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justJanne: Not really, I didn'
t take it as 3rd or 4th language in school
BingoBoingo: justJanne: Seeing as the library profession here requires a graduate degree it wouldn'
t be sustainable here.
davout: BingoBoingo: don'
t you get to steal a TP roll a day already?
williamdunne: Interesting, didn'
t realise ampersand was a gribble thing
mircea_popescu: justJanne if it's not worth paying for it wasn'
t that good in the first place.
davout: justJanne: just because you don'
t see what folks get out of a deal doesn'
t mean they're not getting anything
davout: justJanne: i don'
t know lol, you were talking about firemen, guess they're bored or something, but then again, you don'
t only see volunteer librarians in societies that "work well"
justJanne: mircea_popescu: I didn'
t start any process.
justJanne: Because I still don'
t believe it is a good idea.
mircea_popescu: i've known a bunch of german sluts, i don'
t go around assuming you're one, right ?
ben_vulpes: <justJanne> williamdunne Don'
t want taxes << so what and whatever
justJanne: I don'
t know. I have no issues with you guys building a state of anarchy,
☟︎ trinque: you know, if socialists are happy in socialism, why isn'
t that fine?
trinque: justJanne: you use should to leap across things you don'
t want to have to think about.
justJanne: So, williamdunne, you say people don'
t deserve to be punished for the actions of their ancestors?
williamdunne: Trinque's statements aren'
t my own, this isn'
t a government
justJanne: Not everything is bad, just because you don'
t like it.
williamdunne: I just like the idea of suing government, wasn'
t aware that you could sue for removed subsidies
justJanne: So no, you can'
t produce cheese and call it Gouda or Cheddar in the US anymore.
justJanne: Subsidies can'
t be what you want, right?
justJanne: They might be corrupt, but they aren'
t that corrupt.
justJanne: You can'
t pass a law without either bribing half of them,
williamdunne: Africa might actually stand a chance of doing something if it weren'
t for various restrictions placed by EU, USG and co
justJanne: BingoBingo: the issue is that you can'
t walk around in larger towns anymore, and that's where bikes become useful. And no, people don'
t steal it. Hell, I've left my laptop hundreds of times on random park benches in heavily frequented parks, never stolen. In my neighborhood most people don'
t even lock their doors.
BingoBoingo: And if one can'
t walk with leisure to all places of import in the town, the town sucks
assbot: Logged on 19-05-2015 01:09:19; justJanne: And what if you can'
t afford it at that point?
mats: wasn'
t reasonably quick in early 90s but now...
trinque: then 5 years later that's a part of history and you can'
t change that, who are you?
decimation: you couldn'
t pay me enough for that shit
decimation: one wonders why the hell usg doesn'
t investigate this kind of stuff
mats: the ugly status of officer corps is why i didn'
t stay in ROTC in univ
mats: because its "up or out", if you aren'
t worthy of a promotion according to n metrics, you gtfo
mats: can'
t imagine the kind of devilry a bent brigade quartermaster or commander can get up to
pete_dushenski: and the relative quality of their output compared to the derpy canadian private enterprises still doesn'
t speak to how poorly they're run.
BingoBoingo: Bikes don'
t have a clear niche where the really beat pedestrianism, motorcarriages, or rocket plane
justJanne: And what if you can'
t afford it at that point?
☟︎ jurov: you don'
t pay for shelter, food nor transport?
danielpbarron: because my employer doesn'
t have a physical basis of operations
justJanne: We don'
t accept fictional systems here, only ones that exist in reality.
danielpbarron: shouldn'
t you compare your thing to my thing? (the thing i'm proposing)
justJanne: danielpbarron: you aren'
t forced to. You can also raise your children at home, ofc.
danielpbarron: that can'
t be true, and only appears to be because you use the united states as your example of the alternative
justJanne: I don'
t care if the government owns the trains, as long as they are 100% on time, cheap, and fast.
BingoBoingo: Eh, Monsanto's no so bad. The only problem with glyphosate is it doesn'
t always kill plants dead enough.
mats: jurov: i don'
t follow. so, because rent is high, folks should get a min wage/basic income
danielpbarron: justJanne, I'm all for keeping people alive that would have otherwise starved to death. They just gotta be humbled by the experience; they aren'
t entitled to the help.
justJanne: And if you break your leg and can'
t work for a month, you starve to death.
danielpbarron: i don'
t think anyone here is taking the side that the U.S. is a good example of how things should be
jurov: And high rents and other life costs won'
t "unduly affect market conditions"?
mats: you're high if you think setting a price floor in a market doesn'
t unduly affect market conditions
justJanne: Minimum wage doesn'
t hurt the market.
mats: without junk mailers, we'd be paying several dollars apiece just to send letters. DHL, FedEx, ... simply couldn'
t exist without the USPS in USA
trinque: so you just breed an irresponsible generation of fools and somehow those same fools don'
t inhabit the govt and make sure everyone has savings
cazalla: justJanne, ya know what shit won'
t be there when you're older, right?
trinque: danielpbarron: people can'
t think for themselves and store away for the future
trinque: issue isn'
t the smell of piss
danielpbarron: i don'
t want to live in your socialist hell-hole where every man rides the same urine-smelling bus no matter how productive he is
jurov: and you trinque cazalla danielpbarron are talking about some ideal you can'
t afford anyway
cazalla: jurov, i would if i could, but i can'
t afford my own doctor.. i can afford to keep kid out of childcare
trinque: justJanne: you find me a "monopoly" in history that didn'
t have govt protection
mats: justJanne: b-but don'
t you believe in freedom?
cazalla: you might pay $100 to them in tax but you sure as fuck don'
t get back $100 worth of childcare when it's free
mats: sign me up. i don'
t know shit, but i can carry a gun. am i qualified?
trinque: we can imagine all sorts of ideal scenarios if we're free to disregard parts of reality we don'
t like
trinque: give me a low cost of living and don'
t tax the shit out of me and I'll start all kinds of businesses
mircea_popescu: sure. won'
t last. by the very nature of what unprotected sex is, it won'
t last.
mircea_popescu: just like - unprotected sex works fine "in those places where syplhilis hasn'
t appeared yet".
mircea_popescu: no, it doesn'
t. that's the fallacy of "we can'
t compare to any alternatives, as thery don'
t exist - so it works fine!!1"
mircea_popescu: you don'
t expect every kids have equal chances, because that removes any incentive for you to do anything.
trinque: best stated by mircea_popescu re: reproduce until there isn'
t anything extra, then divide it all until dead