last mile, you might consider walking 🙂

I usually walk at 3 miles/hour, but YMMV.

For longer distances, I prefer #CTA trains over buses whenever possible because they don't get stuck in traffic.

I ditched my car completely many years back. Now I'm both carFree and careFree

⬆️ @Andrew @chris

I once took a challenge from my daughter, who boarded a #CTA bus to school. I decided to walk instead. I reached there before the bus did

I had a similar challenge with some guests visiting us. They were used to car comfort and could not walk even if they wanted to. So I put them in an Uber ride, while I walked (There was no room left for me in the car anyway.) Imagine their shock when I was waiting for them when their ride arrived

I do agree about sweat and elements though 😉