rastinza @rastinza@qoto.org

@hollybrigstocke @adam @pastelscute @reuters@newsie.social @adamdavidson Sure, cool and all; but that means you need an employee to manage all that.

@emberfiend I tried to live in many places. Unfortunately China is definitely the one in which I had no opportunity to integrate and understand the culture.
I was there working in a factory, building intercoms on the assembly line.
Due to the amount of work I didn't really have time to learn the language or understand the culture.
I used to talk with people with WeChat: you write in English and the message arrives directly in Chinese. That worked well enough and I even dated a couple girls with that 😂.

@guijacquemet Where are the boobies?

@emberfiend Hello there, very nice to see cool people living in Galicia!
I've been in Vigo a couple weeks ago and it seemed quite a nice place to me, although a bit too big for my liking.
I'll be reading the articles you linked as those seem quite interesting for someone who spends most part of his day reading articles and writing notes about them with his glasses on.

I'm living in Santiago since June and I'm working on computational methodologies to develop new drugs.

@post @poterealpopolo Grazie della spiegazione. Conosco le teorie Keynesiane, le ho studiate in India dove piacciono molto.
Certamente investimenti da parte dello stato aiutano a creare infrastrutture e posti di lavoro, il che è ottimo.
Tuttavia non mi pare si stia ripartendo una quantità di risorse limitata tra un numero di persone troppo grande.
Mi sembra anzi che le risorse per permettere a tutti di vivere un'ottima vita siano già presenti nel mondo.
Questo esempio dei cani non mi torna; di cosa stiamo parlando in particolare?
Se parliamo di denaro questo sicuramente non funziona, perché esiste abbastanza denaro al mondo ed in Italia perché tutti ne abbiano almeno una quantità adatta a vivere bene.
Tuttavia il denaro in sé non ha senso se mancano le risorse acquistabili attraverso esso.
Ora, i beni di primaria importanza sono cibo, casa e vestiti. Questi esistono in quantità sufficiente ed addirittura abbondante per la gente presente.
Passando ai lussi invece sicuramente alcuni beni non bastano per tutti, dipende dal livello di lusso: non tutti possono avere uno yatch evidentemente, tuttavia se parliamo già di un cellulare ad esempio siamo in grado di produrne abbastanza per tutti.

Questa estesa mancanza di moneta non so quanto effettivamente esista, può darsi che come dici tu sia una delle principali cause che portano a lavori sottopagati ma allora per favore spiegami quali sono i punti dell'economia in cui manca il denaro e che impediscono un migliore sviluppo. Perché mi pare che si stia pompando parecchio denaro nell'economia Italiana, questo non è abbastanza?

Tuttavia ciò non spiegherebbe aziende molto ricche che comunque pagano i dipendenti una miseria.
Davvero un'azienda di 2.000 dipendenti e fatturato alto con buoni dividendi per gli azionisti è costretta ad assumere uno stagista per 500€ al mese se no non riescono ad andare avanti?
Il salario minimo quantomeno preverrebbe quelle situazioni.
A prescindere dall'efficacia della misura del salario minimo nel sanare l'economia ritengo che debba essere presente per motivi etici.
Poi, per migliorare il funzionamento dell'economia si agirà in altre maniere più efficaci.
Davvero il salario minimo danneggia l'economia così tanto da non dover essere introdotto per permetterne un buon funzionamento?

@post @poterealpopolo intendo quello che dici e mi leggerò i libri che mi hai consigliato.
Ma non credo che imporre un salario minimo sia sbagliato; ritengo giusto decidere che sia sbagliato pagare una persona meno di ciò che le basta per sopravvivere, a prescindere che questo sia effettivamente possibile o meno non deve essere concesso. Ovviamente, se è possibile fornire a tutti un lavoro che renda loro una vita decente questo è preferibile alla situazione attuale.

@andreaintonti@sociale.network Eh scusami, al momento non ricordo e sto uscendo a cena col mio capo.
Probabilmente domani me ne dimentico... Prova a cercarlo sennò ricordamelo domani con un messaggio o una stellina.

@yarmo Yes, you're right addressing it as several villages works quite well! Maybe I misread your article a bit, I'm sorry. Villages actually address a bit more the difficulty of moving from one instance to another, which is unfortunately far from seamless.
I feel that describing it as a single big thing, even though it's not, makes it a little bit easier to understand for people who just jumped into it and are trying to figure out what to do.

I'll try to broaden the analogy a bit more in the next days; on the other hand I don't want to make it to long as I also want to explain things out of the analogy and I don't want the article to become long and pedantic...

@freemo Hey, I have it automatically showing CW contents; that's not my fault!

@andreaintonti@sociale.network Non so, sul fediverso c'è un social apposta per parlare di libri però.

@capetaun
Come dicevano gli antichi:
A letto con gli amici
Serate più felici

Comunque no, vai a tirare con l'arco; non mi veniva la rima...

It's been a while that I've been telling around I intend to write a #guide about socializing on #mastodon.
Of course I didn't finish the guide, in fact I didn't even start writing it... I'm still in the note taking phase.
However, today I took a plane and read an [article](https://yarmo.eu/blog/make-it-on-fediverse/) by @yarmo in which he compared Mastodon to a village and Twitter to a metropolis.
I didn't like this analogy very much, so I came up with my own in which Mastodon is a big city with a lot of different places where people hang out.
I didn't polish this yet, it's just some notes I jotted down quickly, so take it as an unpolished draft.
I'd like to know your opinion about it: if you're a long time user if you believe that this analogy actually reflects Mastodon and if you're a new user if the analogy made you understand some things about Mastodon you didn't previously know.
I'll take into consideration your comments while polishing this up and to decide whether to actually include it in the guide.

So, here we go:
Mastodon is like a big city with a lot of people that hang out all the time.
Since the city is big, people hang out in many different places where they meet their friends, and generally people always hang out more or less in the same places.
Some people live near the centre, where there's a lot of different people and they can barely recognise faces and other live in isolated outskirts where few people live and everyone knows everyone else.
Some people just hang out in places where they do things that interest them, such as churches, gyms, workshops, art galleries and so on and thus mainly hang out with people that shares their interests.
The more you hang out in one place, the more you get to know the people that stay there and become their friend; moreover, staying there you get to know their friends, which may just be passing every once in a while but who normally hang out in other places.
Some groups of people despise others and try to avoid each other as much as possible by not talking to each other, avoiding common friendship and not going to the places where those people hang out.

When you move to a new city it's difficult to make friends; if you already have a friend living there, it's good to go around with him for a while to see all different places and to get to know some friends so that you can then choose where to hang out and who to meet.
If you don't know anyone living there then you have to start making friends autonomously; a good way to do this is to just choose a place that you think you like and hang out there for a while, trying to talk to people and getting into conversations with them. It's unlikely that you'll immediately find your favourite place in the city or that the first people you meet will become your best friends, but it's good to start making these "introductory friends". Through these friends you'll meet other people and eventually you will meet someone who's really cool and with whom you get along very well. Eventually you may distance yourself a bit from these people as you hang out more with other friends you made and you may stop hanging out in the place you were initially hanging out as you discover places you like more.

Thus, you'll slowly discover the places and people of the city until you find a good spot that you like.
If you're like me, you won't be happy with just one place or just one group of people and you'll start going around many places and making several groups of friends.
On the other hand you may just find a few good friends and always hang out in the same place.

Thus, it's inappropriate to start by asking around who are the cool people to follow: if nobody knows you nobody will be able to tell you who you might get along with.
It's also inappropriate to ask people to present you other people who do your same job or have your same interests; the best thing to do is to go in places where such people hang out and try to meet them naturally.
Just imagine going to the barman and asking him for the list of engineers specialised in photovoltaic panels that go to that bar... And then just going to those guys and saying something like "I heard you do my same job, we shall hang out together." That's not nice, even though he does your same job he may loathe you or you may not have fun with the guy, this is a place to hang out and not a job board.

@magicwordsedit Very cool idea; but may I advise that you rather start getting to know the people from the local timeline and make friends with them?
Your and their interests will come out naturally.

Anyway, nice to meet you; I'm Italian and lived in many places, I currently live in Spain.
I like going around and making friends with anyone.
I love hitchhiking for this reason!