The basic idea is the same. No state needed. People function to help each other, etc.

Sorry, I’m a big David Graeber guy and he made a point to discuss this in some of his work. It exists throughout history.

I don’t know if you’re in software, but IMO communism is like agile. It works very well at small scale (which is why products from startups are good), but once a community loses autonomy and division of labor becomes a thing…it’s over.

Socialism is an attempt at SAFE (scaled agile framework for enterprise). IMO it doesn’t really work, but I do like the idea of having markets where it makes sense, and having social programs that are not profit motivated or maybe even run by the government…so basically Bernie’s position.

Communism of a sort existed…in tribes.

I wrote my own. It’s one of the easiest possible services to write.

Hey, I know this one. I’ve had it since I was a small child but didn’t quite know the name.

We’re finally learning that it indeed sucks to suck

Yes, in the same way most Germans didn’t seem to know that the SS camps were death camps, it’s very possible – if not probable – that these places are either death camps already, or going to become death camps very soon.

There’s a reason that the administration is so cagey about allowing Democratic politicians in to see the facilities. The other thing is that concentration camps never start as explicit death camps, and the first casualties are always from things like lack of food and disease. Nothing about this suggests any differently.

Tell them elections are cancelled

That’s part of what Sarah Kendzior has argued for a decade or more. US companies and klepocrats (though I repeat myself) know that the only thing that can match their weight is a powerful federal government. Turning the US into 50 (or more) warring little nations will make it easier to carve up. They have already done this to a large extent with the poorer states under the guise of “state’s rights”. It is also why they run a perennial effort to break up California and it is undoubtedly why the right’s other “big project” is to destabilize the European Union.

Nobody wants to wear the big brother dork goggles. 🖕

We moved fast and broke things.

Nobody came back later and fixed things. We were too busy breaking other things.

Fucking shop app

Oh, I didn’t mean it ironically at all.

Sorry about your sisters dog, that’s heartbreaking.

Not my sister’s dog, my dog’s sister / littermate but yeah still not great.

Yes, just like most things you vaccinate against it’s possible to have a breakthrough infection, but the immune system is still more equipped to fight it after vaccination.

This guy just didn’t vaccinate her at all. Vaccination can be the difference between having a breakthrough infection and getting better in a couple of weeks and dying from or being permanently disabled by a disease.

Great thread for adding to your blocklist.

My dog’s sister died at age two or three because the owner didn’t vaccinate her. I think she died of kennel cough.

It reminds me of the quote, “if I had more time I would have written you a shorter letter”. Terse code is often better, because it is often developed using a process that only adds necessary things or was created by trial and error during the development process that isn’t included in the final output.

Lengthy code is often written because a person coded their misunderstandings, their ambiguities about the problem space, and their early failures at solving the problem into the code.

With emojis in it for extra flair!

Nobody wants to wear dork goggles to watch TV.

While this is mostly true it’s certainly the case that publicly traded companies have strong incentives to grow.

Private companies mostly have the ownership, and/or the desire to go public to blame.

I stream but from my own server.