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Exhaust valves were my first thought. Did they do them as part of the service?

One thing about jokes/references is that not everybody gets them.

In the morning you’ll be sober and emus will still be babecunts.

Oh that’s fabulous.

Careful with sword thinking. I bet they have some tough bone in the neck. Axe on a chopping block probably surer. Now you’re into strapping an emu down though. I’d probably distract with feed and head shoot it.

It’d be a pain if you did a nice clean beheading, only to discover they’re like chickens and can keep going for a bit. The difference being the beheaded chicken just wanders round whereas the beheaded emu still stands a chance of mugging someone. Unfriendly big bastards.

Steel biner. Strong dog.

Been dithering for years. Finally got a shepherd of my own. Sailor. Nearly two. Settled in unbelievably well.

To each according to his needs.

Can't read the article without paying and I don't fancy that. I think I know the thing though. Describe it.

I know the ones you're talking about. Christiania, Užupis, the Berlin one I've forgotten the name of, Sealand arguably, Liberland obviously, the other one that's like that whose name I also forget. There have been loads of attempts at micronation genesis. Their problem in my opinion is they try to fit in to the paradigm of statehood. Individual liberty is a ground up, not top down thing. It works anywhere. You don't need a flag etc. The other problem is that these places might as well be Waco, Texas for all the even-handed publicity they get. This is all getting needlessly ideological. Someone tell me how more government and not less is going to improve the shit state of the housing market.

On democracy:

As long as they choose it for themselves only, that's fine. The problem is that democracy is 51 people telling 49 people what to do (far worse with the various voting systems we actually have). Plus there's always mission creep. You think you need a state to do something you perceive as lofty/complicated. The next minute, they're banging people up for an expired dog license. Where are these countries and why don't I know about them already?

I don't care what you call what flavour of authoritarianism.It's authoritarianism, centralisation of power.

Right. I'm opening a box of wine. Let's fkking have it.

It's not. It sounds bombastic but people voted for socialism based on the election pledges of the German socialist party, among them that everybody should have a job, food, housing etc. Then they gassed a load of jews. A hard thing to grasp because we live in a pretty friendly world on a day-to-day basis but the evil is real and present. Socialism, communism, collectivism etc etc etc. I use the words fairly interchangeably. It's just authoritarianism (as opposed to libertarianism). It's a scale, not discrete ideological identities

An alternative way of looking at it is that we sort of have a free market; that's to say the world's a blank canvas and what we have is what we have. It certainly tallies with the fictional (but not fictional) nature of statehood. Since humans enjoy various delusions of constructs like socialism though, there's nothing stopping us having a go at the construct of minarchism or anarchy. Stability is obviously very pleasant at the time if you have a job and a house etc but the comfort in that that period allowed all these problems we're talking about now to grow. The socialist policies that gave that stability kicked the can down the road. Socialist policy now would kick it further down the road. It doesn't work forever. Partially thermodynamics, mainly peasants with pitchforks when pushed too far. Where are you on monetary policy? I say that's the first thing to fix. I assume you put it lower on the list?

Dissolve the state, in its entirety, this second. Failing that, fix money, liberalise land use and buckle up to see some weird building projects for a few years. I’d tolerate an exclusive land value tax as a stepping stone somewhere in there. Your solution is more realistic to put people in buildings in the short term but it will end with gas chambers like the other nationalist socialists.

Step away from the socialism.

I’m sure you’ve said before but remind me. Is the ski slope a communal or commercial enterprise?

What's a hat line regiment btw?

Details.They'd ****************that up in twenty years once they saw how well western dolescum lived off it. Let's force people live to 400 before giving them the opportunity to build such systems.

This fuqking fiddling while Rome burns drives me crackers. BAD MONEY is the root of all this. When money was vaguely real (linked to gold; finite, reliably hard to mine, durable), you could store wealth in money. Now the central banks print so much paper and digital bullshitcoin, that dilutes the money people have, people need to store wealth elsewhere. They buy land because the Bank of England can't print that and it drives the price up. Add all the rules about planning etc and the seesaw is set to slide one way only. Spend a few minutes looking up the history and reasoning behind the board game, Monopoly and prepare to be angry forever.

Yes, now you mention it.