nerdchum

Monopoly?

Its confusing how you can argue against monopolies but support the the biggest monopoly of all... the government.

ANY fair system is completely impossible just by the nature of human beings.

There is no world and no system which unfairness does not exist.

However, a free market at least doesnt put all the power and control into the hands of a singular monopolistic entity that can use violence as an option.

I had the worst customer service experience with T-Mobile than I've ever had with any company.

There's literally nothing that could get me to go back to T-Mobile.

not a single person is arguing for anarchy, but a small government to take care of the essentials and the free market will handle the rest absolutely.

oh, you changed the subjects. I'll answer your question.

The Democrats are the party of big government. Whether that's repressive zoning and taxes or repressive slavery or repressive public health regulations... the Democrats are and always will be supportive of repressive big government policys.

The only thing that's changed is the way the Democrats express their support of oppression.

This is a very articulately worded and elegant response.

I would 100% come into the office if I didn't have to work in an open office environment like a child.

I made a claim that the government has repressive housing rules.

You made a vague claim that "society requires structure" to justify repressive housing rules.

I'm presenting another example of government rules: slavery...that your vague claim of "society needs structure" can be applied to. (like many Democrats back then supported)

My point is that your claim is vague, lazy, and incomplete because the concept of social structure can be applied to literally anything.

Is Phoenix going go be ok?

Structure is a continuum ranging from repression to anarchy.

For example the Democrats provided structure in the form of slavery in the south pre civil war but that was found to be wrong of the government and on the repressive side of the continuum.

Some would argue the government is heading towards repression in modern times as well. The Democrats seem to be very pro-government still though and support government engineering of society.

I don't think anyone's arguing for anarchy though.

My aunt owns a bunch of paid off homes she rents.

She says her profit is about 20%.

Which is kind of insane considering how high rent is and that these are paid off properties and she puts a fair amount of work into the management of them.

I genuinely find it strange that after the mortgage is paid off...that you have to abide by zoning and pay property taxes for your shelter that you and your family need to survive or the government will take your house away.

I find it strange that between zoning laws and property taxes, people don't actually ever own their home.

The government is a permanent HOA with a whole bunch of rules to follow and money go pay.

"Pick up the rice cooker bowl with a towel, and eat right out of it."

They get me!

Erlang not loved. Sad to see.

What does this mean?

energy storage is the big one in my opinion.

you can just pump electricity into the superconductor capacitor and it wouldn't have any loss it would just stay there until discharge.

Yeah lol I was thinking the exact same thing.

Autogeneration is a thing.

how do you power a tiny robotic bee?

The UK government is totally out of hand.

Louisianas ENTIRE DMV records were comoromised. Basically the entire state.

Every single aspect of a persons confidential info.

Everything from SSN to eye and hair color.

Immigration to replace the native population who originally made the country desirable to immigrate to.

I don't know if that's the win you think it is.

Theres a billion kids from Shenzen though. They could literally do all the work in America. Then theres 1.5 billion people in India on top of that.

Meanwhile, Western countries birth rates are declining.

I dont know what the solution is but this is the argument for the destruction of western civilization.

And maybe that would make a lot of people happy but I would not want to live in a world without things/ideas that Western civilization has created.

Maybe the evolutionary biologist is so next level that they want humans to die out so other animals evolve.

So much rationalization. Anytime someone has to rationalize to this great of an extent... I know they have an agenda.

It's extremely simple.

The wright brothers discovered/ invented flight.

Ben Franklin discovered/ invented electricity.

Marconi: radio waves

Flemming: antibiotics

This is settled history agreed upon worldwide, this is not controversial or complicated.

why do you have to rationalize so much!?

> The solution is to end higher ed carve-outs in federal grant awards. Let anyone qualified apply for and receive NSF funds. Stop tying tax dollars to university affiliation.

I think this is infinitely better than the current system of just giving money to scientists.

And it's a step in the right direction towards eliminating government funding for science altogether.

You're the one you said to stop using technology invented by the government.

Then I said I would be happy to if you could name a single one in the past 30 years.

And you can't.

I don't think you understand how the debt works.

Electricity, radio waves, flight, antibiotics.. it seems to me that private industry and individuals produce the MOST interesting fundamental results.

It might be good to check your confidence in your knowledge.

> His work was funded by France. Citation needed.

Everything I've read he was a private citizen experimenting in his father's laboratory and not part of any academic institution or receiving any government funding.

I find it telling you can't name one.

It is because every dollar I spend is inflated by the government debt.

https://www.worldometers.info/us-debt-clock/