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Coopr8

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  • Physicists Just Ruled Out The Universe Being a Simulation

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  • How should I go about getting kicked out of a convent?

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  • Demand to be elevated to the priesthood, works every time.

  • I will soon be conscripted into the Turkish army, what can I do now?

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  • Here's a question I dug into have an answer to: if you begin showing subtle but public support for a Kurdish state now, would that make it so they won't send you to the front lines for fear you might resist from within? Could keep you away from the worst of it, if it doesn't get you persecuted.

  • Besides taxing wealth, which other options exist for reducing the wealth gap?

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  • Direct government support for and Incentivization of worker Co-ops across the supply chain, and specifically for digital infrastructure.

    Worker owned and run businesses distribute wealth to the working class directly, and digital infrastructure like datacenters and fiber optic networks which yield strong ongoing revenue in exchange for intensive uo-front work on planning and cinstruction followed by ongoing preventative maintenance are an ideal target for co-oping if a lender would specifically support it. The lender of choice could easily be a government agency, with ag loans, innovation loans, and the SBA in the US all as examples of how this can work.

    Similarly alternative energy supply chain can and should be co-op, not just as consumer co-ops like there are in rural power utilities, but worker co-ops as construction and maintenance contractors for the solar and wind fields and power grids, as well as the hardware manufacturing facilities.

    Direct revenue-driven worker ownership is the surest way to increase economic equality, as direct share of revenue and worker-member units are resistant to the speculative value manipulation that drives most wealth accumulation at the top in the "public/private" corporation model of neoliberal capitalism.

  • Seeking the mythic XMPP based Discord/Element altenative

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  • First point of criticism, that general zod overlay makes your website effectively unusable on mobile. It appears to have no way to close it. What are you thinking?

  • Seeking the mythic XMPP based Discord/Element altenative

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  • cool, thanks

  • Could rising sea levels caused by climate change be thwarted by digging a big hole at the bottom of the sea?

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  • Possible yes, practical no. Effectively you would need to build a new sub-continant to have an appreciable impact on sea level. That said, you don't need to dredge from the low point in the ocean, all that matters is displacing solid material from below sea level to above sea level, so the best option would be to find a shallow sea with an existing archipelago of islands and build up from there making it a deep sea with the islands connected as a continent. Alternately you could go after reefs, despite the collateral damage, with the great barrier reef being the obvious choice, essentially pump up dredged sand from the surrounding ocean bed onto the reef to make new land, the reef has the advantage of being very shallow and stabilized with lots of surface area, so good for making lots of land if you don't mind being the architect of an ecological apocalypse of unprecedented proportions.

  • Could rising sea levels caused by climate change be thwarted by digging a big hole at the bottom of the sea?

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  • Not if it was deposited on bedrock, or even if it wasn't if it was done in a way that works with the currents. There are many examples of artificial islands being built successfully.

  • PDF annotator that doesn't overwrite the original PDF

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  • nice! does the export keep the overlay as a layer?

  • If you had to choose a new lingua franca, what language would you pick?

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  • Hmmm, looking at Lojban in a bit more detail it sounds like the consensus is that the conative load of having to construct perfect logical specificity makes it suboptimal as a secondary intermediary language. If people are learning it as a second language it will be very hard to pick up.

  • If you had to choose a new lingua franca, what language would you pick?

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  • This seems like a pretty solid option. I feel like this type of algorithmic language construction could be ripe for a big push forward, both in terms of constructing new languages and benchmarking them for use.

  • If you had to choose a new lingua franca, what language would you pick?

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  • Person Singular Plural

    1st me nus

    And you lost me. Irregular pluralization at the very core of the language does not smack of a the ideal neutral language, whether it is shared by Germanic and Romance languages or not.

  • Movie with female lead that protects weak adult male

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  • Startpage is still decent

  • How can I find a post I saw about a local alternative to Perplexity?

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  • Cool, is it good?

  • AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable | Van Badham

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  • Who can lead us to cooperative ownership of datacenter and internet hard infrastructure? Who will organize the collective digital workforce? Who will assemble the fund?

  • Richest American to FAFO?

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  • Bernie Madoff had the largest fall from $65 billion estimated at peak to $17 billion at time of arrest then dying in prison.

    Changpeng Zhao of Binance will be the richest person in the US, and probably ever, to do time in prison after conviction, but his wealth won't be impacted and it is only a few months, so hardly much Finding Out involved.

    Sam Bankman-Fried is potentially an even bigger Find Out than Madoff, because unlike Madoff who maintained a large estate even after going to jail, SBF has gone from around $24 billion to $15.5 Billion at time of arrest, to now close to zero on paper as almost all his wealth was tied up in FTX and crypto and it was "all" siezed as part of his conviction and the FTX winddown. Now that said, he probably has a lot of crypto stashed in cold wallets somewhere that have appreciated substantially since his arrest, so it is hard to know how much he would be worth if he ever got access to them, but as I understand it he is basically banned from using computers and facing over 100 years on his sentence, so he better be putting in a lot of good behavior of he ever hopes to see any of that secret stash again.

  • What's an example of something that usually goes unnoticed when done well but very noticeable when done poorly or not done at all?

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  • Sidewalk construction.

    Commercial carpet installation.

    Toilet paper.

  • The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy.

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  • At first read I see a flaw in the first part of your argument, which is that centralization vs collectivization of economic ownership is not directly indicative of policy, rather it is the percentage of economic output which is used for collective services that dictates the Left/Right spectrum, which indeed is how a Far Left position can be coextant with a market economy and private ownership but with a tax or public stake in economic actors that returns a majority of the "profit" to collective service, it is rather the degree of enforcement of property rights as one of a set of rights and regulations by a central Authority which lies on the Auth/Lib spectrum that dictates the structure of the economic order. This is how for example you could be a Lib/Left Marxist who prefers central planning of the economy, so long as you don't believe the central planning should be enforced by monopoly of violence and instead implemented by collective consensus, there is no fundamental conflict in the position. Leninism on the other hand implies use of force by a centralized state military/police to restructure the economy along central planned lines, which is an Authoritarian position.

    I agree the "quiz" is very flawed, it would need an order of magnitude more questions to be accurate, and authorship bias is certainly an issue.

    That said, the compass itself I find to be quite accurate to the mental political models of most individuals. What you are pointing to, Centralization vs Distribution, is a relatively new way to concieve of the older Federal vs Local or State vs Community political framework. I would indeed view this as a "third axis" or omission by the two axis compass, as both Authority and Economy can have organization and flow biased towards fewer or more numerous nodes of participation/enforcement. To go back to your Lib Left Marxism, you could say that the Marxism part of that formula calls for a State economic planning model with high collectivization of economic output and low State enforcement of policy. On thing often missing from the Auth/Lib axis description is that reduced State enforcement does not mean reduced enforcement overall, but rather that the enforcement does not rely on the state monopoly on violence, instead directing enforcement through social exchange relying on the individuals applying their independent power onto each other to discourage deviancy from the consensus.

    An easy example of this is in many tribal groups and including pacifist Western religious sects the worst corrective action an individual faces is shunning, which relies on all of the individuals of the community independently choosing to no longer participate socially or economically with the individual being corrected. The decision to do so may be more or less centralized or decentralized (for example a Priarch/Priest might declare shunning in a nonviolent Christian community, while a specific tribal group may only do so through a process of full group consensus, or even the most lib/local of all a spontaneous reaction of each individual against the deviant based on norms.

  • Alternatively... bidet

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  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Red Dwarf and Constellation: could we skip the Bridge?

    tangled.org /@whey.party/red-dwarf/
  • Home Theater @lemmy.ml
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    Recommendations for a 4k projector

  • Today I learned @lemmy.ml
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    A group of Irish grocery workers banning grapefruit led to Ireland being the first county to pass BDS against Apartheid South Africa

  • Uplifting News @lemmy.world
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    Ireland Basic Income for the Arts pilot produced over €100 million in Social and Economic Benefits

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    What are your favorite open source 3D printers?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    ActivityPub vs RSS Atom etc. Why Federate instead of aggrigate?

  • Crawling the IndieWeb @lemmy.ml
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    Indieweb CMS: WordPress the only complete option?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Unified Fediverse App - a browser solution?

  • XMPP @slrpnk.net
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    Seeking the mythic XMPP based Discord/Element altenative

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Mirror Instance for Interactable Archiving

  • science @lemmy.world
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    Disposable E-Cigarettes More Toxic Than Traditional CigarettesHigh Levels of Lead, Other Hazardous Metals Found in E-Cigarettes Popular with Teens

  • Explain Like I'm Five @lemmy.world
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    ELI 5, how can CloudFlare block traffick to sites?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    We Live In Public