Interested in living better together. #solarpunk #climate #permaculture #cooperatives

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The same subgroup of people who serve or are mega wealthy people, high end ceos and boards of private corporations circulate freely to non-profits, particularly well funded non-profits. Big piles of money attract them like flies

2026-05-13 10:21:26 UTC

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I think about visibility as a prerequisite to empathy. As our societies have gotten larger, and more layered, I wonder how often the elites cross paths with difference classes of society. What used to be every day mixing maybe decades ago, to today when you can spend months and years with all your needs met - and never spending any significant time with slices of society with unmet needs.

2026-01-11 16:38:27 UTC

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I was just looking at that last weekend. What I was trying to figure out is if one can automatically sync to it from one or more iphones?

2026-01-05 18:12:42 UTC

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Why is it always this kind of play. Why not legislate green power investments and profit on stock jumps on suppliers. or lobby for large investments in public housing and pre-purchase construction compamy stocks

2025-11-22 17:45:46 UTC

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Unsaid is, in my opinion, that the social democratic parties chase far-right voters because it's more compatible with the economically right-wing policy that is palatable with the wealthy classes being served by centrist parties.

2025-11-22 16:52:20 UTC

This article says the French people want to save Duralex, but as an American who had a couple of sets of Duralex Picardie glasses, I know why. Durable, attractive, well balanced, nice weight. Also they're formed now into something of a worker cooperative? I hope they make it.
#duralex #cooperatives
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/22/french-people-want-to-save-us-help-pours-glassmaker-duralex

2025-11-07 09:43:37 UTC

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Even this very conversation is somewhat stifled by a neoliberal economic framing. It talks about the mechanisms (which have been demonized vocabularies - taxes!) and skirts around the value - the very idea that many public goods can be procured by government in ways that are more economically efficient than privatized methods

2025-08-23 14:24:58 UTC

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What do you mean growth is not when the oligarchs can buy another bigger mansion and yacht?

2025-07-19 13:22:31 UTC

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what is the organization on that sign?

2025-07-01 17:11:11 UTC

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Building societies seem closer to US credit unions. Fannie/FreddieMAC are more like brokers that specialize in purchasing loans from banks and credit unions. Fannie enforces the standards of those loans, may hold some and in turn may bundle off groups of loans as standardized securities that the larger financial sector can trade in. But, the buying frees the banks to issue more loans.

2025-07-01 16:56:59 UTC

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The financial services sector loves tax breaks. Tie the lending to issuance of securities with a tax discount for lending to housing cooperative projects. They could be a specialized form of Mortgage Backed Securities issued by, well in the US it would be something like a Fannie/Freddie Mac. I don't know what orgs would be involved in the UK. Housing costs are the bane of stability to most western democratized nations at this point. Something new has to be tried

2025-07-01 16:44:20 UTC

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Perhaps favored lending to housing cooperative projects would be interesting. The structure of lending in the current systems means that corporate developers and landlords are generally the most frequent builders of multi-dwelling housing projects. There is a lot of devil in the details, but it would be nice to align lending, with building more housing of the scale people can afford.

2025-07-01 15:42:16 UTC

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I wonder if the financial system should be giving discounted lending for building new housing vs buying existing

2025-01-19 21:05:01 UTC

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one effect of free lunches vs paid accounted lunches (talking to someone who worked at the high school food operations in pta meetings) - was that a crazy amount of time was saved in distributing lunches when they didn't have to enforce account status. High schools didn't allocate a long time for lunch and students could spend a quarter to half of their lunch recess in line. So free lunches ended up improving quality of time for all students

2025-01-19 21:00:39 UTC

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I think some states contributed, but I think its also low enough cost that its possible for some districts to go it alone especially if its not every day. It also doesn't have to be just a question of free lunch or not, there is a lot of side possibilities providing fresher foods from local farmers for example - but thats further afield from the original topic of this thread.

2025-01-19 18:26:56 UTC

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not only for some of the bigger support net issues, but smaller ones too like free school lunches for all kids. It a good issue for people to start getting involved in because its smaller scale and local/+ maybe some state

2024-12-06 19:06:02 UTC

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I may be an atypical reader of this kind of info, but high level facts of what is is in the process, then the data and/or diagrams, then an example walkthrough is the most interesting to me

2024-11-12 04:52:21 UTC

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maybe it was a bad idea sending the police to harass and beat the most active young political activists in colleges who dared speak up against genocide - you know the ones that also volunteer to work for the grinding ground get out the vote efforts during presidential campaigns. That's not just killing the turnout on a direct 1:1 basis, that's leveraging the disaffection by at least an order of magnitude or more