I like the original version better. No one should trust cops, not even police

You guys have a word for this??? We have words like Weltschmerz or Schadenfreude but having a word for this is wild

I still know my ICQ number. Back when all instant messagers had open protocols and you could use one open source client for all of them.

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Oh, (there is) no god?

You think millennials read newspapers? We are the first digital native generation. In fact, we saw the internet growing up while we grew up ourselves

Neither is the kitten. I don’t see your point

Life is terminal

It would be bad if it didn’t end with the punchline

When the program is free, it’s socialism. The more free the program is, the more socialism it is. When the source is free, it’s communism.

It’s all a social construct. It exists because and as long as we all agree on it. So it’s flexible and not set in stone, nor scientifically falsifiable

Absolutely! Potatoes, grains (except mais) and legumes (except green beans) are carbs (or staples). Polenta is too, despite being made of mais.

I thought that’s the default?

It’s intelligent to know that tomatoes are fruits and it’s wise not to put then into a fruit salad

And the concept of a vegetable varies culturally. I live in Germany and I consider mais vegetables (it feels weird to call it corn in this context since other grains aren’t). In Romania (and elsewhere I guess) potatoes are a vegetable which they aren’t for me.

I could try to but I don’t need to. The fact that you could easily name some fruits that aren’t berries is proof enough that you have a concept of what a berry is and what isn’t. Coming up with a definition would be the next step.

So I agree that “definition” is the wrong word. I should have said “concept”. Besides: what’s wrong with definitions that are just a list of elements?

The thing is that the botanical definition of berries doesn’t match perfectly with the everyday definition. That doesn’t make the latter wrong, it just has other applications

So you see: the path goes on for your whole life

There is no glory in prevention

Do you only act out of your own interests? Why do you think every one else does?

David Graeber once said in an interview that anthropologists have an affinity to anarchism because they know it works.

When I’m talking about states, I’m especially referring to nation states, hence my focus on nationalists. Sure, you can use a very broad definition, but than “state” barely means anything.

Centralization is a core aspect of states, true. I don’t see how “centralized education” is so inevitable for you? Why not a decentralized education system that focuses more on voluntariness and empowering that on enforcement?

Last but not least: Building systems in not the same as sates building. And human nature isn’t as straight forward as it seems to be. You haven’t seen any other system in your life I assume, and neither have I. So it’s easy to think that’s just how it is. The great David Graeber once said in an interview that anthropologists have an affinity to anarchism since they know it works.

oh its for Work ™ so it doesn’t count.

Well, I got a windows laptop from work and didn’t have a say about it. I don’t do anything private on it. Does that really count?