@aral There are proven effective ways to persuade people to work together to solve and address problems. You are not using them.
I'm going to bow out, though. No one likes to hear the kumbaya bullshit because no one wants to think about how they can change what they're doing themselves.
Everyone wants to start with what everyone else is doing wrong. See? I'm doing it too.
Fedi is a place to yell at other people, less so a place to collaborate.
Being fully dependent on the electricity grid is an unreasonable liability when crypto mining, AI data churning, and other server uses inevitably increase electricity consumption to fully negate any increased capacity (lower cost) induced by installation of renewable energy.
Build energy independence to save yourself from the electrical greed.
@JosephAndriano In a field in central Oregon in 2017, I waited along with dozens of other people.
For just a few moments, the whole world came into focus, in relief. Like the moment after a camera flashes.
I felt the temperature drop 20 degrees, and for just a moment, all these impossibly distant celestial bodies were suddenly real to my life in a way they weren't before
The whole world was suddenly real
I noticed the sun starting to peak out, and I shouted to everyone around, "glasses on!"
@vantablack Here's something to think about: a lot of fedi drama centers around people trying to control who is part of the "canonical" fedi and who is part of the "shadow realm"
And if successful in relegating some instance or corner of fedi to the Shadow Realm (even if they didn't really deserve it) then those instances will become even more firmly entrenched there, because only other Shadow Realm instances will talk to them.
@mattly The book I recommended takes an approach of examining broader social systems in how they affect the parent-child relationship, and makes the case that the most important aspect of a healthy relationship is being emotionally present for your kids.
There's a lot more to it than that, and the book lays out its case very effectively in the first chapter.
@derek Did you sand after or before the inlay was in?
At a guess, if you sanded after the inlay, particles from the wire became embedded in the wood around the wire, leading to the wood having different properties there, with the metal particles rejecting the stain.
I'm with @pete on this one. There is no singular monolithic fediverse and I believe trying to aim towards implementing a solution that makes this hypothetical monolithic fediverse happy is a losing proposition. The fediverse succeeds when it's accepted as a widely varied space that meets different people's needs in different ways, and it fails when different people with different needs try to exert control over the whole space as a monolith to suit their own needs exclusively
@J12t The simple answer is that it's up to individual instance operators, and from there, it's up to other instance operators to decide whether to federate with instances that host businesses.
Even further, this can be a choice of whether to support/platform businesses depending on whether they're operated ethically.
It used to be that a businesses' reputation was based on its community connections. @tchambers
@foolishowl I'm gonna guess that the person that @calcifer is talking about doesn't know enough about networking to actually have any kind of rational root for *why* they believe that hosting a voice chat is illegal, beyond a vague anxiety about it being a service that THEIR KIDS use.
I think that at the root of it, it's just the phrase "MY KIDS" circling in their heads over and over.
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