Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

@aral

There is far more intellectual interaction here on Fedi, the only mainstream social I am on is LinkedIn, which is more like the others echo chamber for people trying to self promote rather than what it is meant to be is professional networking.

@bhaugen @xjix @Zee@social.coop @smallcircles @the_Effekt @LibertyForward1

The Torbay Development Trust run a time bank system, seems to work pretty well.

https://www.torbaycdt.org.uk/

Just replying with this as people may be able to use this and your resources for ideas etc.

@sickburnbro

We need safe spaces now for Artists to share their works.

@Cwmderiboy

Agreed, teaching maths people won't use when they know their career path is a waste of time, if you are studying then those subjects than those subjects should have maths as part of the ccurse that is specific to that subject, if you are that interested you will also practice and develop further.

By the time you start studying at A'level and beyond you should know how much maths is involved.

@HauntedOwlbear @dannyjpalmer

Socia media seems to have a huge impact on journalism and the compensation people get for their work. People don't like paywalls but perhaps what needs to happen is transparency as to how much the journalist (who is out there facing danger in some cases) is actually compensated.

I think recent course cases have started to highlight the problem, with the games industry games are quite expensive, but the work needed to produce games is also highly skilled (as is journalism).

The difference is a news paper costs <£2 a game will cost you more than >£20 for example, so the income from 1 game is huge based on millions of sales.

I think we are starting to see people demanding not only a wage that allows them to live but also a reflection of their skill level, taking into account how hard it is find people with the right skills.

Perhaps this is the start of a fight against capitalism, where the owners make billions when the people doing the work stuggle to make ends meet.

@KevinDunseath @ChamomileHangover

You can perhaps read in to the sort of person that is. At least here we can have intellectual conversations and you HAVE to interact with people and use the right tags, boosts etc to make connections as no AI is going to help you as there isn't any.

@dannyjpalmer @HauntedOwlbear

Expecting people to have a degree, years of experience for low salary seems to be quite common (gets commented on LinkedIn) we need to change how we recruit people, the employers who are sensible will get the best, the rest with unrealisic want lists will hopefully continue to struggle and eventually fall out of existance.

@dannyjpalmer

I feel the Fediverse could be an opportunity to promote Journalism properly, what do you do? and how? what makes good journalism? (probably similar to good science). If people know what makes something 'good' or ideally' 'excellent' then they can start to challenge and recognise bad journalism.

Perhaps we need to get back to basics, forget university courses, if you want to be a journalist, you get a job at a low level in a news paper office and shadow people and learn on the job and in the field.

You earn credentials and respect by actually writing good, well referenced articles.

@hollybrigstocke

It seems to me with people Andrew Tate of a serious double standards in society, on the one hand we 'cancel' a person who 200 years ago was involved in the slave trade, or rename a buiding as it is named after a person who was involved in the slave trade,

I appreciate and understand why this is happening,

The same society just allows Tate and others to spread his hatred, allows people to subject others to racist, transphobic, sexist and other abuse with complete impunity.

We can't change history, we can learn from history by challenging peoples viewpoints ROBUSTLY in the present era.

Meanwhile we also quite rightly go after 90+ year old women who worked at the Nazi death camps during world war 2, holding THEM accountable after 80 + years.

We can't hold people to account unless the whole criminal justice system is behind us, so whos side are they actually on here.

@hollybrigstocke

There is a lack of consequences or fear of in the UK now. When I was in year 6 at primary school we still had corporal punishment, my year 6 teachers attitude was, if you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Point of note, I can't remember anyone crossing the line and getting caned.

Arguments about corporal punishment aside, we KNEW there were consequences. These days people just do stuff knowing they are pretty much untouchable.

Back ground checks for jobs are undertaken by the poilice in part, so no wonder the wrong people get in or slip past those checks.

Actions or misdeeds HAVE to come with consequences that are actually going to have some sort of impact on you the abuser AND for the victim who feels that justice has been served and they and others are now safer.

It seems to me a lot of criminas just cry to the ECHR about being punished breaches their human rights, why cam't victims of CRIME sue the people who target them for human rights abuses.

@hollybrigstocke

Indeed, so hopefully the Romanian criminal justice system will actually dish out justice and put him behind bars for a LONG time. Meanwhile, I think the victims could easily have a civil case at least against the Police as their failings led to them being assaulted.

What we now need to worty about is Tates army of followers who think his behaviour is acceptable carrying on, knowing the police, CPS et al won't actually DO anything.