Anyone that bms their first time dm actually just sucks. I’m so sorry to hear you had such a bad experience :(

So you got your taste, touch, smell, sight, hearing, and thermoception? Assuming we’re treating it differently from touch.

Huh that’s neat!

It makes sense that it is the touch sensing the heat, but it’s not like a physical touch against an object so that’s the only reason I thought it could be treated differently for the purpose of this shower thought.

Corporate Dems care enough that you’re not starving, but not enough so that you’re not living out of your car or relying on the government for some of your needs. Many of the Corporate Dems probably do care to an extent, but green is what matters most to many so if you have a pulse it’s okay!

Really it’s corporate Democrats trying to court corporate donors. It has close to nothing to do with this being the policy to win over voters. Imo, it’s why the corporate Dems need to be primaried out by progressives.

A corporate Dem is still a marginally better than having Republicans in office, only because they’re focused on personal greed rather than personally causing the pain.

The image board style works well for forums, ala 4chan, but the issue with some of those is mainly the lack of any moderation. I feel like there could be a Fediverse version of image board forums that work really well.

Namely, they should not have anonymous posting/commenting and should have active moderation.

Imo, image boards were pretty peak for memes and generating original content, when there was any semblance of moderation.

How did you come to your understanding of anarchy if I may ask?

I’ve heard of specific cases of organization without leadership such as in the case of co-op companies but I’ve not heard it in the framework of anarchy really.

Personally, I feel there are some unique challenges with not having an organized government with representatives. I feel that a good system relies on having an educated populace to make decisions effectively; this is a current issue even in representative governments, like the US, since in many countries voters aren’t required to be educated to be making decisions.

Another issue is creating incentives to work and to strive for higher achievement. Big architectural projects may require people pooling resources even from those that would not personally benefit, as an example. Some people choose to do what they do because they feel properly rewarded for the effort, I think having a minimum bar of care for everyone makes sense, but the people contributing more may want more in return if you’re going to try to sell them on your idea.

That’s wild. I feel like situation 1 would be more like a 5 or 6 since it never says Grace got permission to use the coffee machine on the tour.

I’m not certain how you would classify that either. When I hear the word anarchy I think more ‘Wild West’ or ‘outlaw country’.

I’m pessimistic about good coming from anarchy in the long-run. To me it sounds like disorganized bands of communities. Without some sort of organizing or structure then I feel it makes it much more difficult to deal with natural disasters, famines, or antagonists.

I feel that in the case of Turkey I don’t know enough about the specifics of your country to comment on ways it could be improved politically to bring about good governance. I feel it’s still possible in my country, but from what I have heard Turkey leans more conservatively.

You’re describing Direct Democracy vs Representative Democracy. Direct Democracy is what we also saw in places like Athens or ancient Greece, where all of the individuals came together and voted collectively on making decisions.

Representative Democracy is what we have in the US today with elected officials.

Direct Democracy is a lot more difficult to implement unless countries become smaller imo, although in the digital age it could be made more possible. Plus there’s the matter of maintaining a militia, although maybe we just expand the current version of the UN’s military budget in that case.

I feel that under Direct Democracy you would still have the issue of bigots outnumbering you in certain areas but not so in others.

The issue with the US’ representative system is that we artificially capped the amount of seats for the House of Representatives and even the Senate so that land has more power than people. If the House was uncapped Federally, and the even the Senate, then people living in Blue/densely populated states would have more fair representation.

I think your list looks solid! The only questions I have are about listing coffee and tea on the avoid list? There are some studies that show that coffee at least helps with longevity. Tea is not as conclusive as far as I’m seeing, but if the caffeine is part of what’s beneficial from coffee then it would make sense that tea also brings health benefits.

On another note, frozen vegetables can sometimes be better for you than fresh veggies since they are frozen immediately and stay more nutritious for longer because of it. You’re spot on about local and in-season vegetables being some of your best bet, especially if you care about other things like the climate.

Let your memes be dreams <3

This is my type of shitpost to end the night on.

This helped tremendously for the times I get voicemails from people and their signal drops partway through their message.

Especially when they’re calling from a corporate line where dialing in is like connecting to the ethereal plane and expecting to find the person/department you’re looking for.

Corporations likely came in requesting things to open back up else a lot of the corporate donor money would stop. It was not a good move to fold, imo, they likely are aiming to make this a next year’s issue.

If Republicans vote against the concession then that will make even Republican voters upset, since so many people depend on having lower health insurance premiums via the ACA subsidies.

Some are taking those wins and passing progressives policies at the state level, but I completely agree regarding Dems in the Federal Senate.

If Dems are smart they would use the failure to deliver on that promise by Republicans and the possibility of another shutdown to pass positive legislation leading up to midterms.

Blue states need to implement their own public healthcare options. The longer we rely on the Federal government for it, the more likely it gets taken away at this point in time. People living in Purple and Red states will be the ones demanding it if all the Blue states are not even using it.

It’s probably a move to appease the corporate donors. I believe it kicks the can for the shutdown to be next year since it’s pretty much guaranteed to happen again.

Dems made them promise to put those ACA measures back in next year. They can light a fire under Republicans during midterms if they don’t stick to their word and there could even be another shutdown which would tank Republicans at the polls.

It was a weak move to cave this time around, but there’s a lot of room to demand even more when it’s right around midterms.

I think it’s more about kicking the can to next year than being about strategy. The best move would have been holding out this year as well as doing all that next year.

Corporate Democratic Senators were probably feeling the squeeze from their donors and some voters. For sure they’ll try to hold Republicans to their word by midterms.