taway_6PplYu5

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   by taway_6PplYu5 3y ago

   I guess you weren't in Spain at the time. Or China.
2. 32.▲
   by taway_6PplYu5 3y ago

   > it could just be that freeing humanity from the need to work takes longer than we thought May I suggest your read Graeber's "The Utopia of Rules"? We've created a society which requires us to spend oodles of hours d
3. 33.▲
   by taway_6PplYu5 3y ago

   Knew an old guy who was a navigator in C-130's back in the late 1960s. He used celestial navigation. You are probably right that this went away sometime in the 1970s. Damn, now I'm feeling old. I miss the stars.
4. 34.▲
   by taway_6PplYu5 3y ago

   So, another "pay to skip the line" government service. Because that's how you build a strong society. Instead of, you know, investing in building a well functioning government.
5. 35.▲
   by taway_6PplYu5 3y ago

   >the IRS doesn't really want you on their sites if you don't have a US address. ... This is a reasonable thing for the IRS to implement given the significant interest in fraud from their systems from people overseas. Except tha
6. 36.▲
   by taway_6PplYu5 3y ago

   Actually I've heard that the best ecological and economic outcome is to manage an old growth forest and log it selectively using patterns that mimic tree loss from non-human activity. Maximizing ecological advantage also maximizes econ
7. 37.▲
   by taway_6PplYu5 3y ago

   Not if you are paid by time instead of distance.