@Kris@feddit.org give the server a smack with the old convincer, will ya?

Reaching conservatives is very difficult, so I totally emphasize with your situation. From my experience, we can’t reach them by talking about high minded ideas, we have to keep things related directly to their personal lives. We also need to spend much more time to flip them, so I’d start with people that are more empathetic to the cause so you can build an organizing committee, and then try to flip conservatives. An Organizing Committee isn’t just a nice-to-have, it’s absolutely necessary. An OC will allow for people the conservatives know and like to try to flip them, rather than you doing all the heavy lifting. OC’s should aim to be roughly 10% of the workplace, but that’s just a goal, not a requirement.

Organizing is also 70% listening, 30% talking. If you’re doing all the talking, then you’ll have a harder time reaching people, and it will be especially hard to reach them. Ask about what they want to see changed at work; ignore the con bs they will likely spew, and then ask more about the actual work grievances they mention. Ask what they think it would take to change things, rather than using the “U” word; it’s like a pavlovian response to them. You will probably need to have several conversations with them before you can even name collective action.

Good luck and god speed!

You mean as in an auctioning platform? That’s legally a bit harder to achieve, as auctions usually have the rule that if nobody outbids you, then your offer is binding. To enforce that, instances would need to verify your identity. That’s easy for a larger company to do, but not that easy for hobbyists.

And then, to be federated, you would also need to make sure that other instances that you federate with uphold that standard.

Also, if you do auctions across international borders, how do you even prosecute somebody who does not obey the rules of an auction?

I mean theoretically, sure. Realistically, no. Because people would reneg on their offers, and you have no recourse as a seller.

@wendinoakland @glasspusher @janellecshane add mystery dum-dums to the list

It’s a post from the Conservative community on Reddit. There is a 0% chance that’s not a propaganda bot.

@foone Wait but... why is it all white? The colour white wasn't invented until about 2006.

@joncounts @aligorith My entire to do list got preempted by a side effect of the php2shell schemozzle. I got it I-think-sorted-enough in time to go home with a clean conscience, and if I'm wrong about that I'll find out on Tuesday....

That’s the neat part: you don’t! You need to work a lot and barely survive so rich people can get richer and have more power and status, silly.

We are social animals. When the herd exhibits general acceptance it triggers something in our brains to do the same. It is why billionaires are funding data centers to flood social media with the opinions and leans they want the public to have.

I can’t remember the researcher name, but among the many studies on this topic there have been a swath done in public waiting rooms with confederates (the name given to actors working for researchers). This is a reproduced experiment.

Waiting room. Smoke starts to trickle out of the ventilation system. How long til someone leaves? Turns out, it’s more likely for the room to clear faster if the confederate gets up sooner and leaves. Then the standard cascade effect happens as the herd takes the hint and everyone leaves. In some cases, it gets to the point where the room becomes hazy and people don’t leave til the confederate initiates.

None of life is a single variable scenario, but it’s worth digging into the variables known to influence us as people.

Learned helplessness is another item I believe is more relevant today than at the time of the now illegal, though famous, experiments performed on dogs.

I saw a clip from Jordon Klepper or similar, covering CPAC. Ranswami had just given a speech and one of the attendees said:

he said a lot of things I like, but I just can’t support him… because of 911. 😂

I considered ending the thread by explaining that anything which is published as a double column PDF is going to be the scariest shit you've ever read, because that means the authors know TeX, and that means they are going to take the intense suffering of using TeX out on you one way or the other. But then I thought about the poor innocent BlueSky users who are in the arts and potentially don't know what TeX is, and I thought, you know what, let them sleep a little longer.