No matter what system you have, the luck of the draw will give some people more powerful hands than others. If that is enough to destroy your system, then your system can never be implemented in reality.

The self-managing community would have inequality, but its organisatory principles would address that inequality in the same way that they would address an inequality that is caused by natural randomness. If that method of addressing inequality is more empowering for the community than capitalist democracy, then the community would gain in power relative to capitalist communities. This inspires other communities to likewise empower themselves, and either together or alone they can fight off police action and start a revolution.

Sorry, I was trying to make a reference to an image macro. What I was trying to express is that I didn’t understand the explanation.

I’m not American, and no.

The worst HOAs are in low density American suburbs. The most healthy communities are always high density working class neighborhoods - the sort that keep getting gentrified into oblivion because everyone wants to live there.

It’s easier to make passenger jets now than in the bronze age. Automation reduces the necessary amount of labor even if it doesn’t eliminate it entirely.

It would be cool if you could get tickets for showings with either yelling or no yelling.

Besides, better working conditions for the team means more mentally healthy workers means a better and more creative product.

Burnout and depression are natural responses to a disconnect between what you do and what you care about. Their psychological/physiological purpose is to get you to stop and rethink your life at a deep level. There are many questions that you don’t typically think about, like “why am I still participating in this economy”, “is it ethical for me to pay taxes”, “do I need to prepare for civil war”, or “how do I build up contacts in underground railroads” that your body knows have non-trivial answers in this scenario.

Chimpanzees have politics and tyrants, which means that our ancestors have had to deal with tyrants for at least 10 million years or at least 400,000 generations. We can feel in our blood when other tribe members are scrounging for sharp rocks to bludgeon us to death in the night, and it is only natural to withdraw from business as usual and rethink our options.

Representative democracy is a lie, but if they let you vote you can still use that vote to help choose your adversary. Better a genocidal ‘centrist’ than a genocidal fascist, at least until the left is strong enough that they could take the right in a fight credibly enough for the ‘centrists’ to pick the left.

> there being a vote in 2028

good one

It’s common sense from an outsider perspective that any organization that expects children to pledge allegiance to it 3000 times before adulthood is loaded with propaganda and the kids that graduate from that aren’t going to have proper common sense.

And just because other countries aren’t as obviously villainous about it doesn’t make their standardized textbooks and their corporate media (much of it imported from the propaganda empire above) that much less propagandistic.

So it’s common sense that common sense is tainted by decades of propaganda, and actually understanding something means unlearning what they taught you and looking with fresher eyes.

So you’re right, common sense is for chumps, and that’s just common sense.

That’s huge. That means that if you’re in the tenth percentile of income/emissions, you might well be emitting less than the global average.

I say this because it’s true if you make the assumption of exponential decay. Their data isn’t accurate enough to check that assumption, but it’s the most parsimonious one, and in this case the function that fits would be:

 E = 29.5 e^(-P*0.36)

Where E is the emission fraction and P is the percentile as an integer. This results in the table below, with the numbers in bold the ones that the function is fit to.

Since a percentile is 1% wide, an emission fraction of 0.8% is below the global average.

This assumption doesn’t fit with the remaining 90% of the population, but it makes sense that the exponential relationship would slow down as people maintain a “poverty line” minimum footprint. If this consideration already affects the 10th percentile, it’s possible the 10th percentile still emits more than the global average.

I don’t have a car and I don’t eat meat, so it definitely doesn’t include me.

Sorry for not engaging with the content, but please add paragraph breaks. kthx

The program has the information, but that doesn’t mean the people that wrote the code felt it was worth their time to make the “upgrade” text inclusive to Linux, if they even considered the possibility of Linux.

Megaprojects are too small. The Manhattan Project didn’t have its effect on the shape of war in its purview, the Apollo Program did not question the value of one-upmanship vs the USSR, the Three Gorges Dam did not concern itself with the decision making process for the industrial consumption of its electricity.

This requires thinking on the scale of planned economies, geopolitics, and ideology. We have to dismiss GDP and profit as a measure of success and find measures that indicate long term stability; to redesign the mandate and authority of the UN and IMF to liberate the global south and workers around the world from a life of miserable neocolonial overproduction; to choose a shape of laws and education and social norms that stops promoting overconsumption and focuses on the best things in life being free.

Frustration at having to choose between being fucked slowly or quickly. I’m no accelerationist, but I get the feeling.

Tell that to the 10% of the German population that didn’t survive WW2.

Okay then. If you appreciate talking that way, then either delete your account or shut the fuck up.

Tick populations explode because tick hunting animals like porcupines and voles need tall grass to avoid being hunted themselves. And because cars run them over and cats murder them.