NeuNeurosis

Wow thats a big assumption that the system the user is circumnavigating is legitimate. Their are 2 "official" reasons for that system, safety and patent protection. While both have their merits they don't legitimatize the current state of that system. By your definition the only difference in its status of legality is the location those drugs are purchased and used. This is a very flaky foundation for your argument of legitimacy and the outcome of theft. Most of the time any legitimate protest against what you believe is wrong elicits shouts of "theft", "illegitimate", "think of the children", "safety". This conversation would be much more productive if you provided any examples of that theft or support for why the system is legitimate to begin with. That being said I do think the system has a place but it desperately needs overhauled and people seeking alternatives to the system aren't the problem but the canary in the coal mine signalling the weakest of our fellow citizens can't make do with the system that should be serving them.

Wow what a horribly worded idea. I can't tell if you are trolling everyone or if you are a diehard libertarian capitalist. The implications from your suggestion would imply that regulating behavior outside of markets has never existed in the lifespan of the human race. I agree incentives are what regulate behavior but leaping from child-imprisionment is bad to we should make it legal and efficient is the only/best/reasonable solution disregards so much human legacy and sidesteps so many societal issues with normalizing this bullshit while allowing the horrible shit to live and grow. This shouldn't be normalized. Maybe child-imprisonment shouldn't exist in the first place? Why is your market based idea so easily reached for instead of taking a step back and saying this shouldn't happen under any circumstance or only in very rare circumstances? Why try and motivate behavior at the end of a cycle instead of totally doing away with the cycle to begin with?

Ideas like this show a moral bankruptcy that has become so ingrained in our Technocratic elites and we wonder why there is such a disconnection between different groups in our society.

I think it has more to do with it being a well designed product. I bought my wife a 11th gen 1 year ago and it has been great with the only bug being the mousepad was a bit "sticky" sometimes. That experience, and the thunderbolt capability encouraged me to just buy the 12th gen for myself for work, which is what I am typing this message on. I have an eGPU and running 2 monitors with the machine closed below my desk. Its an amazing setup. It has so many fan boys because its a good product.

Interesting, you only cover the options that exist in the current paradigm around a advanced economy where there are plenty of individual options that you are right most people don't explore. The weakness from my perspective in your argument is that the current economic structure you are describing and which we are living in, is by its very nature exploitative. It has deep historical roots in destroying any other means of sustenance beyond what the system controlled. Cultivatable land was stolen, captured and monopolized at the expense of those relying on those sytems. Means of sustenance have been continually destroyed or over exploited such as the buffalo in the States, the swamps drained and turned to farmland everywhere, seasonal water sources captured and guarded everywhere, jungles burned or cut down through out Asia and South America. This direct exploitation of communal resources by groups of people against other groups of for economic gain and control has forced people who did choose a different form of life is directly exploitative. This led to Nomads everywhere given "incentives" everywhere to settle down and become part of the larger economic system and culture, native american boarding houses in both US and CA that led to the mass deaths of thousands of Native children. This has led to loss of culture, languages, and peoples all over the world. When the larger system doesn't approve the smaller systems disappear. Yes we have options in the current economic system but we have no options outside of it.

Here is a good article about chemical vs. social causes of addiction. https://aeon.co/essays/theres-no-neural-fix-for-reversing-th...

Thanks for sharing. Do you have one of those that you shared? If you do what is your experience like?

Is your need expedition based; ie, rugged backcountry vacation? or work based, need to haul some dirt, lumber, random material? If so what about renting a truck form Uhaul?

Yeah, I'm going to have to disagree with you on the use of jail time as a deterrence to criminal action. While we like to believe that is the case "One problem with deterrence theory is that it assumes that human beings are rational actors who consider the consequences of their behavior before deciding to commit a crime; however, this is often not the case." https://www.sentencingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01... There is a ton of research in this same vein.

Great summation of the zeit geist. I would say "The Boys" is a direct child of this sentiment.

One thing I would like to support in your statement is (A)The Extrinsic Costs. This was not accounted for in China and is shaping up to be a very volatile national issue for them for their Railways.

https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/chinas-high-speed-rai...

https://factsanddetails.com/china/cat13/sub86/item1848.html

Interesting, without context its pretty difficult to offer advice. From your comment, and I'm reaching here, you might not have a great awareness of how your actions/choices are perceived by others before you make them. You seem to in hindsight, which is great. Also it could be the stage of life you are in where the people you are surrounded by are still exploring options of how to live and are curious when they see someone make choices outside their realm or expectation. In either case it comes down to how much you want them to understand your what and why. I have really tried hard at accepting that most others are not going to see why I make my choices so what is the point of explaining any of them. This is all conditional on who it is and how much I love them but it is a constant in my thought process. Letting go of the need for people to understand your motivations is liberating, when you can achieve it. :) I hope this helps.

Wow well said. I think this is the real core of the issue. I have experienced this since I can remember and people would get mad at me as a child for explaining how something worked or how to look at something from a different perspective. I struggle with sharing my understanding about anything due to the depth of explaining I have to do for people to understand why I arrived at my conclusion. One thing I have found helps as I get older is to let go of the feeling of importance of things going a certain way. I can now live with small mistakes and misunderstandings way better than when I was young.

Funny you mention that. I just saw the below on reddit the other day.

https://explorersweb.com/jetson-one-giant-passenger-drone/

Well there is an interesting history to passports. This article does a decent job of outlining how they morphed from a tool to help fight the Spanish Flu to what we see today. https://apposition.substack.com/p/papers-please

Also there is quite a bit of economic work that showcases the positive impact of removing such stringent barriers to the free movement of people.

This is exactly what I thought when I saw the commercial. Its incredible that so many people are willing to pay that upfront cost.

How is this relevant? The owner has to physically bring the vehicle into the dealer. The dealer can't change or replace anything while it is in my garage or driving down the street. There are physical barriers that require the owners consent beyond checking a box.

Reminds me of beenie babies. Some are still valuable to the right buyers but that can be said of any collectable over the last century. However that doesn't mean beenie babies were a good investment or that selling beenie babies led to any lasting success.

Chewing also elicits the release of enzymes in the mouth and gut and also starts a hormonal cascade that prepares the digestive track to process the food. https://www.yourhormones.info/hormones/gastrin/ https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(04)01993-6/...

Check this article out https://aeon.co/essays/how-popperian-falsification-enabled-t...

Deals with some of your points.

Just a note, the fire management techniques were employed by indigenous people to mimic how the world already worked with natural fires. Your not wrong in saying it was a technology but it was not the cause of the current situation as they did not practice that tech long enough to impact the ecosystems reliance on it. All the species in that environment already relied oh fires. Small example, sequoia trees who's seeds only germinate after a fire. This evolution occurred millions of years before indigenous peoples where even around. Not to take away from the brilliance of the tech but it was discovered from how the world already worked it did not create a new niche.

Remind you of Mr.Robot anyone?

How is this paranoia? The ratcheting up of software sophistication does not necessarily add value to the average buyer. What it does do is add cost to repairs for both complex systems/parts and labor. This added complexity and cost make it prohibitive for the average owner to fix or even diagnose problems as the auto industry evolves. This isn't about being paranoid its about being economically conscious of the cost imposed by sophistication.

But it's not just about 'consumers' is it? I mean its great and all that you are playing devils advocate and using your education to argue on behalf of a Trillion dollar corporation but this isn't just about what an economist thinks, especially since economists get it wrong all the time. This entire discussion is about peoples natural reaction to a super large entity, that as one of your supporters put it "single-handedly makes up 4% of the US economy" buying more of the US economy thus further concentrating money/power in fewer hands.

Good question, but then it begs the question that shouldn't we be doing a better job of advocating against the use of these chemicals?

I am in no way on Google's side on this but I am taking this with a grain of salt since I am sure that Roku is quite aware of the leverage this allegation could bring against Google with the on going anti-trust suite that is being brought against them.

Credit risk modelling is a Political Objective. They can't be separated. The only place they are separated is in the figment of someones imagination. The use and investigation of these models does not happen in a vacuum. The real question is, does better modeling help society? And that is through and through a political question.

Are you American? Because high cost of health insurance does not deter risky behaviors towards health or a glaring lack of responsibility.

This is called the Resource Trap. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/resource-curse.asp

Correct, but the solution he taught was not cessation of desire but detachment from that desire.

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/harris/bl141.htm...

This right here. This has been my position since the beginnings of the stirrings of the discontent that social media was powering years ago.

I think that this is why there has been such a push back by each of the demographics and movements that you listed. They each have a voice and can be more powerfully organized than ever before albeit in some cases a more superficial basis hence the rise of cancel culture.

Traditionally if you wanted to get a way from push back in your locale you moved. Now that is not an option since so much of your speech is tied to a identifiable account that follows you hence the social cooling.

I think this time of change is a phase of growing pains that might last generations that will see us wrestle with these issues for a long time.