Too many M states, shoulda diversified.

Petey Potatotown is truly awful, and the sad part is that he barely stands out from the awful crowd.

Pretty accurate and also pretty sad.

You’re saying that we shouldn’t have environmental regulations because all it accomplishes is polluting somewhere else? As if industry doesn’t exist in places where they aren’t allowed to dump all their waste in the nearest river?

Crumbling to the far-right would not be an improvement. “Different but worse” should not be a desirable outcome.

If I’m honest, your point is being let down by your grammar.

The state polices on a societal scale to the benefit of the public all the time. Environmental and safety regulations on businesses is one of the most obvious and successful. We can see historically and currently that, without the credible threat of legal consquence, people will just leave their trash wherever or over-harvest fish and game or accidentally set fire to a forest. Like, it happens anyway all the time but on a smaller scale.

Late-capitalism mostly describes how everything is commodified and owned by a handful of multinational megacorps. It’s got nothing to do with the specifics of Bronze Age mercantilism, nor much to do with the definition of government nor heirarchal systems within society. Regulatory capture is a big problem but that’s not unique to the current system. Without the current governments these corporations would just be cyberpunk Corporate States at best or warlords at worst.

Anarchist communism, in my opinion, doesn’t scale well beyond the neighborhood and is rubbish at the kinds of efficiencies needed to sustain billions of people.

For a simple cold water model, sure. Maybe theirs is heated and needs a second water line run to the main plumbing, or a power cable somewhere which can be awkward in a bathroom.

And then three people say to the fourth, “stop driving your car through this garden” and there aren’t laws or courts to handle the dispute so instead they use violence or intimidation.

People cannot self-police on a societal scale.

That’s an over-simplification. Marx’s stateless society was a prediction of the natural outcome of a post-capitalist world and is probably the most utopian aspiration of the philosophy.

Communism does not mean “no government”. You need a government. Or rather, whatever system of decision-making and distribution emerges is the government. Any form of cooperation and collective agreement is government. Don’t tell the anarchists, they won’t get it.

It doesn’t have to be heirarchal in the same way but ultimately if you live in a society then at some point someone is going to tell you what to do.

No computer at all? Gonna have to track down something with a carburetor and hope it still runs. The newest you’re gonna find is a 1991 Oldsmobile.

Republicans are currently making it harder for left-leaning populations to vote, by closing polling stations in urban areas or opposing vote-by-mail. Automatic voter registration is being actively resisted. That is “why”.

Voter registration became a thing in the 1800s to limit the voice of immigrants, adopted state by state.

Oregon first, and about a dozen other states since, have made registration automatic when you get a driver’s license or state ID.

So yeah it’s pretty much always been like this.

Republicans do better in elections with low voter turnout because old white people vote at disproportionately high rates.

Ironic, considering Transformers was literally made to sell Japanese toys.

I worked at GameStop when Farmville was big. Regularly had older women come in and spend $40 to $100 dollars on Farmville cards. A couple of these women came in every week, outspending almost every “traditional” gamer I knew.

They work very well if you’re trying to identify and classify plants.

Peanuts growing underground is also really weird. Very few plants hide their fruit like that.

Carrots, corn, and peas all poke holes in that definition. It’s a culinary definition but also an arbitrary and subjective one, trying to define rules just makes it more ridiculous.

That’s how Musk names everything. He loves the letter X, he named the Tesla models “S”, “3”, “X”, and “Y”, the Cybertruck, his five most recent children including “Techno Mechanicus”… He’s absolutely unfit to be in charge of anything.

Back in the Old Days of the internet we used stuff like message boards and “webrings” which was a bunch of sites linking to each other (if you like my stuff, check out my friends!), everything was word-of-mouth. It intersected pretty strongly with real world nerd shit, connecting at conventions or colleges. I don’t think the normie internet could exist like that, it was just hobbyists and hikikomori types.

Definitely not true for gen 2, and I imagine gen 1 was the same. I had to change those batteries with a melted pen.