#FreeSchool ⬅️ (see hashtag) @freeschool@qoto.org

Socks - If you start to see *through* your socks, you know it's time to repair or take from the box of odd socks that your friend gave you from his stash of left-overs and saved them just for you !

Less #plastic + More #recycle #reuse #repair #material #lowcost #share #humility

Careful of those that even use the word "Terrorism" (My experience)...

Often those that use it are cheating themselves by:
1. Thinking they know what it means (or not knowing it means many and more things which undoes the usage of it).

2. Sometimes / all the time real 'terrorists' are just poor people oppressed by richer people

3. The more the complicated or confused versions terrorist people exist but most people don't see or educate themselves about them (and also the histories are complicated deep which doesn't help and is not incentive in solving this so many just block it out and just see modern action/reactions as the reason which is not deep enough)

4. The person or people who speaks of ''Terrorist" can actually be the terrorist themselves (like accusing someone of stealing when it was them all the time...!)
And also on Christian level, helping state that don't care, they might innocently say "terrorists" but they themselves don't care proportionally as much as any aggressive group (two ends of spectrum one physical-aggressive and the other in apathy pretending it's not their business to protect anyone else and keep their head down in the sand like ostrich and then say "oh isn't that so sad/bad" when the same things happen again and they have done little about it)

5. Terrorism is often sourced from how each country is already the structured; from governments that allow banks that sell debt to it's people, debt-structures to make money from it, false representation / cheating people in other ways, 1000 taxes, number games etc... all home-grown in country to terrorise citizens into working any job they can so they don't die and have to endlessly pay more for the same.

6. Anyone not interested in happiness or what others have to say

7. People who want to keep the new norm at any cost (new luxury, new purchasing power, new authority etc) at any cost, even by covering up modernism supported by others who are suppressed in other countries to maintain these norms, but blame other people for wars ignore of the day to day oppression directly connected to sweat-shops (cheap clothes / sweaters) or petrol that is extracted from abroad to use it only to go few miles to the shops more regularly than they should. ⛽ petrol 🚗 cars =🛢️ oil + resources = ⚔️ fighting for resources / #war

8... 9... etc (might exist but above is quite a solid list)

PROFESSIONAL BASTARD ALWAYS PAID BY SOMEONE
+ INACTION OF CITIZENS PRETENDING IT'S NOT THEIR INVOLVEMENT AT ALL:

No doubt there are some professional bastards out there but essentially they are paid by someone usually from public money and if you look at the typical kind of terrorist they are the poor or not as advanced who couldn't even make a gun or buy them (often given or sold at best) and those countries have small population and even more sheep and goats than guns! You really have to wonder which country is the terrorist AND which country of people is doing the mistakes more often to contribute indirectly to 'Terrorism' financially and through inactions.

INACTION: The inaction or modern mistakes of others living new 'normals' day to day are more contributing to problems than actually terrorists that have very little money or ability like mostly Western-style people have and do daily to encourage such things and even buy into it indirectly pretending it's nothing to do with their consumption or lifestyle !

8. Inaction is also a form of terrorism when contributing factors allows others that they know are going to do horrors for them keeping their hands 'clean'...

Almost all humans want to be happy. But some settle for less...

And probably those that don't want to be happy don't feel good enough and not up for going for it all-in, so people might want to settle for other things like being abused or to feel they exist somehow to be happy or settle for that, instead of frequently trying and failing sometimes...

Hi, thanks for following me recently @fury999io

I'd like to suggest you click notifications bell as a test of knowing me better (bell is next to follow button on profile page).
See if mutuality crops up for you in my post popups and if it get's up reply or even let it popup and fade away and consider it done.

This helps see what we can jam with literally much sooner and not mix among the 200 followers in a big list or almost 0 catchup.

Worst case is post title will anyway disappear after few seconds and you can say you tried to see where I was coming day to day... and click off after a few days or week.

I say this because people have 100's to follow and this sorts people out one at a tie mand using a clearer chain of thought / post subjects seen. I will also be following you in the same way!

It's been great for me see with others if mutuality is there... else no worries to unfollow or take bell off after...

( 🔔 is next to follow button on profile page - I made a short-video showing how with some music together):
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/112043503584606448

Thanks!

When you follow bad people or systems you are just food for them in their eyes. Even with good people in between it's still overall bad / profit only.

Careful of feeding them more than yourself and your soul.

Landlords for example, that people have to get out of else it gets like Berlin in extortionate rent prices for smaller and smaller space.

There's not escaping or hoping it gets better... sometimes you literally have to get out of the city or something that dies with dignity while it still exists (somewhere).

#Capitalism #Greed #City #Rent #Extortion #Starvation

Hard to trust people who are as clever as you.

Becomes competitive sometimes or there's a fine line between people using things well for the good or bad (in your eyes). Easy to tell others what to do better and get to much into that.

But it's natural and needs to be balanced / amicable.

One way to counter this is using STRIKES or withholding / limiting labour given to owners / abusers.

Another is BOYCOTTING to avoid being patron / buying less their services or products.

List of Strike Actions (Refusal to work, perform, stay silent, counter-striking abuse):

█Rent Strike
█Hunger Strike
█Physical Attack / Striking strategic places / Damage / Disarming
█Blockades / Holding Space
█Propaganda / Education
█School Strike (Greta Thunberg)
█Strike Demonstration (for Climate etc)
█Student strike, or getting other groups with you striking
█Legal Action / Delays / Attention making / Public Awareness
█Noise (Car / Truck horns to avoid public ignoring)
█Boycotts - stopping consumption or buying of things altogether
█Sex strike, refusal to engage in sexual activity to challenge a societal dispute... perhaps could be to raise awareness amongst different gender or sexes.
█Capital strike, refusal to invest in an economy

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Popular methods from above explained a bit more:
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█Hunger strike, participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others
█Rent strike, when a group of tenants en masse agrees to refuse to pay rent until a specific list of demands is met by the landlord
█Sex strike, refusal to engage in sexual activity to challenge a societal dispute
█Strike action, a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to perform work
█Student strike, occurs when students enrolled at a teaching institution such as a school, college or university refuse to go to class

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RECENT HISTORY
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About 1 year ago doctors, police, teachers were all striking in England! [2023 1st/2nd Quarter]

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FINANCIALLY CRAZY PEOPLE EXIST
/ DRIVEN BY GREED
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Some groups of people (usually financially crazy and number orientated) will not choose different until really forced
(they know what they are doing / they choose that way for forcing people to get what they want).

It's quite natural though it has many levels of extreme.

So what to do about it is one of the keys question towards harmony or perhaps accepting one of more of the things listed as reply to people's will against others (and never stopping unless forced or run out of money).

█Picture1: Greta Thunberg sitting outside school for climate change (one of the best picture I've seen or feel) #GretaThunberg

█Picture2: Rent Strike by sub.media (anti-gentrification / changing the rent rules) #Rent #RentStrike

#Political #Action #Strike #Labour
#LaborHistory #Bboycott

Systems that take more than give back are for keeping people down and totally dependent.

The the oldest trick is just take more than give and you have more slaves / slavery / victims.

$ystems that work towards more dependency, cleansing / sterilisation, monopoly, reduce the healthy diversity, and promote enslavement gives near-0 chance to something else happening than more unhappy people, simply by trying together more often (at the same time as existing ways).

So literally anything is better. And if you share / love your work with others without man-in-middle attack and let them also share with you, then you're on a better road or platform.

I suggest $Users need to wise up / not wait for $ystem to enslave them less or expect 'one day' $ystem to become honest and fair overnight. ⚠️ ❗

This means users need to give and take *between themselves* by manually communicating online [peer-to-peer] even in experimental, unusual ways like messaging them(!) and even trusting them blind as a contained test...

These tests will gain better results than waiting for $ystem.

Any fears about you trying together with someone [me or others] are naturally 'different' and can be resolved / improved over time (that's how new systems grow and a better challenge to telling system what it doesn't want to know!)

Like-minded people can be found rather than waiting and being taxed to death meanwhile for your work. Let it go and give it to others!

Try trusting more people in the Fediverse even to see any bad results.

You can work together more often and continue the usual way also.

Contact me for ideas.

"GNU / Linux" not just "Linux"....

- Richard Stallman [video link below to exact part of talk]

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=7ZSPf7YnGfE&t=30m36s

ℹ️ Remember Gnu + Linux are together ! (Antelope + Penguin animals together!)

not just

"GNU / Linux" not just "Linux"....

Gnu <--------------------
Noun: gnu
📖 Large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail

Penguin <---------------
Noun: penguin
📖 Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers

⬇️ Basic History / Video Notes:

GNU system almost completed before 1992, But needed the Kernel.
Linux Torvold re-released it in Feb 1992 as free software. (Kernel was proprietary in 1991 but he re-released it to be free in 1992)

#RMS #Quote #GNU #Linux
#FreeSchool #FOSS

#FreeSoftware For Freedoms not just #OpenSource #Software

"GNU / Linux " not just "Linux"....

not just

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Trust over Internet (Fediverse)
( Anyone got good stuff / material on that? Anything really... )

Not for me but more for others to trust or how to look at it (or totally not think about it so much).

People who say "But I don't know you" self-perpetuate the bad cycle of doubt even before trying.

They also give up the chances of making friends and even start work towards the opposite end of the spectrum of optimism which is like a pessimism of "how can I find imperfection in you" instead of expecting people are not perfect and working towards a better way of accepting "This is the Internet" we all start off as strangers and nicknames!!

You don't need real names or screening people based on legal verification to say they are a human, Seeing people's bio and history is more than enough.

And people really weren't as bad as the doubt so anyway trying is the main thing (and not to lose trying as that is the worst case scenario) unless you're really doing something that important(!) because not everyone is trying to get you (even nobody cares that much).

A lot online is taking people's word for it. Even less that people are hunting you so directly and it's quite unheard of (abuse does get said much quicker today so be sure you would hear it at some point over the years- but near-0 I would say apart from opinion difference and 'hate' from that).

"You could be anyone" is poor excuse for those who say it.
Especially those with "contact me" on various public places. They undo themselves with "Why are you contacting me" when I already explain (perhaps in too much detail) and waste their own and people's time.

This comment comes from people not understanding people are an instant fan of others or appreciate their work to a high level and turn it on it's head instead 🙃
That's turning things upside ⬆️ down ⬇️ or from positive / celebration in these to negative / pessimism chopping down of people.

Honestly just accept any fans or similar and let people's words and action rule not just their avatars or names!

[I guess being scared of shadow is also legitimate or not knowing what to do with a fan or two once you have some willing to live similar with you... but that's a human thing also to conquer and go forward with, not backward stumbling over you own shadow].

Freedom is about the sharing of time together better (not just software freedoms and computing).

TLDR It's a terrible balance of DIY (saves time and labour) BUT not giving other people things to do.

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More below, with some stories in between thinking out loud about the above....

Machines take our job for sure...
I think the clearest example are hair clippers and doing it yourself.... 💇 and it's not always bad (unless work is just about doing meaningless things for needing more money for less meaningful reasons).

So my example is that there less need for many barbers after buying a machine. Sure a few, but much less money in it... if you're a barber doing it for the money / living wage.

I remember never going to the barbers for a hair cut after I bought hair clippers early on in my life for the price of about 4 hair cuts let's say.
And they got a bit cheaper too (lots of crap quality but overall I think maybe 3 clippers in life but I have been cutting my hair most of my life too).

I simply did it myself or my parents did it in the chair 💇
And that was with and without machine (I remember with scrissors ✂️ having a hack at hair and expecting to find someone anywhere to help "just do the back" for me!!) - It was a fun time!

I did think of my Greek barber with guilt after hearing by chance that he died. Didn't help that it was by chance but already community wasn't really there and I was maybe shy or not willing to talk all about holidays or whatever to get entry into more (I think it was all aesthetic and I did even try the political stuff which must have been really taxing to listen to lol!)

At the same time, I didn't know him much and without being cruel I didn't really enjoy or see need for barber (for my type hair cut then) and wanted to save money for something quite overkill for something to grow back so fast so it is a hard balance which I think money ignores from 'how much it costs' rather than SEEING what we need and seeing my Greek neighbour as a man needing to live without these kinds of effect and his skill dying out and in arts in general expecting people to move on perhaps in other dying skillsets...

Better if it wasn't always so heavy in this narrow minded money way of money or doing just 1 thing. Because machines replace man and that could be good but if we base things on the wrong things (like profit and most effective % back to government) then we'll soon lose every skill but the basic industrial line type stuff and the essentials which haven't yet got automated (lorry truck driving, glueing things etc)

People in the village or towns still go but probably less and less or just women / longer haired people maybe for certain things.
My dad was even colouring my mum hair lol.

TLDR It's a terrible balance of DIY (saves time and labour) BUT not giving other people things to do.

All this dying out encourages community to die (if not already).

So it's something I'd like to have an answer for...

Do you have any advices apart from 'get another job' ?

Money as the heavy middle makes decision making worse ... as that is part of the killing of things / a devaluing currency itself etc.
And money / cost perspective ties itself to all other decision making almost. But I want to try a middle way too... why to keep diversity?

A bit of money would even be "ok" IF THE AIM was to *allow* good / basic / sustainable machines to be spread and allow others to do hair cuts as a skill or even as the social glue without money-measurement and the life and death ultimatum of it all (which is again ultimately for taxing us in everything in each "job" / activity every minute of the day). Even in buying items we're paying more %'s for the overall structure which doesn't really go back it, the structure is s overall a profit-cost program where extra goes to managers not us workers/customers!

Often the core problem is putting any money value (bank-money) on any art because that makes it narrow minded but yea "people need to eat" as the formula for getting people to do thigns they don't want a lot (and often artists starve for it especially political ones)

Devaluing what we like to do, devaluing currency (representative of debt issued at time of lending) devalues the life of arts itself...

Asking "how much a person's work is worth" will get us into trouble almost like saying "how much is a person worth" and it's basically priceless or undefined / without attached definition other than "amazing wonderful people"...

If we work within that framing 'somehow' sustaining all life to have it as diverse as possible (maybe) while providing the basics (which all seems impossible) then maybe enjoying things can come back into the frame (not just having intense weekends of 'relaxing')

And considering how we got to this point now and how do things we could increment to more of a balanced value on people first and keep many things the same / less profit orientated and decrement the bad machines too... (maybe all of it is bad?)

Anyway the aim is to less devalue arts and skill and let people live!!!
I know some of the things naturally die out too like my barbers or parents, even the tree a farmer has to pull out occasionally but not all of it in exchange for scarce cash!...

🤷 A hard balance. 🤷

Final word:

Right we're paying more %'s for the overall structure which doesn't really go back us

WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING / give other's in work PROBABLY ON THE FEDIVERSE since there's no money in many things healthy nowadays so maybe we could keep our own values and give/take what we can as often as possible and have more healthy channels of money. 🤷 💰