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Here I am replying to and reblogging days/weeks old posts because I've been without decent Internet for almost a month.

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I always get a huge kick out of communists citing "Paradox of Tolerance", because that's a footnote in a book which spends like 80% of its time just absolutely railing on communists.

So basically if they'd read it, they'd know well enough not to cite it.
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Remember, you aren't allowed on the decentralized social media network built to avoid censorship, if you don't have the right opinions.

RT: https://stefanbohacek.online/users/stefan/statuses/117128892303826886

I've noticed that the people who are the most sensitive to the most minor violations of social norms are also autistic themselves.

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for a $10 gamepad this thing is fantastic

vibration, bluetooth, 10 hour+ battery, gyro

good weight and construction quality

(NYK - Nemesis Rogue GP200)
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Since when is developing encrypted chat, email, and web hosting a crime?

The #Trump administration is criminalizing a collective like the Italian #AutisticiInventati *collective* (is it actually a *collective*?) , whose tech tools can be used by anyone

state.gov/releases/office-of-t

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@wjmaggos @thetruthaddict

What good has 'the public having a say' done? We've had roughly 100 years of 'public education' in more or less its modern form, and what do we have to show for it? 54% of US adults read below a 6th grade level. And its not getting better; the graduating class of 2025 had only 35% of students capable of meeting the baseline reading level of "proficient" according to NEAP. Math proficiency rates were even lower. What good even is a school that gives illiterate, innumerate kids diplomas?

But at least a rich guy didn't actuality teach kids math and reading so he could assign them Ayn Rand and Murray Rothbard, right?

And how do you think markets even work? Do rich people tell you what flavor jam you eat on your toast, or what kind of shoes you have to wear? The market is how we get consumer choices, government solutions are the one-size-fits-all ones.

Public education is socialist provision of education services, literally the government owning and operating the means of education production. And the results are exactly what would be expected: skyrocketing costs, bureaucratic organizational disfunction, and completely defective output.

Power is back on in my area, but Internet is still down (and we are subscribed to two ISPs).

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behead those who insult global variables :LukeSmith:

@PurpCat I'm just waiting for the DMCAs from R*. Back when TLOU2 got leaked, Sony DMCAd every community they can, including 8chan bunkers and even the fedi.

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Good advice...
excerpt from Miles Mathis
https://mileswmathis.com/revo.pdf


Contrary to what you have been told, it is individuals
who are all important, not groups or organizations. All great change comes from individuals and
percolates up from there. Was Jesus an institution or an individual? And even now, 2000 years later,
Jesus is more important than all the churches and Christian institutions put together, including the
Vatican. Jesus had no money and no publisher and only a handful of friends, while the Vatican has
trillions of dollars, but the levels of influence aren't even close. They don't want you to remember that,
which is why I am reminding you. That doesn't mean you should be a Protestant rather than a Catholic,
or that you should choose a sackcloth denomination. It just means you should never underestimate
your ability to do good or solve problems. There is no demand from God that today be just like
yesterday; in fact the demand from God is that today should be better than yesterday. Clean up
yourself and your surroundings and get on with it

@cjd The only culture war stance that libertarians should have is freedom of association. Don't like trans people? Exclude them from your covenant, don't sell to them, deny them employment. Don't like transphobes? Exclude them from your covenant, don't sell to them, deny them employment.

The paleolibertarians seem to get it, but they assume that every community is going to follow their culture norms. Honestly, I think a radical libertarian society would be much different than what the paleolibertarians, bleeding-heart libertarians, libertarian socialists, or non/anti-libertarians envision. It would probably just end up being a patchwork of different communities, each with their own culture, rules, etc. Those who don't feel like they belong to any community would just homestead in the middle of nowhere and the NAP would in theory prevent inter-locality conflict.

If libertarians would market their ideology like that, I bet their would be a lot more people on board.

I love how Reddit is universally hated more than ever, yet nobody wants to bring back forums.

@jaff He's calling him that because Framework donated to Hyprland.

"Yeah, I'm going to continue to attack the one laptop manufacturer that makes laptops that will last you more than one year." (Don't quote me on that, I haven't tried one myself.)

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