Notices by rndeon (rndeon@cosocial.ca)

@evan i find my guesses swinging back and forth day to day. Should they have tried to get some policy wins in before announcing? Would waiting just give opponents (domestic and international) more attempts at finding the set of misinformations that catches on? Would we be in a worse position to hold an election in several months?

And then there's the worry that April 28 is already too far away. so much could happen.

@evan @dawn reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_democracy ?(which i heard about due to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunatsiavut)

@evan for us, the best-constructed and cheapest available bags for a long time were LCBO bags, so our concern isn't for the competitive feelings of employees, but instead their judgment on our lushness when we bring 5 LCBO bags into the grocery store

@molly0xfff two questions from me:
How is it possible those huge dollar amounts are coming out of something that seemed to come and go and not produce anything!? Geez.
And what Sankey diagram tool are you using? 😁

@evan wha???
(thank you for this public service)

Phanpy question: I'm using the PWA (Firefox) on android. Most of the time, when I switch to another app (usually also Firefox!) and switch back, phanpy has lost my scrolling position and puts me back at the top, loading new stuff.
Any way to keep your position?

@evan "The companies who have followed this path have created a lot of technology products that have changed our lives."
Absolutely, 110%
"this economic structure hasn't brought us a lot of value as a society."
I'm don't think this part follows from the evidence. I see no reason to doubt that the counter factual wouldn't have also changed our lives and brought value to society. If market dominance was prevented through some mechanism, then the best investment would still be the best investment!

@evan my feelings towards the idea of a person that supports, explicitly, because of racism is more sadness than moral outrage. Their worldview is untethered, it must have come from being lied to, it's evidence of victimhood. The moral outrage is displaced onto those who cynically create the racist environment, despite knowing they're making it up, and for those who perpetuate it for personal gain, despite not being fooled.

@evan Father to Son - Queen
Father's Child - Michael Kiwanuka
Beautiful boy - John Lennon
Everyone says "hi" - David Bowie

@evan I was about to say something like "the social web will hopefully figure out a clever solution someday", but...i think the only reason i think of harassing as a web phenomenon is that I have (accidentally) curated my IRL to avoid that. maybe online just ends up being the same.
Ouch, my idealism...

@evan Huh. I wonder if this is something people just naturally gravitate to doing, sort of unconsciously, or if it is a strategy someone is teaching.
Either way, it must be stressful to try to post things earnestly, already be bracing for aggressive replies, but then also have to deal with sly misleading replies.

@evan my bad, i thought there was an implied context of "this weird thing has actually been happening to me, and i wouldn't mind venting about it"

@evan mildly serious question: how often does this happen to you? IRL or only online?

@evan it's so disheartening, and hard to engage with. I'm glad you're speaking up as you can.
I don't get how the needed actions change if it doesn't meet the threshold of "Genocide". Are we at "mass death is fine now because we've got an even worse category"?

@evan this is exactly the strategy I use, very nice.
Father bird, mother bird: khruangbin
Watching birds: stornoway
Little bird: white stripes
Sweet bird: Joni Mitchell
Peacock chameleon dance: Alana sterling
3 birds: dead weather
Close to you: carpenters
The sparrow looks up at the machine: flaming lips

@evan let's think through rejecting the framing? Is there a system where these levels have non-overlapping responsibilities? ie cities define how cities will be internally managed, provinces handle inter-city, environmental, connective tissue. Federated cities, countries are federated provinces, etc. Just need a good object model and API...😅