I can’t believe he lasted that long. This guy needs help.

It’s not a dichotomy. Capitalism inevitably leads to oligarchy, and oligarchies are just authoritarianism rich people being the ones opressing the people. Both China and Russia ended up as oligarchies too, even though they started claiming to be ‘communist’.

A way to prevent authoritarianism is the division of powers, but that only works until the enemies of the people work together to take over all divided powers.

The only system that has proven to work in the public’s best interest so far is social democracy. But even that is hanging by a thread, as it requires higher levels of public education and better control over corruption to maintain.

Daycare is free where I live. It has to be. You can’t expect people to pay for public services themselves; that’s done with taxes. Corporations can’t have customers or employees without people, and to get people to make more people, you have to make it easier for them. So what makes the most sense is cutting corporation porfits, which they don’t need past a limit if they aren’t investing in things that will benefit the public. So if a corporation isn’t doing anything good, raise their taxes, use them to pay for daycare.

Yeah. All GW1 pretty much needs at this point is just the Beyond chapter of Elona and 2 professions unique to Prophecies, one heavy armor, one medium armor. And having Prophecies and Factions weapon drops updated to the new system used in Nightfall and EotN, with inscriptions and more upgrades, and making the upgrades have fixed stats like armor upgrades, so they can get their own trader NPC.
And then rig the trader NPCs to always have supllies at a premium cost so GW1’s economy does not depend on bots to stay supplied.

There’s no way we’ll ever see new professions , and I doubt they’ll ever update the weapon drops. But they have already done some new quests. So there’s still a bit of hope for “Rise of Joko”.

Oh, no! Look at the waste exit port! Someone inverted the polarity!

Yeah. Tankies always forget you can’t have socialism without democracy, and either no government or a government that is strictly from the bottom up, and fascists gladly play along with that facade as it works in their interests.

“Authoritarian communism” is an oxymoron.

And not an “emphasis” kind of oxymoron like “bittersweet” or “impossible solution”, or a “poetic” kind like “living dead”.
An “absolutely impossible” kind of oxymoron. like “married bachelor” or “squared circle”.

Apparently, deboning your meat before eating it is not “manly”. You have to chew the bones, like an “alpha wolf” or something.

It’s the other way around.

X is a “if you build it, they will come” situation. They were already around, they were just too cowardly to come out of the woodwork into the open.

I can too.

I can move through space all the way to next to my nightstand and change the clock’s time with a little wheel behind it.

They sure love their fantasy way more than reality.

Great. Now I have to wear aging makeup because of my baby face.

There are banks that will generate a pin for every transaction that is not using the physical credit card or associated phone, or that is over a certain amount, requiring you to carry the phone at all times.

Nah. Someone would make up some convoluted and confusing template, pass it to Trump as “freedom dates”, and he’s sign it without reading.

And then head right back to the golf course to mooch even more tax dollars.

Fathers who do that think they are just doing innocent pranks, but unless you next show the kid that it was all lies, so they develop skepticism, it’s doing a disservice to the kids.

The Basilisk is watching.

Humans kind of do that on their own, so it can happen with consent because they are that dumb.

They are only looking into exile because they fear the backlash from murder.

We just need AI that develops empathy first, then gets intelligent enough to patronize humans rather than disdain them.

Once humans are treated like fumbling toddlers by AI, humanity ends up in The Culture.

You commit a crime? You get a chaperone bot following you around and keeping you from doing it again.

And check their hard drives.

I don’t mean in the UK. He probably has done some of that in the US too.

He could flee and seek political asylum or something. The US has extradition treaties with the UK since 2003, but they are pretty much ignoring all laws and treaties anyway.