whotookkarl

whotookkarl, 12 days ago

Which anarchist said that?

whotookkarl, 12 days ago

My understanding is that anarchy isn’t about the lack of any authority, it’s the lack of unearned authority or unearned authoritative hierarchy. If the members of a community choose to use a democratic process to elect individuals to hold some specific authority for an amount of time that doesn’t stop being anarchy. It stops being anarchy when individuals capture or hold authority not granted by a dictate from the community. There are some issues with how a species like humanity could be governed under anarchy, but enforcing rights isn’t a necessary problem.

whotookkarl, 12 days ago

Yeah no sweat I’m not an authority on anarchy if you’ll excuse the pun and plato.stanford.edu/entries/anarchism/ is probably going to be a better source

I think the biggest difference between what I was describing and a state is the individuals elected are not part of any governing body or political party and are granted authority by a community for a specific purpose/job.

In general and broadly somewhere between ‘that’s Diane we elected her during the last community meeting to take care of the roads for the next 5 years based on community funds because she’s got some good ideas on how to do that we mostly agree on’ and ‘the person you elected is a member of a governing body representing a political party following a bureaucracy of processes and they’re in charge of police, education, roads, etc so if you want anything done get your wallet ready for lobbying and if you try to fix that pothole yourself it’s illegal’ a line is crossed.

whotookkarl, 12 days ago

Which anarchist said everyone had to get along? You’re building a straw man nobody is actually advocating for.

If you need an example of how a system of agreement across large groups that sometimes violently disagree can work without any governing body see bitcoin and the block chain ledger it maintains. You don’t need 100% agreement to maintain the integrity of the ledger, just 51%.

whotookkarl, 13 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

Old episodes of thunder in Paradise

whotookkarl, 13 days ago

Interferometers are moving to space launches, maybe colliders need to do the same if they keep growing bigger

whotookkarl, 13 days ago

Let’s show Saturn who can do rings better

whotookkarl, 13 days ago

Most people are susceptible to scams like MLMs otherwise they wouldn’t keep running the same scam. It doesn’t mean you’re smart or dumb, you just may not be aware of the social engineering and manipulation tactics they use or lack an effective skeptical epistemology to avoid accepting claims without good justification. Most people who are in a cult don’t realize the organization they are in is a cult. I have an otherwise very intelligent sibling who fell for the essential oils MLM scam. They often use tactics and language similar to cults: in group/out group tribalism, indoctrination, isolation, love bombing, fear and hate mongering, etc.

whotookkarl, 13 days ago

20+ hosts trying to connect to for JavaScript, no transcript or article just a video. But I find it unlikely many Jewish people are looking for voting advice anyway from a rapist, white supremacist, fascist piece of shit insurrectionist.

whotookkarl, 13 days ago

The Maxx, aeon Flux, speed racer, etc good times with the mtv late night 90s animation block. Probably influenced the creation of adult swim.

whotookkarl, 14 days ago

White phosphorus is incredibly easy to obtain in small volumes (if you have a matchbook you already have some red phosphorus), and in larger volumes it’s found in some pretty common minerals. Unfortunately the possible damage done or weapons use of a material isn’t always reflected in how difficult it is to obtain. According to the ACS 900,000 tons are produced annually & mostly used in fertilizer and pesticide.

www.acs.org/…/white-phosphorus.html

whotookkarl, 14 days ago

I am pretty sure there are subsidies/grants/loans for auto companies under other governments too.

reuters.com/…/us-offers-12-billion-automakers-sup…

whotookkarl, 14 days ago

Any streaming service that tries to combine ads+sub is just as greedy as cable TV and I can’t support that kind of shitty business practice. Ads free or sub no ads. Cancelled each service as they rolled out that trash. Currently only subbed to Criterion and thinking of resubbing to Shudder.

whotookkarl, 14 days ago

If you’re wealthy and all your money is in assets, investments, residential real estate, etc and not income then your wealth significantly increased while everyone else’s decreased.

whotookkarl, 15 days ago

Pretty sure that’s from the spiderman x-men crossover where spiderman becomes a teacher at Xavier’s. It’s a pretty short run with just a few issues and a really good read imo.

whotookkarl, 15 days ago

How do I have anything if I have nothing of something?

whotookkarl, 15 days ago

Cosplaying as someone wealthy in court, none of that bullshit flies without the high priced attorneys who can actually strategize and execute delay and obstructive tactics to manipulate the court.

whotookkarl, 15 days ago

Hate requires you to consider them first competent with shared common values that inform their beliefs and actions. Otherwise it’s mostly pity and disgust that they have no values other than authority and loyalty like a criminal enterprise, and usually can’t tell if they are being evil on purpose or by accident/inaction/ignorance.

whotookkarl, 15 days ago

It’s almost like one of the main functions a functioning federal government is to create and regulate new markets. But why bother politicians with work when they can just try to bully people into complacency.

whotookkarl, 16 days ago

I think my second favorite thing about Star Wars is the moment in Luke’s hero’s journey when he goes from knight on an adventure to learning to forgive the most hated man in the galaxy when he’s standing on the walkway with Vader after he surrenders in rotj. I’m not saying he’s Shakespeare but he has some good ideas.

whotookkarl, 16 days ago

Site requires JavaScript to view the story. Also aren’t investors always going on about how they shoulder all the risk so they should benefit the most from their risky ventures instead of workers? This seems like the farrier who dumped a bunch of capital into their business just as cars were coming onto the market.

whotookkarl, 16 days ago

It seems like the obvious answer is to put facilities and businesses in the same buildings instead of nearby. Medical, convenience/light grocery, school rooms, some community centers, civil services, storage, remote work spaces, etc.

whotookkarl, 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago)

I think for short ask questions, actually listen to their answers and follow up or share your own experiences. Now you’re conversating.

whotookkarl, 18 days ago

Our diversity is our strength, get bent white supremacist fuckers.