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In Heinlein’s story “The Man Who Sold The Moon”, a businessman threatens to put a corporate logo on the moon … in order to get a rival company to bid higher to keep the moon un-logo’d.

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Modern Turkey does claim to be the successor state to the Ottoman Empire, yes, and was recognized as such in the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne.

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sign.dropbox.com/…/a-recent-security-incident-inv…

Here’s the actual security advisory, which contains much more information than the fluff article about it.

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Clearly this means it’s already ended. An you sure you’re not in an afterlife right now?

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Hogan’s lawsuit was backed by Peter Thiel, who had a grudge against Gawker for outing him as gay.

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Everything is glowing all the time. At human body temperature, you’re glowing mostly in the infrared.

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“Evolution is so complicated. Can’t you see that it’s just simpler to admit that God did it?”

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“Heck, I had a truck like that once.”

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They should take down their shorts.

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Used to live near someone whose car was covered in “Meat is Murder - Animal Holocaust” stickers.

I bet the pig butts guy is more pleasant.

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No, he’s a gluten for puneshment.

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Beet is burder.

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Wasn’t this guy busted for human trafficking and rape? Was that all for procreation?

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There are a lot of better ways to come out of the closet.

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Ubuntu on Desktop I can understand.

Not anymore. A whole extra, unneeded, proprietary, locked-in package system. Ads in the default install.

There’s Mint, Pop!, and plenty of other options that actually respect the user.

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“The Electric Company” came on TV, so of course we were dancing around the TV in excitement … and knocked it over. Crash!

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C

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They learned from the poets about metrical feet!

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Free markets can’t exist without enforcement of rules against violence and fraud. Without such enforcement, race-to-the-bottom effects mean that employment devolves into slavery and all markets in goods become dominated by “lemons” (fraudulent goods).

An actual free market in labor requires limits on what a powerful employer can demand from workers. An actual free market in goods requires protection of customers from fraud, and arguably also from monopolies. Both of these require something like a state, an entity empowered to intrude into other people’s business in order to enforce rules.

Even starting with anarcho-capitalist principles, consistency ends up endorsing a minimal state: see Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia. (However, Nozick’s path is not the only path by which a state-like entity could arise; rather than from ‘protection agencies’, we could imagine it arising from labor unions or cooperatives instead.)

In gist, “freedom isn’t free” — if you want to have a free market in labor or goods, you have to have enforcement against those who would deprive others of freedom through force or fraud.

Kaczynski was not an anarcho-capitalist, in any event, but an anarcho-primitivist — whose beliefs led him personally to commit murder, and who endorsed the mass murder of almost all humans. It’s worth noting that Kaczynski was also arguably manufactured by psychological abuse; he was a gifted mathematician until he became the victim of an MK-ULTRA program.

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Kaczynski’s madness was manufactured through calculated psychological abuse in the Harvard laboratory of one Henry Murray. Look it up, dude.

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It’s not clear there is one! One of the nice things about liberal-democracy is that different people can create different forms of social and economic organization to meet their needs and interests. A family business, a worker-owned cooperative, and a publicly traded corporation can coexist in the same economy (and even on the same street). People can start monasteries or communes in the woods if they want to; or move to the big city to seek their fortunes.

But again, freedom isn’t free: there has to be enforcement of individual rights and fair trade to ensure that the most powerful & successful don’t get to run over everyone else with force and fraud. Right now I suspect this looks like some form of liberal social democracy; probably with more worker protections than the US has right now, but probably with less bureaucracy than the EU has right now.

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When I was in middle school around 1990, my family lived in military base housing, and there was a “teen center”. It had a TV, stereo system, some arcade games¹, and a snack bar. It hosted dances on weekends; with one night designated for the middle-school crowd and one for the high-school crowd.

¹ “Red wizard shot the food!”

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Can till you can’t can till you can’t can no more

Elon Musk admits he has this secret account on X where he ‘pretends to be a child’ (www.hindustantimes.com)

Elon Musk admitted to using two secret alternate accounts on his social media platform X (formerly Twitter) in a deposition for a lawsuit against the billionaire. He said that he used some accounts on the social media site outside of his main public account when he was asked to clarify if he used an account on X that had been...

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Pedo guy.

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Or probably no-mo’-sexual.

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