This (today's) article by Cory Doctorow explains it quite nicely:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/06/how-the-sausage-gets-made/#governing-is-harder
khaliso
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Do you.. do you really rhink that way?
Thanks, without your comment I'd have skipped this
It's really fucking tiring to see you americans singing along to the tune of the 'us vs them' rhethoric.
I don't know what he has planned, but in my book he's the most likely candidate to break the 2-party system.
Enjoy it! I'm happy for you!
This decision takes some courage, so well done :)
Memo: the publishers Wiley, Penguin Random House, Harper Collins and Hachette sued the Internet Archive for over $600m.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachette_v._Internet_Archive
This sounds like a desperately needed law. Hope it will get through.
'Just pull yerself up by yer own bootstraps, lad!
While I do agree (or at least hope) that we all have the agency to positively influence our own lives and those around us, the main point there in my opinion is that different people have different resources in life. Someone that's experienced systemic racism, or someone who's brain is a wee bit non-standard just has it harder than someone not experiencing these issues.
Ouija by Harley Poe playing in the background
The YouTube Channel Kurzgesagt has proposed a calendar based on the 'Human Era' (HE) instead of before/after christ format.
It's based on the first monument of large-scale human cooperation (building a temple in modern-day turkey) and is quite elegant in my opinion. It 'simply' adds 10.000 years to the calendar we're all already used to. :)
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Both can be true at the same time. Therapy and meds can be wonderful to help create a better world than the soul-crushing dystopia we're currently heading for.