It really fucks up my mind trying to say who’s the worst anarchist between the ones defending america’s propaganda and the ones defending china’s genocide. And it’s not like they’re really that much disagreeing, it’s just relatively minor differences in their analysis, they all could probably agree that China is genociding Uyghurs and that Western right wings are amplifying it.
Pas de soucis ! It was quite a specific experience, so it might be useful to put in some context in here : it was a studio making apps and games, founded a decade ago, always has been a SCOP, they started being 3-4, and when i was here we were between 15 and 20. Also, i was first an intern, and then got a short-term contract : in both cases, i was not offered to participate as a share owner, you have to have a long-term contract for this. I also have a relatively short experience there (10 months).
One of the pros was there was a lot of discussion about most subjects. The fact it was a relatively small studio helped too, both for the number of people and the methods : open-space, weekly meeting with everyone, shared relaxing time (lunch, afterwork, teambuilding days, etc.). Even as an intern, i got to hear about most subjects, even general ones like financial state of the company or which projects to accept or reject.
Another one was the company values (not necessarily inherited from the SCOP thing, but when you do a SCOP it’s more likely) : they wanted to do projects with a good social impact, and it was nice working on those. It is relatively limited though : since you have people and taxes to pay, you have to get profitable projects, and most of the time, they’re not the one with the biggest social impact. Doing projects for banks or army led to some debate, and the temporary result was that it was best to work for them and still exist than just close the studio.
A con i heard from the share owners is how to handle shares when someone leaves the studio. Two options are either everyone buys them (but not everyone may have the money immediatly) or the person keeps them (but then you have someone who owns share and does not work here, so it may counteract the purpose of the SCOP). This question is even harder when the person is a founder and/or when the person has to leave involuntary (sickness or wrongdoing). I guess it’s best to have it planned beforehand, but it would not prevent all the friction anyway.
Another con was the perception from the non-share owners : there were constantly 2-3 interns, and 1 apprentice. If you consider very low salary, least interesting tasks and no saying in the decision making, it was not that different from a classic studio. And from the owners point of view, it was kinda legitimate : there was not enough money to pay someone 100% for those tasks, they had to be done, and it would be quite weird/complicated to include people staying only 6 months in the decisions making, even worse for the shareholding. Anyway, there was some tension around this, but it’s also due to the number of workers and the field of the company.
In general, it still is something nice. I’d say the main advantage was communication to my eyes : the more you can communicate about anything in the company, the better it is. It does not prevent some problems like overwork (it can even be worse since most employees feel some kind of responsibility) or toxic management (in the end, it really depends on your direct superior, when there is some hierarchy) : you have to come up with specific methods to counteract those (for overwork, they tried to track time and to make sure everyone was leaving at the end of the day, and for management, they were in the process of splitting it so everyone would have 2 managers to refer to, in case one was bad). But all of this is probably a (maybe not so) distant future if you’re setting one up for two people, so it’s probably not very relevant. Probably worth to discuss it now around a drink though, but not crucial.
I meant any type of company that is engaged in a capitalist system, where you have to make profit just to be able to function. I’d say SCOPs necessary fall in this category, while worker cooperative may escape it, though this is just a simple opinion.
I find it better than the alternative, so i probably would participate. But my experience in a french SCOP, even with mostly left-leaning coworkers, was that although it helped with transparency and democratic decision making, it still had a lot of capitalists defaults (overwork, toxic management, insecure employment for basic tasks, quest for profit that can get in the way of your values, etc.).
To my eyes, cooperative companies are to capitalism what greener cars are to global warming : we can change how it works inside, but we won’t really solve the problem until we change how we use them. But in the meantime, it sure is slightly better to go for the lesser evil.
I’m not backing the take itself, as other said it is widely extrapolation, but i don’t really understand how the fact that cats meowing only/mostly at their mom and humans would invalidate the theory that humans and cats are the same category in cats’ minds, since they use it for both cats and humans. It could indicate that they consider humans kinda like parents cats or just parents, maybe, but i don’t see how it indicates that they could consider humans as non cats.
And Piefed too! But yeah, it makes sense to only show the software that your instance actually use, in case users have a software compatible with Lemmy and not Mbin and vice-versa (i think Lemmy, Mbin and Piefed are completely compatible, but that could be the case with future software options!)
Seems like a nice game, and i like that it’s a “censorship deal” after the anti-NSFW itch.io had to make
The reviews say it may be glitchy and people seem very divided with wether they like it or not. Some piece of advice you may want to have before trying it : it seems its better not to start with Malik.
That’s amazing, thanks a lot to you and OP!
In french, there is Dansons la Capucine (french link), which is, like many french revolutionary song, based of the melody of the Carmagnole. The Capucine is more destined to children, but still written by a revolutionary (or its grandma it seems).
A quick translation if needed :
Dansons la capucine | Let's dance the Capucine
Y'a pas de pain chez nous | There is no bread at home
Y'en a chez la voisine | Our neighbours have some
Mais ce n'est pas pour nous | But it is not for us
Youh !
Same with fire
Same with bread
Dansons la capucine | Let's dance the Capucine
Y'a du plaisir chez nous | There's happiness at home
On pleure chez la voisine | Our neighbours are weeping
On rit toujours chez nous | We're always laughing
Youh !
From what the wikipedia page tells, under this hypothesis atlantic will stop widening in about 125 millions years, and begin to shrink.
Kinda depends on the situation as always.
One aspect is obviously the civilians lives at hand. If we are speaking of a city, there’s people to protect from the war. But then, what about the people living in the territories that are to be given back ? Are they at risk of a high persecution ? Then maybe it’s worse a shot protecting them too. And even if not, will the states really hold back ? On a military basis at first, but also on an economic basis : won’t they try to create a blocus to end the separatism ? How many time do you think it will hold as is ? Multiple years is already a quite longer time than most anarchists uprisings, so if that’s somehow guaranteed, agreeing could be worth a shot.
Some deal would have to be done with some state at some point i guess, from a pragmatical point of view, every state won’t fall at the same time. So if it appears you can’t go further anyway, maybe it would be the right time.
Perso j’étais un peu du côté de l’auteur/autrice jusqu’au chiffre de 270 000 personnes : iel semble trouver ça peu, mais perso je trouve que c’est déjà beaucoup.