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@stux The last bit is translated from the swishing of her tail at the end.

@stux "They're so demanding, I just need a half-hour SO I CAN SLEEP!"

@Vocu What happened after the US civil war is an interesting case-study. I don't know precisely what to learn, other than that the US reconstruction did *not* work. The South lost the war, but won the peace. They were pushed back in the 1960s, an resurged from the 1980s on.

South Africa I know even less about, but "truth and reconciliation" in some form seems like a good idea.

@pawsplay P.S.: The whole edifice hangs on the legal system, which will take time to rebuild. After that, the rest can stand on a firm footing, and be rebuilt brick-by-brick.

@pawsplay All this is true. BUT; when people feel the emergency is over, complacency and navel-gazing comes back *very* fast. So, the worst can be fixed quickly, but the undermining of the foundations will take a long time to fix, because the urgency will be gone.

Anti-trust, food and safety, consumer rights, to name a few, they all require a large pool of conscientious bureaucrats who take pride in their work. For them to come back *will* take a long time. who@iris_meredith@mastodon.social

@johnzajac We're having a good time, but the sepsis in the commercial "social" media is leaking out into the general population. I think getting people off of those, possibly using a less toxic alternative is a worthy goal. So for the sake of the world we *should* try to grow.