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My dad picks up hobbies like other people pick up interesting stones at the beach. He got into home networking a few months ago and has since spun up an onion architecture of networks from least to most trusted. All IOT devices get segregated on their own individual networks and the secure core network has adblocking and tracking-blocking firewalls. He has like 3 guest wifi networks. All addressing is resolved with IPv6.

His home, by the way, has one home computer, three phones, and two smart speakers. Twenty year old dumb TV. No smart appliances.

Not for young kids, there’s blood and violence and language and so on

Instant pot is a game changer appliance in my kitchen. On days where I’m too tired to cook I can throw whatever in there for 15 minutes and get a meal out of it. Makes yogurt, hydrates dry beans, cooks an entire chicken in 20 minutes.

My job pays for a public transit pass for me and get a business discount or something on top of an annual subscription discount vs month-to-month payments, so I have unlimited free public transit in my city. I’m hankering for an ebike to spend less time on the bus but damn if the scales aren’t tilted.

No kidding, must have some Hilux in its heritage

Like I’m trusting a snake to be honest

I recall that Gondor very much needed a king to return, like it was a pretty big deal that returning as king to Gondor was a necessary deal. Gondor needed Aragorn to return as king. It’s all documented in the third book, The Return of the King.

Room temperature superconductors would represent the greatest leap forward since electricity itself. Ultra-cheap, ultra-high resolution MRIs, lossless power transmission across vast distances, massive gains in computing power, much lower cost supercolliders for advanced physics, low-cost magnetic confinement for fusion power experiments, and so on.

If someone lives like a king, but directly because their wealth is earned by the suffering and death of thousands, is it not morally just to stop them? At what point is the life of one billionaire worth more than the life of the, say, five hundred children that starved to death because of that billionaire? Is the system of economics that results in that not utterly reprehensible?

We want capitalism to stop killing people. It cannot stop killing people. So we must dismantle capitalism. But the bourgeoisie will defend, violently, the perpetuation of capitalism. Thus, they are taking on a direct moral responsibility for the deaths capitalism causes.

Revolution is only violent because capitalists wield violence to brutally suppress even peaceful protests, and we must respond in kind to defend ourselves. The violence of self-defense is not the same as the violence of oppressors. If the capitalists saw peaceful protests and willingly put their fortunes aside and returned their means of production to common ownership, there would be no need for revolution. But in all history of this struggle they’ve chosen instead to maim and murder protestors.

As a snapshot, Food Not Bombs are an anarchist group who do nothing but give food to the unhoused. Police will arrest every FNB member to stop them, when what they’re doing is literally just feeding the poor. But if FNB members carry firearms, police leave them alone, and the unhoused receive food.