bigmantings

I disagree that HG societies require the 'good will' of market societies (unless of course they're using violent force, which many did [see colonialism]), hunter-gatherers can live quite sustainably

Although I agree in principle I thought the stateless example should have been 'An unfaithful wife accuses her lover of rape and the town lynches the man.' No justice is done, but the perception of violence

I take from no one, I exchange freely. Perhaps not always on equal terms, but fundamentally my actions are done with mutual consent.

Yeah, give until you have nothing left and then expect the next man to give to you, that's sustainable.

And that's all well and good but say you are a wheat farmer and you want a rake, and nobody in the vicinity wishes to trade a rake for wheat, then what do you expect to do without money? The 'big picture'

The gullible fall for the same tricks they always did.

An important and valuable quality, but like any quality, it cannot stand alone.

The East African Community has taken strong steps to remove the significance of borders and I can't say they're saying proportional economic growth as a result. No single issue is responsible for systemic

Lots of people who threaten my life, my values, and my property out there. I'm glad there's some arbitrary imaginary lines protecting me from them, because although borders are imaginary, danger in the

History is a long line of awful state-imposed situations being replaced by slightly less awful state-imposed situations. There's no panacea, just gradual improvement.

Or you can just hide your internet presence, move them into a paper wallet, store that paper wallet somewhere it will not be found, wait five years, go on holiday in a place with crypto ATMs, launder the

Offence is one of those things better left ignored, not mocked, not enabled, not respected, just ignored.

It wasn't before, it isn't after, but at least open air prisons aren't a thing now.

I think there's a big difference between talking to people in real life, and meeting people, I am an exceptional conversationalist who doesn't struggle with sexual situations, but the initial meeting strangers

It's good insofar as it moves power away from the centre and into the hands of the people effected by decisions bureaucrats have no place making.

Legalisation just kills the harsh penalties, if folks want to be taxed too, that's their prerogative.

Thank you for further demonstrating Spain is nothing more than an empire in miniature. First Catalonia, then Basque country.

Wall street is a dinosaur, when fabrication plants are making spaceships from minerals gathered from asteroids I'm not sure they'll particularly care what a street in NYC is up to.

So many plants that are good for the body, in moderation we could access more than the fraction of our body's potential most have.

I am hungry for this.