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Well, that's what I meant by my European coworker - perhaps his country has found a socialist balancing point that maintains a level of capitalism that somehow doesn't tip into pow…

Personally I'm thinking the solution will be establishing parallel forms of mutual aid and organization with the goal of making the State and capitalism obsolete and moot. Why woul…

I wrote it, and I invite you to tell me why I'm wrong - genuinely. I'm here for the conversation. I don't know how else to write on something other than authoritatively. If I'm wro…

How did you identify how businesses are worker-owned? Curious how it compares to other verification methods e.g. what my co-op had to go through to get a .coop domain as determined…

> I don’t want a vote on whether or not my bakery puts sesame seeds on the bread. I just want to buy a loaf of bread thanks. You have an illusion of choice right now between sesame…

I've been thinking about this recently: I think our economy is fake. Restaurants are expensive lately, but still, as a former restaurant owner, even the expensive 10$ takeout burri…

A lot of co-op talk around this thread, if anyone else has worked in / founded co-ops, I would love to chat, email in my profile. I founded one about 5 years ago and have been kind…

I founded a software engineering co-op. We're always interested in finding new members. https://508.dev Right now our main revenue is through subcontracting, and admittedly we have…

You've constructed a strawman of the field of psychiatry and are arguing against it. I assume you mean the DSM5? It's basically a dictionary. Is the entirety of the English languag…

I think the idea is that since the inventers of bopomofo were exposed to other alphabets, it's still considered a descendant alphabet. I usually think of descendant as something th…

I'm not sure I understand your point, sorry. What do you mean?

> "let's all get together and build some free software collaboratively". G0v hackathons in Taiwan are still this, at the end everyone presents what they worked on and there's no ju…

No, since it's a silent failure, it's not plausible. We have to assume all results we get are the actual model performance, because, it's the actual model performance as we underst…

What makes you so sure? There's been massively successful government funded and run projects before. Soviets beat the Americans to space, after all.

So, what kind of problems are you having it try to solve? Sorry to belabor this but it's basically pointless saying you have nuts it can't crack without showing us the nuts.

> Okay, okay, that whole idea of 'communism' is just as silly But the communists are smarter than the free world, at least the Americans, which I take it to represent the peak of c…

The things you describe may be problems in your country, but they're not universal. Something or set of things must specifically be going wrong wherever you live. It would probably…

> Having to work is less agency than not having to work. Both are working. One is getting money that they get to decide what to do with, the other (the wife) doesn't get paid but g…

> I'm not sure you are aware that China has monitoring operations for its citizens outside China. Sure, you and I know that, but most PRC people don't really believe in that or are…

It's starting to feel like ethno-nationalism is the answer. See: the PRC. Support for surveillance is allegedly high. Anecdotally, talking to PRC citizens in circumstances where th…

Ok, then, to give women as much agency as men have.

Well since we're doing anecdotes, I'm a sober, fully helmeted, geared rider with 8 years and tens of thousands of miles under my tires. I've had two incidents: 1. I fell over at a …

Perhaps we could move away from victim blaming, the same way we've moved away from blaming assaulted women for dressing a certain way.

And thank God for it. If every scooter rider in Taipei had a car, the city traffic would move a meter a day. It's also about convenience, btw, not just cost. It's basically impossi…

Valve fascinates me because the devs there occasionally seem to be simply the best on earth in a given field, but despite that, bizarre bugs will persist for a long time. My favori…