ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

@passenger

The entire population of Spain during the civil wars was only about 25M, so saying there were millions in these collectives is stretching credulity.

@nil@functional.cafe @HeavenlyPossum

@passenger

I return to what I said earlier - small groups can manage it. It doesn't scale to large groups, it breaks down. We've had anarchist groups in the US, too. Small groups of like-minded people, for relatively short periods of time. They always break down. That doesn't mean they always will, but it ain't happening soon. It would require a complete change of social psychology, over generations.

@nil@functional.cafe @HeavenlyPossum

@passenger

You're describing a highly contrived theoretical situation - one which can't exist in the real world. Someone will have a bigger gun, or a bigger club, or a bigger rock, or more people, or better nutrition, or better tactical ability.
Theory can be fun, but it doesn't always apply to the real world. Ammon Bundy exists - that's beyond dispute. So do lots of other people like Ammon Bundy - my parents as example 1.

@nil@functional.cafe @HeavenlyPossum

@passenger @nil@functional.cafe @HeavenlyPossum

No, I described how people work, today, in the real world.
Anarchy is all very nice when it's theory, or in The Dispossessed (I enjoyed that book), which is fiction. In the real world, there are people like the people who raised me. Think Ammon Bundy, with less beard. Think Ammon wouldn't take all your stuff? If you fought back, think he wouldn't round up a bunch of people like him and come back again?

@nil@functional.cafe @passenger @HeavenlyPossum

And anarchism means if my gun is bigger, you're my bitch and I get all your stuff.

@HeavenlyPossum @nil@functional.cafe @passenger

I reject the premise of your question, and I'm not playing your words games where every law is inherently a personal attack. Laws are necessary for society to function.

@passenger

Can a small group of people work together long enough to build software? Absolutely - examples are everywhere.
Can a much larger group of people acquire the materials, the knowledge, and the resources to build JWST, launch it, and get it out to L2? No. I don't believe it for a second.

And no, I don't, but not for lack of effort. I've asked where I can donate, no one answers. The link on my server, every time I checked, was out of date and unworkable.

@nil@functional.cafe @HeavenlyPossum

@passenger

And I like civilization and technological advancement. I like having a road to drive my EV on. I like having JWST out in space, learning about the universe. Those things required a huge cooperative effort, over the course of centuries, to develop. They wouldn't exist in an anarchy.
I don't think capitalism is forever, I don't even think it's the best possible solution. I just think it's the only thing that will work now, with what we have and who we are.

@nil@functional.cafe @HeavenlyPossum

@dpnash@mastodon.online

I get a strong whiff of "Walk it off - pain's good for ya. Builds character."

@autism101 @actuallyautistic

@rrogers

There've been so many ways that's been written, I just have to name it in my head, to know how to write it.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. HIPAA.

@EternalOutsider@mastodon.social @ginsterbusch @autism101 @actuallyautistic

@HeavenlyPossum

Based on results, your idea of a conversation is where I agree with what you're saying. Since I don't, your "go publicly fuck [my]self" tells me this wouldn't be a productive use of my time.
You knows what you knows, and you ain't gonna hear nothin' else.
By all means, you're free to prove me wrong - I welcome it. Show me data. Platitudes won't work with me.

@HeavenlyPossum

You post publicly, the public can respond.

@HeavenlyPossum

And you have become insulated in your little bubble, and imagine it's the world.

@UKFilmNerd

Help me, Muad Dib, you're my only hope.

@brittanytrang @STAT

Cover ambulance services. The service that *came to my house* to pick me up and take me to the hospital told me *via a text to my phone* that they had no choice but to bill me the full amount, no insurance coverage, because they didn't have my home address or any means of contacting me to get it. I'm still arguing with them about it. They're charging me thousands for a 5 mile drive with no treatment but monitoring my vitals.