Red Oak @redoak@social.coop

I don't view this as me "teaching" people the right way to think. I'm not that fucking arrogant. It's more like me putting my own beliefs to the test and making them make sense with other people's realities. There's a push and pull that happens. Maybe that's the dialectic they talk about.

I think it's crucial to take your beliefs to real people. Don't hide them. If you have confidence in them, bring them out in the light of day.

If I was a wizard or druid I would constantly be doing this

im sorry, you don't have the clearance to gender me (selfie, no ec, boosts feed the raccoon more tacos)

NO effort. Only Paycheck

a cowbotaur (with manboy)

Can't believe Warren's student loan forgiveness plan is to change the name to 'student bones' and make you use all 206 as collateral

From HN discussion - "This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22124929)

This is GDPR in action. Wow.

we went nightwalking last night along the coast. light bleeds and blurs into the thick fog. total unreality

Software is like an onion. If you open up the inner layers you start crying

one thing I like about The Dispossessed is it envisions an anarcho-communist society where even the language has changed after the revolution. The phrasing for "my computer" for example, doesn't exist. You say "the computer I use." Children are taught from a young age that if you can't share something, you can't use something.

One thing that came out of our Tech WG chat yesterday is a desire to hash out some governance questions. Specifically in context of the loomio discussion about the scraping incident - the discussion was positive, but given the number of paper members we have, it's hard to take a 9-1 vote (for example) as a mandate for a change that applies to everyone and may have legal ramifications.

Is it time for us to develop rules about quorum?

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@redoak
It sounded to me like lack of participation in the Loomio group is a central issue, and it reminded me of typical credit union dynamics, i.e. if the management is doing a good (or at least passable) job, no one bothers to show up to the AGM. Kind of like lack of participation by the membership is a form of positive review of the leadership.

Anyway, besides adopting a quorum rule, maybe flogging important conversations/decisions with the admin acct. more would help?

if you go into the countryside you can see real life rabbits and badgers clipping through the level geometry, simply in order to get to their homes