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And yet somehow reform and electoralism are derided for the same fact. Labor rights were won through the ballot box in addition to the more romantic methods but you'd never believe that from reading some comments around here

Hold on lemme find the USSR on a map. I'll pull one up on my pocket fascist propoganda device

Apparently there's no historical precedent for a violent solution to fascism either

Other fun facts:

• It was originally supposed to be Washington on a horse
• At its completion it was the tallest man made structure in the world
• It remains the largest free-standing masonry structure in the world
• The 2.85kg aluminum cap cost about $7500 in 2026 USD. At the current price of aluminum it would be about $10

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The problem isn’t living lives in an alternative way, it’s that a full rejection of society requires an insular and opaque lifestyle. You don’t get qualified inspectors telling you your house is a fire hazard, you don’t have access to medical professionals or diagnostic equipment, any education/information/opinions become warped/inbred/outdated over time, lack of suitable elder care or child care (depending on demographics), etc… “As long as they don’t become abusive” is doing a ton of heavy lifting in your argument. Who’s getting let in to check for abuse? What recourse do people have to get help when they may not have transportation or phones? Are they really isolated from society if they must submit to our judgement? What measures could exist to correct abusive dynamics without external coercion? A corporation can be bad (and they might not be punished) but at least that’s in the light of day. Regardless of how shitty things seem, I’d take a public discourse about our social ills over hushed whispers between abused wives and children. We can openly debate about the pros and cons of leaving society but such seditious talk could cost you your livelihood if the leaders of a commune think you’re not all in.

You don’t have to walk out of your job immediately and never come back to fulfill the escapist fantasy. Full homesteading and flying a plane are both pretty lofty goals but people don’t hop in an aircraft without hours of practice and planning.

I thought a slopsism is what you get when the mohel pregames the bris

What making suicide a mortal sin does to a mf

Again, 90% of the world doesn’t live in the culinary cradle that is the Mediterranean Sea and Fertile Crescent while also having the funds to support a diverse and interesting diet. About 30% of the world is food insecure. Rice, wheat and maize alone are about 2/3 of human caloric intake. 15 crops account for 90% of all human energy intake.

Food as hobby or art or cultural distinction is a rich country game. If you’re going to exclude special occasion (or “rich person”) food then you’re deluding yourself to think that food in the USA is worse than any but a handful of countries.

I am not judging food culture based on what the rich can afford, or for one special meal. but for what everyone eats

I’ve got bad news then: 90% of everyone’s food fucking sucks. Hope you enjoy the fine cuisine of flatbreads, rice, and an occasional dish that stretches an animal protein so thin you forget it’s there. If you’re lucky there might be some months old fermented junk to season it.

Or maybe you’re just racist and assume that every noble savage has access to fresh fish, fruit and veggies year-round?

Things like cane sugar could never grow anywhere near a Northern climate. If you want that to influence an entire continent's food you can only do that through an incredibly unfair deal (like cash crop colonialism). You certainly don't get a ton of culinary creativity when you're paying a fair (read: expensive) price for goods grown halfway around the world. They're too precious to be anything but a novelty for the rich.

Never ask:

• The USA why it has so many prisoners
• Saudi Arabia why they’re holding foreign worker’s passports
• China why the number of executions is a state secret

Sure, if you go in with the idea that the ban won’t impact their social media usage then it obviously follows that it won’t impact their usage. And that might be true for a while, but: Declining usage compounds and any barrier to entry drops users The single largest factor in platform membership is peer membership, and the most influential peers in adolescent development will always be real life friends A cohort aging up doesn’t mean that the next cohorts will automatically follow. Late millennials weren’t tied to Facebook, Gen Z wasn’t married to Snapchat, a drop in TikTok usage will eventually precipitate a need to migrate somewhere else Global social media usage, by human screen time, has been declining from its 2022 peak (excluding a North American exception), with the largest drop among younger users Putting all of this together, it seems very plausible that child bans could hasten this decline. It would probably work twice as well if more public money was directed to alternatives (third spaces, clubs, etc…).

You can covertly buy and take illicit drugs all by yourself and have a good time. Bypassing a ban to get on a social platform with very few of your social peers is… pointless? So what if you get to watch a tik-tok from the other side of the world, none of the kids in your class are sharing that experience and building the peer pressure.

Your ISP is kind of dogshit if it’s forcing 15-30m of downtime overnight every few weeks. And power outages are kind of a weird thing to focus on. Point being that these are not “skill issues”. AWS’s actual uptime over the last decade was something like 5 or 6 9s, 99.9 is just their official SLA. From where many people live (shit ISP, brown outs, floods, tornadoes, etc…), they can’t even match that bare minimum. God forbid budget enters the equation (no money for 3-2-1 backup? oops everything is fried from a freak accident). So yeah you could definitely do OK with a real budget, a quality server setup and enough hours during the week for firefighting. But that’s not really “self hosting”, you’re just making your homelab a $0 revenue small business. For the 95% of people who can’t do that, they wouldn’t get anywhere close to a cloud provider’s service.

AWS offers an SLA of 99.9 availability, which it has usually exceeded each year. That means your server can’t be down more than ~8h per year to beat it. Your residential ISP (in a nearly optimal case) has a 15-30 min service period overnight every few weeks. Hope your area gets less than ~3 hours of power outages per year or you’re going to be breaching your SLA before you even hit software.