@freeschool -- radical unschooler here. 👋🤠 I'm definitely vibing with what you're saying here.
We've found that helping cultivate the courage to handle difficult things, as well as nurturing joy and ease whenever possible, helps create that balance. :)
Wow! I didn't expect many Poast users to boost this post, given that a lot of them have Telescam IDs in their bios.
I'm a little late to this, but I feel the need to mention it because I feel like these people are just going to move to Telegram, if they already haven't.
Telegram is NOT a better alternative to Discord. It asks for your phone number (huge red flag), lies about being end-to-end encrypted (encryption is done server-side), is centralized, and not entirely FOSS (server-side software is closed source). Look into decentralized/self-hosted solutions instead.
I personally recommend hosting an XMPP server. Install an XMPP server stack that supports multi-user-chats and host your discussions there. With XMPP, you can sign up for an account on any server and talk to anyone, including people from other servers. There are even modernized web-clients like Movim which make it more user friendly.
For private/direct messages, you can also end-to-end encrypt them using OMEMO. Just don't use them for public MUCs or you will end up having problems. You really don't need to encrypt a public chat anyway.
If you need help running an XMPP server, Mental Outlaw made a video on it.
https://invidious.poast.org/watch?v=Ot_EmQ8xdJw
Really, even an IRC channel or an AJAX webchat/shoutbox is better than Discord or Telegram.
#SweetBabyInc #GamerGate #GamerGate2 #Discord #Telegram #XMPP #Privacy #Decentralization
Taxation would probably be somewhat more moral if the penalty for not paying them was either:
a.) Exile from the city/country - This really can only be done in small countries or city-states like The Republic of Cospaia back in the 1400s. I can't see a large country like the US implementing such thing.
b.) Denial of government services - This would effectively render the government a private service, but I'd expect the government would try to ban any non-government organization from forming competing services, otherwise you would effectively have an anarcho-capitalist or panarchist system. You would also have some socialists object to this as this would also make free healthcare or UBI impossible and the rich can simply not pay taxes by just hiring private security, doctors, etc for themselves, but they pretty much already do that anyway.
i wish i had the balls to commit tax fraud. i hate the fact that if i don't shell out for the government to bomb children in other countries i might get fucking sent to prison. you know maybe if i wasn't balls deep in making a game right now i'd do it because i honestly don't really have anything else to lose.
fuck my last job for making me use a 1099 too that's pretty retarded. make the little guy pay the taxes for you.
>There are traces of platinum dust on city streets.
Better start street-sweeping!