I asked you what you think they’d look like, and you’ve only repeated that “they don’t work have never worked and will never work” without answering my question.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/barter-society-myth/471051/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/20463826 https://www.medievalists.net/2014/12/gift-giving-middle-ages-new-exhibition-getty/

Your argument is like an 18th-century commentator saying federalism would never work to the scale of the thirteen colonies—it underestimates what has advanced. Whereas the federalism-skeptics underestimated advances in checks and balances (whose problem today is IMO with one branch just abnegating its power) from enlightenment thought and the consolidated power of the legislature developed through British Parliament, you underestimate modern social connection and networking. Sure, there are deep divisions, but within those separated groups are bonds, the strength of which on such a large scale never before seen.

Though I think it’d also be interesting to talk about power, I’m talking about the economy, and unless discussing something that much broader interests you enough to discard talking about the economy and the military for you as well I think we should focus on what we were talking about instead of veering down further tangents.

It was how the vast majority civilization worked for millennia until the rise of capitalism. Nearly every pre- and feudal state (and every place where one might think people bartered) used a gift economy until near the Middle Ages’ end. You also seem to be thinking that contributions have to be centralized, and you do need to realize that the abolishment of “hard” property is at the core of anarchism.

Either way, I don’t see how one would think the military is an exception to the economy unlike every other major industry.

How do you envision other industries get their resources in a mutualist economic system?

>EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted wants to know your location.

…yea I wanna explanation

voluntarily giving each other resources is the basis of the mutualist economy and is literally embodied by the gift economy. what resource-distribution/economic system do you think anarchist societies would have? the militias will get their resources distributed just like any other industry

plus promptness is a necessary sacrifice here. everyone can have their best judgement on whether they should obey first and mutiny later

>adds Dick van Dyke instead of Department of Defense

The 1943 precedent that established the standard ruled that a man could not be denaturalized by pure virtue of being a card-carrying communist. That would be the precedent for denaturalization, and if MAGA judges ignore that… well they would’ve ignored a reasonable doubt precedent anyways. I don’t think this changes things.

That upsampling, which doesn’t fill in the details.

I doubt that the US restricts entry based on speech more than China.

I mean it is quite locked down and something cheap enough for the nonce.

You can tell that to

Ryan Lackey has traveled to countries like Russia or China[;] he has taken certain precautions: Instead of his usual gear, the Seattle-based security researcher and chief security officer of a cryptocurrency insurance firm brings a locked-down Chromebook and an iPhone that’s set up to sync with a separate, nonsensitive Apple account. He wipes both before every trip and loads only the minimum data he’ll need. Lackey has gone so far as to keep separate travel sets for each country, so that he can forensically analyze the devices when he gets home to check for signs of each country’s tampering.

Not yet

or the MS 365 version for that matter

You can read https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/1700#issuecomment-645466148 for the decision to switch to Jawg. TL;DR: It was just the best: most up-to-date and lightweight.

For personal reasons, I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem. I’ve paused work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely.

If you think you know what happened or the context, you probably don’t. Please don’t make assumptions. Thank you.

I’m safe physically, but I’ll be taking some time off in general to focus on my health.

Also potentially relevant: https://bsky.app/profile/lina.yt/post/3lkjo6jomok2v (scroll up)

the stinkyboard is 4 foot pedals tho?

True. There’s reassurance in Bluesky plus many open-source endeavors getting that funding, though. One might look at organizations like SDF. There’s millions of insane people out there like me and at least one of them has a big-enough nest egg.