Global namespace extremist. Defragment your communities!

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I was just about to shit on the article without reading it (as is tradition), but it’s an absolute blast. You really can’t unsee it. The Electrolux especially will never be the same to me.

    Skip the gradient - flat design still works

    Except for this. No. The flat design was an awkward phase we silently suffered through. Don’t confuse the lack of rebelion or some kind of catharsis for the acceptance. We just wanted the suffering to stop without reliving the trauma.


  • deafboytoUnpopular OpinionWe have a civic duty to pay our taxes.
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    19 days ago

    land is still within the borders of a country unless they are on some unclaimed island somewhere

    There will always be a bigger bully laying claim on any interesting piece of land. See the conflicts in Ukraine, Myanmar, Sudan, Taiwan, Palestine… It doesn’t mean their claim has any moral basis.


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    only if they totally forfeit the right to any services, privileges, etc.

    Fully agree. Right after the governments gives up their monopoly on certain services, and stop cheating the market by nationalizing the land for certain kinds of projects. It’s hard to compete with an entity that can just steal the land and negotiate the price later.









  • Multiple good hypotheses here. I’d like to add my own. The governments can be viewed as a modern iterations of religious cults, and there is no bigger taboo in a religious organization than questioning the basic dogma.

    Try to question democracy in a democratic republic and you immediately get the weird looks, and irrational dismissal. 9 times out of 10 this self preservation instinct is good and beneficial to everyone involved, because giving a benefit of doubt to closeted authoritarians would be a mistake. That one time somebody really wants to have an honest discussion, it simply sucks.