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submitted 11 months ago by HarryLime@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah, I agree. I am actually looking forward to the U.S elections for that reason alone.

I think that we are a community capable of creating/researching/curating some great content. Ukraine/Russia has been a great example.

I just think that we should get into issues that aren't necessarily the hot topic of the moment.

I am actually tempted to put some feelers out for the starting of a community researching project. I think we have a varied knowledge base and if we could put our collective minds to use in mapping the history of a country/region/issue in a similar way to the Ukraine stuff. Even with the Ukraine stuff, there are so many great takes and stats that go under the radar that I think are worthy of preservation, fact checking, and then acceptance into the mega-folder/document.

[-] DictatrshipOfTheseus@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago

I am actually tempted to put some feelers out for the starting of a community researching project. I think we have a varied knowledge base and if we could put our collective minds to use in mapping the history of a country/region/issue in a similar way to the Ukraine stuff.

I think this is an excellent idea and believe that @SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net has said something very similar. It was the major impetus behind the COTW thing that was started a few weeks back. It might be worth hitting him up to discuss further.

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

COTW?

[-] DictatrshipOfTheseus@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Country of the week.

After some discussion in the last megathread about building knowledge of geopolitics, some of us thought it might be an interesting idea to have a Country of the Week - essentially, I/we choose a country and then people can come in here and chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants, related to that country. More detail in this comment.