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Well, I've recently visited an ancap chat where people were discussing how a charter city project failed because the next government of a host country retracted the law.

Nobody wanted to listen to the simple argument that it can't be cheaper to buy land for a charter city than to build ancap in your own town. There's no unowned land. There's no good cheap land. If you get such a deal, it's someone else being robbed and you helping launder it, which then backfires (sometimes).

Invoked NAP many times (that, well, when a corrupt government sells you something they don't have right to sell, it's both a negligible deal and dealing with a government is ideologically dirty), nobody batted an eye.

One type mentioned Israel, I suppose the unsaid part was that colonizing brown people in dirty ways is fine.

And from the examples I've realized that most of those people are not ancap, they are cosplaying "nice life" thinking they might get there doing that. It's just a "nice life cargo cult". Real ancap sort of leads you to ideological neutrality (or something like Catholic distributivism) eventually. At least to anarchist neutrality.

Having said that, I'm still ancap morally, in that discussion it's them who were ignoring the basic stated principles of that ideology. I also know that saying ancap things isn't Harry Potter magic to become strong enough to build it.

I've just realized what this family of technologies is - it's an attack at capitalism.

That word is hated here, but it's generally a good thing, with one condition.

When things marketed are something possible to supply an instruction for and to teach the customers basics of telling good stuff from bad stuff, sort of good lightbulbs versus bad lightbulbs, good radio receiver versus bad one, not very deep knowledge, but high school understanding of electricity, mechanics, chemistry, stuff like that.

So most of all it's a family of technologies good for generating "something" that looks plausible for a person about things they themselves don't do. Meaning - deceiving laymen.

So, for the commie types, it's partially good news - it's their part of history finally, and partially bad news - cause the flood wall they were trying to break because they thought it spoiled the view is being finally broken from the other side by a stream of sewage.

Just a random passing thought.

That just means 100 people are making this decision fully aware that others have to cross roads.

BTW, what's about able adult males who use cars instead of a 30 minutes' walk?

I suppose there are horrible places where you can't just walk to such distances, though.

Quality control was there because competition and customer agency were there.

Now your typical customer is an ape. They are less brain than what Apple stuff was intended for in the 00s. By far.

Quality and competition are reliant upon customers with agency. While customers are now the kind of people who are secretly thinking they are almost there in inventing a warp engine, because Claude told them so.

Growing up in Russia, my main exposure to 9/11 lore was that Tolkien's "Two Towers" (and yes, I know that in fact LOTR is six volumes, not three, and three volumes are publisher's decision to group them that stuck) in older adaptations was translated as, well, "two towers", but in newer ones as "two fortresses".

Because there was a lot of fashion to imitate being somehow connected to cultural and other events in the USA, that's also how older Russian TV propaganda focused on "terrorists" concerning Chechnya, basically doubling in tone news about USA in this or that about Iraq and so on.

It also successfully managed to show the ruling party as modern and western enough, and its opponents as a bunch of some mad old people from another age, bandits, neo-Nazis and out-of-this-world communists. Well, in the specific period of 2000-2007.

Which is also interesting in the sense of popular memory - it might seem weird that the general population in Russia really doesn't want anything from that emigrated opposition, well, because that's the exact kind of people who were the face of that government in 2000-2007, as a countermeasure to people like Starovoitova (already killed by then, just trying to explain the cultural image) and Sakharov or even Novodvorskaya.

And said general population is of all kinds of opinions and levels of education, and some of those layers and groups might even agree with those murders, but those were politicians and journalists, and these are whores. Whores are not a very respected kind of people.

I mean, that peace-loving bunch of fairies mostly consists of people who supported "pacifying" of Chechnya in the 00s. I understand they don't think that was a crime, well I do, so they can get fucked.

That's why the emigrant Russian opposition is not very popular in Russia. Well, after 2022 some more important things have happened on scale.

EDIT: Wrong thread, went on a rant. Just was very strange to remember that what's now the opposition and what's now the bloodied regime were once the same cultural entity, mimicking USA in all the wrong things.

Played Tekken 3 with my friend and his brother on their PS.

Then we also played SW : RotS on our PS2.

The PS2 is still around somewhere, but its CD drive sensor is bad, so it doesn't detect when it's closed. And thus doesn't read discs. That was long ago. I need to find it, I think I'm grown up enough to fix one sensor or find a replacement drive.

I suppose the old game CDs all have scratches too bad to play, so some tinkering is expected to make it work.

And while there was an officially supported Linux version for it, of what I've read about it, it wasn't of much use even then and was an advertising move (if so, worked on my dad, I remember him mentioning that back then).

No they can't, this is a good faith problem. Fundamentally. You can invent all the words you want and any law will somehow be a couple of terms short of covering the particular description exactly and without doubt.

You can't solve this with properly formulated laws, you can solve this with a sufficiently participatory legal system, and British legal tradition is better for that than Roman legal tradition in the first place, but it still is derived from popular power.

In other words, from societies forming the responses by networks of sufficiently pissed citizens.

The alternative was the government and big fish being interested in doing the right thing somehow, not the case here.

This, I think, is related to how all over the world laws have become very precise, literal and with plenty of special cases, which wasn't the case in the 60s even in socialist countries.

To replace good faith mechanism with literalism, which allows with sufficient power to create cases immune to law, because some special cases are not written into laws yet.

Also that naturally makes legal proceedings more expensive.

Yes, of course it's a surprise that people from a fighting military's most important branch won over a bunch of lazy peacetime professionals from a military of a country that doesn't have hostile neighbors by land.

That was sarcasm!!! I don't get where's the "new" in such news.

That's not what US military is doing anyway, with supreme logistics and air supremacy putting army into such a situation would be a deliberate choice.

Somehow people sharing your point of view in my experience are mostly men and mostly imagine it as lots of handsome young-looking people walking around in half-transparent elastic body suits in some future where everyone is "fixed" to be fit and look nice. And in that kind of sci-fi books somehow women are prevalent among characters, but the leading ones are men.

You get the general idea, yes?

I'm a very social awkward person, but honestly that worldview hints you should get out more. Again, I should follow my own advice, but.

Some progress is good.

There are two parts to this:

0. Ethics, a doctor would be expected to know better,
1. Reality, where eventually such things will just stop being 100% percent visible, and thus will happen again and again with impunity.

So, first, doctors shouldn't do that, second, ban or not, this will be happening all around us, no exit.

Cool. Proper devops like in ads. Just those people I compare myself to when having impostor syndrome trips.

I mean, these things happen, that's just bitterness.