@bob ie. I guess "we" need to find out how to discuss and get organised on hardware, protocols, content creation, and alternative currencies - all at the same time. Where "we" is anyone with a general interest, but not necessarily any knowledge of relevant skills or history.
@bob Challenge for the 'free' net over the next 10 years is to address the tighter and tighter coupling with media content and companies, and by extension, mainstream pop culture. Shared memes are shifting, and social groups are renegotiating with it. Free net is rapidly synonymous with free culture more broadly.
Hey y'all, I need a signal boost please. My friend and their mom are in danger of being evicted if they can't raise about 12 thousand dollars by the end of the month. They are both so lovely and good, their mom does so much community outreach and she really needs help right now. If you could retoot this or even donate that would mean the world to me and my friend. Thank you all <3 #signalboost#crowdfunding https://www.gofundme.com/save-barbara-caporales-home
6gain (6gain@loadaverage.org)'s status on Saturday, 09-Dec-2017 03:46:05 EST
6gainMorning and/or good !tzag all. Frrrrresh this morning out there. Going to go out and get pastries, and this tree isn't going to put itself up. Maybe in 5 years we'll have sentient, self -decorating trees and we can get back to the important Christmas bit of buy buy buy.
@maiyannah @verius Yeah, never trust anyone that believes in science, or scientists. The whole idea of science is it can only be falsified. Everything is just a working model until improved, ie is intended to be challenged, and ultimately incomplete. Wish they taught this stuff properly.
@verius Also I'm not sure gravity was "accepted" - surely it just "is" , and people couldn't do a whole lot about it. Even flying is just a hack, not a gravity-changer. So it's a slightly weird comparison for me. The precursor to climate change is localised pollution, acid rain, etc - which I would say historically have been much more accepted as directly influenced by human activity.
@verius I think it's unproductive to lump the two together, sadly. Where you stand on what causes it (if you accept/assume that things are getting warmer) shouldn't affect various aspects of planning for the change. Also I do wonder if people will start to 'instinctually' link 'natural' disasters with climate change increasingly, or whether global scale is just something we (societally) can't get our head round from a local perspective. Even that has dangers, of course - it's very easy to overlook the man-made factors which do directly contribute to disasters having a worse effect, eg. destructive forest policies.