It really depends on your goal. Obviously you can eliminate most cheating by a server model that never trusts the client.

This does not eliminate other possible client side cheating such as wall hacks or aim bots.

As I said, there is a logical problem to solve here because in the case of wall hacks (ie seeing enemies through walls) the client needs enough information to be able to show an enemy around a corner quick enough to make sense for a FPS. Visibility calculations are entirely possible and I am sure you could find creative ways to limit this as much as possible.

Aim bots or trigger bots are a lot harder, but for competitive games heuristic based anticheat shows a lot of promise without having to hook the kernel in a losing game of cat and mouse.

Strong public education does not necessarily lead to critical thought. I think you are right in the respect people need critical thinking to engage in a civic society that respects human rights.

You are never going to be able to compete with a natural monopoly nor should you need to. I think you touch on, but don't identify that regulatory capture is the problem. This is a byproduct of corporations getting way to powerful. I have never heard how a libertarian minded person intends to solve this as peeling away the regulation is nonsensical in its description of what is necessary.

I don't think UBI is going to be the panacea you think it is. It could easily be used as a tool of control much the same way social welfare is handled currently.

Not a lot to disagree with here honestly, a lot of decent thought but very speculative to say the least. I think expecting every human being to have excellent critical thought, a deep understanding of policy, and to be an excellent money manager to boot is a bit unrealistic.

He didn't drive it through a preschool, he took out the library which had children that were evacuated before the building was damaged.

You keep saying he was willing to kill but offer no proof he would have ran over a child of he could have. I think leveling indiscriminate killing on him is fair considering people were in the buildings.

Obviously attempted first degree with the fixed gun mounted on the dozer that was fired at a police officer however unlikely it would have been to hit.

The part that he wasn't trying to kill preschoolers that you keep implying. Not sure why you have to try to make him out to be a senseless killer when he didn't actually kill anyone.

I think his worst offense was definitely shooting at law enforcement. I am glad he missed.

That is not really how it went down. He had a list of property to destroy.

I am sorry, but the answer is they are both run by criminals.

Not trying to defend the madman, but he killed no one and had a targeted list of people who he felt had wronged him. Your not wrong about the pain part but it wasn't indiscriminate.

Propaganda works yo. If you know someone is spreading misinformation it is important to address it otherwise it will grow in popularity.

I think you are under the assumption that perhaps everyone critically examines everything they hear rather than just accepts it. Or perhaps just a general belief in the march of progress will keep things balanced.

Due to barrier to entry you can't just challenge whatever company or political movement you want. I have always noticed that libertarians think that everything works like a very small town where anyone has the political or business agency to do whatever they want. It is a cute way to view the world for sure.

I don't think voting by your wallet is effective in everyday life or even as a political tool. First, the votes are extremely unequal when distributed. Second, companies and politicians routinely ignore consumer preferences, wants, and needs. Third, it shifts the burden to the individual which holds the least power to affect change unless they are wealthy.

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-09-13-consumption-choices-marginal-benefits-66edd5d9a82e

Why?

If you can't write your game in a way to prevent cheating it really doesn't matter.

I would argue that the only way to ensure trust in the competitive arena is to open source.

Could you imagine sports being played without defined rules?

Cheating is about a design challenge related to how clients and servers communicate and has nothing to do with the source code being public.

EEE

Embrace

Extend

Extinguish <- we are here

Tired of knowing the people on my life who have been killed by guns. We now lose thousands of children every year to gun violence. It is the number one killer of children in the US now.

One of these things is not like the others.

Your paying for the experience people! /s