NaibofTabr

They do this shit on purpose. Years ago I worked for the evil empire (Wal-Mart) and they put all the coffee filters next to the coffee makers in the appliance section, not with the coffee in the grocery section or with the consumable paper products. It forces customers to walk around the store to find things. And they would rearrange it every 6 months or so.

If your home threat model involves people breaking in and having physical access to your personal computer, then you have bigger problems than them getting your passwords. There’s really no reason you can’t just write them down.

There’s also Insular which lets you clone apps and run them in an isolated sandbox. It’s open source and available in F-Droid.

There is an excellent documentary series on Netflix called The Toys That Made Us which covers a lot of these. The Star Wars episode was very interesting, it gives you a look at the wheeler-dealer moneymaking side of the franchise (and some of the early toys are hilariously bad).

Some of it is kind of cool, and produced some genuinely enjoyable cultural icons… but also a lot of it was very manipulative, and you end up realizing how much of this cultural period was manufactured, packaged and sold to us through TV.

Were you planning on invading France?

So, you’re not wrong, but… these shows were literally designed to sell the toys. They were basically half-hour commercials.

G.I. Joe, TMNT, Transformers, X-Men, He-Man, Power Rangers, My Little Pony… they were all built on the same model (hey kids! whine at your parents until they buy our plastic dolls action figures!).

Growing and learning is the process tho?

Not sure about the job part.

Technically US customary units were re-defined as specific values of their equivalent metric units (for instance, 1 inch === 25.4 mm), so you are using the metric system regardless, but with weird conversion factors.

The majority of U.S. customary units were redefined in terms of the meter and kilogram with the Mendenhall Order of 1893 and, in practice, for many years before. These definitions were refined by the international yard and pound agreement of 1959.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units

You could earn 19999 pennies!

By Grabthar’s Hammer…

I’m not sure that I agree… a family is a lot more than a source of economic support. No amount of less hostile world can substitute for the social, cultural, educational or psychological functions of a family, and becoming a self-supporting adult has a lot to do with mental well-being (in addition to the economic aspects).

Maybe if there were less economic pressure overall there would be more functional families and ultimately fewer children in the foster care system… but that’s really just conjecture and I’m not sure how you’d go about trying to support such an argument with research.

I’m also curious how you define “hostile” and “normal humans” in this context.

The statement about billionaires is true, but also the reasons that people end up living on the streets are extremely complex and I’m not sure this sort of thing helps us actually talk about the real problems.

For instance, a lot of homeless people in the US are foster children who aged out of the care system:

Nationwide, the data show that an estimated 50 percent of the homeless population spent time in foster care.

reference

Money could maybe provide more resources to care for people, but the core issue here is that adults who were foster children lack the support of a family - which no amount of money can fix.

A more useful question to address homelessness would be “why do so many foster children struggle to become self-supporting adults, and what can we do to prevent that?”

Not Telegram. Signal is a better choice which has been audited by third parties and produces internal transparency reports.

objectification and sexualization

The comment above demonstrates that non-ml members perceive ml members as claiming anarchy among their values. If that impression exists, there must be a reason for it - which is that ml members do in fact claim to be anarchists.

Therefore, in the context of this thread, it is valid to point out the existence of self-styled anarchists claiming that other self-styled anarchists are “not real anarchists”. The existence of this thread demonstrates the truth of the statement, regardless of whether you personally like the conclusion or not.

If “they dont even pretend to be anarchists”, then why would the comment

They’re not anarchists tho. Don’t associate anarchism with .ml bullshit

be necessary in the first place?

Is it a fallacy? I frequently run into self-styled anarchists who describe other self-styled anarchists as “not real anarchists”.

Mmhmm, mmhmm - secret laws, secret trials - definitely not authoritarian behavior at all.

Most of the idiots are running the instance.

Of course, because there is no true anarchist.