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"Higher #education was supposed to be an investment in my future. But now #students like me are stuck paying off their debts over years or even decades. This is largely due to the mismatch between the high cost of education and low, stagnating starting wages: on average, Canadians aged 25 to 34 earn $45,000 a year. After covering basic expenses, there is barely any money left to service a #debt."

macleans.ca/society/i-had-1000

#Education
#StudentDebtRelief

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...

and

you accept it?

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on and

"... does not give me the same right as cops to defend my life means the cop have a right that I do not and thus we do not have the same rights. "

@freemo

POST: qoto.org/@freemo/1134599976157

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🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

@BrianJopek Very true... and if Harris had won the same statement would have been true about her. Thats the problem. This election was about if we wanted to starve and promote genocide, or have democracy be dismantled. Both choices were a loss.

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@freemo All good. Really. People get all this from paid services too.

As for pure-practicalities of moving I would have moved this year if it wasn't for Mastodon not able to move posts and so believe me I thought about it and posted about it and waited for search to do more about it and that just made it that bit harder to find even what I was looking for....

So not deliberate lock in but Mastodon's lack of real offline view and deleting account = deleting posts, does feel like a lock in for sure.

Let's just see how it goes for now...

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I'll just throw some occasional reminders. 

@freemo I think I have feelings already from simplest things like saying things will be and then it not happening... multiple times by yourself...

Like I'll turn it on / fix it / tomorrow / will be in a few days.

And then now offering to join a chat... following code... for what?

Was said as "tomorrow" a few times and just seems too simple to try to imagine what I'd get further.

So no need any of that as it doesn't make change.

You guys are working on something - no doubt and no huge sarcasm in that.

Can't get past the simplicity of saying something and not following through over and over.

No reply helps and even big feelings worthy any more that before.

I'll just throw some occasional reminders.

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Human-orientated “Solving” a problem DOES NOT mean problem is totally gone,... a lot of this is on-going... 

“Solving” a problem DOES NOT mean problem is totally gone,... a lot of this are on-going...

We know that this isn’t how "problem" between people and machines works.

BOTH NEED MAINTENANCE

We’re mostly human after all!

Humans need care / maintenance / peer support (paid and unpaid).

There will always be , , and that needs and itself (people being higher priority than computers).
Right?

These problems will show up in everything we’re building. So help 'build' better people... Right?

This all means we must design solutions with these challenges in mind FOR better people, instead of trying to build perfect solutions that will "end all our problems" but not work on connecting people while improving the humans themselves.

Could call this mental health, upgrading our logic chip, improving the fallacies and fairy tales we were born into and parents hid from us (like money and banks paying for both sides of ). Right?

We just have to commit to the daily work of building the HUMAN ORIENTATED world we want which basic tech can help do but needs human to actually help other humans. Right?

Or just focus on tech... which is made largely by and ?

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@kddk @Volksverpetzer @Rainer_Rehak @monoxyd @Life_is Can anyone say what this is about?

(wanted to say before I forget about this post in the timeline)...

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is still without the said 'in a few days' changes - said so many times - so as a small elbow nudge / tongue-in-cheek thing to make fun of reality about this ongoing brokeness - click this message @freemo to see the other message from Greta about human and systemic change...

And how QOTO might need to the same with it's system AND it's 'people work' to upgrade them BOTH!

hehe... the broken , broken ... ah heal them all...

Greta hashtag also has some good stuff...

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vs. Help fight !❗

vs.

ℹ️ Low quality but you get the message and beat with less climate change! 😉

💿 Audio Edit by @freeschool 💿

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Everything takes time - It can feel "extra" to do, but if it really saves time or reduces / simplifies then more work or care now can help you avoid or process better the many 'extra' things later that you end up doing less organised or without collecting them properly over time (like a to do list that you keep visible somewhere or some thoughts that you need to revisit constantly to help you solve things).

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YES Questions take a long time to answer!

Most people have a lot of questions but don't expect the answer to take forever to answer or continual work, and some things do take forever and continual work to answer... as it's together thing...

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Violet Madder

Okay, so: Peer Support is a thing.

It's not widely known, and it's IMPORTANT.

A Peer Support Specialist reaches across, not down. Non-hierarchical-- that's literally a requirement spelled out in the job description.

We close the liminal space between "patient" and "well person". We bridge the gap between the person receiving care and their therapist/doctor etc. We're the people you want knocking on the door when you're having a major personal crisis-- you know, instead of the people with guns. We've lived through our own crises/trauma/illness/addiction/etc, and we know how it actually feels.

This isn't just some cute hand-holding role. It's a crucial part of a larger movement to integrate and humanize-- frankly, to TRANSFORM-- healthcare. That's the agenda, straight up. And I even get to fucking SAY THAT out loud.

And how do we enact this subversive scheme? By using empathy to relate to people, while helping empower them to determine and work on their OWN damn recovery goals, without judging.

Trying to "fix" people leads to burnout. Coercion and punishment have diminishing returns-- you can't force anybody to get better by kicking them when they're already down. Stigma has done massive damage. So we slow down, give an actual shit, and walk WITH people while they learn to fish, instead of beating fish over their heads, get it?

How's that for revolutionary.

#praxis
#mentalhealth
#mentalillness
#trauma
#traumainformed
#peersupport
#peergroups
#recovery
#resilience
#supportgroups
#peersupportspecialist

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Time and Heart is the need also...

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Tools

1. Game Analysis
chessreview.net/

➡️ Chess (best moves etc)
➡️ Game (import games etc)

(usually a paid / full of adverts thing on Chess.com 💰)

2. 🎮 Play chess game (instant / NO account) lichess.org

3. 📺 Watch Chess TV ♟️ lichess.org/tv

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Eugen Rochko

Mastodon is financed by crowdfunding instead of venture capital not because we don't know that venture capital exists, not because we don't have bills to pay, and not because venture capital isn't willing to give money to new social media platforms. VCs don't want a sustainable business, they want a big exit. Every VC-backed business is on a timer to deliver or die.

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Money relinquishes control ? + My "What is Money?" description / answer... 💲❓ 

@Gargron
@graf @r000t
@ksaj
@laurentperrinet
@williampietri
@octothorpe
@briankrebs
veronica@mastodon.online
@Setok
@larsmb
@evan
@katzenberger
@stekopf
@enmodo
@jasohill
@patrickleavy
@mastodonmigration
@MxVerda
@anantagd
@xsc
@64bithero
@wysteriary @sam
@uexo
@cowboyminer
@kristinHenry
@jon
@oliver
@Amr1ta
@Axomamma
@mrdiamondj
@Benhm3
@roadskater
@conniptions

"You invite money, you relinquish control. the money stops the moment you don't fall in line even with crowdfunding" ❓
💬 said by anime graf mays)

That does seem true about money and seems towards my level of "purism" (if I can call it that)

...but I don't have an answer for going without money usage other than at some point money is used & needed and to head towards not using it....

...so maybe I'd stay at the "at home" level of to make sure of that since we all have that (like a version of Mastodon just for some imagination and example) but then I'm not sure what else can be bigger + 24/7 running and care / minimise without big money and (Mastodon runs on Amazon S3 mostly everywhere). Trying mostly just with home-tech and software as the setup?... might be 'for the way' with being eaten (by us) and polluted (by USA mostly)...

Money here is the problem too but also that people DON'T understand a lot about how it's stealing / diminishing instantly and over time... but even without making this about money STILL ANTI-google/youtube people are posting google / youtube links for example here which is CHA-CHING for them for millions of links per day... so this shows people are lazy or fall into back into bad habits (or not using filtered links through something open-source like Invidious which obviously hurt them as they changed it to ruin filters sites - this is a good sign and shows hurting them at the "money" level is a real winner)

So we're born into the 'money' scam / scheme / system (in English also means way of swindle) and we can't get out to a certain extent without eliminating ourselves from purely needing that consumption even to eat or do transactions (which ever transaction is taxed further reducing effectiveness of money / displace it)....

THE REST BELOW IS AN
ANSWER TO 'WHAT IS MONEY?'

...and if you think you know all this then read it and tell me you knew all this and can live life easily and knowingly without doing something about money itself as the main problem (for all things, Mastodon and all life)...

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SO WHAT IS MONEY?
(ACCORDING TO ME AND YOU?)
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FOR ME "MONEY" IS... a deflationary medium, deliberately reducing it's worth over time to undermine to steal back value back to banks and cheat people out of their energy and savings while seemingly providing life but overall much less than you think and even entering MINUS / NEGATIVE NUMBERS / EQUATIONS (and therefore life similarly negative)

Money it also psychologically accumulated ignorance (and very hard to follow) but 'easy' to use making the medium used by the many who use it but don't understand it - and can't see or accept other people are paying for money as loans / fees / etc which actually dilutes their own " " and reduces overall "money" if if they never took a loan!. All loans allow more debt than anything else positive as banks re-loan with false power (can loan 9 or 10x your savings)

So society accrues a false sense of security while almost everyone is losing like a bag of sand with a hole you can't really see but leaks even more when you move it (or another analogy like bucket with hole).

Which is also why people have to work endlessly... like a leak in your society's bucket... and it's mainly called a " " 🏦

Anime, I guess you aren't for money but would like to ask if you could image small-scale / at-home stuff working (so maybe no remote server / no Amazon S3 / no Cloud in between ?) ❓

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"...trying to be profitable just deepens said shithole."

by @ksaj
Post: infosec.exchange/@ksaj/1133690

"Looking at how much of a shithole X has become, and how it just keeps getting worse, is proof in the pudding. It's hard to be profitable in that space, and trying to be profitable just deepens said shithole."

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@r000t @Gargron you invite money, you relinquish control. the money stops the moment you don't fall in line even with crowdfunding
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William Pietri

@Gargron Having taken VC money for a startup, I want to confirm for others everything you've said. They promise big returns to their investors, but most startups fail, so they need the successful ones to make gobs of cash. Modest successes get pushed to take big risks until they get rich or die trying. And if they do win big, they'll be pushed to extract ever more cash, causing enshittification. That's the VC game, and Mastodon is smart not to play it.

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