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beaeglebeachh··on Are You an Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You by David Graeber (2000)
The state in this case is merely your select buddies, who also murder and rob others and especially the weak.

While I acknowledge the difficulties in justice with murder you're just arguing over which group of buddies is the bestest, and picking the biggest murderer of them all. Not seeing any improvement.

beaeglebeachh··on Are You an Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You by David Graeber (2000)
Yep first thing that happened was shitcan the kids. They knew kids had very little relative risk but the argument was it's worth them losing an education, you don't want Grandma to die do you?
beaeglebeachh··on Are You an Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You by David Graeber (2000)
I don't view justice as a responsibility but rather as a right for the victim. Whether the victim stops the rape with a 9mm hole in the aggressors head, sends posse, or sends a judge to do it are private matter for the victim to choose not for me to dictate.

The problematic parts come up with how you pay the judge (stealing from 3rd parties), jailers etc and much the other stuff the state does. It would probably be more pragmatic to basically privatize the judge/court.

beaeglebeachh··on Are You an Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You by David Graeber (2000)
I lived in Rojava and they are quite capitalist outside a few sectors. Go someplace like qamislo and it's basically capitalism with street vendors and stark disparity of wealth and poverty. However you can get free bread by simply appearing at a few stalls.

The socialist (leftwing anarchism adjacent), mustache-jesus ("apo") stuff is far more revered in the military and certain communes.

beaeglebeachh··on Are You an Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You by David Graeber (2000)
Take away the state and I can self defend my capital from aggression with ak47. Under anarchism then what you going to do? Either you attack me, get someone else to attack me, or have a 'not' state do it.

Or just maybe leave me alone and agree to trade capital voluntarily. All options.

beaeglebeachh··on Are You an Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You by David Graeber (2000)
I don't believe in stealing labor. I think you should be able to trade your labor for gold or whatever other valuables you like.
beaeglebeachh··on Are You an Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You by David Graeber (2000)
The state doesn't enforce anything resembling justice for rape. Rape is rarely prosecuted and difficult to prove in a court of law.
beaeglebeachh··on Are You an Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You by David Graeber (2000)
Yep which is why I'm ancap anarchist not socialist anarchist which seems almost an oxymoron. You cannot take things from people, like means of production they've produced, and force them to share without aggression.

All anarchism stems from voluntary interactions, which depends on free trade .

beaeglebeachh··on Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?
Have you ever built a house? It would not even be possible for me to build one with inspections, I would lose my day job. And my house was 40k to diy, do you have any idea how burdensome an up to code contractor installed sprinkler system would be against such frugal costs.

Having built my house the price and accessibility absolutely spirals out of control with code inspections. Remove this madness and let the masses do what I've done.

beaeglebeachh··on Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?
I'm arguing it's a good thing California will let humans choose to man make a house wildfire trap (forest didn't pick you to put a house there) and they should apply their standard of "die in a fire if you like" to everything. I believe, counterintuitively, it will save lives.

Of course the building inspector sees the charred bodies he didn't prevent, but he doesn't see the frozen and exposed ones he created through his policies that handicap supply. The incentives of code and inspection are horribly perverse.

beaeglebeachh··on Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?
My permit says "NO building code or utility inspections will be performed."

I signed that "right" away with the county recorder, it was no problem. Been able to do that for 2 decades in my county. Turns out when people build what they like you get weird shit but little to none of the "but muh codes" fire hysteria came true.

Meanwhile California morons building with regulatory checks out the wazoo get ate up in wildfires. It's like watching actual insane people.

beaeglebeachh··on Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?
Yes west of Chinatown. Cermak I think. Spice warehouse in days of old IIRC. Was used for raves decade+ ago. Place is a trip. I camped on top of it once when I was homeless.

I've forgotten of that place for years. Truly magical. Thank you for the memory. I almost shake recalling it.

beaeglebeachh··on Book people think they know why 9-year-olds stop reading for fun
Obtaining information through books is like trying to put out a fire by sucking water out through a straw. The printing press was great but it's a slow and constrained way to get into from the greatest minds. I read voraciously as a child but when I came to university I pretty much stopped reading when the experts were there to teach in real life using all the senses.

If I were a 9 year old today I'd probably pick YouTube over reading. When I built my house I found myself learning way faster watching tradesmen and listening to them on YouTube than having to suck that information through a tiny straw that is reading a book . I find myself truly hating reading now, far too inefficient.

beaeglebeachh··on As private equity dominates wheelchair market, users wait months for repairs
This is why I'm for total deregulation of healthcare. Government fucks it up so bad hamstringing access that some hack work with 15 minutes of YouTube training plus whatever pills drop out the dark web is often better than not being able to access it at all.

Right now we basically end up going to Mexico if we can help it, where there's basically no real oversight or regulation to raise cost so long as the doc/pharmacy pays off the cartels.

beaeglebeachh··on Eight Feet Jolted a $180M Real Estate Deal
Covenant is the equivalent of a Eula poisoned into software you've purchased. If you own it you ought have the ability to disable the Eula. A covenant is weird because it more often than not is contract entered unilaterally by some dead guy with himself somehow under the fiction it is an agreement with the land itself, it's not clear who the counterparty even is.
beaeglebeachh··on Eight Feet Jolted a $180M Real Estate Deal
But it is anti property rights to force someone to rent or sell to poc. Of course without government influence this becomes a dumb business plan because it depressed the utility of your property and hands business to competitors.

I would argue government should eliminate racial discrimination laws as it will just shake itself out in the market and it actually makes things harder on poc.

beaeglebeachh··on Eight Feet Jolted a $180M Real Estate Deal
Mutual benefit is a thing, industry works fine when everyone is driven by selfishness as no one agrees to a transaction unless both parties are better off.

I'd much sooner live with that coworker in the steppes than cheerman mao or other charlatans in Asian history proclaiming about the common good.

beaeglebeachh··on Eight Feet Jolted a $180M Real Estate Deal
If the covenant was added by a dead guy and the counterparty doesn't exist but now it's enforced by a government court against the wishes of the property owner who owns the 'right' is it really property rights at that point? I'm willing to be convinced but it's not super clear to me.
beaeglebeachh··on Eight Feet Jolted a $180M Real Estate Deal
Yeah this is why I bought land with no HOA and no covenants and basically no codes and liberal zoning. Sure the roads are dirt 4x4 and my neighbors have livestock and wild noises at all times but if I wanted to regulate other land I'd buy it myself rather than using violence of enforcers sent in to stop it.

If you want 8 ft setback, simple solution. Build 16 ft from your property line,problem solved even if your neighbor hits the edge.

beaeglebeachh··on Akiya houses: why Japan has nine million empty homes
Lol this is the myth isn't it.

Reality is getting screamed at by a toddler while you single-handedly build a depression era shack in desert wasteland for 40k, while simultaneously working full time and somehow caring for your kids too. Spend your time tearing your hair out, essentially working 3 full-time jobs while paying for daycare, rent, and construction materials so despite all this work your financials go into a black hole.

My parents did send me a $100 Lowes gift card, so there is that. At least now I can do ghetto job of pretty much any building trade.

It's mostly that having a kid lites the fire under your ass, not so much others are helping because they usually don't.

beaeglebeachh··on Freedom to Roam
I see all liberty as stemming from private property rights. Thus the freedom to roam can only take away your liberty, not add to it.
beaeglebeachh··on Freedom to Roam
Dumb laws made it prohibitively expensive to build most places, then idiotic monetary policy of the fed caused price explosions particularly during the COVID era. Then all the real estate got locked up in near 0% mortgages people will never give up locking my family out of a home almost anywhere

In short, I got priced out most everywhere and had to go where land is cheap and I was allowed to DIY a shack. Strong property rights and practically unrestricted gun laws here though mean there is at least some protection despite basically no law enforcement.

beaeglebeachh··on Freedom to Roam
Deal. Not like they cared about law anyway, so it'll change nothing. They're already looking at life for the kind of armed trafficking they're already doing.
beaeglebeachh··on Freedom to Roam
I'm fine with keeping private property rights so there's no guessing and trespassing is hardline crossing that fence. It was merely an offer as a potential trade since you wanted something for free that involved guessing who is a roamer. Obviously property owners aren't trading away interests unless you're ponying up something sweeten the deal.
beaeglebeachh··on Freedom to Roam
If you don't understand why, I'm going to guess you haven't spent much time in remote US/Mexico border regions far from ports of entry.
beaeglebeachh··on Freedom to Roam
Hmm might want to reword it as reasonably believe, then let the jury figure it as they did with the rancher with an AK who recently walked.
beaeglebeachh··on Freedom to Roam
Your asking for me to relinquish some of my private property rights. Obviously I want something in trade, it's not gonna be unilateral charity so traffickers can be judge jury and executioner against my children who roam my property.

>Norway, where I grew up anyone shooting at someone

In Arizona you can shoot these people with ak47, thankfully and get charges dropped after a deadlocked jury. As recently happened.

I'm pretty happy with Norway doing their Norway thing and Arizona doing how we handle it here. Not interested in making the US Norway.

beaeglebeachh··on Freedom to Roam
I would compromise if they offer me in trade ability to shoot trespassers/"roamers" who are criminal traffickers.
beaeglebeachh··on Freedom to Roam
In my case, I live near the border and such use 'just roaming lmao' would become perfect cover for drug traffickers, gangs, sex trafficking and all kind of bad stuff I don't want to be liable for when people coming stomping on my property. In US your property can even be seized if such persons are using it.

It would also be very expensive for me if someone hurt themselves and then sued me since they are on my property.

beaeglebeachh··on US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana
What you're saying is how people generally think the prohibited possessor law works, but it's not how it works in practice. It says nothing of drug possession, only gun/ammo possession by someone who uses or addicted to illegal drugs. There is plenty of reasonable doubt that constructive or actual possession of drugs is not accompanied by use, in fact this is the case for many dispensary workers.

>922 g (3) ... who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802));

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