Academics and Better Games between us after being Trapped by a System of "Government" [profit]
@markhburton
It's not only the government lacking courage, it's the academics also working for them, paying them.
Paying the government and all these bullshit #taxes.... is very much helping it all while falsely believing in money and that it's good for certain things and not mostly all the bad meanwhile.
Academic value system itself might need to change else with one hand say something but other hand do another.
Just writing about it, NOT looking or trying for physical and mental alternatives, doesn't seem right by a long way.
JUST writing and waiting for cruel professionals to stop and listen is stupid, while you or others aren't really bonding with others.
What governments do (the impersonal) and what they intend (as a business upon people) doesn't stop by begging or even pointing it out.
Being intellectual like this has limits unless you want to make a living from writing about the #shitshow without actually trying to live or do different... e.g. move out of the city.
I'm sure some of it some do, but for the most part feeding the system overly while not risking much.
So by feeding them (money, taxes, time, lack of personal contact with others) and not actually aiming for alternative ways to do things = YOU are quite in the same colonial style boat.
And if not talking to people differently other than academically or monetarily or whatever standards you hold and respect - you are copying the government ways with those standards that filter out alternatives more often.
This comment isn't to villainise you but show: You might be practically in the same colonial boat or overly copying them, even filtering out others.
Look at what academics do (or more what they don't do).
Enough writing already. Courage (or "pusillanimous" as you say) is doing the endless 1-to-1 and linking people (actual growth instead of #degrowth into more #fascism / #tyranny) and even with more semi-anonymous people protecting themselves has to be respected online, more than thinking it's anything against you of suspicious in these climates / types of corporate players / governments.
Get out of the city and stop funding them in various ways of paying for it all, otherwise really listen and talk to people like you and care.
Don't say you don't have time or because you have your family and I have mine - but because maybe more we should all be towards 'family' or some sort of link... certainly not just write another general piece about it.
We all lose that way from impersonal / non-personal distances. And need to all do the listening personally we can for each other to get what best we can after positively (even in the negatives). Don't expect the governments to do that! There is only us, right ?!
We can't withhold our attention and ears and trust from each other... even if it's step-by-step.
GET REAL ! We're all scared and just have to find another game and bond somehow - maybe not all in the city where we're much more trapped by the system,
right ?!
Dictionary Definition:
pusillanimous
= "Lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful"
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https://mastodon.social/terms-of-service/2025-07-01
Facebook and YouTube have terms saying you can intentionally remove your IP grant by deleting the content. Twitter lets you remove your IP grant by deleting your *accounts*, which is punitive, but possible to exercise (I did). It's very good Mastodon's grant is limited-use—but so was Tumblr, and it eventually abused its. I want Mastodon to be as pro-user as *Facebook and Google*.
@mcc what, if any, instances are out there that have better TOS? I'm with you on deleting my account if there is no way to delete our content
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Surveillance Centralisation / Fascism ?
Less Democracy ?
What’s the problem jack?
Surveillance capitalism
Democratic drift
Closure to a single vision of society (#fascism)
Centralization of data and attention
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How is Bitcoin consuming energy (in more detail please)...
@gerrymcgovern I would have liked this post to say the "how" it's wasted more technically - so those examples it's compared to doesn't seem disconnected (like comparing it to 2.14 iPhones is quiet poor / distant)
Water was a better comparison but "how" is important in each transaction and apportioning to time
Because everything consumes AND over time will always get to these numbers (bank coins for example and re-minting them MASSIVE #ENERGY but maybe at the start and then there is their own politics not compared to with #banks who as poor #standard now are not mentioned and hardly any better / fairer / politically or planetary-aligned! I'd say the opposite and even their interest in #bitcoin to confirm that!)
"#Currency = #Politics" #FreeSchool
#Crypto #Bank #Material #Consumption #Speculation
#Transformation is not #Fair (is a human-thinking realm (interpretation of reality) rather than #material #realm / #physical #objects)
Banks vs Crypto (both ARE similar ! Neither great !)...
@profdc9 @alterelefant @gerrymcgovern
Hi, Daniel - are you saying currency itself is not speculated or hoarded !
And do you think governments / banks are not themselves making decisions - that somehow the creation of money doesn't have "inherent value" (such as being debt-based) or released into circulation *based* on bonds, stock-markets, assets, buy / selling, paying fees for (reducing it's actual worth) ETC!
Banks, Crypto all unsustainable?
This reply is a bit question but not intended to harm or be fan of anything... just see if you can answer...
Can we agree nothing is totally sustainable (not right now) in the fact one / you / we *have to USE SOMETHING UP* in order to transform or change something else ?
Banks are not sustainable either with their currency - right?
(coins, notes, credit cards, paper bills, slips, shop-front units ! etc)
Just checking base-morality there - with or without #crypto topic)
More explained below but those are the basic questions:
Not justifying anything but if you think coins, notes, credit cards etc + banks and people behind them are all great then we have to re-consider that.
On top of just material, is them ( #Banks ) funding both sides of war and their own questionable #morality, they are preying on your savings (using them) as we speak to create #loans as debt that #crypto doesn't seem to have!
#Debt is also a sucking out of all #life and people's #energy that any #Bank didn't need to ask for so highly in return and make people work harder for in #mortgages etc (and other dangerous power constructs leading to #usury)
What do you think?
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prsivnote [dot com] is a potential fake version of privnote (can anyone confirm?):
https://privnote.com/ is the non-fake version for online notes...
The different/bad URL spelling of original is #prSivnote [dot com] is what I think skims data and bitcoin addresses in the notes much like other #clone websites which you can see more info here:: https://qoto.org/@freeschool/114722010435397368)
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Build your dream(s) and maybe mine at the same time (both). I don't think there is another way around that without bad people and tools who pretend to do it for us killing things for profit while we pretend to be 'independent' and think we can undo things (more than let them cause more problems like #AI and people behind it who surely will).
I reply to your interests and you give some ideas... we do what we can and like... more freely / towards each other's freedoms.
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If life's people are machine-like and computer-orientated then don't complain if that's what you get as a cold Matrix system using computers and tech by Musk / Trump mostly since they have more leverage against everyone using banks also. In the end we lose with only tech! (yes computers are too fast and even #OpenSource and nice things get used badly and only can stop it by developing better people).
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