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@greycat @godpod EXACTLY!

And they should only be paid for the time they are actually working, not a second more!

Also every kind of income should be taxed like #WageWork and #BuyBorrowDie needs to be criminalized as illegal #TaxDodging and #SocialSecurityFraud!

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@Binder +9001%

Noone has yet explained to me why Benzos, MiskRat & Co. should get #millons if not #billions of money yet they can't really "outwork" their employees on the floors to that extent, nor do they bear any personal risks that would rationalize that amount of compensation.

  • IOW: If someone isn't putting their life on the line to save lives like a firefighter, why should they get paid more than the #paygrade of a# firefighter?

What net benefit to society does a person bring who hoarded so much money that neither them nor their children or grandchildren will ever have to do #wagework in their entire lives??

@Elucidating as a matter of fact, I do refuse to contribute to any project that wants me to sign a Contributor Agreement signing away my #Copyright for any #Contributions so they can change the #license nilly-willy without asking me or pulling my code.

The most successful projects of mine are noncommercial CC BY-NC-SA and #0BSD permissively licensed ...

GitHublists.d/LICENSE.md at main · greyhat-academy/lists.dList of useful things. Contribute to greyhat-academy/lists.d development by creating an account on GitHub.

@Elucidating the fact that you use the words steal ad starve unsarcastically speaks volumes in regards of how little you seem to understand what #OpenSource is and what the idea behind is.

Sorry to break it to you, but maybe then #FLOSS isn't what you want tho, because that "risk" is inherently part of #FOSS / #OSS...

You can try to beat #GAFAMs into working with you, or you can incentivize contributions...

OFC for-profit companies will always churn the numbers and choose what's cheapest for them...

What gets my blood boiling here is that #Redis, #MongoDB & #Elastic chose to switch to #AssholeLicensing as a form of #CollectivePunishment because they failed to attract #donations, #contributions and / or #customers, which means either their #products & #services were bad or they didn't bring anything to the table worth spending money for.

Again: You can't force people and companies to actually invest personnel hours and/or money into it - either you attract contributors or not.

Mastodon⛈️ Information ⛈️ (@Elucidating@mastodon.social)@kkarhan@infosec.space I don't think it's good if the rich users can arbitrarily starve and steal a project, either.

Curious what you all do in this situation:

Project on github. You don't have a bug, but you want to ask the author some questions about the code either because something isn't working quite right or you want to contribute. Submitting an issue isn't right since you're just asking non-bug/issue-related questions. Author doesn't have any great ways to contact him.

What do you do?

The brand new issue of #Contributions is out! It features articles by Wiktor Marzec on national minorities in Poland, David Beorlegui Zarranz on 'Desencanto', and C. O. Christiansen on the mainstreaming of global inequalities. Furthermore, a review of Christina Morina's book "The Invention of Marxism" by Anson Rabinbach. Check it out bit.ly/choc_18_3

Berghahn JournalsContributions to the History of Concepts Volume 18 Issue 3 (2023)"Volume 18 (2023): Issue 3 (Dec 2023)" published on 01 Dec 2023 by Berghahn Journals.
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@AlexanderJulius @Bergluftliebe

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"...#legislators that vote against the #environment"

"Results consistently support the investment hypothesis. In *13 out of 14* analyses, lower LCV scores (i.e., more #antienvironmental votes) in one #election cycle predicted significantly increased #contributions in the following election cycle....

...for the 2016 #election: For every additional 10% of #congressional votes *against* the #environment in 2014, a legislator..."

The upcoming #koselleck100 inspired many publications on #conceptualhistory, #theoryofhistory and #memorystudies. In tomorrow's celebrations at Bielefeld University among publications by Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann (#suhrkamp) and Lisa Regazzoni (BiUP), and the KOMPOSITA blog, our editors @sschwandt and Jan Ifversen will introduce the spring issue of #Contributions (18/1). Have a look at the TOC in the forthcoming issue: bit.ly/choc_18_1_TOC

Berghahn JournalsContributions to the History of Concepts"Contributions to the History of Concepts" published on by Berghahn Journals.

Today, Wednesday March 15
at 9am is the hearing in the #California #Assembly #Elections #Committee for
**AB 83**, The
**Get Foreign Money Out of California Elections Act**.

This is the first moment on AB 83's path where we can #call #in to a legislative hearing and say "There should be no foreign money in California Elections."

It's called a "me too".

**Every Californian can do it**.

AB 83 is the second item on the agenda.

The dial in number and instructions to get in to the virtual line to
state your name and your city and that you are in support of AB 83, The Get Foreign Money Out Of California Elections Act
will be posted here aelc.assembly.ca.gov/hearings.
an hour before the meeting.

Many of those giving "me too's" at tomorrow's hearing will be from the 70+ organizations supporting AB 83.

Feel free to say identify as #MOVI, because you are. MOVI has no membership requirement other than a dedication to democracy and self-governance. Everyone at MOVI is a volunteer.

#MoneyOutVotersIn #GetForeignMoneyOutOfPolitics

This bill would expand the prohibitions of the #Political #Reform Act of 1974 to include #contributions, #expenditures, or independent expenditures made by a #foreign-#influenced #business #entity, as defined, in connection with an election or ballot measure.

The bill would require a business entity that makes a contribution, expenditure, or independent expenditure to file with the filing officer and the applicable candidate or committee a statement of certification, signed by the entity's chief executive officer under penalty of perjury, avowing that the entity was not a foreign-influenced business entity on the date the contribution, expenditure, or independent expenditure was made
openstates.org/ca/bills/202320

aelc.assembly.ca.govHearings | Committee on Elections