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IT STARTS TODAY

It’s always interesting to me to see which words get joined and which do not. The rise of ubiquitous realtime spellcheck is forcing some standardization, but not always in ways I agree with. For example, it tried to separate spell from check in the previous sentence. Other examples are hotdog and icecream and doublewide.

And the lack of internal monologue? How is that experienced? Do you know what you’re going to say before you say it, or is it simultaneous? How do you problem-solve, can you ask yourself questions?

I’m sorry if I’m being obnoxious, I’m just terribly curious. I’m always hungry for experiences outside my own.

Because no one’s going to make money off it and thus no one has a stake in promoting it.

I’ve already taken to the street in protest, starting eight years ago. Anyone who hasnt yet either isn’t going to or is just now coming of age.

a pill that makes your PP go up.

OP did say he was getting older, there’s no shame in needing one of these

A satisfying crunch, I imagine.

Seriously, we eat other mammals often. Why should birds not eat other birds?

I’ve joined a car share coöp that was based in my city, but now I do an as-needed car share service.

The coöp had a (low) subscription cost, which meant I was penalized for not using it, but the cars were easy to find, reliable, and clean. I had a touchless membership card I swiped to unlock the cars. Insurance was included in membership, I paid gas and milage as well as a per-hour or cheaper per-day rate.

But I prefer getaround. The idea is people who in cars are letting others use them when they’d otherwise be idle, sorta like AirBnB. But like AirBnB, you’ve got units that are only being used for rentals.

That aside, there’s occasionally problems with individual vehicles, but it’s much cheaper, you can get a wide variety of vehicle types, and it’s easy to select an electric or hybrid to make gas costs minimal. Insurance can be purchased though the app. Changing a booking is a breeze. I plan to keep using this option.

If all a candidate has to do to get elected is be less evil than the other, then there’s no incentive to be good; instead candidates are free to be as evil as they want up to the limit of the opposition. If a candidate had to be less evil than the person they’re succeeding, sure, we’d get less evil over time. But that’s not the case, they’re compared to their opponents not their predecessors. Every time we elect someone shitty we show them they don’t have to be any better than that to get elected.

Not every candidate, but a general trend of “lesser evil” candidates. Obama wasn’t a lesser evil candidate, he was a genuinely good one.

I’ve been saying it for years and every time I’m told “but if you don’t vote the lesser evil the greater evil wins!”

Well, as predicted, if you do vote the lesser evil the bar is lowered year after year until both are significantly more evil than before. Standards must be enforced. We need to demand candidates that are better than last year’s, not just better than the opposition.

I guess what I’m saying is that an individual with lack of empathy is much less of a problem for an egalitarian society than one that seeks power. And yes, even empathic individuals seek power.

The problem is one of human nature. We need a society that works for humans, and that means a system that puts limits on the worst parts of human nature. Saying “this will work when people behave better” means it’s never going to work.

And to be clear: I think this is one of the big advantages that anarchism has over, say, socialism. With no power apparatus to corrupt, there’s less of a target for the corrupt power-seekers.

But it needs to be structured in a way that reinforces eusocial behavior and disincentivizes antisocial behavior; further, the mechanisms for those reinforcements and disincentives needs to be communal rather than centralized, or someone will steal the reinforcement apparatus for their own selfish ends.

Hell, I chose homelessness over living with my parents. I would choose it over slavery every time.

And further, I can abide a society that tolerates homelessness; I cannot abide a society that tolerates slavery. This is why the draft must be abolished, this is why private prisons must be abolished, this is why we need to uncouple healthcare from employment.

Anarchy doesn’t mean no rules, it means no rulers.

So as long as the the greedy, power-hungry pieces of shit have at least some empathy, we can make it work?

No, I don’t agree. You can still be a pleasant, earnest person who surrounds yourself with other pleasant, earnest people. You can still find work worth doing and make sure it gets done. You can still participate in routines and rituals that soothe the mind and connect us to others both in our communities and across spacetime. You can still cook a good meal and eat it. And so on and so on, there’s plenty that makes life worth living.

Yes, but not just in the dark.

Even if you do, the deletion might not federate.

Wow, fun. 3 had so many improvements over 2, but some things that were so fun about 2 got left behind in 3 as well.

bare wrist and linear time is a myth gangs