explorator_1317

It’s seems like every time someone figures out the supply issue, they come along, put in a few road blocks and charge you money to get though to what you had before for free or way less.

I mean yeah, that kind of thing has been the foundation of wealth for like... thousands of years, I think.

1. Acquire thing that lots of people want.
2. Secure it from anyone being able to get any of it for themselves.
3. Require people to give you money/labor/whatever in exchange for it.
4. Set the price as high as people will tolerate.
5. Profit. So, so, so much profit.

The point is not, never has been, and never will be, giving people things they want cheaply, the point is profit. Giving people things cheaply is beneficial when it lets you undercut the competition from other people selling the same or similar things. So much the better if you give what you control to people really cheaply at the start, and then raise the costs once your new ~~livestock~~ customers get settled in. But point is, at the end of the day, this type of behavior is how the profit motive plays out.

I'd love to see simulations of what the inside of such an object would look like. Is it dense all the way down to the black hole, or does it take just a little bit of falling hydrogen to create enough "solar wind" to hold the rest of the gas up like a hollow shell around it?

Yeah sorry, I had assumed your posts were automated since they were so constant and whenever I looked at your profile it seemed like all that was there was an endless stream of article posts. After making the above comment though, I looked again and saw breaks and comments for the first time, realized my mistake, and then deleted my post.

EDIT: I think I deleted my post. It looks deleted to me, but maybe it doesn't look deleted from other instances? I apologize again.

I've started to notice this as well. @supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz makes up most of the post traffic on the mander.xyz communities, and the account posts multiple times an hour, almost constantly. They post scientific articles, which while topically relevant, are spam-y.

People act similarly for stuff like Linux though. Gotta build a cool brand for the Fediverse!

It’s not… Deal with the fact you need a phone to be a functional part of modern society.

Talking with people on the other side of the planet in real time didn't used to be possible either. Submission to a king used to be required to be a functional part of society. Lots of things are impossible until people make them possible. That's the whole point of things like Meshtastic to begin with. People like OP, trying crazy things and making mistakes and figuring stuff out, are the vanguard who make these changes possible.

I've thought about it. Eventually I suspect I might. There's a few reasons I'm not doing so right now though:

• I want the server we start with to be highly reliable, and that means I'd prefer to trust a host with more admin experience than I have.
• Self-hosting is a non-option for me right now in any case.
• While technically I could afford to pay hosting fees, I'm trying to spend as little as possible right now.

Eventually, I think I will want to set one up, just not soon unfortunately.

Could you elaborate on what those "shady encryption practices" are?

To quote the actual abstract, not just the headline,

There is mounting experimental evidence that lifetime exposure to these increasing atmospheric CO2 levels can negatively impact the normal physiology of organisms. However, directly assessing this in humans is very difficult.

It does not say that they for sure know that atmospheric CO2 levels are going to be toxic within 50 years. It only says that, based on one examination of indirect proxies, it seems like that might be the case. Something which definitely should be studied further, because even the possibility of global atmospheric toxicity is worrying, but not something to jump to conclusions on, because doing so is bad science.

Their study result makes me feel kind of sick to my stomach too, I just want to keep a level head and not jump to "welp I guess we'll all be paying billionaires for clean oxygen tanks in 50 years".

If this really does turn out to be a problem we're heading towards, it's also premature to conclude that it won't get fixed. I know that if I learn that this is for real, I'm certainly going to be telling everyone I know about it and looking for ways to spur useful action.

Just looked on their website at the list of ways people can help, there's more variety of tasks & skills on there than I was expecting. I don't know how to modify or repair bikes, or craft a solar oven, but if someone was willing to teach me I'd be excited to learn.

Carpooling with people I don't know scares me a little, but I have friends of various ideological alignments in the different places I've stayed who might be interested in doing a little field trip with me. I'll try to keep it in mind.

Also, thanks for reminding me that foodnotbombs exists. That is definitely a group which helps people directly.

Have you thought about translating, transscribing or proof reading for texts and other media? Also making audio versions of texts or translated audio tracks are digital tasks that often dont have enough people doing them.

No, I didn't even know that was something people needed. I figured modern translation & transcription software was good enough to do most of these tasks. Where is it needed?

Do you have things that you believe you could do but currently dont because you dont have the confidence / skills you think you need for that?

Kind of, yeah. I am a competent programmer and generally have a good mind for technology. There are a few reasons I haven't applied it to anything anarchist-y yet:

• I'm a game programmer, and have almost no experience working with any other kind of tech, software or otherwise. The fundamental skills & mindset are very transferable, but anything which is practically useful will require the effort of learning how to do new things.
• I could contribute to open source projects, but coding is a lot of work and I'm not sure what a minimal first step would be. The idea of having to get to know an entire code base just to fix a small bug or add a simple feature is daunting.
• I'm not actually sure how much I could really help people through code. Maybe a project like Meshtastic, decentralized communications? Software is a tool, and more than just a tool, it's like a meta-tool, it's multiple steps removed from physical reality, which makes it harder to gauge how much help I'm really providing. It is definitely something I am well suited for, and it's something I like doing, but I don't want to get lost in the sauce of making tools for the sake of making tools or making the efficiency more efficient without it being grounded somewhere. Unless people really want someone to put more effort towards open source game projects, then I guess I could do that lol, it just feels like a very indirect way of making the world a better place.

I live as a nomad, so I don't really have a "local" for more than a few months at a time (at most). Without putting all my lifestyle details on the internet, it's a large part of why I'm hoping to find ways to help people directly that are online. I have no fixed location, no local community, and usually not much means of local transport. I guess my "local community" is whatever parts of the Internet I frequent? Makes me wonder if there's something out there for remote workers, I've sure seen some BS in the industries where I've worked.

To be frank, I do not want to make flyers or do admin tasks for a political organization I'm meeting for the first time. My goal is to help people directly. I will take your advice though,

Start small, start local, don’t burn yourself out, speak to people

The first anarchist I met suggested I write a list of all the resources & skills I can offer, and a list of all the people in my social circles (I feel like I should include online communities as well), and just start with mutual aid on a small direct scale like that. There was a term he had for doing this that I can't remember :/

Good luck!

Thanks, I feel like I might need it.