✨ geoff, but witchy ✨ @cooler_ranch@witches.town
On people dropping out of Mastodon: You need to keep finding more people to follow in an interest based network since people will be dropping out all the time. Your relatives and friends from school don’t disappear as quickly on Facebook, nor do journalists and news outlets disappear on Twitter, but in the more interesting and interest-based communities, that’s simply how it is. You need to replenish the pool and keep finding and following more people. They’re everywhere.
just happy little servers
Wow there are MANY paths to socialism from being a furry https://cybre.space/media/pw500NsbY51OvsZ9sh0
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Suggestion: when you're building a user database, assign each user a 16-digit hexadecimal number as a unique identifier, disallow that internal identifier from changing, and let everything else change.
Want to change your username? Great. Want to change your email? Fine. The unique hex ID is all that matters.
16 hex digits is enough collision space to give every person on earth about 2.5 /million/ accounts on your system, but short enough that you can write it down on a post-it note.
The only performative disgust I will tolerate is the disgust toward bad puns.
@cooler_ranch There may be some on this list: http://www.thegoodtrade.com/features/fair-trade-clothing although it's more generally ethical rather than specifically union made, and it's international.
@cooler_ranch https://www.creighton.edu/fileadmin/user/StudentServices/SLIC/docs/Sweat-Free_Vendors.pdf This list has some suggestions which seem appropriate
"sharing" "economy"
tfw you can't tell if an arts-related site is hacked and full of markov chain text or is just obtusely avant-garde
Do not call it sharing economy if it is not about sharing but exploiting needs in the form of (new) commodities.
On the bright side, I'm going to have so many pairs of jorts this summer.
Any Folks in the US have recommendations for buying clothes that look pretty decent for office work but are also union made?
I had been getting things at H&M and sibling companies when I couldn't afford American Apparel, but now they're closed and I don't really know anything since I buy so infrequently.
Of course there's no ethical consumption under capitalism, but what are some least-worst choices?
Help me, all of my pants are ripped at the knee now.
switching to decaf to minimize my productive output as a laborer
So like, a feature of #blockchain technology (yes I know) is a public, double-booked ledger of transactions - something similar was actually in use in #Anarchist Spain for the exchange of goods between collectives and syndicates by way of clearing houses. Would such a thing be possible and useful for decentralised, currency-less transactions on a global scale?
Discussing stoner philosophy with Tek Jr:
Me: "Dog" spelled backward is "God".
Jr: We're all half centaur.