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 1 year ago (1 children)

COTW?

[–] DictatrshipOfTheseus@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Oh, nice. That's cool.