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With some friends we are setting up a local informal environmentalist group, with the aim of pushing forward good practices, spread sustainability, ecological awareness, and this kind of . stuff.

So far we are planning of doing , production, workshops, library, , collective purchase from farms, but we'd like to have more on the todo list.

Help me get out of our echo chamber, and give me your ideas about more activities we could engage ourselves and the local communities in.

Thanks!

if a sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, is a sufficiently mundane technology indistinguishable from its context?

ex: nobody thinks of language as a technology but here we are with a decentralized system of overlapping transient protocols that we use to hack each other’s brains because we literally cannot imagine a society without communication

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You guys left the US to NL.. wonder why O.o ! May be Trump effect..

My Philosophy. CWed and split for Length and ease of reading. Part 6/Final. 

Integrity is very, very important to me. Integrity, in this case, is a consistent set of rules. A framework of behavior and how you should be as a person.

Integrity does not, typically, have caveats and addendum. It needs to be consistent to be worth a damn.

People, I've found, respect integrity. All people, regardless of where they are.

I really internalized the concept of integrity while working as a Corrections Officer for the South Carolina Department of Corrections.

My Lieutenant had a mantra for how to interact with inmates, and it has stuck with me for well over a decade: "Firm, Fair, and Consistent."

He was right- arbitrary application of rules and policies just caused problems for everyone.

It should be the same in your behavior and world-view. Firm, fair, and consistent.

I consider myself amoral because I feel that morals and ethics are situational. That, at times, such codes require flexibility.

What is right in one situation is not right in a second, perhaps similar situation.

This being the case, my internal rule set is a general guideline. It gives me enough flexibility to be in a particular situation and find a solution that I feel comfortable with, while giving me the 'Hard Stop' I need to keep my keel straight.

"Firm, Fair, and Consistent'. Those are my words to live by.

Finally, I have one last thing to add to this, as I feel this more or less gives the general jist of who I am.

TL;DR: Be Excellent To Eachother. Treat yourself and others with respect. Find Love and Beauty, especially when everything is turning to shit.

I love you , and I love you . I hope the best for each of you, and I hope you have a BEAUTIFUL day.

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My 7 year old son told me he "googled up" the "least fast car in the world" & was bitterly disappointed because he got a page of Porsches & Lamborghinis, etc. Ah-ha, I thought, it's time we have that talk. About search expressions. #LibrarianDad

Greetings and salutations good people of and !

Lovely Thursday here in Tel Aviv. I do hope your days are shaping up to be beautiful!

@wilw You should come to we wouldn't ban you and everyone would love to have you here.

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