Same, I don’t understand how schools can weasel their way out of federal holidays so easily lol.

I don’t know why but those ice cream things make me physically sick to look at sometimes. That amount of sugar in one sitting is borderline lethal for me.

Yeah but going on and on for hours without the other person speaking at all, repeating variations on the same information over and over, that’s annoying. I’ve seen it a lot.

Some people think their partners are emotional dumpsters, it’s a toxic trait for sure

Can we also stop calling mods “reloaded” and the like when they’re really just visual updates? Nothing about that screams “reloaded” to me!

Removed by mod

Because you ham in the burger out hot eat the burger

Cities and rural areas shouldn’t have the same laws so blow away IMO.

I was being hyperbolic lol. I just like it.

Honestly if Microsoft reintroduces the skeuomorphic UI I’ll tolerate any bullshit they pull. It’s just objectively pretty IMO.

Also this start menu doesn’t have nearly enough useless negative space. Here is my work Win11 start menu for comparison:

Right?? It was even in an episode of The Boys.

I had to do some serious convincing to inform my mom about the CIA’s involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking.

I was a borderline neo-nazi 9 years ago, I literally cannot do this because I scrubbed all evidence of those times. Being a socially isolated white male teenager can do things to you.

Lazy anti-vegan post boooo

Research projects and work mostly.

A good way to visualize large numbers of tabs (like with tree or panorama tabs), an ad blocker (Mozilla is supposedly privacy-focused but doesn’t have this), and a way to group tabs without having them in containers.

The size of a nation doesn’t inherently determine the success of socialism. There have been historical examples of relatively small nations with socialist-inspired policies and economic structures that achieved positive outcomes. I was moreso making the point that nations are different from communes existing within capitalist nations on a variety of levels.

Socialist principles can be applied at different scales. Micronations and small nations can focus on social programs, resource distribution, worker-ownership, etc., regardless of their size.

For taxes, while infrastructure and services are vital, a truly communist system wouldn’t depend on taxation in the traditional sense. The idea is for the community to directly produce the goods and services it needs. Again, this runs into conflict when a commune needs to exist in a capitalist framework.

Commune members would contribute their labor and skills, and in return, directly receive what they need. This minimizes the need for a complex tax system as seen in capitalist societies.

Regarding financial integration, a communist system wouldn’t rely on traditional capitalist financial models focused on competition. Trade and international exchange would likely be based on cooperation and needs fulfillment instead of pure profit motives.

The challenge lies in managing the complexity of large-scale bartering or exchange systems on an international level, but it’s not necessarily impossible. For a small commune in a capitalist nation, though, I can’t see that ever happening.

For land, the issue isn’t about violently seizing property, but rather transforming the concept of ownership itself. In a communist model, the means of production would be collectively owned by the community.

For the legal stuff: you’re right! Legal structures exist to support collective ownership (co-ops, land trusts, etc.). The issue is how those structures interact with a dominant capitalist system and its legal frameworks.

For anticommunist interference, yes it is illegal but when has that ever stopped anyone from harassing their political opponents?

Hope that answers most of your questions!

Funny related story: someone in my city signed up for a mortgage but used my phone number on accident. I got 40 spam calls the first day, and still get calls about it years later. I even got a message from one of his friends one time looking to catch up. His name is Brian and he works at a local restaurant as the GM, I learned all this just from info fed to me by third parties.

Giving you a real answer, there are many barriers stopping people from making communes in capitalist nations. There are problems with land and property ownership, financial integration with the capitalist system, taxes, and pressures from anti-communists.

Communist nations, as compared to small local communes, have the advantage when it comes to resource allocation, bureaucracy, and stability due to scale.

Basically, starting a small commune isn’t really that practical when you’re surrounded by capitalism on all sides, and isn’t really what people mean when they talk about a communist society. You can’t really have the labor distribution, property, or means of production structures Marxists talk about without a central government at the scale of a nation.

You were polite to the AI. It will spare you.