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zazo , 8 days ago

Isn't this just a DIY brushless dynamo? Am I missing something? Still cool tho

zazo , 1 month ago

What if it was so small and light it was only electrons? And what if it accrues its value from the energy expended to create it? Maybe using some sort of cypher to ensure anyone could verify it? Idk maybe we're onto something..

then again it still syphons value to the top so maybe not...

zazo , 2 months ago

If you don't think building chairs or sculptures requires solving "intellectual" challenges you've never tried building a completely wooden multi-axial interlocking joint furniture...

zazo , 3 months ago

establish 👏 tenant 👏 owned 👏 cooperatives 👏

zazo , 3 months ago

Depends on your region, but in general if you can find at least 3 people you want to live with, you can apply to establish a cooperative.

Do note that securing a mortgage would probably be a bit harder than buying on your own, but with more people you can acquire a larger space and split the costs that way.

Fundamentally, it's unlikely it will be cheaper than buying outright - however you'll have a community of people to rely on if at any point you become temporarily unable to pay your installments, which can make it safer than self-ownership.

But the biggest plus comes when the mortgage is paid off, as then the coop can decide if you'd rather slash prices to include just bills, or keep the same monthly amount but put the extra towards a shared coop fund that can be used to convert more landlord owned properties into cooperative housing.

In my area - non-mortgaged coop properties have about 40% lower monthly payments.

zazo , 3 months ago

Yep, the idea is that because the people living at the coop decide who they want to live with (both for existing and new members) the org would have an incentive to cooperate and resolve issues, instead of relying on a third party to be an arbiter that doesn't have a direct stake in your living conditions.

zazo , 3 months ago

In a coop setting you would agree on collective individual responsibilities so everyone has to contribute and spread the burden in a way that doesn't silo people into unequal jobs.

As someone who lived in a condo - the main issues were that because people individually own their flats - I feel there's a distinct line between private and shared ownership, making it easy to disregard communal duties.

Furthermore, because existing residents have little say in who gets to live in their building - you can end up in situations where someone can repeatedly break rules and norms (ie had a person smoke in the elevator for years despite being told not to) and nothing can really be done apart from trying to sue them which isn't an effective way of dealing with problems.

In a coop setting people can democratically discuss and as a last resort even decide to part ways with individuals who won't contribute (from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs obv) since on a hyper-local level everyone is immediately involved with the living conditions of everyone else around them.

zazo , 4 months ago

idk I feel its pretty useful in finding others like you? also how do you mean "make survey data more difficult"? like not inconveniencing others is commendable, but this sounds like internalized enby erasure?

also if you're not represented in survey data, it makes it that much easier for conservative proponents to point at gender surveys and say "well there's practically no one who doesn't fall in the binary buckets so there obviously must be something wrong with them and not the system"

as in, being yourself is the goal, but by being publicly open about it, you help others feel confident in pursuing what their authentic self is.

but again, you do you boo and I'm gonna keep being me by confusing all the guys in the gym lockers 🤪

zazo , 4 months ago

yes.

zazo , 5 months ago

please enlighten me how building an entire civilization on finite fossil fuel resources doesn't come to an end