Buying clubs = buying bulk with friends. Save money and packaging, get better quality. More work because you are acting as your own casual retailer and have to manage storage and some paperwork keeping track of who got what, and placing orders.

Can be simple like going to Costco and splitting it with the neighbours. Easy and casual.

Can be complex like getting an account with a wholesaler and arranging orders and delivery/pickup once a month; usually requires a minimum of 6 or 10 households, and some good spreadsheet skills. Lots of volunteer hours.

Can spill over into food storage collaboration, like canning 20 crates of peaches that are ripe TODAY so you need a crew who want canned peaches for payment.

It isn’t always food. It can be lots of things. I know of 5 households who got together to buy an entire 20-ft shipping container full of solar panels. Cheap!

It can be housing. I am friends with a bunch of people who live in a 6-story building that they bought and built together, 20 apartments or so, and they made it the way they want, lots if amenities and shared spaces. Small kitchens so they can have one big awesome dining room and regular bulk meals, again, cheaply. Board games and couches scattered around.They built less parking than code required because a lot of them just use car co-ops. So they made a music room and workshop with the extra basement space.

Oh yeah, car-co-ops, and I guess tool co-ops too, are another kind of buying club.

If you ever have been in any kind of club, it’s kind of the same, just focused on saving money or keeping control over daily expenses.

Costco, is, at heart, a buying club. Your membership gets you in the door, but also gives you group purchasing power.

Extend that down to personal scale. Organize bulk purchases with friends, socializing while splitting up the loot. Vacuum seal, put things in jars and zipper bags, learn to can, and dehydrate.

Ask around once you get a fever for it, there are often more formal buying groups that are large enough to purchase wholesale. Don’t start one yourself at first, join one, as the logistics and spreadsheet action can be complicated. This is a really great way to afford higher quality organic food, for instance.

Buying bulk skillfully means a healthier diet, generally, as you get leas heavily processed foods on your menu. You also can massively reduce shit packaging.

Solution: become a Bikeshevik.

Hyperbole, I think.

It was off, it’s LTT. It was intertainment with some interview.

Still, L.T. had fascinating things to say, and a refreshing down-to-earth outlook on things like data storage (keeps no files really, just uploads to git and lets others worry about whether it’s worth saving or not), a.i. (important, somewhat inevitable, overblown hype, horrible business practices), and how he geeks out playing with hardware designs for things that are completely out of his expertise so it’s low stress (e.g. guitar effect pedals but he doesn’t play).

I rather took the comment as clearly saying ‘if they do it to my privileged demographic, how much worse will it be for the people they visually target?’

Many north american GenXers had the same feelings in our 20’s, even though it was a better situation then. Being in the voracious demographic wake of the boomers made scrambling up a tippy ladder seem pointless.

I didn’t check to see if there’s an XKCD for this, but: This should cover the ISO BS

That’s (((they))) or “”“they”“” generally, as a not so subtle dogwhistle.

Just ‘they’ usually means, you know, like, uhh, The Man. TPTB. The Swamp, oligarchs, and sometimes for the Q klan, the globalists, which then bleeds over into anti-jewish rhetoric.

Idiomatic usage of ‘intuitive’ regarding interfaces breaks down into

1. ‘familiar’, so, confusing intuition with knowledge, or

2. ‘discoverable’, which is more accurate and describes things like icons and tooltips and menus, where the rules of usage become more or less apparent with exploration and logic.

and we could provide all this wonderful socialism everyone here wants, but that’s never actually going to happen

lol they said the same thing about kings and empires…

You should know that you are making a very ideologically based argument, since as far as anyone can tell the self-labelled communist countries through history were degraded into authoritarian dictatorships immediately, and so mislabeled. Cuba is called communist, and while they too slid immediately into authoritarianism, they call themselves socialist.

You seem to be using the word in a colloquial rather than an academic way.

In addition, consider the massive economic war of the last 150 years, exemplified by the CIA-backed murder of a million or so people in Indonesia, to stamp out so-called communism. Pretty tough to get anything going, between the pressures of violence and lies.

“Property” is both a heavily propagandized and culturally variable concept.

Freedom, in both definitions and practices, is heavily affected by the concept of property.

Firstly, property as defined in common usage in the west is a denial of the rights of the many in favour of a single entity. It exists as a loss of freedom in order to provide exclusivity. This is most obvious with land, and the ongoing enclosure and expropriation of the commons. It results in homeless people camped outside of empty homes, and a net loss of freedom.

Further, property as a system can easily enough be swapped out with relational concepts like stewardship and tenure, while giving up some choices to gain others. Earning the right to live on a chunk of land through merit, rather than by debt, is an example. Sharing access to expensive tools, because the employees own the company, also creates a greater amount of freedom.

Generally, people get confused in this discussion about what property is being referred to, and worry about losing their stuff, or chattel. But we’re talking about land and buildings and companies and machinery, big things that don’t make sense for one entity to control.

The harm mentioned here is specifically the freedom to own and use property. Capitalism allows many people this freedom. Losing it would make some people sad.

The core critique of capitalism is that a diminishing number of people enjoy the privileges of the owner class. Concentration of wealth is inevitable when the economy is organized around this principle of unfettered property rights for individuals.

While human society has no inherent need to be based on zero-sum transactions, simping for oligarchs to have any freedom they can buy, just codifies zero-sum outcomes into reality.

One of the more obvious issues to discuss is the balance between rights and freedoms of the person as opposed to the people. You can’t have people shitting upstream in the river, so you curtail shitting rights even on one’s own property, to give even greater freedoms to water drinkers. At what point do your freedoms steal from the freedoms of others?

If we wish to propose a new system, we must also explain what it is, and why it will do less harm and more good

There is a vast array of alternative economic systems proposed over the last century, and much of it can be labelled socialist—it’s a big ask to expect someone to describe a fully realized alternative in a forum comment, when they can just refer to the body of work on the topic.

I grow both red skinned, large plums, and red skinned, small apples, and I actually can’t tell from the photo which this is. Need more resolution and to see the bottom.

It’s like living on a busy road. People adjust, while life degrades.

The article addresses this. Data must be fresh to be valuable. Yes old data can be useful, but can it be sold? That’s the main vulnerability to surveillance capitalism that hiding exploits.

Red fleshed apples

It’s the underlying crux of the entire series, and even Foundation too. The Zeroeth law requires a massive war to develop it and still doesn’t solve the problem.

More like throwing you the rope and dropping the other end into the water.

Usually just air quotes right. Well since people caught on to the ‘echo’ dog whistle of 3 brackets some racists moved to quotes too. I was just checking, so nvm, don’t let them try to steal that the way they did with the ok hand gesture.