"Growth-Dependent Economy" is a nice turn of phrase
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Yes.
Insurance is another highly networked product that benefits from monopoly
The insurance companies of the 19th and 20th centuries were boons to society because their local buckets of money could be invested in local businesses and spent (practically as a donation) on advertising at the minor league baseball diamond or the church bulletin
The sooner we mitigate the loss of those good effects, the sooner We can benefit from the efficiency of insurance monopolies whose risk pools will be as large as is practicable rather than driven by historical accidents
Think about the adhoc communal living options that are available to people who want to live in intentional community in SF, consider side by side people like conservative Mennonite churchgoers in rural Illinois.
The idea is not that anyone can or should pull an L Ron, the point is that those identity factors are more or less taken to be extraneous of someone's behavior
They are default bad reasons to ban someone, not an exhaustive list, just good rules of thumb
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
The thing is, advertising does not efficiently suggest products/services now, so the idea that removing it would hurt customers ability to find what they want is a little melodramatic
As I was writing this out, I recognized that the tweets from the accounts on the list I started when I hit the cap are all viewable just by visiting the list
That idea already makes my foot stomping a little petulant, but your idea makes it even easier
I just need a history account, an activism account, a computers/networks/engineering account, a Christianity account, a movie/TV/literature criticism account, an immunology/epidemiology/public health/virology account
Those are my social media consumption workstreams more or less and I could grow each of those to 1-2k pretty quickly but my rate of follows would taper off and it would take a while to hit 5k on each, maybe another decade who knows?
There was an internal group to Twitter that reviewed the policy last year and they dated the policy page that way
They'll probably review it again some time before 2028
I was gunning for a Plotinus-stanning All is One account but I suppose that doesn't fit the current climate
Does finance and marketing run the show? Should I be trying to talk to them?
But more importantly, this is such a humane approach to sharing knowledge because these people are all devoted enough to these subjects to have written dozens of supervised pages that they would stake their own futures on
That is a very worthy criterion to decide who to listen to
Based on your writing, it seems you have a level head and a good angle on world history
I am hoping that if you have any books that deal in the history east of present day Germany, present day Italy, and or south of Madrid (directly/indirectly) that you really liked or found especially engaging or informative that you might remember and graciously share what they were if it pleases you to do so.
I am at a point where I am starting to appreciate what I am "rooting for" in western Asia/northern Africa which was a step in my study of northern/western barbarian history (frankish, gaulish, Norse etc etc) that made everything more fun and interesting to learn and therefore easier for me to study and accumulate interesting information
Because you seem very reasonable, I am thinking if you liked any of those direct/indirect history books that I might like them too
If you read this comment, thank you for your time and attention. I hope that you and your loved ones are doing okay in these difficult times.
Sharing a government of a country, a university president, an artistic director of a theatre, a religious leader or council of elders, a chief executive officer, the heads of a political party or mvmt, author of a media IP with a fandom, leader of a reinterpretation of an artistic work that has its own following
All of these things create little societies that are smaller than all of humanity. These all are modeled off of family dynamics and to minister over them requires the community toown their own language the languages which leads naturally to the Tower of Babel problem.
The Tower of Babel problem which is that translation of language/dialect/accent/jargon from one group to another is cognitively taxing and anticipation of that work makes us angry/despairing on an emotional level
If everyone understood that these groups were different expressions of the same format we could all work together and the laws could be much simpler in one respect and more complicated in others (eg banning discrimination on the basis of race/creed/ethnicity/nation of origin/gender/age could remove the inexhaustible list of possibal tribal categories but they'd need to add some kind of Code of Conduct like a programming language has to handle their conferences and email groups)
T'was the Scots that built this Country
I think in a world where people made enough money to eat and we didn't outlaw the stupid penny, we could keep all the pennies and offer them to people as tokens of our appreciation, then it's operating as a symbol and the emotional purpose is served without people who don't want to tip feeling expected to support people's lives all of the sudden at the end of the meal.
Our current system makes thoughtful, considerate people feel guilty if they don't want to tip deep down but feel they ought to.
Steve Martin's My Blue Heaven deals with the problem of wanting to express gratitude and joy to people in a world where everything is officious and transactional
You don't get to act as though your behavior is a categorical imperative if you don't participate in writing laws that make such imperatives a reality. You do not live as Robinson Crusoe, Chuck Noland, or even Richard Hatch did.
"Categorical imperative" is just a bad translation of "Law" which is a perfectly cromulent word.
If any company, be they Google, be they Apple, should experience total "victory" in the war on intellectual property they would find everyone who is not
* An investor
* In management
* An employee
* A temp/contractor, or
* A happy customer
I used to understand the CEO's job as cheerleader, for the investors, for the employees. I still think that is how they operate tactically, but strategically, I think the goal of a CEO in a Obama-era neo-liberal is to put the whole world in one of those categories above I suppose, with the acceptable additions of
* Vendor/supplier
* Companies in partnership
* Competitors who participate in a trade association together in a reasonably civil manner, or
* Members of government who are lobbied to advocate for your firm or industry or a strategic need that you hold in common with the broader public
So all of that to say that I expect one day, maybe 40 years from now, maybe 80, that IP as it operates today will be transformed into an index of ideas that everyone can take and implement who might put them to use beneficially for the citizenry and other residents. It will be nice after all of that work to have a primary key for the ideas that have been created so far, so I don't think we the people will burn down the USPTO or the LOC or anything like that.
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I was puzzled by your phrase "can't rhyme off". Google returns very few instances that are not related to spontaneous spoken word poetry (which is likely an example of convergent evolution). After poking around a bit, it seemed as though I had heard a similar phrase before "try (to|and) rhyme off" in which 'rhyme' is synonymous with 'to list' as well
Best wishes for yourself, your friends and your family during these uncertain times!
On the other hand, despite the fact that my tongue was firmly planted in my cheek when I wrote it, such Debbie Wasserman Schultz haters as Nathan J Robinson and Noam Chomsky have adopted the 'Vote for Biden and keep protesting' angle so who's to say how the real socialists are voting this year?
Even in the Age of the Internet, being able to put your hands on the right review paper is not given at all
My girlfriend and I both have mental health issues and that is most of my saw in wanting to understand Neuro 101 or comparative animal neuro or Evolutionary Neuro or anything that will incrementally add to an understanding of human brains that will improve the ability to advocate for ourselves in the US health care system.
Serendipitously, I was independent studying on fluid mechanics and dynamics last year[0] and had been through Purcell 1977, so I'm excited to check out your work on that account as well!
[0] There are some nice YouTube videos out there to ramp you up to understanding Purcell 1977 better as a layman with undergrad maths
Numberphile -- Reynolds Number
The movie Arrival (2016) explores a truly inter cultural exchange and they convincingly envisioned it being very experiential, very tactile and detailed, concrete and lived. A truly intercultural dialogue would be very personal and particular
Abstractions are very useful, but mostly as a shorthand or a design framework for ourselves. That's why we speak English here instead of Esperanto
1984 is very difficult to map directly on to US politics because liberal/neoliberal capture of the universities and mainstream journalism are kindof total the way that American conservatives allege, but also George Blair hoped that figures like Trotsky of the Red Army and Perez of the POUM would win out in the end
Orwell would not have been friends with the pepper Christian homeschooler, the glad-handing inside dealing Mar a Lago member, the little local lord like the area car dealership owner, the conspiracy theorist YouTuber, the Rad Trad anti Vatican II syncretist, those supremely Trumpist figures.
You kindof have to visit with George the man, his actions, and his times to understand his story. But that tends to muck up any chance to put him to use purely for your side.
(He was a socialist though, til the day he died, so he'd be voting Biden were he here in Wisconsin right now : P)
I think your phrasing of this new problem for our society is very clear and objective.
By the power invested in me as a computer possessor with an internet connection, I declare this to be a good idea, worthy of amplification!
Given the potential to democratize socializing to form business partnerships, it would catch on all on its own as a way to be inclusive during the pandemic in a way that golf never was.
Semi-related, I was reading a sociological research paper by Irving Crespi about playing cards in Endicott, NY and in his conclusion, he speculates that people used the structure of playing bridge or what have you in order to more easily tolerate each other's company. He was trying to explain why most card players weren't gambling seriously and I think he was right about structured activities providing a social lubricant analogous to alcohol.
Perhaps the eu-social aid of structured activity is even stronger than alcohol because we're given a detailed script to play out and distract ourselves instead of simply taking the edge off of our ability to waste energy over analyzing the social situation.
--- Lawyers for Good Government[0], which sends human rights lawyers to the parts of mexico where migrants are stuck because of this whole Fortress America thing Trump's doing
--all the groups in the community justice exchange[1], which pay people's bonds/bail to get them out of prison/detention, for example Chicago Community Bond Fund.
---Upavim Community DVLPT Foundation[2] (indigenous Guatemalan community organizing and Mayan language interpretation)
---No More Deaths/No Más Muertes[3] (every dollar = a gallon of water in the desert where migrants die of thirst, plus abuse documentation and help finding missing people)
---Uprooted & Rising[4] -organizing to change food systems for the better
[0] https://www.lawyersforgoodgovernment.org/
[1] https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory
[2] https://www.facebook.com/pages/Upavim-Community-DVLPT-Founda...