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What's the difference when it blows up in your face? Throwing explosives in urban centers is unacceptable and violent.

Yeah, my goal is ultimately to work remotely to fund something like this. I don't even care about being 30 minutes from the nearest store... I am good at stockpiling and cooking my own stuff.

Yeah, ultimately this is the really sad consequence of non-local land ownership. Homeownership has been put out of reach for pretty much any American.

Hell, I read here yesterday that 44% of Americans apparently make less than $18k/year.

I'd kill for 10 acres. Even 1 acre near any kind of town is currently out of my reach as a lower-paid software engineer.

Thanks for this, I've heard of this option but assumed it was unavailable to my account.

That's exactly what I'm saying here. The availability of drugs will not lead to a libertarian utopia, but a decaying rot like we see in my home city (Portland).

Any thoughts on obesity? This article claims the current costs of obesity are $2 trillion: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/04171...

I trust myself plenty. But having drug addicts rot in the street hurts everyone. Texting while driving is another clear-cut example where their indiscretions literally could kill me.

I'm into personal liberty. But I do think we need to figure out this problem of antisocial behavior.

Not sure about that... I think it's the culture. We used to have a monoculture in the US (basically whatever the TV told us).

Nowadays we have an almost uncountable number of subcultures operating independently, and many of them despise each other. I do think that many of the new subcultures in the US praise personal hedonism over any kind of collective responsibility.

As long as we allow people to worship themselves without thinking about external costs, this will probably continue.

Another factor is that technology tends to centralize control. And the people running the technology want us to be like this. Medical costs skyrocket, they make money. Smartphone use skyrockets, they make money. etc.

That's a good point, drunk driving is still very popular in Portland among the 40+ crowd (source: anytime I'm at an event with people over 40, they slam 3-4 drinks, and drive home like it's nothing)

But a long time ago, drunk driving wasn't really known to be a bad thing. And nowadays it has a pretty bad social stigma.

"Chasing liberty". Given recent events, I'm not sure that US citizens possess the personal responsibility necessary to avoid self-harm.

To anyone who disagrees: how do you square this with calls for censorship on "dangerous information"?

Essentially, it seems the "average American" can no longer be trusted with rope - they're liable to hang themselves. I don't remember this as a child. I don't know what's happened to us.

See: riots, obesity epidemic, texting while driving, et al

not the GP but I switched from PIA to Mullvad

To quote a dead comment:

"Am I missing something, or are they really being let off with less than a slap on the wrist, and no fines? Not really sending a great message here, FTC."

Agreed. This is one of the most egregious abuses of privacy imagineable.

It's more than just that: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nascar-auto-racing/...

I used to be a libertarian until I realized my ideals would lead to my own party's censorship and demise.

This meme sums it up: https://imgur.com/a/DZJoWKa

In practice how are they different? Would you find it appropriate to "commute" the sentence of any other terrorists?

> toxic individuals

Are you perhaps referring to Bill Clinton, who pardoned Susan Rosenberg, a convicted terrorist that set off a bomb in US federal buildings and committed armed robberies?

While I agree with you, that's something the US elites decided long ago they don't care about. Chilling, really.

Masks sell easier to people with limited self control than salads.

Nah, they just became landlords.

Doesn't this basically argue that "business" is basically the same thing as schmoozing?

It's common for American media to minimize any genocide caused by the United States or it's corporations. Holocaust gets a pass because it has a convenient scapegoat.

Spot on, a broken clock looks correct twice a day. I have zero confidence that they're actually correct this time.

Here's a start, almost every single field is implicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

Economics, social sciences, even medicine.

That's right, unfortunately most of science has been debunked ie replication crisis. Sadly, the populace doesn't see it that way.

We're still the ones pointing the guns in that scenario.

And that's a good thing! Speech can be dangerous and freedom from speech does not mean freedom from consequences!

China is not subject to the first amendment, you don't like it, make your own country!

> California has had some of the toughest restrictions in the country to combat the coronavirus, from a complete ban on restaurant dining to travel quarantines and indoor gym closures

But what haven't they banned? There are over 3 million Californians in households making under $25.5k/year: https://www.ppic.org/publication/poverty-in-california/

There is a very large underclass in America, and most of them are working for Uber/DoorDash etc. The rest work at Walmart and other virus breeding grounds.

How safe is it for someone to work all day in a car, picking up random strangers (many of them travelers and tourists), and then go home to a cramped 2 bedroom apartment housing 5 other people?

The idea that "banning indoor dining is all we can do!" is absolutely ridiculous. They are closing down small businesses while allowing infections to occur for the benefit of big tech.

Two years ago, I deleted my Windows partition, because I never used it.

I'm the kind of person that has spent over 10,000 hours on video games... maybe 20k or more.

I don't think it's fair to deride Linux in this way. Thank Gaben for that.

Dropbox is struggling to survive and has resorted to adding "teams" features that no one really wants to live up to their valuation.

And yet services like doordash are receiving record revenues?