IrateAnteater

I don't think I can see a way to actually accomplish that without still ending up with negative outcomes. Take for example a surgeon, one who is a specialist who's time is 100% occupied saving people. Does he get taken away from that to do his time as a garbage collector? Do you tell the patient "sorry, you are going to die. You could have been saved, but we needed your surgeon to go pick up garbage.", or do you have an exemption list? And if there's an exemption list, you will never convince me that people wouldn't start abusing who is and isn't on that list. You arrive right back to having a class society.

I feel like that entire passage completely ignores the fact that last time the bulk of humanity lived a communal lifestyle, the number of humans on the planet was a few orders of magnitude smaller. It's a fairly easy setup to maintain when settlements are small and the bulk of people's time is spent as hunter-gatherers or subsistence farmers. As soon as you put a very large number of people into a city, the communal arrangement falls apart. And many people like living in cities. That genie is out of the bottle, and people are not going to be willing to go back to being a subsistence farmer in a commune.

That's been one of the goals of just about every socio-economic system, but since are not yet at the point where we can completely automate away all undesirable jobs, it all circles back to being shit.

Development cost is still a thing with software.

I don't _immediately_ hate it. It's been a while since any laptops/prebuilds shipped with less than 8 GB, and there's distros out there far better suited to running on low power or legacy hardware.

I’m trying to imagine the flavour of Oreos with salsa vs Oreos with nacho cheese, and I think that the cheese option would taste better. Not good, but better than salsa.

I’m wondering if they got France and Germany mixed up. I don’t remember all the French I was taught growing up, but it didn’t sound right. So I googled it and got “droigts” and “orteils” for “fingers” and “toes”.

You can try, but I don’t see how they’ve done anything that makes them liable to a lawsuit. I’m just adding them to my list of companies I won’t do business with when they inevitably come back to consumers after the bubble pops.