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  • It's worth actually doing the comparisons to see whether car-centric living is a net positive or negative in practice in particular situations. Urban density should be a pure benefit, with economies of scale making everything cheaper. Unfortunately, cities in practice have some downsides that reduce that benefit. One major one is that centralizing services means that it's more useful to try to get a cut of the cash flowing through the institution, and so some of the gains get siphoned off. As a trivial example, exactly zero percent of car commute expenses go to a bus driver's union.

  • You are also in another world of hurt if you think anarchy works at all. History it doesn’t. Neither does libertarianism and libertarians are just anarchists that don’t want to admit they are anarchist.

    I'm suddenly really interested in what warped view of history you've developed. What social institutions and broad philosophical norms would you say have worked historically?

  • What other established constitutional rights would you support large institutions not respecting as long as they aren't directly run by the state?

    We're literally talking about Meta here. The claim that their actions are those of an independent private company are about as credible as if Lockheed Martin were forcibly quartering soldiers (err... private military contractors) in people's homes and claiming that wasn't a violation of the 3rd amendment.

  • I stopped dual booting long ago. If a game doesn't work on Linux, I find it much easier and more fun to simply do something else. At this point, the threat of losing my browser tabs would be enough inconvenience to dissuade me, and I generally have quite a bit more active state than that on my computer that would be lost with a reboot.

    Before I gave up on Windows gaming I did use a dedicated machine with a KVM switch for a while. But even that simply stopped seeing enough use to justify it.

  • I've got a couple VPSes, hosting

    • Mailcow, because email is identity.
    • Asterisk, because phone #s are also identity.
    • Matrix-Synapse, for personal messaging even though XMPP is probably better.
    • ttrss, even though it's junk software with a jerk developer.
    • A bunch of self-developed web apps

    Self hosting email is obnoxious, but it's also one of the only remnants of the traditional distributed internet that's still broadly accepted.