NaibofTabr

Fuck humanity

Well not all at once, you gotta pace yourself. Also, y'know, wrap it up.

Rocky Mountain RepRap Festival - a 3D printing focused maker convention in Loveland, CO

California Extreme - a pinball and arcade game show, with all machines in free play mode, held in Santa Clara, CA

DEF CON - in Las Vegas, NV

DundraCon - an RPG-focused gaming convention, also in Santa Clara, CA

KublaCon - a board & tabletop game convention, now held twice a year in Burlingame, CA

Maker Faire Bay Area - maker fair held in Vallejo, CA

Golden State Pinball Convention - pinball convention held in Lodi, CA

Workers are better at managing resources than bosses who haven't spent a day in the field.

But a worker who works in e.g. growing potatoes is not better at managing distribution across multiple counties. Those are different task areas, and logistics networks are not flat organizations, they require management.

If you'll re-read my previous post you'll see that my point is mostly about infrastructure, not about the expertise in producing any particular food. It's the infrastructure that allows production and distribution scale, to the point where agriculture represents ~1% of labor. A lot of people (99%) are able to spend their time doing other productive things besides growing food, and are still able to eat. That is a highly successful system.

Food is wasted due to being commercially unviable.

Food is also wasted due to logistics problems. It's great that you can produce so much food that you can give some of it away, but can you give some of it away two states over? The people who would most benefit from the excess food you produce don't live in your zip code.

I find the argument strange that under anarchy there would be no technology or infrastructure.

1. I said nothing about technology. I'm addressing that here and I'm going to ignore it as a straw man.
2. Infrastructure never works as a flat organizational structure. It requires management and oversight. It requires overall design, a broad range of skillsets, and long-term maintenance. At some point someone has to make decisions about which experts put their expertise where and when, and which spare parts are most critical for which areas, and you cannot wait for the entire community affected by those decisions to make a collective decision. The infrastructure will rot before useful choices are made. Someone (one) must make management decisions about where other people spend their time and effort on which resources.

I believe what you are referring to there is a state. States enforce laws at a large scale. All anarchists oppose the existence of states.

I think you're attempting to derail my point by implying that the existence of the state is necessarily unethical. I don't buy that. Some actions that are necessary for public good (e.g. operating a hospital) require collective organization and public funding, which would be a government in fact regardless of how you might try to relabel it.

My point is that preventing violence in totum, not only at the international level but also the interpersonal level, would require enforcement such that no person could act without prior approval from the enforcer (everyone would have to be watched all the time). This is different from normal law enforcement.

It is everyone's responsibility to oppose hierarchical authority wherever it appears.

This line of thinking is pointless. If something is everyone's responsibility in theory then it is no one's responsibility in practice.

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Hopefully the energy of this reaction won't be scattered among too many alternatives, although some amount of scattering is always good.

It's traditional:

Best of luck with that mate. Do you know how many different cross-shaped drives there are already?

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

And if you really want to get upset about confused standards you should read the section of the Talk page about why JIS B 1012 was removed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_screw_drives

They ARE distinct from standard Phillips, and posidrive. If one tries to use Phillips on them you'll likely strip the head.

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As discussed, the previous paragraph was wrong and (as of now) uncited, so it was removed. No information is better than wrong information.

so wake me up when it's all over...