

I know how anyone could organize something so large, But a mass strike/walkout would have more impact than anything else right now.
None of the common people go in to work until shit stain “abdicates”
I know how anyone could organize something so large, But a mass strike/walkout would have more impact than anything else right now.
None of the common people go in to work until shit stain “abdicates”
oh god yes. ESPECIALLY used book stores. Shared stories have a particular smell that just speaks of history.
Update - Idea has been claimed. If he changes his mind I’ll post it publically.
I might end up doing that. The reason I didn’t do it immediately was because as cool as that would be, I’m relatively sure some AI slop would crawl into the responses and end up shared (which would make me sad) versus just giving the idea (and credit) to a single human.
power cool community
Didn’t even know that was a thing, to be honest.
You might want to read up on the fascist fascination with Eugenics, my friend.
Always the best and only option in my opinion as a writer.
Enter a homeless shelter each morning. Do my thing. Walk out a richer man than I was when I walked in.
Not all gain is monetary
Quite literally impossible to implement. Same as true “Libertarianism”. Can’t actually exist.
Look at it this way. You and your neighbours want no government. No taxes. No laws. No “authority” telling you what to do and how to do it. Great!
What happens when the road needs to be fixed? Do you fix just the road in front of your house? Or do you negotiate with your neighbours for you all to pay a fair share to get the entire road done? Congratulations…you just invented government.
So now the road is getting done, but the people doing the work really don’t want to deal with every individual for every particular decision. It’s a much better idea to elect one person to do the communicating. Congratulations…you just invented civics and beaurocracy
This person that you all agreed to handle all of this stuff doesn’t have time anymore to support himself or his family because he’s dealing with your shit, so he demands that each of you pay an amount to keep in able to feed himself while he administrates your “anarchic society.” Congratulations…you just invented taxes
Replace “roads” with literally anything else in a community and the end result is the same. Both Libertarians and Anarchists are fucking morons.
The rich don’t stay rich by letting other people join their club
In a perfect world, I would be independently employed from home (a writer, or something similar), living on a small acreage just outside a small city. Not too far away that I can’t go in for supplies or things on a regular basis, but not too close that I’m bothered by the city lights on the horizon. Maybe 10 kilometres or so outside of a medium sized city.
On that acreage, I’d strive to be as self-sufficient as possible. Have a garden, for example. Solar Panels, Geothermal, etc… I’d develop relationships with my local neighbours. purchase a half a side of beef from a rancher to my left. Some eggs and fryers from a farmer to my right. Spend my evenings in my woodworking shop making furniture and other things that strike my fancy.
Zebra F-301
I still game on my desktop. But it’s never been the primary use.
Graphic Design, video editing, 3D modelling, etc… has been the reason for my upgrades over the years. The fact that each of those upgrades allowed my games to perform better was a side-effect instead of being the primary reason.
The Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weiss and Tracey Hickman would be top choice.
An extremely close second would be a mini-series based on the novel Imajica by Clive Barker (second only because I don’t think anything would be able to truly do that book justice on screen so I’d be hesitant to even try.)
A longer miniseries of L.A. Confidential that tells the whole story of the novel rather than having to chop and streamline it for a movie runtime. I love the movie and I think how they chose to cut and edit the story down is actually really brilliant, but I’d be interested in seeing the whole thing play out in a mini-series.
Yeah. I worded that wrong for sure.
The policy of American intervention began in South America going as far back as the early 1900s, followed by the middle east after WW1 and Asia-Pacific after WW2.
“Ramp up” was the wrong choice of words, for sure. “Emboldened” to not try to hide it anymore would be more accurate.
My apologies. Thanks for clarifying.
I’m not going to go into too much detail, as I don’t really have the time for an in depth explanation. But suffice it to say from a sociological perspective, organized religion formed along with more complex societies because complex societies need more rules to manage a higher population that came about because of agriculture and the rise of city states.
it’s not a coincidence that hunter-gatherers worshipped fertility goddesses and totemic gods, and that actual “organized” pantheons came into being alongside the concept of “nations”.
Organized religion was a tool that was invented to exert control and prevent chaos when societies were in their infancy and still figuring out how to live together and share resources. (ie. who are we and who are “others”. Who gets to share our wealth and who doesn’t, etc… etc…)
We don’t need it anymore, and yet it sticks around causing all kinds of trouble.
There has to be more than one superpower. Humanity is too immature to behave itself without the threat of mutually assured destruction.
Most of the bullshit American hegemony really started to ramp up after the fall of the USSR when the US found itself unchecked. It could basically go in and fuck up whatever country they felt like. At least during the cold war, they had to consider the possibility of a power equal to their own countering them. Without a check and balance on the world stage, the U.S. has proven itself repeatedly to be without a doubt, the villain of the story.
Are you by chance the Sudetenland?
simplest answer ever.
No. No. And no.
The notion that “facts matter”.
I’ve spent my entire life believing that facts don’t care about feelings. That scientific truth doesn’t require your belief in it in order to be true. That at the end of the day, reasoning will beat emotion…
By far the most dis-heartening thing about the last few years (to me) has been accepting the idea they “facts” are “whatever is shouted the loudest”.
It, more than anything else, makes me feel helpless. If the enemy isn’t even playing with the same fact-sheet… How do you even begin to fight that?