Որբունի @ vorpuni @jlai.lu

Pas de parenté réelle avec l’écrivain.

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Can you post a short version of what you sent them for inspiration?

Perfectly valid reason to make an account.

Complaining about X.org on Usenet also was the excuse for many people to post.

Some traditions must be kept alive.

Do you touch-type with ten fingers and never hurt yourself? That's all that matters.

An empire in decline is historically more morally degenerate and bloated by endless bureaucracy that feeds off the declining numbers of productive enterprises they can tax.

Society and the State are not the same. How can it be true that taxation is vitally important to make society function then?

Voluntary funding through free markets under common law agreed upon by all parties in contractual relationships.

Because when the Fed sends trillions of dollars into the money supply and the federal and State governments create budgets they are less responsible than people doing their best to give the minimal required amount that won't get goons sent to their house to kidnap them?

The IRS is in the USA.

You can't choose where tax goes to. One penny for child murder to one dollar for cancer research is still not making the child murder acceptable. With that ratio the US would never wage war.

Taxation is not voluntary and is deployed with violence. The US also wants control of the world's financial institutions to be able to tax any US person in the world without too much difficulty.

If you think the State, choosing to ignore certain negative externalities through regulations — like water pollution — by not holding the guilty parties accountable and pushing up pollution targets, is going to get you clean water, as opposed to any other system where accountability is not distorted by coercitive rules that are almost impossible to challenge: I don't know how any more naive that position could be. When pollution is not associated with having to pay for cleanup and the financial consequences are negligible, even the stock market picks up on it and publicised major pollution events don't mean a company's valuation plummets.

I didn't know weather forecasts and bridges were more difficult for people not paid by taxes.

The grifters have succeeded 100% if you think paying taxes is honourable in any way shape or form, especially in a declining empire that fields the most onerous army in history.

Why do you think they do not apply?

Some reasons why I think they apply:

• fish are animals
• industrial fishing is destroying the oceans and sea life (way more is killed than what ends up sold and eventually maybe eaten)
• international waters are a lawless playground for every abuse imaginable

I eat fish so I am not playing the guilt game, they're just the ethical considerations I can think of.

A lot, but farming phone numbers from poor countries is also cheap and Signal sends them insanely expensive SMS. There is no perfect solution, spammers aren't stupid. Since Signal is centralised they can enforce PoW incrementally if they get reports for spam, I still think it is way better than hCaptcha which is garbage.

Plenty of gullible people out there who don't question such qualifiers when they're almost all you can see without digging a bit, billionaires like him also have a lot of influence on the media, the French ones outright own all the news outlets. I don't know about the specifics for Bill Gates, he's probably clever enough not to do it in his name if he's going to control the narrative.

The challenge of having your device solve a nasty PoW that takes minutes would not deter most people: a timer once is better than evil captchas, phone numbers, etc. I don't understand why they use hCaptcha and not that.

Open source is better for the longevity and distribution of games, also for knowing it isn't malware. I wish more games were open-source, the industry likes trade secrets and DRM but that isn't sustainable (most games have been lost over time, and we're probably close to 99% of source material and documentation being extinct).

You can charge people for open source software. Most people on Steam won't bother building your game from source even if it's not difficult and you distribute the assets freely.

Libraries even have video games including consoles nowadays, in some places. Can't go wrong with a library card.

If your home gets too cold for extended office work in winter without massively increasing your energy bill you can also use their premises just fine as long as you stick to their rules.

History books, notes with org-roam (logseq seems good if you don't mind the bloat of Web stuff and US cloud services), games sometimes (better with friends).

Your understanding of American gun laws is severely lacking, many European countries are less annoying than a lot of their States on purchasing guns. Gun vending machines would be very difficult to do legally, pretty sure they don't exist.

Guns also don't transmit diseases in invisible ways that end up harming other people, they're inanimate objects not breeding grounds for epidemics.

Use BitTorrent with DHT, no problem if site goes down.

Why haven't people learned?! It's been decades now!