OP do they not have trains, buses, or bikes where you live?

Excited for Switch 2 emulation on Steam Deck in a few years

He was quickly ousted from his position as a popular and respected Minnesota senator during early #metoo, for accusations that you’d never imagine a Republican resigning over, allegations in fact that have failed to take out other more core-party Democrats (Andrew Cuomo comes to mind, he still has a millionaire warchest and is running for NYC mayor this year with full support of the DNC). Democrats fall easily for the virtue olympics.

Nobody should ever get the death penalty. Capital murder is a symptom of a fucked up society.

Death By Hanging (1968)

They did this to the anarchist assassins (And accused assassins) in the 1930s, too. Started summarily deporting people en masse for their beliefs or presumed beliefs, and executing people after brief appearances in kangaroo courts. Honestly if Germany hadn’t gone Nazi and basically dragged the us into a war with them, we would have done it instead.

Why don’t you access your home computer over VPN from Mexico, manage your transfers on that machine per usual, and just pull whatever you need in Mexico directly from your home machine via your VPN? That way you can continue to torrent and seed without burdening someone else’s connection.

I was in the Finance Industry during the financial crash of 2008

I was also in the Tech Industry during the tech crash of 99

I was living in Britain back when Brexit happened

Your life reads like the lyrics of Sympathy for the Devil.

New music is doing fantastic, it’s record companies that are dying. Most artists just self-publish these days.

What’s crazy is that none of the other P2P apps that came after ever had as nice of an interface as Napster. I guess that’s cause Napster compiled Mac and Windows native apps while most other P2P apps were Java jars.

Yeah but it didn’t feel quite that expensive because we all made more money in terms of true value back then, too.

Not quite yet, not all of us.

If they produced an equivalent of That 70s Show today the “very special episode of” would be the one where 9/11 happens.

Vinyls don’t really offer any fidelity over digital, that’s mostly confirmation bias from vinylheads owning nicer sound systems. But they’re a fun and sort of interactive physical medium much in the same way books are, in that way they offer a unique and enhanced musical experience, and that’s why I keep buying them to this day (It’s 1PM on a Saturday and I’ve already played two LPs on mine today, while my gf and I ate breakfast).

For Playstation games you had to get one of the nicer-quality CD-Rs and burn it at a slower speed than usual. Also I remember I got a replacement disk drive cover for my PS2 that allowed you to pull it open with a hook. I’d boot up the console with a legit disc, then use the hook to open the drive without the console knowing and swap in a pirated disc.

All good, I’m starting to realize that this interaction would have been even more a waste of my time had you actually taken my advice to heart.

The funny (sad?) part is that libertarianism was originally coined to be a synonym for anarcho-communism, when discussion by name of the latter was outlawed in France. In fact, the definition has been completely overwritten only in the USA, where the word was colonized by Murray Rothbard in the 1950s. In Europe a lot of people still recognize the word “libertarian” outside of North American contexts as reference to leftist anarchist tendencies.

But colonizing an existing social good and contorting it to become something antisocial is extremely on-brand for capitalism.

I think you just didn’t realize that’s synonymous with what you said. Private property is wealth, private property is theft… But even if you didn’t realize that’s what you implied, you were still correct :)

The thing is, there really is no such thing as libertarian capitalism. Capitalism cannot exist without the state, they’re essentially two necessary sides of the same coin. American “libertarianism” can really be described as a (successful) attempt to obfuscate that fact in the minds of capitalist subjects (Especially the most socially and financially privileged of those subjects). To make it seem like nothing good has been the result of competent governance, that it’s all great men unburdened by regulation, unbridled by law. Really though, all the coercive might of capitalism deflates without the violent capacity of the state.

It’s good to remind people that the term “libertarianism” (“Libertaire”) was coined by French anarcho-communists in the 1850s when the French government outlawed speech advocating anarchism specifically by name, and that for a full century is was used by anarchists throughout the western world to refer specifically to non-hierarchical modes of socialism and communism, ideologies that are founded on concepts like mutual aid, social solidarity, worker’s control, anti-authoritarianism, etc. It wasn’t until the 1950s when the American Murray Rothbard colonized the term to advocate for the exact opposite in an attempt to obfuscate the inseparable relationship between capitalism and the state. His attempt worked.

Ideologically I’m a true believer in communalism, a sociopolticial practice that is not quite anarchist and therefore is best described as a “libertarian socialist” tendency. But thanks to that ancap rat bastard Rothbard that description does not aid in helping most people to understand me.

Government is my job when I vote for it based on their declared policies.

Nope, that’s the fallacy again. Literally not the way that it actually works. You have to hold your reps feet to the coals. Interests that are opposite your own already understand this fact. You have to get involved at least at some minimal level, or you’ll never get what you want out of politics and will forever stay frustrated.

Portlanders do struggle with this concept more than a lot of other urban Americans and I think it’s largely due to the fact that until a few months ago we were the only major city that didn’t have a city council. They look at me like I’m an alien, and ask things like what country am I from.