@vriska decided I need to sack off Spotify because they're arseholes but damn if they don't have a good algo
gonna sesh all the "radios" on my liked songs and get all the good stuff before I bail
@11112011 uhh, same to you I guess....?
@11112011 4x3mg? won't last me past prosseco and pigs in blankets
@11112011 every anti vaxxer outclasses you in experience here dude, sorry to burst your bubble
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What if we taught all our children the crafts necessary to build their own homes? This Irish off-grid cottage would be a nice starter home without crippling each generation with debt. https://nitter.poast.org/arch_archive/status/1462073250863800328
@augustus he's dry af but solid. he's probably best as a reference.
@augustus this coplestone?
I mean, what is a town? I have a pretty good idea of what a city is: a pile of loans surrounded by people who don't necessarily pay those loans, surrounded by people whose incomes are a withdrawal account for the people in the middle, there.
But what would a self-sufficient town be in the modern age? Let's look past the things that anarchists and libertarians already do well to the things much harder to just do for yourself -- water, sewage, and internet. The former two is an infrastructural effort for everyone involved; regardless if you're taking the sanitation process or the reuse philosophy or some mix of the two, eventually all the water and waste has to go somewhere and it's a good idea to know where beforehand. The internet is a little easier; that bill can be turned into a smart contract, perhaps, to be contingent on use as a service.
Voluntarism is one thing, but the scale of work and the specialties and skills necessary to build a town don't necessarily match up with the scale of work and the specialties and skills necessary to maintain a town. It's not a town without a bar, and that bar is going to have to get shipments of liquor. It's not a town without a grocer and that grocer needs paths for the farmers, ranchers and dairies to travel up. So muh roads, but we have the means to create financial instruments associated only with the town, and funded voluntarily by its homesteaders, and those roads also make good routing for internet trunk lines, fibre optic, sewage routes, and more -- if people wanted to make local solar credits of their turbines and panels, that could be done very easily as well.
I was worried about it at first but the flexibility of having financial instruments owned not by the bank but by those with staked interest in the instrument's physical anchoring really does give a lot of leeway. But it nonetheless does need to be considered -- and depending how planning-first or organic-necessity you're going to go with it, take it from there.
@Prodigal lol, I always tell myself if I bookmark it I'll find it again....
currently red pilling a mate on this stuff
Dorothy is buckling her seatbelt as we speak