Hell yeah, my last international vacation was an Amtrak.

I only ate plants the whole time.

I agree, really I should have written “We have to do both.”

Actually the majority of atmospheric oxygen is produced by phytoplankton, which are mostly bacteria and protists. Plants do get us over the finish line though.

We should do both.

Counterpoint, end all meat & dairy subsidies completely.

Just eat plants.

A surefire way to zap a bunch of ideologically-motivated activists into a puddle of fatalistic nihilists.

To be fair capitalism clearly doesn’t work at scale, either.

Don’t wait, you’ll thank yourself after you switch. In very frequent cases Windows games literally run faster in Linux under Proton. Get that state-sponsored spyware out of your home!

Why not just run a community build of Firefox, like IceCat?

I think the math works out that each year the average American has roughly 1 in 10,000 chance of dying in a car crash and a 1 in 200 chance of being injured in a car crash (Though the second stat likely leaves out a lot of unreported injuries). The average American rolls those dice once a year, so plan to live til 75? 1 in 133 chance that you die in a car crash, >1 in 3 chance you’re injured in a car crash at some point.

I’ve known two people who died in car crashes, and at least several dozen who were injured in crashes including several really gnarly pedestrian bystander injuries. And I’m barely middle aged.

No I say up to the end of medieval times because shortly thereafter (After a brief 30-year kerfuffle) is when we see the first emergence of what we’d recognize today as nation states. Though I do not refer only to debt cancellations that go by that specific name, “jubilee” is just what we often refer to it in the west. It was done to varying degrees in many ancient cultures.

Around 1300 the church kind of coopted “jubilee” as being a bulk forgiveness of sin rather than financial debt (I think the Catholic Church did one as recently as 2000). But traditions like May Day and various festivals of fools kept the spirit of social inversion and and anti-hierarchy alive since then. We still practice echoes of those traditions today in things like April Fool’s, “opposite day”, our current labor-centric May Day, etc.

Yeah, it’s already deployed on slrpnk.net. I see it momentarily every time I load the site.

From the beginning of civilization all the way up to the end of medieval times, leaders understood the importance of jubilees: Every generation or so the concentration of wealth under a hierarchy gets so bad, so unbearable, that debt must be relieved across society by decree to prevent open revolt.

Nation states were the end of all that. The merchants (Today we call them capitalists) are not the figureheads of society the same way that kings were, they don’t fear for their lives when they order politicians to double down on debt, issue new currency endlessly if they must, force through any economic hardships in order to prevent the relief of worsening inequality, to prevent the endless accrual of their wealth and lifestyles.

Instead of relief every 50-odd years, we’ve been hurting more and more for the past several hundred because nation states provide a faceless, unassailable aegis for the top heirarchs that never existed for them before in history.

Some parts of the US are like this, usually affluent cities where strangers are willing to yell at other strangers on your behalf / out of a sense of collective justice. But they were probably paying attention to your stuff already because they thought it was suspicious that someone got up and left behind a whole-ass bag.

Lost World had some fun stuff (Despite diverging from it’s book even worse than the first movie) but you’re really not missing much, none of the sequels come within a mile the original.

Eh, if Michael Chrichton were still alive today he’d probably condone it all so long as he got his royalty check. Jurassic Park canon was never holy.

Does your dad do talk therapy for mob bosses in this room?

I really don’t think Americans will be taking up arms against this, certainly not en masse.

Why can’t it just be a website? Why does everything have to be a fucking “app”?