Notices by Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca), page 2

I have been especially thinking about it with regards to the United Kingdom, which once had an empire that drained resources from every continent, at the cost of millions of lives, and used them to enrich itself. Now, when those formerly colonised people try to come to the UK and enjoy the benefit of the wealth their countries paid for, they are belittled and threatened.

I have been thinking about it since last I visited Amsterdam, where the Netherlands leads the world in generous, liberal social infrastructure. Again, having extracted wealth from every corner of the planet, secured those riches to itself, and then enjoying its safe retirement from the world stage.

Thanks all, for your thoughtful responses.

I've been thinking about this issue since standing in the Grote Markt in Brussels during FOSDEM, with buildings painted with gold. Belgium, which just in the Congo extracted billions of dollars in rubber, ivory, and minerals, in a colonial effort that cost tens of millions lives.

I pick by a couple of important issues to me. Thanks for replying, all!

@lebel high five! 🖐🏼

@Crispius this framing posits that candidate positions are immutable and do not adapt to pressure from voters.

That's not true; candidates and parties spend the entire election cycle trying to figure out what voters want and how to give it to them to secure their votes.

You have until Election Day to make your demands on candidates and make it clear that changing their "bus route" may be enough to make you get on board.

Until you're in the booth, keep making noise.

@robtherunt why not?

@northernlights would reparations, in your view, go to the settlers in the settlers colonial states, or to the indigenous people in those same territories?

@newyorktimes @world-newyorktimes good!

We voted in anticipation!

@ntnsndr cool!

@zkat congratulations!

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@reiver it would be a useful check for all servers. /.well-known/hostmeta.json per RFC 6415 is probably a good candidate, but /.well-known/health or something similar could also work.

@exador23 wowowowow

@kenSwinson beautiful!

You can read the full text for free.

https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html

RIP to the author of Laudato Si', the careful and consistent ecological manifesto that calls to task the irresponsibility of late stage capitalism and requires world-wide cooperation to avert environmental catastrophe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudato_si%27?wprov=sfla1

@exador23 oh these.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_for_Timer?wprov=sfla1

@exador23 I i don't know those!