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Oh. Time for a fork. -ND variants are not Free Software / Open Source.

While I understand and respect his feeling, in my limited experience, people that don't like when distributions package their software are often deranged.

Still, if you are using OS packages, your first stop should be OS fora / bug trackers, not upstream. Whoever is producing the distro/OS packages should engage with upstream if and when that's necessary. Upstream, especially small upstreams, really shouldn't be expected to deal with the craziness of Nix, Arch, Debian, and SteamOS all at the same time.

Users are, IME, mostly annoying. Sometimes (not often) I'm glad none of my software has any. At least at work I can point at the Teams / Slack / Jira conversation to prove they specifically asked for something completely different last week and I implemented that.

"finite" stands up to that scrutiny, but it also doesn't mean a lot. The volume of space within 1m of any photon ever emitted from the Sun is finite, but it's not small on many scales.

If you have an additional 3% of the population come in as new immigrants, no one would even notice resources were spread more thin, just like they don't notice a 3% inflation most years. I don't think most countries are experiencing that level of immigration, including extra-legal immigration.

The hierarchy is natural and good and all ills are due to someone violating the hierarchy.

Therefore, laws are only useful when they support the hierarchy.

Any efforts to make society less hierarchical and more equitable are either (a) lies in an attempt to climb the hierarchy (b) doomed to failure and disastrous to the participants because it's against the (natural and good) hierarchy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agzNANfNlTs&list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ&index=11

EDIT: The above is meant as a satire of the conservative thought process, and does not reflect my beliefs (most of the time).

I think this is the core problem, but you could allow freedom of movement without completely eliminating real estate.

On land you don't own, you could be restricted to "leave only footprints, take only memories" and we could still mostly eliminate administrative borders.

Good fences make good neighbors

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/150774/robert-frost-mending-wall :

Because the neighbor gets the last word, it’s possible to read “Good fences make good neighbors” as the poem’s straightforward message. A more complex reading, alert to Frost’s ironic style, would side firmly with the speaker. In this view, the speaker nurses a healthy suspicion of barriers that serve no clear purpose; he is open to communication and new ideas, wary of anything that arbitrarily divides people

Dr., this is Captialism; that level of empathy is toxic.

Last time I checked, BTC transaction fees were prohibitively high to pay for 80$ AAAA games with them, and WAY too high to pay for a 5 USD single-developer itch.io game.

I haven't looked at other Crypto in a while. I made some money off BTC, but I think it is wildly overvalued for a long time, and I've been disappointed in how un-currency-like other alternatives were, even those that have been around long enough that they are unlikely to be rug-pulls.

That said, if you need to get paid and Visa/MC won't let you use them, I'm not going to attack you (too hard) for accepting Crypto. They are bad systems, but we live in Captialism, so you gotta get paid. They might be the least-worse system that is global and isn't Visa/MC. I'm unlikely to buy your product that way, tho; I'm more likely to pirate than I am to participate in cryptocurrency again.

I also thought it a good idea at one point. I've since been convinced otherwise.

BUT, I do think we need some way for intolerant people to be stripped of the political power of the vote. I just can't figure out a way it could possibly be implemented without being weaponized against the marginalized. It may be better to implement it and attempt "constant vigilance" -- it seems like there are already necessary system that can be so weaponized that still do more good than harm.

Because if we dehumanize persons, we are also fascists.

That said, Trump has gotten more than due process. He should be serving a sentence for he 43 (?) felony convictions, it is a miscarriage of justice for the sentence to have been nothing. And, that's not the only example of "the system" being corrupt in his favor.

While I still hope for reform, revolution is appropriate ever since SCOTUS ruled on presidential immunity (yes, under Biden).

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refute thier claims

That's what the defense is supposed to be attempting in an adversarial trial system.

My current bias is that an adversarial system is a good way to actually achieve justice, but I'd be open to learning about non-adversarial criminal trials.