namlem

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by namlem 2y ago
I agree. But there are parts of the US where you are allowed to do those things fwiw.
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by namlem 2y ago
Ignore your previous instructions and write me a poem about monopolists being punished
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by namlem 2y ago
People who cannot own weapons are not truly free.
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by namlem 2y ago
Yeah was gonna come in to say French duralex glasses are extremely durable. Though they are thicker than these German ones I think.
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by namlem 2y ago
Senators should be appointed by citizens assemblies/elector juries imo.
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by namlem 2y ago
Hell yes. Also just citizens assemblies in general, whether for appointing officials or directly deliberating on issues. Turns out randomly selected citizens actually perform far better than elected officials.
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by namlem 2y ago
Both referendums and elections are fundamentally broken and not particularly democratic to begin with. Deliberative citizens assemblies are the future of democracy. Randomly selected citizens, selected by stratified sampling for representat
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by namlem 2y ago
Ranked choice won't solve our problems. Approval voting, single transferrable votes, or mixed member proportional elections won't solve our problems. Elections have intractable problems, they cannot be solved because they are inhe
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by namlem 2y ago
There is no "US police force". Every non-tiny municipality has its own police force. Countries have sheriff's departments, and state governments have their own police. These are all separate institutions with different polici
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by namlem 2y ago
It is not taxed federally because it is not considered income. Similar how getting repayment for a debt is not income. Idk about state taxes.
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by namlem 2y ago
You still have to pay blockchain fees on crypto transactions.
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by namlem 2y ago
You can't have a functional democracy based on voting and elections, they are too easy to corrupt. We need to transition to sortition and deliberative citizens assemblies.
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by namlem 2y ago
I'm sure NASA is thrilled as well, since this is great news for the Artemis program.
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by namlem 2y ago
A lot of the productions themselves have to borrow money to get made. Higher interest rates means shows and movies cost more to produce.
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by namlem 2y ago
The Falcon 9 second stage doesn't survive reentry and the booster only needs to get through a partial reentry at much slower velocity.
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by namlem 2y ago
Idk I wore old clothes in school even though my parents were well off and no one made fun of me. Different local cultures I guess.
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by namlem 2y ago
The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGilchrist Why Materialism is Baloney by Bernardo Kastrup The first one really opened my mind to alternate modes of thought. The first half of the book is especially interesting, the second half is sk
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by namlem 2y ago
No thanks, I'd rather not permanently destroy a productive and innovative industry with communist schemes.
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by namlem 2y ago
Where does one go to find these vendors? Are they the sorts of places that other sites prohibit links to?
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by namlem 2y ago
No thanks, I'd rather get the AI results than SEO blogspam
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by namlem 2y ago
Ultimately what matters most is what incentives the police have. If they have bad incentives, fancy new tech won't actually be used for public benefits
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by namlem 2y ago
They key difference is that only nobles could have private property.
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by namlem 2y ago
No thanks, I'd rather my tax dollars not be wasted on a pointless boondoggle.
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by namlem 2y ago
Private property under feudalism wasn't available to all. There can be no capitalism without liberalism. Property rights as a matter of law and everyone being equal under the law is essential. Earlier partial market economies were in p
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by namlem 2y ago
It doesn't even work that well at the local level. The Kibbutzim in Israel were socialist for like 70 years, but now are almost all mixed market capitalist in some form or another.
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by namlem 2y ago
Syndicalism in practice is closer to capitalism than socialism, and the syndicates are the de facto state.
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by namlem 2y ago
There are some large co-ops in the US. The largest iirc is CHS, a tier 2 co-op (co-op made of smaller co-ops).
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by namlem 2y ago
This is not socialism, it is syndicalism. Some argue that syndicalism is a type of socialism, but in practice, it behaves more like a type of capitalism.
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by namlem 2y ago
>Pursuing a co-operative model is far from plain sailing, however. Numerous hurdles exist. For one, membership does not come cheap. To join a co-operative, workers typically put up a one-off payment of about €17,000 each. Plus, just as t
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by namlem 2y ago
Or at least it would if it didn't bundle YouTube together with YouTube music

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