Local Facebook groups have worked for me, although I joined as a player in all cases. Then you may develop a network and find people that way if the scene is big enough.

Starting a band from scratch is a big undertaking. Musicians are flaky as hell. Don't get discouraged too easily.

I feel at once targeted, confused and proud

Distributed ledgers allow for consensus without trust. That is it.

That's like saying asymmetric cryptography only allows for trust irrespective of medium. We still deployed it everywhere because it turns out that's useful in countless ways. Blockchains are also not necessarily public, and generally most of the shit they get from leftists has more to do with stupid wasteful consensus mechanisms than anything to do with the principle of a fancy networked Merkle tree itself.

In the end it's just another mathematical guarantee and we can do better than "concept is related to bad people and is therefore bad"

edit : Also worth noting that PKI was a huge gold rush when it started and still to this day lots of companies make utter bank on the sole basis that their certificate chains are trusted by default in your browser

then you'll love my fanfic, harry potter and the lost cause

It's not difficult for me to write like this. It takes very little effort. It's also a bit sad that it intimidates you so much.

There are solutions we can talk about. Rent-to-own, central housing commissions, urban planning reforms. We are not getting there because you are dodging the vital question, which is "are you a shitty person or not"

I should have trusted my instinct. You are completely unserious. Hope you grow out of it.

I believed in a perfect world everyone should have everything they need. I also believe we do not live in a perfect world.

That's intellectually lazy. I described something that is both easy to conceive of and (in my opinion) completely achievable with modern means. At this point we should be talking about implementation details and not acting like "housing humans" is a pie-in-the-sky idea. You are the outlier if you think it is. You have to defend that abnormal belief.

Do I believe the current system is broken? Yes. Do I believe reform would work? Yes. Do I believe I've seen any kind of plan or actionable theory of how to change it? No.

I am trying to get there. First, admit that it's both a possibility and a worthwhile goal. Otherwise we have nothing to discuss.

Ideally yes governments and economies would serve humanity- again we don't live in an ideal world and the human condition will always prevent that.

Again, this is intellectually lazy, and completely without substance. If you truly believe that, then just don't have opinions. Don't question the credibility of others. Be a consoomer and live your life never thinking of injustice.

We both know that's not how humans work. The human condition is incredibly malleable. We built modern civilization on moral education. We should in theory only get better at that, so long as we can see people's material needs fulfilled. Historical progress is synonymous with the adoption of shared principles for the greater good of the collective.

I also believe that if these things were to be done it would involve the government- not me- providing these things. In this ideal situation I would also be allowed to buy property(or whatever thing) and rent it to those who can't afford it themselves. This means more taxes and excluding lobbying, gerrymandering, corruption in general. I believe every system fails to corruption because that's just the human condition.

I despise this idea liberals have that humans are necessarily greedy or corrupt or what-have-you, but if that really is the case, then why would you design your system purely around self-interest? Why would you allow slumlords to run rampant with no accountability? Why not remove greed from the equation and collectivize housing?

Yes that's sort of what happened when ussr collapsed- not entirely. A lot of the apartments went to the current residents.. like alot alot. There's a reason I know this. However what you mentioned also happened. And it sucks. It's not fair. But there's no way to be fair about it. Now the legitimate (uncontested) government has control of things and that's just where we go from now. Going back through history is pointless.

Then there is nothing to enforce its legitimacy other than violence. In other words, the state is legitimate, until it is overthrown with violence. I'm glad we agree on that. Lenin had the right idea.

I also disagree that shouting at people is effective. Especially when you appear to be shouting x when you really mean y.

I'm not talking about shouting. I'm talking about appearing cooler and smarter than your opposition. Yes, it's fucking stupid. Yes, it works. Welcome to modern politics.

I'm much more willing to listen to someone who lays out a well constructed argument rather than some rhetoric that on its own makes no sense.

You've given me pretty much nothing but prevarication, so I frankly doubt that.

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It's good to contextualize this stuff as much as possible, but I would say that the idea that Stalin was universally opposed to "conservative values" as we understand them today is, to describe it in outdated Twitter slang, "not it chief"

I kinda want to go back to uni, in economics, for personal enrichment. I know it sounds like a bad idea but I find that the better I understand mainstream liberal economics, the more Marxist I become.

damn I thought this was an orange in a bowl full of diced onion. gotta get my eyes checked out

A linter that just deletes all your code